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News Source: Daily Nation
| about 1 year ago
Barack Obama will bring a careful, deliberative style to the White House that differs from President George W. Bush’s tendency to rely more heavily on his gut instincts. The Democrat made history on Tuesday by becoming the first black US president-...
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News Source: The Philippine Star
| about 1 year ago
And so “the skinny kid with the funny name” is now President-elect of the United States. It is as momentous an occasion as the Berlin wall coming down. America elected as its President a black man whose middle name is Hussein, an accident of...
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News Source: Voice of America
| about 1 year ago
Senate races in four U.S. states remain undecided, but Tuesday's election has already increased the Democratic majority in both houses of Congress. Democrats seized five Senate seats from the Republicans in Tuesday's election, giving them 56 seats in...
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News Source: Daily Nation
| about 1 year ago
That document, known as The Phoenix Initiative, may help guide US global strategy over the next four years. Ms Rice, 44, is considered a leading candidate for the post of National Security Advisor. She worked on the National Security Council as an...
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News Source: Inquirer.net
| about 1 year ago
After the euphoria of his historic election win Barack Obama got down Thursday to choosing a presidential team that faces a mountain of problems, not least the economic crisis and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Democrat dodged the limelight after...
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News Source: Seattle Times
| about 1 year ago
President-elect Barack Obama began moving Wednesday to build his administration and make good on his promises to point the United States in a different direction. A day after becoming the first African American to capture the presidency, Obama...
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News Source: Virginian-Pilot Online
| about 1 year ago
It wasn't so long ago that Barack Obama himself considered the idea of a President Obama to be "hooey." Four years later, he's headed for the White House, after a campaign that had more than its share of bizarre twists, unexpected controversies and...
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News Source: Dawn
| about 1 year ago
In a country that coined the term lynching for extrajudicial murder of blacks and poor whites, Barack Hussein Obama made history on Tuesday when he became the first African American to have been elected president of the United States of America.
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News Source: East Valley Tribune
| about 1 year ago
Black opinion leaders, business leaders and students across the East Valley reveled Wednesday in Barack Obama's barrier-breaking achievement in winning the presidency. Former Scottsdale diversity director Don Logan, who bears the scars of a mail bomb...
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News Source: The Scotsman
| about 1 year ago
FOR nearly 150 years, the Republican Party has honoured Abraham Lincoln, the first man to win the presidency carrying the Republican banner. Yesterday, however, Barack Obama carried every state won by the Great Emancipator himself in 1860.