President Obama won't be giving the speech he might wish tonight.

All presidents accepting their party's re-nomination seek to shift from a message of hope and change to one of progress and accomplishment. Although Obama will certainly talk up the highlights of his term, he won't want to sound triumphant — not with a jobs report due tomorrow that's expected to show a 43rd straight month of U.S. unemployment above 8 percent.

Former president Bill Clinton brought the house down on Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention, and now all eyes turn to Barack Obama.

The president joined Clinton on stage following his remarks. At the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C. on Thursday, Obama will deliver his own speech and accept his party's nomination.

President Obama will trade the "magic" of his 2008 campaign rhetoric for a "pragmatic" pitch for how he plans to restore economic security to America in his nomination address Thursday night, campaign officials said.
"Tonight is not about magic. It's about being pragmatic. It's about the future," an Obama official told Fox News, hours before the president was to deliver his speech before Democratic delegates and the nation at the party's convention in Charlotte, N.C. "It's not about the rhetoric, it's about the vision."