The speech that then-Sen. Barack Obama gave during the 2004 Democratic National Convention solidified him in the minds of many as a legitimate contender for the presidency. During that keynote address ...

Barack Obama’s star-turn speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston sounds just as good now as it did eight years ago. It was hours before that performance that Obama told a reporter, ...

"What I am opposed to is a dumb war" : Speech Against the Iraq War, Chicago, IL, October 2, 2002 -- "The Audacity of Hope" : Speech at the 2004 Democratic National ...

Speech against the Iraq War resolution : October 2, 2002, Federal Plaza, Chicago, Illinois -- Keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention : July 27, 2004, FleetCenter, Boston, ...

President Barack Obama will give a speech formally accepting the nomination for president at the Democratic National Convention Thursday, and The Atlantic Wire will live-GIF it. Obama has to follow ...

It was just more than 20 years ago, on July 27, 2004, when a 17-minute keynote address to the Democratic National Convention in Boston put Barack Obama on the path to the presidency. Valerie Jarrett, ...

Can you remember the key moments from last year's State of the Union? No? That's because many of Barack Obama's historic and noteworthy speeches weren't State of the Union addresses. On Tuesday night, ...

President Obama's ex-speechwriter talks about one of the campaign basics. — -- One man who knows a thing or two about stump speeches is Jon Favreau, a former speechwriter for President Barack ...