Barack Obama Convention Speech, DNC 2008 (VIDEO)

Video of Barack Obama's grand slam home run speech in Denver, for the 2008 Democratic Convention, DNC 2008.

Barack Obama Convention Speech, DNC 2008 (VIDEO)
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Barack Obama promised tonight, in his 2008 convention speech, to fix the ``broken politics'' of Washington and preserve the ideals of a nation that allowed him to become the first black presidential nominee of a major U.S. political party.

``This moment -- this election -- is our chance to keep, in the 21st century, the American promise alive,'' Obama told more than 75,000 supporters at Denver's Invesco Field as he accepted the Democratic Party's nomination. ``We are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look just like the last eight.''

Obama in his DNC 2008 speech spoke 45 years to the day after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his ``I Have a Dream'' speech, and he drew on that historic legacy. His parents, a Kenyan and a white woman from Kansas, ``shared a belief that in America, their son could achieve whatever he put his mind to,'' Obama said.

Democrats had high expectations for tonight's 2008 convention speech from Obama; it was Obama's keynote address to the Democratic National Convention in 2004 that propelled him to national prominence. He used the acceptance speech to tell Americans more about himself, while arguing that he is a better candidate to lead the country than presumed Republican nominee John McCain...

...He directly criticized McCain, tying him to the ``failed policies'' of President George W. Bush that he said were responsible for the declining fortunes of American workers.

``John McCain doesn't get it,'' Obama said. The Arizona senator subscribes to an ``old discredited Republican philosophy'' that rewards the rich and leaves others worse off, he said. ``It's time for them to own their failure,'' Obama said. ``It's time for us to change America.''

Obama said McCain voted for the president's positions 90 percent of the time.

``What does it say about your judgment when you think George Bush was right more than 90 percent of the time?'' Obama asked. ``I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to take a 10 percent chance on change.''