Yearning for Unity: Songs From the Choir
Barack Obama accepted his landslide win last Tuesday, not as the conquering victor filled with hubris, but rather as a humbled, public servant.
Barack Obama accepted his landslide win last Tuesday, not as the conquering victor filled with hubris, but rather as a humbled, public servant.
Mike Doyle | Posted 12.08.2008 | Chicago
Drawn from the YouTube feeds of five fellow Grant Park revelers, here is how we who were down there experienced the moment when America changed forever.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama was in the No-Gloat Zone. For his very first speech as president-elect... Obama crafted a message with much of the scope and power of an inaugural address.
Peter J Burns | Posted 12.07.2008 | Home
At Grant Park Obama reminded us of both Martin Luther King, Jr., and John F. Kennedy. I saw Dr. King's Dream come true on that stage. And Kennedy's vision was apparent in Obama's challenge to us. Kennedy and King never promised us a hand out. They promised us a fair shake.
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 12.06.2008 | Chicago
The first Black President of the United States strode out onto the stage in front of a hushed press and an alternately roaring and quietly awestruck crowd it hit me that it was for real - all the believers actually succeeded in believing this Presidency into being.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 12.06.2008 | Media
I can't help but see a sutble connection between this: "To those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote, but I hear...
Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
Slideshow of President-Elect Obama with his family On Election Night: More Photos of the Obamas and Bidens celebrating on Election Night: ...
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 12.05.2008 | Chicago
Now that Illinois is offering a second President to the United States, it seemed fitting to spend the night watching Senator Barack Obama with the Democratic County Chair in Springfield.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 12.05.2008 | Media
"I am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. I was raised with the help of a white grandfather who survived a Depression to ...
Huffington Post | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
UPDATES: Barack Obama Big News Page ***SCROLL FOR VIDEO, FULL TEXT*** The election is over. Tonight President-Elect Obama celebrated in Gran...
Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics
Usually, William Kristol deploys his New York Times column to try and provide John McCain with some extra intellectual firepower. But today he leaps into the breach to assist Obama. Or so he would have it.
AP | TOM RAUM and NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
***Scroll Down For Video Excerpts And Full Speech*** ST. PAUL, Minn. — Before a crowd of cheering thousands, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois laid...
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics
POST-ELECTION DAY UPDATES: WATCH, READ: President-Elect Obama's General Election Victory Speech In Grant Park Remarks of Senator Barack Obama...
The Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Sen. Hillary Clinton began giving a speech on Tuesday night shortly after Wisconsin's results came in. But within minutes, Sen. Barack Obama appeared ...
Kelly Nuxoll | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
COLUMBIA, SC--It wasn't just Obama talking about unity and change tonight. Supporters that filled the Columbia convention center--as well those who w...
Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 12.12.2008 | Living