Yes We Can, (Expanded Edition): Speeches of Barack Obama

Expanded from the original, Yes We Can! offers highlights from speeches by Barack Obama and includes his entire Inaugural Address as an added bonus. For this 3 CD collection, speeches were chosen to showcase President Obama's powerful, inspiring rhetoric of hope and change and to represent his stands on issues such as climate, energy, service, and the Iraq war. Speeches include: 2004 DNC Keynote Address, Roast of Representative Rahm Emanuel, Take Back America, Call to Renewal, My Plans for 2008, The War We Need to Win, Yes We Can, A More Perfect Union, AP Annual Luncheon Address, Remarks on Service, Address to the People of Berlin, New Energy for America, 2008 DNC Address, Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, President-Elect Victory Speech, Remarks to the Global Climate Summit, Introduction of Clinton and National Security Team, Inaugural Address

Obama, the junior U.S. Senator from Illinois, is the first ever African American to beome the presumptive presidential nominee for a U.S. major political party. On June 3, 2008, he gained enough delegates to be nominated by the Democratic party at its national convention. After high school, Obama studied at Occidental College in Los Angeles for 2 years. He transferred to Columbia University in new York, graduating in 1983 with a degree in political science. He moved to Chicago in 1985, and worked as a community organizer for low-income residents in Chicago's Roseland community and the Altgeld Gardens public housing development on the city's south side.