wann wurde Obama geboren? Barack Obama wurde in Honolulu als Kind von Stanley Ann Dunham (1942–1995) und Barack Hussein Obama Senior (1936–1982) am 04.08.1961 geboren. Das ist sein biologisches Geburtsdatum. Seine politische Amtzseit begann in Illinois 1992. Am 04. Januar 2005 leistete Obama seinen Amtseid für den US-Senat, ein großer Meilenstein.
Aber seine echte Geburtsstunde war am 27. Juli 2004 anlässlich der Democratic National Convention in Boston. Dort hielt er eine Rede vor der Demokratischen Partei, die mit „The Speech“ betitelt wird. Und die Grundlage zu seiner Präsidentschaftskandidatur schuf:
The keynote speech that Barack Obama delivered on Tuesday, July 27, 2004, galvanized the delegates who packed Boston’s FleetCenter and electrified a nationwide television audience. The 2,297 words uttered over 17 minutes changed Obama’s profile overnight and made him a household name. Before the speech, the idea of Obama running for president in 2008 would have been laughable; he was a lowly state senator from Chicago’s Hyde Park, and while he stood a good chance at winning his U.S. Senate race, he would enter that powerful body ranked 99th out of 100 in seniority. After the speech, observers from across the political world hailed the address as an instant classic, and Obama was drawing comparisons (deservedly or not) to Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy
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Rede Teil 2:
Und mit diesem einen pointierten Satz hat er die Amis gecatched:
There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America.
(Quote, im Video Teil 2 ungefähr ab 03:00)
Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us — the spin masters, the negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of „anything goes.“ Well, I say to them tonight, there is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America — there’s the United States of America.
The pundits, the pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats. But I’ve got news for them, too. We worship an „awesome God“ in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around in our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and yes, we’ve got some gay friends in the Red States. There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
