tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7777187.post-1091022307919882392004-07-28T06:30:00.000-07:002004-07-28T06:45:07.920-07:00-- Hope and an equal chance at the American dream are at stake in this year's presidential election, speaker after speaker said Tuesday while praising Sen. John Kerry during the second night of the Democratic National Convention. <br />Teresa Heinz Kerry called her husband a "fighter" who would ensure the nation's security, protect the environment and help create jobs. <br />"The Americans John and I have met in the course of this campaign all want America to provide hopeful leadership again," she said, adding that they also wanted the country returned to its moral bearings.<img src="http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/27/dems.main/vert.teresa.big.ap.jpg"> A moral nation that rejects thoughtless and greedy choices in favor of thoughtful and generous actions; a moral nation that leads through the power of its ideas and the power of its example," she said. <br />She said <a href="http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/special/president/candidates/kerry.new.html">Kerry</a> would lead the nation by "showing the face, not of our fears, but of our hopes." (<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/27/dems.teresa/index.html">Teresa Heinz Kerry promotes 'women's voices'</a>) <br />But she said her husband was not afraid to fight for his country. <br />"John is a fighter. He earned his medals the old-fashioned way, by putting his life on the line for his country," Heinz Kerry said of the Vietnam veteran she married. <br />Earlier in the evening, Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts revved up delegates, while a newcomer, Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama, wowed the crowd with a keynote speech that is likely to establish his place on the national political scene <br />Model Moguenoreply@blogger.com