Yes We Can! Speeches of Barack Obama, Expanded Edition

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.


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. One 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.