Copyrighted Image? DMCA | Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, former White House chief of staff, is among the high profile Democrats who will address the convention, which begins Sept. 4 in Charlotte. Also scheduled, among others, to speak is Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.), who tapped Obama for the 2004 convention keynote that catapulted him into the national spotlight. Kerry knows the GOP challenger's record in his home state and is a leading White House surrogate on foreign policy and national security. |