Newsweek article about the election...

..., you think its bad today, wait until tomorrow.' And I said, 'What do you mean?' And he said, 'My speech is pretty good'." Obama's 2004 convention speech launched him into the strange world of celebritydom; he acquired the kind of aura that can transform a skinny, scholarly man with big ears into a sex symbol. Eureka Gilkey, one of Obama's aides, recalled going with him when he made a speech to ...