Barack Obama : The race for the White House
Barack Obama caught America's attention during the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston where, as an Illinois state senator, he delivered the keynote address. "Yet even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes," Obama said. "Well, I say to them tonight, there's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America." File photo / Associated Press
