“The real story of Obama’s year is the steady march of seemingly impossible accomplishments: beating the Clinton machine, organizing previously marginal voters, harnessing the new technologies of democratic engagement, shattering fundraising records, turning previously red states blue — and then waking up the day after his victory to reinvent the presidential-transition process in the face of a potentially dangerous vacuum of leadership.” – from the TIME article on ‘Person of the Year 2008′.

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If speech is the biggest weaponry of a politician, the Democrats know how to fight a war.

Three brilliant political speeches within a week-

1. Hillary Clinton, 26th Aug

2. Bill Clinton, 27th Aug
the charm has not faded

3. Barack Obama, 28th Aug

Disclaimer: I am not a proponent of any party and I am very well aware of why those speeches had to be given the way they were. But nonetheless, the orators did a magnificent job.