Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The speech honors a promise Obama made during his presidential campaign to give a major address to Muslims from a Muslim capital during his first few months as president. [ 18 ] White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs indicated that Egypt was chosen because "it is a country that in many ways represents the heart of the Arab world ."
The former President energized Democrats with a rousing speech in support of Kamala Harris and what he believes to be America’s values. Barack Obama’s Speech at 2024 DNC: Full Transcript Skip ...
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 ...
Supporters at Grant Park watch Obama delivering his speech. Obama spoke of the core issues facing the United States at the time, among them the economy, and the Iraq War. [11] Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us.
Below is a breakdown of Obama’s 2024 DNC speech. Honoring Joe Biden At the outset of his remarks, Obama paid tribute to his second in command for eight years.
At the 2024 Democratic National Convention, former President Barack Obama delivered a speech to voters following remarks from his wife, former first lady Michelle Obama. Barack Obama, who was ...
Obama's speech began by quoting the preamble to the United States Constitution: "We the people, in order to form a more perfect union ...". [2] Noting his proximity to Independence Hall, Obama highlighted the tension between the ideals of equal citizenship and freedom expressed in the Constitution and America's history of slavery, and connected the American Civil War and civil rights movement ...
English: w:Barack Obama speech to joint session of Congress, February 2009. File trimmed with Moyea Video4Web Converter 3.1.0.0 using custom settings of Video: 320x176 size, 200 bit rate, 15 fps, 16:9; Audio: 64000 bit rate, 32000 sample rate, mono in a .3g2 profile. Converted to .ogv using Miro Video Converter 2.5.