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[[File:Bookbio.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The Birther movement was started by Obama himself.]]

[[File:Bookbio.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The Birther movement was started by Obama himself.]]

====2004 Democrat keynote speech====

====2004 Democrat keynote speech====

Obama was an unknown who rose to prominence as an Illinois state senator invited to give the 2004 Democratic Party Nomination Convention Keynote Speech. Gloria Borger, later chief political analyst at CNN, appeared on the state media channel [[PBS]] ''Washington Week in Review'' program, and introduced Obama to America as a "Kenyan economist" running for the U.S. Senate in 2004. In the most memorable line of the speech, Obama said,

Obama rose to prominence as an Illinois state senator invited to give the 2004 Democratic Party Nomination Convention Keynote Speech. Gloria Borger, later chief political analyst at CNN, appeared on the state media channel [[PBS]] ''Washington Week in Review'' program, and introduced the unkown Obama to America as a "Kenyan economist" running for the U.S. Senate in 2004. In the most memorable line of the speech, Obama said,

{{quotebox-float|"Tonight, there is not a liberal America and a conservative America -- there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America -- there’s the United States of America."<ref>http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/convention2004/barackobama2004dnc.htm</ref>}}

{{quotebox-float|"Tonight, there is not a liberal America and a conservative America -- there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America -- there’s the United States of America."<ref>http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/convention2004/barackobama2004dnc.htm</ref>}}

The words were spoken to enthusiastic applause. In the confused and befuddled atmosphere of 2004, two nights later the Democrat presidential nominee, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, said the exact opposite:

The words were spoken to enthusiastic applause. In the confused and befuddled atmosphere of 2004, two nights later the Democrat presidential nominee, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, said the exact opposite: