Obama, from illinois is really fucking good--talks at the DNc about health care, education, union work, talks about waste, etc, for example :

Don't want there money wasted--by the welfare agencies  or the pentagon
The Government alone cannot teach education alone.
The slander of a black youth with a book is acting white.
They use faith as a wedge to a divide us. ]
WE have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers about why they are going, or when they will return...

(he thinks war should be an option, but not the first option---not something i would agree with, but he talks about how war is connected to race and class--but also says things like "is seamus {a marine} serving us as well as we are serving them")

obv. grooming him, hope they dont knock of the rough edges,
link here:
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/interactive.asp?id=/d/ip/dnc_tuesday_videos_152/data.js&navid=3032091&fmt=full&cp1=1