They're Calling It a Democrat National Convention

Democrats have hurriedly restored language in their party platform declaring Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel after Republicans accused them of showing weak support for the country.

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Obama's opponent in the November 6 election, Republican Mitt Romney, said omitting a reference to God suggested Democrats were out of touch with mainstream America.

Republicans also said omitting a reference to Jerusalem showed Obama was weak on Israel.

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Chaos ruled on the floor of the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday as delegates and convention leaders were forced to call a voice vote three times to reinstate the language in an embarrassing turnaround.

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Proposing the motion, Ted Strickland, former Ohio governor, said "faith and belief in God is central to the American story" and "President Obama recognises Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and our party's platform should as well".

But when a voice vote was called, the "nays" appeared to match the "ayes".

"I -- I -- I guess, I'll do that one more time," Villaraigosa said.

Despite the second attempt leading to a similar response, he declared: "In the opinion of that chair, two-thirds have voted in the affirmative. The motion is adopted, and the platform has been amended."
  alJazeera

They were forced to put things in their platform because the Republicans were unhappy with it? For the love of Pete. Even the Democrat convention is controlled by the Republicans.

 ...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Update: The other shoe – they were “ordered” to do it.

US President Barack Obama ordered Democrats Wednesday to reinsert references to God and Jerusalem in their party platform, quickly moving to snuff out a damaging political row.

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A campaign official told AFP that the president, who has been hammered by Republicans who see him as too tough on Israel, personally intervened to have language on Jerusalem, a feature of past party platforms, restored.

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Obama had also questioned why the party ever dispensed with language in the 2008 platform referring to America’s “God-given” potential.
  Raw Story

Isn't that interesting that al Jazeera (who was hacked by a Syrian agent and offline yesterday) left that part out of their report? (Raw Story's report comes from an Agence France-Presse article.)