Presidential elections
Nov 5 2008, Vincent Van Ross

Barrack Hussein Obama romped home with a thumping majority to became president Obama in the 2008 US presidential elections. With his election as the first African-American president, Barrack Obama rewrote the history of American democracy in black and...

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