The Osgood File... American Jewish COmmittee
	
Last week Barack Obama stood in front of 84,000 people and threw down the challenge.

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Challenge accepted:

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The motto of the Republican convention is Country First -- and the salutes to soldiers and American hereos last night made it clear what they mean by that.  

It's not about about people who get all teary eyed when they see the flag.  It's not about a magnet on your car.  It's about parents who proudly send their children to war.  It's about soldiers who, even though they are injured in battle, ask only that they be sent back into the fight.

Country First means you are willing to die in the defense of America.

And it was the job of Former senator and presidential Candidate Fred Thompson to tell the delegates what they already knew -- that there is only one candidate who meets that standard.

For four minutes -- he led his audience step by step thorugh the Passion and near death of John McCain:

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To which the Republicans here in St Paul say BRING IT ON.

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