Politics: Barack Obama 政治：巴拉克•奥巴马
[audio]http://www.24en.com/bbc/dl_mp3/bbc_barack_obama.mp3[/audio][color=#3f3f3f][font=Verdana, 宋体, helvetica, arial, sans-serif][size=12px]After a[b] hard-fought campaign, Democratic Senator[/b] Barack Obama has won the US presidential election, and will become the 44th President of the United States – the first[b] African-American[/b] in the country’s history to do so.
[p=21, 2, left][b]President-elect[/b] Obama [b]marked his victory[/b] with a speech to a crowd of tens of thousands of people in his hometown of Chicago.[/p][p=21, 2, left]Obama described his election as a "[b]defining moment[/b]" in the history of the Unites States, saying that "change has come to America".[/p][p=21, 2, left]The BBC’s [b]correspondent[/b] in Washington says that in electing Barack Obama, the American people have expressed their unhappiness with the[b]status quo[/b] and rejected their country’s historical [b]racial divisions[/b].[/p][p=21, 2, left]The [b]Australian Prime Minister summed up[/b] how many people felt when he congratulated President-elect Obama.[/p][p=21, 2, left]“Forty-five years ago [b]Martin Luther King[/b] had a dream of an America where men and women would be judged not on the colour of their skin but on the content of their [url=http://d.24en.com/s/?wd=character]character[/url]. Today what America has done is turn that dream into a reality,” said Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.[/p][p=21, 2, left]President-elect Obama will not [b]take office[/b] until 20 January next year. However, when he does become president, he will face many [b]serious challenges,[/b] including two foreign wars, [b]climate change[/b] and what he has described as "the worst [b]financial crisis[/b] in a century".[/p][p=21, 2, left]But the [b]mood[/b] of the country is [b]optimistic[/b], according to most commentators, and Obama himself appears to [b]relish the challenge[/b].[/p][p=21, 2, left]"The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be [b]steep[/b]. We may not get there in one year or even in one term, but America - I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there," said the next President of the United States.[/p][/size][/font][/color]
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