David A. Frank judges Obama’s speech a prophetic effort advancing the cause of racial healing. Mark Lawrence McPhail finds Obama’s speech, particularly when it is compared to Reverend Al Sharpton’s DNC speech of July 28, 2004, an old vision of racelessness. Despite their different ...
Obama, whose speech at the DNC in 2004 rocketed him to fame and eventually the White House, recalled accepting the Democratic presidential nomination 16 years ago and said selecting President Biden as his running mate was one of his best decisions. "What I came to admire most about Joe wasn...
According to a new report from CNN, former President Barack Obama, who rose to political prominence by way of a 2004 DNC speech touting that “there is no red or blue America but one United States of America,” now “no longer thinks he can get to the people locked in w...
Barack Obama’s full speech at the DNC The former president spoke during the second day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. August 22, 2024 Additional Live Streams Live ABC News Live Live View of Paris as European leaders meets to discuss Ukraine Live View of White House on ...
Transcript of President Obama's acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention. ByABC News September 7, 2012, 6:52 AMSeptember 6, 2012 -- Below are President Obama's remarks, as prepared for delivery, formally accepting the Democratic presidential nomination at his party's convention ...
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Four years earlier, Stratton and her four daughters were among the throngs in Chicago’s Grant Park for Obama’s first presidential victory speech. “Strangers were hugging and crying,” she said. “We saw this Black famil...
"I am feeling hopeful because this convention has always been pretty good to kids with funny names who believe in a country where anything is possible," Obama said, reprising a line from his 2004 convention speech. Seven years after leaving the White House, Obama remains a key figure in the...
Four years earlier, Stratton and her four daughters were among the throngs in Chicago’s Grant Park for Obama’s first presidential victory speech. “Strangers were hugging and crying,” she said. “We saw this Black family come out, knowing they were headed to the...
( Also on POLITICO: Full coverage of the DNC) Obama said it was that life experience that made her husband appreciate the struggles of working Americans, and makes him the candidate to elect to keep working for them come November. It was a surprisingly biographical speech about a man who...