2004 Democratic National Convention keynote address | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-23

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00:01:40 1 Background
00:04:04 2 Writing
00:06:35 3 Convention
00:09:31 4 Speech
00:09:40 4.1 Preparation
00:11:00 4.2 Delivery
00:15:40 5 Reception
00:15:49 5.1 Family
00:16:41 5.2 News media and pundits
00:19:03 5.2.1 Newspapers
00:20:13 5.3 Politicians
00:22:01 5.4 Academics
00:24:23 5.5 Strategies
00:25:34 6 Audience
00:26:31 7 Aftermath



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The keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention (DNC) was given by then Illinois State Senator, United States senatorial candidate, and future President Barack Obama on the night of Tuesday, July 27, 2004, in Boston, Massachusetts. His unexpected landslide victory in the March 2004 Illinois U.S. Senate Democratic primary made him a rising star within the national Democratic Party overnight, started speculation about a presidential future, and led to the reissue of his memoir, Dreams from My Father. His keynote address was well received, which further elevated his status within the Democratic Party and led to his reissued memoir becoming a bestseller.Obama first met Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry in the spring of 2004, and was one of several names considered for the role of keynote speaker at the party's convention that summer. Obama was told in early July 2004 that he was chosen to deliver the address, and he largely wrote the speech himself, with later edits from the Kerry presidential campaign. 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. 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 nine million. Since its delivery, several academics have studied the speech, both for the various narratives it describes as well as its implications for racial reconciliation.