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America’s Historical Moment May 06, 2009 / Michael Werz
Minutes after the polls closed in California on November 4th and CNN announced that Barack Obama won the election, a collective sigh of relief went through America. Barack Obama is of ambiguous ancestry and can only be described as American. The fact that a man of his background has been elected will not only be recorded in schoolbooks all over the world for a century to come; it will also stand as an irreversible achievement, independently of the political disappointments that are to come.



