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 Barack Obama MLK’d His DNC Speech in 2004.

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 ...

2004 Obama Interview Foreshadows 2008 Nomination. ... Four years ago, a Senate candidate from Illinois made headlines for giving a rousing keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention.

Barack Obama is a man of big speeches, the sort that get named after cities: Boston in 2004, Berlin and Denver in 2008, Cairo and Prague in 2009. In Strasbourg, France, he addressed all of Europe ...