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NOVEMBER 05, 2008

President-elect Obama

There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads to fortune. That was Shakespeare, and on Tuesday America embraced the sentiment. It was an absolute flood. An African-American man named Barack Obama is now president-elect of the United States of America. In his youth and eloquence he upended the politics in this country and suggested there is a new way, a new day. Whether you celebrate this outcome or lament it, the American ideal is true: Anything is possible. We are today a very different country than yesterday. This is change.

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