America’s celebration of change will reach a fever pitch in just a few hours, as Barack Hussein Obama takes his oath of office and is sworn in as the 44th President of those United States.
Obama’s improbable rise to the highest office in the land has captured the imagination of Americans from sea to sea and citizens of the world stretching to the globes farthest corners.
The first African American to claim the nation’s highest office, a prospect once thought of as unattainable but one which was fully endorsed and verified by the voters on November 4 of 2008, brings to Washington the hopes and aspirations of a nation and those far beyond their borders.
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