Barack Obama has been elected president of the United States of America!

Democratic Senator Barack Obama has been elected the first black president of the United States. The world is already a better place and Americans are loved all around the world once more!



"It's been a long time coming, but tonight... change has come to America," the president-elect told a jubilant crowd at a victory rally in Chicago. His rival John McCain accepted defeat, saying

"I deeply admire and commend" Mr Obama. He called on his supporters to lend the next president their goodwill.

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