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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 ...
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 2008 United States presidential election was the 56th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. The Democratic ticket of Barack Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, and Joe Biden, the senior senator from Delaware, defeated the Republican ticket of John McCain, the senior senator from Arizona, and Sarah Palin ...
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 ...
The convention was held in Denver, Colorado, from August 25 to 28, 2008, at the Pepsi Center. Senator Barack Obama from Illinois gave his acceptance speech on August 28 at Invesco Field in what the party called an "Open Convention". [1][2] Denver last hosted the Democratic National Convention in 1908. Obama became the party's first nonwhite ...
Pool/Getty Images News President Barack Obama, flanked by Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner delivers his State of the Union speech before a joint session of Congress in ...
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 ...
An ex-senior adviser to former President Barack Obama praised Donald Trump’s lengthy, rambling speech at the Republican National Convention as being “good” for Democrats. “This is the ...