The Democratic 2012 Platform was released on Monday and some commentators have already highlighted that two noticeable words were absent: GOD and Jerusalem. Are there other things missing from the Democratic platform?

As a french observer, here are the 10 things that I think are missing from the Platform and whose absence has not been discussed by the mainstream media.

The Democratic platform should have  mentioned:

- We the People Built This.

- The United States in the best hope for mankind.

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