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America Depends On Obama





Yesterday, the first African-American was inaugurated President of the United States.

It marks an important milestone for a country long obsessed and consumed by poor race relations.

But looking upon Barack Obama only as a black man is to oversimplify him. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Obama has served as a lawyer, community advocate, and politician. He has traveled through Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and lived in Asia as a young man. He is more qualified than some, perhaps less qualified than others, to be President of the United States.

Throughout the 2008 presidential campaign, opponents dug deeply into his past, and found things to discredit him. Some of it was true, and embarrassing. Some was outrageously false.

Despite those efforts, when the votes were tallied, Americans chose him as their president.

Those who oppose him will continue their vigorous criticism, because that’s what Americans do.

Americans want him to be a successful president, because our future depends, in a large part, on him.


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