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Hope. Obama began drafting his speech while staying in a hotel in Springfield, Illinois, several days after learning he would deliver the address. [9] According to his account of that day in The Audacity of Hope, Obama states that he began by considering his own campaign themes and those specific issues he wished to address, and while pondering the various people he had met and stories he had ...
The 2004 Democratic National Convention was famous because it included the keynote speech of Barack Obama, who would go on to be elected President four years later. New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson served as chairman of the convention, while former presidential advisor to Bill Clinton , Lottie Shackelford , served as vice chairwoman of the ...
Barack Obama delivering the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Barack Obama served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. Before his presidency, he served in the Illinois Senate (1997–2004) and the United States Senate (2005–2008).
Illinois delegates told The State Journal-Register on July 28, 2004, that Barack Obama's keynote address was "one of the most beautiful, inspiring speeches I've ever heard."
News analysis: Obama’s speech passes the torch to Harris – and lays some well-placed blows on Donald Trump after years of silence In 2004, Obama was a Democratic outsider. Twenty years later ...
Former President Barack Obama headlined the second night of the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday.. In a hopeful and forceful speech of just over half an hour, Obama plugged Democratic ...
Wesley Clark, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander and 2004 presidential candidate; Madeleine Albright, 64th United States Secretary of State; Max Cleland, former United States Senator from Georgia; Joe Lieberman, United States Senator from Connecticut, 2004 presidential candidate, and 2000 vice-presidential candidate. [note 6]
Barack Obama was days shy of his 43rd birthday and months from being elected to the U.S. Senate when he stepped onto a Boston stage at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.. A state lawmaker ...