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Fri 08 Aug 2008Obama acceptance speech evokes memories of King
AS BARACK Obama prepared to accept the Democratic nomination before 75,000 people at a Denver football stadium last night, Democrats were alive to the historical significance of the event.
It came 45 years to the day after Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech at Washington's Lincoln Memorial, a site evoked by the classical columns that formed Mr Obama's backdrop last night.
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