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All eyes are fixed on Tuesdays inauguration, when Barack Obama will take the oath of office and deliver his first speech as
Americas 44th president. Millions of people are gathering In Washington America to see Barack Obama sworn in as America's
44th president and first African-American leader.
On the day of Barack Obama's inauguration as President of the United States, most American's hope he will succeed in leading
this nation in a manner fitting the historic nature of his presidency. The political Left (which includes almost all journalists
in America) just cant make up its mind over whether Barack Obama most resembles Lincoln, FDR, Jesus Christ or some combination
thereof. CNN.com may have tired of the idea of Barack Obama as a political Messiah, so theyre switching it up. On Monday night,
it posted a report from rural Mississippi headlined "Grandson of slaves: Obama is our Moses.
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is the President-elect of the United States of America, and the first African
American to be elected President of the United States. Obama was the junior United States Senator from Illinois from January
3, 2005, until his resignation on November 16, 2008, following his election to the presidency. His term of office as President
of the United States is scheduled to begin after he is sworn in as the forty-fourth President of the United States at noon
EST (17:00 UTC) on January 20, 2009, in an inaugural ceremony at the U.S. Capitol.
Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the first African-American president of the
Harvard Law Review. He worked as a community organizer, and practiced as a civil rights attorney in Chicago before serving
three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He also taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School
from 1992 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, Obama was elected
to the Senate in November 2004. Obama delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004.
As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, Obama helped create legislation to control conventional weapons
and to promote greater public accountability in the use of federal funds. He also made official trips to Eastern Europe, the
Middle East, and Africa. During the 110th Congress, he helped create legislation regarding lobbying and electoral fraud, climate
change, nuclear terrorism, and care for U.S. military personnel returning from combat assignments in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Statement of President-elect Barack Obama on Martin Luther King Day
Today, we celebrate the life of a preacher who, more than forty-five years ago, stood on our national mall in the shadow of
Lincoln and shared his dream for our nation. His was a vision that all Americans might share the freedom to make of our lives
what we will; that our children might climb higher than we would.
Dr. Martin Luther King's was a life lived in loving service to others. As we honor that legacy, it's not a day just to pause
and reflect - it's a day to act. Today, ordinary citizens will gather together all across the country to participate in the
more than eleven thousand service projects they've created using USAservice.org. And I ask the American people to turn today's
efforts into an ongoing commitment to enriching the lives of others in their communities, their cities, and their country.
Tomorrow, we will come together as one people on the same mall where Dr. King's dream echoes still. As we do, we recognize
that here in America, our destinies are inextricably linked. We resolve that as we walk, we must walk together. And as we
go forward in the work of renewing the promise of this nation, let's remember King's lesson - that our separate dreams are
really one."
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