Monday, March 3, 2008

Barack Obama Wins So Carolina, Georgia Delaware, Alabama, Kansas, No Dakota, Utah, Connecticut, Illinois, Minnesota, Colorado, Idaho, Missouri, Alaska

Yes We Can! Go Barack Obama! Our Time Has Come.
Barack Obama Inspires. The Great Need of the Hour.
Victory Speech in South Carolina - American Dream

Caroline Kennedy, Senator Ted Kennedy, Mrs Robert Kennedy, Maria Shriver, Rep Patrick Kennedy, Oprah Winfrey endorse Barack Obama. TIME - Kennedys endorse Obama
A President Like My Father - Caroline Kennedy - 'Camelot'
Caroline Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Maria Shriver endorse Barack Obama
'Senator Obama is running a dignified and honest campaign. He has spoken eloquently about the role of faith in his life, and opened a window into his character in two compelling books. And when it comes to judgment, Barack Obama made the right call on the most important issue of our time by opposing the war in Iraq from the beginning.
I want a president who understands that his responsibility is to articulate a vision and encourage others to achieve it; who holds himself, and those around him, to the highest ethical standards; who appeals to the hopes of those who still believe in the American Dream, and those around the world who still believe in the American ideal; and who can lift our spirits, and make us believe again that our country needs every one of us to get involved. I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them. But for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president — not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans.' Kennedys endorse Obama - Full video
Caroline Kennedy endorses Obama - Barack thanks Edwards
Senator Ted Kennedy endorses Barack Obama - Univision
Barack Obama - American University - En Espanol
Barack Obama's response to State of the Union
CA Debate: Iraq, Right on Day 1, Humane Immigration
Barack Obama in Wilmington, Delaware
Women For Obama Rally, Los Angeles - Oprah, Caroline Kennedy, Michelle Obama, Maria Shriver - Maria Elena Durazo, Los Angeles AFL-CIO Executive Secretary-Treasurer
Yes We Can. Obama in MN on Paul Wellstone - Michelle
Labor Organizer + Harvard professor at John F. Kennedy School of Government, Marshall Ganz endorses Obama
Barack returns to El Dorado, Kansas + Howard University
Governor Kathleen Sebelius, Senator Claire McCaskill, Oprah Mrs. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, NJ Senate President Richard Codey, Susan Eisenhower, Paul Volcker endorse Obama
Rosa's story - Latina for Obama - Arizona Gov Napolitano
Yes We Can. Believe.
Barack Obama's church, faith, community outreach Truth
Barack speaks of his faith at Harvest Cathedral, Macon GA
Obama commemorates 1965 civil rights march in Selma, AL
Barack Obama Honors Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at Dr. King's Church, Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia
Unity. Empathy. Compassion. Believe. Barack Honors Dr. King in Columbia, So. Carolina
Our Moment is Now.

Obama Empowers Women + Americans with Disabilities
Women for Obama - Barack Obama Inspires.
Our Moment is Now.
One Year From Now - Barack Obama in So. Carolina

Barack Obama Jefferson-Jackson Speech, Des Moines
Right On. Outstanding words. Go Obama! Fire it Up!
Obama Speaks to San Francisco Chronicle, California


Barack gives Letterman Top 10
Inspiring. Go Barack Obama! Change We Can Believe In.
Iowan sings to Obama - Alice Walker on Obama
New York Rally
Watch Obama's DNC speech, 11-30-07 - fullvideo pt1 pt2
Iowa Black+Brown Heartland forum
Obama in Oakland, California
Barack reflects on Dr. King's Inspired Legacy
Barack on Dr. King's Vision. Change - SC Debate
A Real Change: Obama on Environment + Green Energy
Hope. Esperanza. Yes We Can! Si Se Puede!
Obama in Los Angeles, California

Obama Stands Up For Justice
Barack at Hampton University on Poverty and Hope Obama Champions Equality + Women's Rights
Obama Inspires on Eve of Iowa Caucus
Fired Up in Greenwood, South Carolina
Barack Obama in Sumter, So. Carolina - Truth
Veteran for Barack - Teacher, Mom + Daughter for Obama
Barack Obama visit the Barbershop
Barack Obama: South Carolina's Time for Change
Barack Obama in Atlanta + Las Vegas
A Defining Moment. Obama Inspires. Barack Obama Wins! Iowa Victory Speech.
Oprah with Barack in So. Carolina
Barack with Oprah in So. Carolina
Hope for Education - Manning, So. Carolina, 11-2-07
Obama's Barber
Michelle Obama wows the crowd.
Change We Can Believe In.
Obama reaches out. Hope touches America.

Obama on Technology, Internet, Open Gov @ Google
Our Moment is Now. Hope + Change
Inspired Undecided Voters Choose Barack Obama. Women For Obama Inspired Justice Hope Change


Obama on Tavis Smiley
Obama Meets with Mayor Bloomberg in New York
Barack Obama at the Apollo
Obama Apollo exit: Ain't No Stoppin Us Now
Barack Obama: The Most American of All Dreams Hope. Change. Obama. Washington Post's Eugene Robinson: 'a goosebumps moment'

The Atlantic's Matt Yglesias called it "Electrifying. Exciting."

The American Prospect's Ezra Klein writes:

Obama's finest speeches do not excite... They elevate. They enmesh you in a grander moment, as if history has stopped flowing passively by, and, just for an instant, contracted around you, made you aware of its presence, and your role in it.

Still Fired Up - NH primary speech pt1
Yes We Can - NH primary speech pt2
The New York Times' David Brooks writes...

Barack Obama has won the Iowa caucuses. You’d have to have a heart of stone not to feel moved by this. An African-American man wins a closely fought campaign in a pivotal state. He beats two strong opponents, including the mighty Clinton machine. He does it in a system that favors rural voters. He does it by getting young voters to come out to the caucuses.

This is a huge moment. It’s one of those times when a movement that seemed ethereal and idealistic became a reality and took on political substance.

Iowa won’t settle the race, but the rest of the primary season is going to be colored by the glow of this result. Whatever their political affiliations, Americans are going to feel good about the Obama victory, which is a story of youth, possibility and unity through diversity — the primordial themes of the American experience.

Stand for Change: 100 Club Dinner - full speech

And Americans are not going to want to see this stopped. When an African-American man is leading a juggernaut to the White House, do you want to be the one to stand up and say No?

Obama has achieved something remarkable. At first blush, his speeches are abstract, secular sermons of personal uplift — filled with disquisitions on the nature of hope and the contours of change.

He talks about erasing old categories like red and blue (and implicitly, black and white) and replacing them with new categories, of which the most important are new and old. He seems at first more preoccupied with changing thinking than changing legislation.

Yet over the course of his speeches and over the course of this campaign, he has persuaded many Iowans that there is substance here as well. He built a great organization and produced a tangible victory.

AP...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A victorious Barack Obama portrayed his decisive first-place finish in the Iowa Democratic caucuses as a "defining moment" that he said would lead the way to change in Washington and an end to the war in Iraq.

The first-term senator from Illinois promised "a nation less divided and more united" and told those at a victory rally they could some day "look back and say this is the moment where it all began."