President Barack Obama effectively began his campaign to become the first black president of the United States of America when he delivered the keynote address to the 2004 Democratic Convention in Boston.

Barack Obama on Hope: Boston, 27th July 2004

‘There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America, there’s a United States of America. There’s not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America.

In the end that’s what this (2004) election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

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