Main article: A More Perfect Union (speech) Since its delivery, several academics have studied the speech, both for the various narratives it describes as well as its implications for racial reconciliation. Unlike almost all prior and all subsequent convention keynote addresses, it was not televised by the commercial broadcast networks, and was only seen by a combined PBS, cable news and C-SPAN television audience of about 9 million. Delivered on the second night of the DNC in just under 20 minutes, the address included both a biographical sketch of Obama, his own vision of America, and the reasons for his support of Kerry for the presidency. After being alerted in early July that he had been chosen to deliver the address, Obama largely wrote the speech himself, with later edits from the Kerry presidential campaign. Obama first met Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry in the spring of 2004, and was just one of several names considered for the role of keynote speaker at the party's convention that summer. His convention keynote address was well received, which further elevated his status within the Democratic Party and led to his reissued memoir becoming a bestseller. Senate Democratic primary had made him overnight a rising star within the national Democratic Party, started speculation about a presidential future, and led to the reissue of his memoir, Dreams from My Father. His unexpected landslide victory in the March 2004 Illinois U.S. The keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention (DNC) was given by then Illinois State Senator, United States Senate candidate, and future President Barack Obama on the night of Tuesday, July 27, 2004. Main article: 2004 Democratic National Convention keynote address 28 Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign speeches, 2016ĭemocratic National Convention keynote address, 2004.27 Democratic National Convention, 2016.24 Address to the Nation by the President, 2015.18 Speech at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, 2013.17 Speech at the Brandenburg Gate Berlin, 2013.16 "Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago", 2013.14 Speech to the Clinton Global Initiative, 2012.12 Speech to joint session of Congress, 2011.8 Space policy speech at Kennedy Space Center, 2009.6 Speech to joint session of Congress, 2009.4 Speech to joint session of Congress, 2009.1 Democratic National Convention keynote address, 2004.Dionne and MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid was published by Bloomsbury Publishing. On January 10, 2017, We Are The Change We Seek, a collection of Barack Obama's greatest speeches selected and introduced by columnist E.J. Among the hundreds of speeches he has delivered since then include six speeches before Congress (including four State of the Union addresses), two victory speeches, a speech to the Islamic world in Egypt early in his first term, and a speech following the shooting of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. Obama won election to the presidency in 2009 and re-election in 2013. In response to a political controversy involving race during the primary campaign, he delivered his " A More Perfect Union" speech, which was widely seen as a critical point in the campaign. Obama began to run for president just three years after that speech. and stated "there is not a liberal America and a conservative America-there is the United States of America". It was during his campaign for the United States Senate that he first made a speech that received nationwide attention he gave the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Before his presidency, he served in the Illinois Senate (1997–2004) and the United States Senate (2005–2008). Barack Obama served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017.
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