page_title: 2008 Democratic National Convention
section_title: Tuesday, August 26
hierarchical_section_title: 2008 Democratic National Convention / Principal speakers / Tuesday, August 26
caption_attribution_description: English: Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during the second day of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado.
context_page_description: The United States 2008 Democratic National Convention was a quadrennial presidential nominating convention of the Democratic Party where it adopted its national platform and officially nominated its candidates for president and vice president. The convention was held in Denver, Colorado, from August 25 to 28, 2008, at the Pepsi Center. Senator Barack Obama from Illinois gave his acceptance speech on August 28 at Invesco Field in what the party called an "Open Convention". Denver last hosted the Democratic National Convention in 1908. Obama became the party's first nonwhite nominee, and nominee of African descent, for president. Senator Joe Biden from Delaware was nominated for vice president.
  Obama officially received the nomination for President on August 27, when his former opponent, U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton of New York, interrupted the official roll call to move that Obama be selected by acclamation. U.S. Senator Joe Biden of Delaware accepted the nomination for Vice President on the same night. Obama accepted his nomination the following night in a speech at Invesco Field before a record-setting crowd of 84,000 people in attendance.
context_section_description: The theme for the day was "Renewing America's Promise." Senator Barbara Mikulski was one of several elected women Democrats selected to speak that evening. Senator Hillary Clinton was the headline prime-time speaker.  In her speech, with former President Bill Clinton watching, Hillary declared, "We are on the same team."
  
  Former Virginia Governor Mark Warner delivered the keynote address which included references to new job creation:
  That's a story worth rewriting all across America.  With the right
  leadership, we can once again achieve a standard of living that is
  improved – and not diminished – in each generation. We can once again make
  America a beacon for science and technology and discovery. Ladies and gentlemen, we know how to do it. The American people are ready.
  
  And Barack Obama and Joe Biden will get it done.
  Ohio Representative Dennis Kucinich, who had also run as a presidential candidate in the 2008 Democratic Party primaries, gave a spirited speech structured around the refrain "Wake up America!" The speech levies trenchant criticism of the perceived abuses of power of the George W. Bush administration, attacks the corporate control of the American political and economic systems and rallies for a program of universal health coverage, universal higher education, tax reform, trade policy reform, energy regulation, civil liberties and de-militarization. At the end of the speech, Kucinich endorses Barack Obama and Joe Biden for president and vice-president. His words electrified the audience who began delivering a standing ovation midway through the speech and continued cheering past its closure.
caption: Hillary Clinton speaks during the second night of the Convention
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