- Associated Press
- Barack Obama acknowledges the crowd before speaking to the Democratic National Convention in Denver's Mile High Stadium.
Obama promises to end the 'broken politics in Washington'
By David Espo and Robert Furlow - ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated: 08/28/08 10:43 PM
DENVER -- Before an enormous, adoring crowd, Barack Obama promised a clean break from the "broken politics in Washington and the failed presidency of George W. Bush" Thursday night as he embarked on the final lap of his audacious bid to become the nation's first black president.
"Now is not the time for small plans," the 47-year-old Illinois senator told an estimated 84,000 people packed into Invesco Field, a huge football stadium in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains.
He vowed to cut taxes for nearly all working-class families, end the war in Iraq and break America's dependence on Mideast oil within a decade.
Obama called Sen. John McCa...
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