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LiveBlog for Wednesday, August 29, 2012

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• Sexy Liberal Hal Sparks joins us in the Los Angeles Bureau at 9am ET / 6am PT for all three hours of Humpdays With Hal

• New Jersey Democratic Party Chairman Assemblyman John Wisniewski (D) calls in at 10am ET / 7am PT to talk about Chris Christie’s speech on the opening night of the RNC

• DNC Executive Director Patrick Gaspard calls in at 10am ET / 7am PT to talk about the kickoff of the Republican National Convention

• Fox News’ Alan Colmes calls in at 10:30am ET / 7:30am PT to talk about his new book, “Thank The Liberals… For Saving America (And Why You Should)”

• New Jersey Governor Chris Christie at the Republican National Convention last night called on Americans to face the nation’s “hard truths” this November, and embrace a “new era of truth-telling” when deciding the country’s political future.

Ann Romney set out to show voters a more personal side of her husband, Mitt Romney, at the Republican National Convention last night but at the top of her remarks, she deviated from her script to reference Hurricane Isaac, which made landfall in Louisiana.

Hurricane Isaac was beginning to move inland in southeast Louisiana before dawn Wednesday on a slow, drenching slog toward New Orleans, seven years to the day after the much stronger Katrina hit the city.