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US Democrats nominate Kerry for president
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-07-29 12:20
US Sen. John Kerry collected the Democratic presidential nomination late
Wednesday in a convention held in Boston that nurtured his political career for
nearly a quarter-century.
Kerry, a four-term Massachusetts senator, was in his hotel across town when
convention delegates formally bestowed the prize he won in a series of primaries
and caucuses last winter and spring.
US Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry,
D-Mass., joined by fellow Vietnam veterans and crewmates, greets supporters at
the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, during an arrival celebration
Wednesday, July 28, 2004. Kerry will formally accept his party's
nomination at the convention July 29.
[Reuters] |
The convention schedule called for
him to deliver his acceptance speech Thursday evening, launching the final phase
of his effort to drive President Bush from office.
Kerry's official nomination was shortly after his running mate John
Edwards praised the Massachusetts senator as a decisive and battle-tested leader
and urged voters to embrace the politics of hope over what he called a low-road
campaign by the Republicans.
Vowing "no retreat, no surrender," Kerry swept into this convention city late
Wednesday morning, surrounded by a dozen Vietnam War crewmates aboard a ship in
Boston Harbor. He then yielded the spotlight to Edwards, who was his last major
rival in the Democratic primary battle and the popular choice within the party
to team with Kerry in the campaign ahead against President Bush and Vice
President Cheney.
US Delegates
celebrate after Ohio cast their votes to put John Kerry over the top
with enough delegates for the Democratic presidential nomination at the
Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, July 28, 2004, at the
FleetCenter in Boston. [AP] |
Edwards quickly
showed off the rhetorical skills that carried him from the plaintiff's bench to
the Senate and eventually to the thick of the Democratic race, promising that
"hope is on the way" as he pledged that Kerry would keep the country safe, fix
the nation's intelligence capabilities, expand access to health care, create
jobs and heal the country's racial and economic divisions.
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