President Barack Obama was formally selected as the Democratic nominee for president at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night.

Former President Bill Clinton placed Obama's name in nomination during a long speech, making the case for re-electing the president.

"I want a man who is cool on the outside, but who burns for America on the inside," Clinton said of Obama on the second night of the convention. "I proudly nominate him to be the standard-bearer of the Democratic Party."

Obama is expected to formally accept the nomination Thursday during the final speech of the convention.

In the highly anticipated speech, Clinton framed the November election as choice by voters of what kind of country they want.

Obama was expected to make his first appearance at the convention to attend the speech by Clinton, which comes on a day of bad news for Democrats, some of it self-inflicted.

First, campaign organizers announced they were moving Obama's address concluding the convention Thursday from an outdoor stadium to the smaller Time Warner Cable Arena because of possible thunderstorms.

Later, the Wednesday session started with some dissension when delegates approved a change in the party platform to reinstate language recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The original platform approved on Tuesday omitted that reference, which had been part of the 2008 platform, and Republicans quickly criticized it as a snub to Israel.

Another change restored the word "God" to the platform after the 2012 version omitted it, though it included language on faith as part of American society. The language referring to God-given rights was the same as in the 2008 platform.