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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."
The 2004 Democratic National Convention (DNC), held at the FleetCenter (now the TD Garden) in Boston, Massachusetts, began on July 26, with Obama scheduled to address the delegates the following evening. The Obama campaign was unhappy with the time slot and hoped to change it, as that night would not be covered by the major networks.
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 ...
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 ...
Favreau first met Obama (then an Illinois State Senator running for the U.S. Senate), while still working for Kerry, backstage at the 2004 Democratic National Convention as Obama was rehearsing his keynote address. Favreau, then 23 years old, interrupted Obama's rehearsal, advising the soon-to-be-elected Senator that a rewrite was needed ...
Barack Obama, then a 42-year-old Illinois state senator, speaks at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston. Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images
On July 19, 2013, President Obama gave a speech in place of the usual White House daily briefing normally given by White House Press Secretary Jay Carney. In the 17-minute speech, President Obama spoke about public reaction to the conclusion of the George Zimmerman trial, racial profiling, and the state of race relations in the United States. [46]
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. Kerry lost that ...