Showing posts with label Vice President Elect Joe Biden. Show all posts
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Saturday, January 17, 2009

Obama on the final lap of his journey to presidency

Obama's historic trip to D.C.

Jan. 17: President-elect Barack Obama delivers an
inspirational speech to a crowd in Baltimore during
the third leg of the inaugural whistle-stop train tour.





Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Barack Obama elected 44th president

‘Change has come to America,’ first African-American leader tells country

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Barack Obama, a 47-year-old first-term senator from Illinois, shattered more than 200 years of history Tuesday night by winning election as the first African-American president of the United States. A crowd of 125,000 people jammed Grant Park in Chicago, where Obama addressed the nation for the first time as its president-elect at midnight ET. Hundreds of thousands more — Mayor Richard Daley said he would not be surprised if a million Chicagoans jammed the streets — watched on a large television screen outside the park.

“If there is anyone out there who doubts that America is a place where anything is possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer,” Obama declared. “Young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled, Americans have sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of red states and blue states,” he said. “We have been and always will be the United States of America.



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