Senator Barack Obama

The Turning Point For Senator Obama

There's a lot of primary post mortem discussion happening these days, and I was thinking about what the turning point was for Senator Obama -- the one moment when the Senator broke through the noise; the one moment when the dynamic of the campaign changed.

For me, it was Iowa's Jefferson-Jackson Dinner speech back in November.

When I first heard this speech, my reaction was: he has to win this thing. It was this speech that made me want to endorse Senator Obama for president.

Prior to this speech, I felt that Senator Obama had lost a certain level of energy and I was one of those people who felt that Senator Clinton would likely win the nomination rather quickly. But this speech changed all of that. This was the Obama we were expecting.