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News Source: NewKerala
| about 1 year ago
In her congratulatory message, President Pratibha Patil hailed Obama's historic election and underlined the strong partnership between the two countries in facing common global challenges like climate change, terrorism, and energy, health and food...
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News Source: The Dallas Morning News
| about 1 year ago
And in the end, the Sweet Talk Convoy driven by Barack Obama rolled over John McCain's Straight Talk Express, dramatically altering the face of American politics...Calvin Stephens, a leading black Republican in Dallas County, played a dubious role in...
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News Source: ITN
| about 1 year ago
Barack Obama has become the first black US president after a landslide election victory. The 47-year-old Democrat led his Republican rival John McCain by 297 votes to 139 as he passed the magic number of 270 needed to win the presidency at 4am GMT...
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News Source: NewKerala
| about 1 year ago
In a midnight speech laden with significance and emotion, Obama said: "It's been a long time coming but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, change has come to America." "Americans had sent a message to the world," the...
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News Source: Zaman.com
| about 1 year ago
Less than an hour after sealing his hold on the White House, Obama and his wife, Michelle, stepped onto the stage holding the hands of their two daughters at a massive victory rally in Chicago's Grant Park. "If there is anyone out there who still...
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News Source: Gulf News
| about 1 year ago
Gulf News report Last updated: November 05, 2008, 10:15 Washington: Democrat Barack Obama on Tuesday captured the White House becoming the first black president of the United States defeating Republican John McCain . Addressing 125,000 ecstatic...
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News Source: San Francisco Chronicle
| about 1 year ago
So rest in peace in the name of the Father and the Son; For your dream has not ended but in reality just begun. She read the poem at a San Francisco City Hall memorial, and the gathered crowd, young blacks from her own Hunters Point and from...
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News Source: GMA News
| about 1 year ago
Philippines Malacañang on Wednesday congratulated newly-elected US President Barack Obama, saying the change he promised generates hope and inspiration" not just in America but also across the world. "We wish to express our profound...
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News Source: Canadian Free Press
| about 1 year ago
Change We NEED? By John Lillpop Wednesday, November 5, 2008 Everyone knows that Barack Obama promised change, but as voters in Philadelphia discovered on election day, some Black Panthers took change to mean “Black Only” at the polling...
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News Source: Seattle Times
| about 1 year ago
The world awoke this morning to review the historic moments of yesterday's election. My father-in-law watched Obama's ascension to the White House through the lenses of a black man raised in rural, racist Texas.