BARACK OBAMA
Today Barack Obama becomes president. The celebration has been going on for a while already, but it reaches a climax today with the swearing in, the inaugural parade and an array of inaugural balls. We, like so many people, are excited at this historic moment, as Obama becomes the first son of a black man to become president of the United States, breaking one the greatest barriers of all in this nation's civil rights struggle.
Coming one day after the celebration of the Martin Luther King Holiday, the inauguration caps a long holiday weekend of whistle-stops, speeches, tributes, concerts and rejoicing.
It all happened very quickly, as national political change goes.
Obama not only amazed the United States but the world by coming from the relative obscurity of being a first-term senator from Illinois to an underdog contender in the Democratic primaries, then to taking on the front-runner and presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton and knocking her out, and finally defeating Republican John McCain in the November election.
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