Barack Obama.

At a little bit after one this afternoon, Barack Obama took the stage. He thanked the previous speaker and other people who "charged the crowd up." He thanked everybody for coming out. It's hot, he likes it hot. Nothing wrong with hot, he noted. When you're from Chicago, there's nothing wrong with hot. It gets hot about three months a year there. He's been running for about four months now and it was an absolutely thrill. He met people from everybody from all walks of life from all over the country. He talked about the huge crowds he generated: 20,000 in Atlanta, 20,000 in Austin, 8,000 in Cleveland. He wondered how on earth he got to be standing in front of that many people. He said he wasn't from Chicago, he moved there after college. He said he was inspired by the civil rights movement. He was too young to participate in the movement but there was something about working for the betterment of America. He liked the bottom-up way the movement worked. He talked about his early career, where he made 12 grand a year and drove a broken-down old car. He worked in helping people in a variety of situations and found the work rewarding. He found that "ordinary people can do extraordinary things when given an opportunity."
Ordinary people want to be involved in their communities and such.

Then he talked about law school and getting involved in voter registration. He was involved in 150,000 voter registrations. He taught constitutional law after getting his degree. Some people later asked if he was interested in running for state office. He said he did what other politicians do, and that's pray and consult their wives. Obama said in effect he consulted two higher powers, God and his wife, and not necessarily in that order, to see if running for office was the right thing to do.