“John McCain has spent a lot of time talking about trips to Iraq in the last few weeks, but maybe if he spent some time taking trips to the cities and towns that have been hardest hit by this economy ... he’d understand the kind of change that people are looking for,” he said.
Obama rocketed to prominence at the 2004 Democratic presidential convention with an electrifying call for unity, proclaiming “there is not a Black America and a White America ... there’s the United States of America.”



