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Democratic party leaders flowed forth to the podium inside the Pepsi Center Tuesday determined to draw sharp distinctions between the obama and mccain and deliver biting criticism of their fall opponent, writes Vaughn Ververs.

It's not unusual to hear accusations of journalistic bias in political reporting. Some of the loudest accusations come from journalists who, like CNN's Lou Dobbs or MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, have made their own biases abundantly clear.

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DENVER, Aug. 26 -- Mark R. Warner held up Virginia as a model for good government and warned during his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention that Sen. John mccain of Arizona cannot be trusted to lead the country to a prosperous future.

DENVER, Aug. 26 -- Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton made a heartfelt and rousing push for D.C. voting rights at the Democratic National Convention yesterday afternoon, vowing that the city will "keep the promise" for full representation to honor Darryl T. Dent, a soldier from the District who died in...

DENVER, Aug. 26 -- Sen. Hillary Rodham clinton roused the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night with sharp criticism of Sen. John mccain and a full-throated endorsement of Sen. Barack obama, her former rival for the party's nomination, urging Democrats to put the long and bitter battle...

DENVER, Aug. 26 -- Sen. Barack obama's campaign and its allies, mindful of the lessons of the Swift boat attacks of 2004, have begun an aggressive, multi-pronged attack on an advertisement running in swing states that seeks to link the Democratic presidential candidate to former domestic terrorist...

DENVER (Reuters) - hillary clinton delivered a ringing call for Democratic Party unity on Tuesday, promising to work for Barack obama and challenging her supporters to bury their grudges and rally behind his White House bid.

DENVER (Reuters) - Bill clinton once vowed to fight for voters "until the last dog dies." On Wednesday he shows how hard he will fight for Democratic presidential hopeful Barack obama on the Clintons' last big day of the 2008 campaign.

Sen. Joe Biden will make his first appearance before the Democratic National Convention as his party's vice presidential nominee Wednesday night, but the real drama of the evening may come from former President clinton and what he says about Sen. Barack obama.