LIVE VIDEO: Cindy McCain
UPDATE: Cindy has left the stage.
Cindy McCain took the stage with her family to introduce her husband, Sen. John McCain, to the GOP delegates.
She spoke on Americans' duty to their country. "It's much larger and more important than just me or John or any of us: It's the work of this great country calling us together -- and there is no greater duty than that, no more essential task for our generation -- right now."
She rallied for their support with patriotic references to Abraham Lincoln and "our country's forefathers."
McCain gushed about her husband's unconditional love of his family and country.
Photo: Paul J. Richards / AFP/Getty Images
Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000. A veteran foreign and national correspondent, Malcolm served on the Times Editorial Board and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2004. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books and father of four.
Johanna Neuman is a veteran Washington correspondent for both The Los Angeles Times and USA Today, having covered presidents and politics as far back as Ronald Reagan. A former president of the White House Correspondents Assn., she authored a book on media and foreign policy, “Lights, Camera, Wars.” Most recently she was co-author of the 
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Is America's GOP on vicadin or other prescription drugs - they're in a wunderland filled with fascist belief system and no integrity but their own belief in what they think their god is telling 'em how to behave!!! The economy was runned by republicans and was exploited to its worst crisis since the depression era!!!
Posted by: jimmy changa | September 04, 2008 at 07:41 PM
Did Cindy take one too many pain killers or what?
Posted by: Doug K | September 04, 2008 at 08:35 PM
She can pontificate all she wants from her ivory tower wearing her $300,000 worth of jewelry. All I hear are dogmatic lies from her and the entire GOP camp.
Posted by: Tom | September 05, 2008 at 03:10 AM