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When did Barack Obama get the Democratic nomination? Why was this such an important step on his journey to president?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Barack Obama, the Democratic nomination changed his life. After traveling and campaigning, Obama secured the nomination and was officially declared the Democratic nominee for president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more about Barack Obama, the Democratic nomination, and what it meant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Barack Obama and the Democratic National Convention<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On August 27, 2008, Barack Obama took the stage at the Pepsi Center in Denver to formally accept the Democratic Party\u2019s nomination for president of the United States.<\/strong> In a strikingly symbolic historical coincidence, it was the 45th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It represented a stunning political rise for Obama, who a mere eight years before, had not even had credentials to get on the floor <\/em>of the convention. Now, he was addressing it as the nominee. For Barack, the highlight of the convention was Michelle\u2019s electrifying speech, in which she discussed her upbringing on the South Side of Chicago, the sacrifices her parents had made to build a better life for her and her siblings, and what her unlikely journey said about what was truly possible in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As he stood on the stage, Barack\u2019s thoughts were on the significance of the moment, especially for the millions of African-Americans who never thought they\u2019d live to see such a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The General Election Begins<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Barack Obama, a biracial kid from Hawaii and former community organizer from the South Side of Chicago, was now the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the weight of the historic moment wasn\u2019t lost on anyone (least of all Obama himself), the campaign had no time to rest on their laurels\u2014there was a general election campaign to be waged and won against the Republican nominee, famed war hero and U.S. Senator John McCain of Arizona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John McCain: Maverick-Turned-Partisan<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Barack Obama secured the Democratic nomination, but who was running on the Republican side? The 73-year-old McCain\u2019s biography was the stuff of political legend. During the Vietnam War<\/a>, he\u2019d been captured by the enemy and tortured for over five years\u2014refusing multiple offers by the Vietnamese to be set free unless the offer was extended to his fellow POWs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Obama had long been an admirer of McCain. The Arizona senator had repeatedly shown political independence<\/a> and courage by bucking GOP orthodoxy by voting against George W. Bush\u2019s regressive tax cuts, sponsoring a bipartisan campaign-finance reform package, and speaking out against figures on the Religious Right<\/a> as \u201cagents of intolerance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Obama believed that McCain had shamelessly pandered to the party\u2019s far-right flank in order to win the 2008 Republican nomination\u2014effectively selling his principles out for political gain. The onetime maverick was now little more than a standard-issue Republican. The Obama team was determined to make sure that the country also saw him that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Overseas Campaign Trip<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

To counter claims by the McCain campaign that he was inexperienced in foreign policy and ill-prepared to serve as commander-in-chief, Obama and his team arranged a June 2008 foreign trip to Israel, France, the UK, Iraq, and Afghanistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Afghanistan, where U.S. troops had been present since 2001, Obama saw to his dismay that the U.S.-backed leader Hamid Karzai held little real power outside the capital of Kabul. Worse, his government lacked legitimacy in the eyes of the country\u2019s rural population. U.S. troops on the ground, meanwhile, had been placed in an impossible situation and deployed in numbers too small to contain the violence that was quickly engulfing the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Iraq, Obama found a similar situation, with the U.S.-installed provisional government barely keeping the security situation stable as Sunni-Shi\u2019ite sectarian tensions raged. In a private conversation, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki agreed with Obama\u2019s position that it was time for the U.S. to begin a phased withdrawal of troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

General David Petraeus, commander of the U.S. forces in Iraq, disagreed with the Democratic candidate\u2019s position. But Obama was already beginning to think <\/em>like a president. He knew that as commander-in-chief, he would have to make tough decisions, weigh consequences and trade-offs, and act in the best interests of the country\u2014even if that meant overriding the opinions of experts on the ground like Petraeus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trip was a rousing success in terms of campaign optics, with the media agreeing that he \u201clooked presidential.\u201d But Obama was becoming concerned with more important things than the optics. With a strong polling lead over McCain as the summer wore on, he knew there was a growing chance that he would win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He couldn\u2019t afford to just look <\/em>like a president. He would have to be <\/em>one. For Barack Obama, the Democratic nomination was just the beginning. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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