Le blog de Thierry Mandon

Tribune de Thierry MANDON Un enthousiasme sans précédent depuis les années Kennedy. Un parti uni autour du premier candidat noir jamais investi pour une élection présidentielle américaine. Les Américains, eux, savent désigner un candidat à l’élection...

La convention démocrate s’est déroulée à Denver du 25 au 28 août 2008. Cette convention avait pour but de ratifier l’investiture de Barack OBAMA à l’élection présidentielle du 4 novembre prochain. Pour le candidat comme pour les démocrates, elle devait...

Pour le Président Dean et mon grand ami Dick Durbin, et à tous mes concitoyens de cette grande nation; Avec une profonde gratitude et beaucoup d'humilité, j'accepte votre nomination à la présidence des États-Unis. Permettez-moi d'exprimer mes remerciements...

For me, this week is a homecoming. Denver is the city that welcomed my family to the United States after we were driven from our native Czechoslovakia, first by Nazi storm troopers and then by communists. Denver is where I grew up believing in the American...

Let’s start with some good news. In less than five months the Bush Administration will be gone, finished, outta here. Forever. Unless, of course, John McCain is elected, in which case we’ll have to endure four more years of the same old thing. That is...

I am honored to be here tonight to support Barack Obama. And to warm up the crowd for Joe Biden, though as you’ll soon see, he doesn’t need any help from me. I love Joe Biden, and America will too. What a year we Democrats have had. The primary began...

Thank you so much. Four years ago, you gave me the honor of fighting our fight. I was proud to stand with you then, and I am proud to stand with you now, to help elect Barack Obama as President of the United States. In 2004, we came so close to victory....

Beau, I love you. I am so proud of you. Proud of the son you are. Proud of the father you’ve become. And I’m so proud of my son Hunter, my daughter Ashley, and my wife Jill, the only one who leaves me breathless and speechless at the same time. It is...

My fellow Democrats, my fellow Americans, the most important contest of our generation has begun. Not the campaign for the presidency, not the campaign for Congress, but the race for the future. And I believe from the bottom of my heart with the right...

I’m a rancher who has made my living raising cattle and growing wheat, barley and alfalfa in Montana, a beautiful place with soaring peaks, pristine rivers and endless prairies. I’m probably a little biased, but I think it’s the best place in the world...