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Illinois senator Barack Obama has laid claim to the Democratic presidential nomination, taking a historic step toward his once-improbable goal of becoming the United States' first black president. (June 3) | 4-Jun-08 12:39 AM GMT Tuesday night June 3, 2008, U.S. Senator Barack Obama became the first African-American to win the presidential nomination of an American political party when he reached the required number of 2, 118 national convention delegates of the Democratic Party. "Tonight, I can stand before you and say that I will be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States. Tonight we mark the end of one historic journey with the beginning of another -- a journey that will bring a new and better day to America," Barack Obama declared. Senator Barack Obama acknowledged his formidable Democratic presidential rival, Senator Hillary Clinton. "Our party and our country are better off because of her, and I am a better candidate for having had the hono...

Barack Obama is inches away from making history as the first African American to win the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party. His victory in the Oregon Democratic Primary Tuesday gave him the majority of the pledged delegates for presidential nomination. 20 May 2008 Comment of Senator Patrick Leahy on Senator Edward Kennedy's Medical Condition DNC Statement on Senator Kennedy Pelosi Statement on Senator Ted Kennedy Statement of Paul Helmke on Senator Kennedy's Illness Statement by Lance Armstrong on Cancer Diagnosis of Senator Kennedy

Re: Top 10 Reasons Obama Defeated Clinton for the Democratic Nomination Robert Creamer , You are 100% correct. The better team won. Senator Hillary Clinton took many things for granted. Advisers and strategists who are willing to listen, but unwilling to learn, surround her. She is like a film director with a bad casting director and ended up with a bad cast that ruined her first feature. Senator Barack Obama actually exploited the contrasts between him and Senator Hillary Clinton to use her popularity to his political advantage. She fell off her high horse while she was still celebrating her Super Tuesday victories. Only a miracle or a conspiracy of the universe can make her the Democratic nominee.Anything is possible in politics.

For everyone here in Ohio and across America who's been ever been counted out but refused to be knocked out, for everyone who has stumbled but stood right back up, and for everyone who works hard and never gives up -- this one is for you . ~ Hillary Clinton said before supporters in Columbus. I thank Jehovah God for Senator Hillary Clinton as she won the most crucial battles of the Democratic presidential race for the nomination Tuesday in Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island and only lost in Vermont where Senator Barack Obama won nine of the fifteen delegates at stake. Hillary Clinton disappointed many key figures in the Democratic Party and millions of the fanatics of Barack Obama who were rehearsing their "Hillary's Ignominious Finale" for the world premiere today, but God changed the script overnight and gave us a new script, "Hillary Clinton's Victorious Come Back!" As Barack Obama won 11 Democratic presidential primaries and caucuses in a row, most peopl...