Then an Illinois state senator, Barack Obama’s 2004 keynote speech electrified the convention and set him on a trajectory for the Democratic nomination four years later: "The pundits like to slice and ...

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 Jarrett, ...

In 2004, Barack Obama delivered the keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention, during which he discussed the unlikely path he followed in his life, which made him into the person that he is ...