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Sergant contacted the Obama campaign to seek permission for Fairey to design an Obama poster, which was granted a few weeks before Super Tuesday. Fairey decided to create a portrait of Obama based on his feeling that his "power and sincerity as a speaker would create a positive association with his likeness". [5]
So, you need to get out there and vote," Obama said in an Election Day message posted on X. "So tell your family, talk to your neighbors, make a plan -- go to the polls with your friends and vote.
8:14 p.m. Obama finished his speech with a call to attendees to make sure they vote. “Whether this election is making you feel scared or hopeful or frustrated or anything in between, do not sit ...
The artist behind the iconic “Hope” poster that became a prominent symbol of Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign has created similar artwork for Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential bid.
The video is the basis of the rap music single "Momentous Day". The video was produced by actor-impressionist and dancer Iman Crosson and posted on YouTube three days after Obama's speech. Crosson's video includes a spoken explanatory introduction followed by a spoof of Obama's speech.
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 ...
Fairey, who said in 2015 that Obama didn’t live up to his “HOPE” poster, described the Democratic ticket of Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as “our best chance to move forward.”
It was Obama's seventh and final State of the Union Address and his eighth and final speech to a joint session of the United States Congress. [2] Presiding over this joint session was the House speaker , Paul Ryan , accompanied by Joe Biden , the vice president , in his capacity as the president of the Senate .