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Following his victory in the 2008 United States presidential election, then- President-elect Barack Obama gave his victory speech [1] at Grant Park in his home city of Chicago, [2] on November 4, 2008, before an estimated crowd of 240,000. [3][4] Viewed on television and the Internet by millions of people around the globe, Obama's speech ...
A More Perfect Union (speech) " A More Perfect Union " [1][2] is the title of a speech delivered by then- Senator Barack Obama on March 18, 2008, in the course of the contest for the 2008 Democratic Party presidential nomination. [2] Speaking before an audience at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Obama was ...
A motif is a rhetorical device that involves the repeated presence of a concept, which heightens its importance in a speech and draws attention to the idea. Obama's motifs became so recognizable that the main motifs, change and hope, became the themes for the 2008 presidential campaign of every candidate, from Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator John McCain.
President Obama, during a campaign rally for Hillary Clinton, retold one of the stories that became a hallmark of his historic 2008 presidential campaign. President Obama, during a campaign rally ...
A New Beginning, 2009. "A New Beginning" is the name of a speech delivered by United States President Barack Obama on June 4, 2009, from the Major Reception Hall at Cairo University in Egypt. Al-Azhar University co-hosted the event. The speech honors a promise Obama made during his presidential campaign to give a major address to Muslims from a ...
On September 4, 2008, the Obama campaign announced they raised $10 million in the 24-hour period after Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's acceptance speech. The RNC reported raising $1 million in the same period. [92] On October 19, 2008, Obama's campaign announced a record fundraising total of $150 million for September 2008.
The Jeremiah Wright controversy gained national attention in the United States, in March 2008 after ABC News investigated the sermons of Jeremiah Wright who was, at that time, the pastor of then U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama. [1] Excerpted parts of the sermons were found to pertain to terrorist attacks on the United States and ...
A New Beginning (speech) " A New Beginning " is the name of a speech delivered by United States President Barack Obama on 4 June 2009, from the Major Reception Hall at Cairo University in Egypt. Al-Azhar University co-hosted the event. The speech honors a promise Obama made during his 2008 presidential campaign to give a major address to ...