This Future Leader Speaks

Thanks to msmartin for this hat tip.



Gerra Gistand of MacGregor elementary won first place during the 13th Annual Gardere MLK Jr. Oratory. Finalists gave original five-minute speeches on the topic: If Dr. King were alive today, what do you think he would say about current events?

0 Days And Counting: THE DAY IS HERE - The 14 Speeches of the Obama Campaign: Finally, The DNC Convention Speech

The Obama Introductory Film

August 28, 2008: Denver, Colorado - Barack Obama's Speech at Invesco Field

1 Day And Counting - The 14 Speeches of the Obama Campaign: #1, Michelle Obama at the DNC

August 25, 2008: Denver, Colorado - Michelle Obama at the DNC Convention

Michelle's Introductory Film





Michelle Obama's Speech to the Nation

2 Days And Counting - The 14 Speeches of the Obama Campaign: #2, Obama in Berlin

July 2008: Berlin, Germany -Before a crowd of 200,000 people,
Barack Obama takes the world stage.

This is a picture from a DailyKos diary during Obama's trip abroad. A parent was cooking dinner, when he heard silence from the other room with his children.
When he went to investigate, this is what he found:



The older child was instructing the younger one to
' be quiet because Obama was about to speak'.

3 Days And Counting - The 14 Speeches of the Obama Campaign: #3, End of Primary Season/Minneapolis Speech

June 3, 2008: Minneapolis, Minnesota - The End of the Democratic Primary Season

4 Days And Counting - The 14 Speeches of the Obama Campaign: #4, Securing The Pledged Delegate Lead

May 20, 2008, Des Moines, Iowa-Securing the Pledged Delegate Lead

6 Days And Counting - The 14 Speeches of the Obama Campaign: #6, Ebenezer Baptist Church

January 2008 -MLK Birthday Speech at Ebenezer Baptist Church.

7 Days And Counting - The 14 Speeches of the Obama Campaign: #7, The New Hampshire Primary

January 8, 2008: The night of the New Hampshire loss

8 Days And Counting - The 14 Speeches of the Obama Campaign: #8, The Iowa Caucus

January 3, 2008 - The Iowa Caucus.
The night many of us never ever thought they would see in America.

9 Days And Counting - The 14 Speeches of the Obama Campaign: #9, The Iowa JJ Dinner

The beginning of the turning point for Barack Obama: his speech at the Iowa Jefferson -Jackson Dinner (November 2007).

10 Days And Counting - The 14 Speeches of the Obama Campaign: #10, Michelle Obama - See the possibilities

November 20, 2007: Another Michelle Obama fantastic speech in Orangeburg, South Carolina. She is magnificent here.

11 Days And Counting - The 14 Speeches of the Obama Campaign: #11, Michelle Obama - Be not afraid

Michelle Obama introduced her husband in Iowa in August 2007. Like I've said before, I've never seen 'Angry Michelle'. I have seen 'Passionate Michelle'. She.is.fierce!

12 Days And Counting - The 14 Speeches of the Obama Campaign: #12, Obama Announces for The Presidency

February 10, 2007: Barack Obama Announces His Intentions To Run For President at the Old Statehouse in Springfield, Illinois

13 Days And Counting - The 14 Speeches of the Obama Campaign: #13, The 2004 Keynote Address

Here is the speech that launched 'Barack Obama'.
The Keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston.

14 Days And Counting - The 14 Speeches of the Obama Campaign: #14, The Iraq War

It is now 14 days until November 4th. MOA wanted to look back at the oratory of the Obama Campaign. We don't think good oratory is 'elitist' or ' high falutin'. We here at MOA believe oratory, good oratory, can inspire people to believe in something bigger. To believe that there can be a better world.

The first speech we're going to take a look at is the October 2002 Anti-War Speech given by Obama.