Barack obama's star-turn speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston sounds just as good now as it did eight years ago. It was hours before that performance that Obama told a reporter, "I'm LeBron, baby!" The boast is considered sheer hubris by his detractors, but it wasn't such a bad self-assessment. The background noise of Obama's 2004 speech is the low rumble of a political rocket about to slip the surly bonds of earth.
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