It’s Obama - Taipei Times

It’s Obama - Taipei Times: "It’s Obama

LIVING HISTORY The Illinois senator tore up the US political map, capturing states once seen as Republican strongholds

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US president-elect Barack Obama stands on stage along with his wife, Michelle, and daughters Malia, right, and Sasha in Grant Park, Chicago, on Tuesday night. Obama defeated Republican nominee Senator John McCain by a wide margin to become the first black US president.
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A triumphant US Democratic Senator Barack Obama vowed to be a president for all America and asked for patience to address the nation’s problems of war and finance that he called the greatest challenges of a lifetime.
The first black US president-elect cast his election as a defining moment in the country’s 232-year history and a rebuke to cynicism, fear and doubt."