Obama's political speech of a lifetime

No matter how memorable the speech Barack Obama gives today for his inauguration as the 44th president of the United States, he might not have become the nation’s first African-American president had he fumbled a single word 10 months ago in his speech on race in Philadelphia. (Full article: 706 words)

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