OBAMA, BIDEN, IN TEXAS AND OHIO TODAY............

President Obama and Vice President Biden are visiting the Southwest and the Midwest on this Friday before the opening of the Democratic National Convention next week.  The Commander in Chief is visiting soldiers at Fort Bliss Texas, near El Paso; on the second anniversary pf the end of deployment of troops in the Iraq War.  Biden, in Lordstown, Ohio challenged Paul Ryan's statement Wednesday night in his Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech blaming President Obama for the closure of a GM auto plant in Wisconsin in December 2008, a month before the Inauguration of the Obama-Biden Administration.  At this hour news coverage of next week's Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina; is showing the unveiling of the Hall in the Time Warner Cable Arena, where the three days of Democratic Party nominating activities will take place.  I will be continuing to blog about all the proceedsings as well as the campaigning by the four candidates over the next week from my Update Election 2012 vacation............tdp