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A slew of Massachusetts notables join Barack Obama (center) on stage at a Feb. 4, 2008 pre-Super Tuesday campaign rally at the World Trade Center in South Boston. (From left): Victoria Reggie Kennedy, wife of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy; Sen. Kennedy; Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the late President John F. Kennedy, who would later announce her intentions to fill the New York Senate seat being vacated by one-time Obama opponent Hillary Clinton; Gov. Deval Patrick; his wife, Massachusetts first lady Diane Patrick; Sen. John F. Kerry; his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry; and Fitchburg Mayor Lisa Wong all came to the South Boston waterfront to pledge their support to the Illinois senator. In the Bay State’s Super Tuesday primary, however, Clinton defeated Obama despite his numerous high-profile endorsements. (Tony Irving photo) |
Obama waves to the crowd after ending a speech at the Democratic National Convention at Invesco Field in Denver on Aug. 28, 2008. The culmination of Obama’s hard-fought primary victory over Clinton, the 2008 DNC catapulted Obama’s candidacy with soaring rhetoric, rabid audiences, an all-star cast of supporters and a focused political message: Electing his Republican opponent, Arizona Sen. John McCain, would be tantamount to re-electing President Bush. (AP photo/Charlie Neibergall) |
Obama shakes hands at a rally at Veteran’s Memorial Arena in Jacksonvlle, Fla., on Monday, Nov. 3, 2008, the night before his historic victory. An estimated 187 million voters were registered to cast ballots in the 2008 election; in an indication of national interest in the race for the White House, approximately 40 million had already voted as Election Day dawned. (AP photo/Alex Brandon) |
Obama occasionally showcased his lighter side on the campaign trail, as he did when he danced with Ellen DeGeneres during an episode of her talk show. For her part, DeGeneres told the Banner that the president-elect’s wife, future first lady Michelle Obama, is a better dancer than he is. (Photo courtesy of Warner Bros.) |
Obama (left) and his wife Michelle wave to delegates after he delivered his keynote address to the Democratic National Convention in Boston in this July 27, 2004, file photo. Boston served as the setting for Obama’s emergence on the national stage. He was an Illinois state senator running for a U.S. Senate seat when he delivered what some call “The Speech,” a 17-minute star-making address at the 2004 convention. Four years later, he became the first African American to receive the presidential nomination of one of the country’s two major political parties; on Election Day, he became the first black president. (AP photo/Charlie Neibergall, file) |
In this photo released by the U.S. Army, Obama (right) and David Petraeus, then the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, walk down a runway at Baghdad International Airport, Iraq, on Monday, July 21, 2008. Iraq’s government welcomed Obama with a message of apparent common ground on American troop withdrawal goals: expressing hopes that combat forces could leave by 2010. Making the next move in U.S. involvement with Iraq is just one of a slew of issues that will face the new Obama administration after he is sworn in later this month. (AP photo/Ssg. Lorie Jewell, HO) |
McCain (left) and Obama face off at the Sept. 26, 2008, presidential debate at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss. (AP photo/Rogelio Solis) |
President George W. Bush (right) and Obama walk together prior to their meeting at the White House in Washington on Monday, Nov. 10, 2008. For many voters across the United States, Obama’s victory in the Nov. 4 election sparked feelings of joy, hope and even utter disbelief. (AP photo/Charles Dharapak) |
Obama (left) and his vice presidential running mate Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del. (right), wave to supporters alongside their wives, Michelle Obama (second from left) and Jill Biden (second from right), outside the Old State Capitol on Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008, in Springfield, Ill. Many political pundits saw Obama’s selection of Biden, a well-respected politician often lauded for his foreign-policy knowledge, as a deft deflection of the McCain camp’s claims that Obama’s relative inexperience on the national scene would prove detrimental. (AP photo/Jeff Roberson) |
