Tears and joy for Obama’s victory

TEARS came to my flushed face as I watched reports of elderly black women, born maybe one or two generations free from slavery, in the US as they queued to vote on polling day.

Tears and joy for Obama’s victory
Sat, 08 Nov, 2008 - 00:00
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They cried that their day had come to be really set free with the election of Barack Obama, now president-elect of the USA.

But what a man is Barack Obama as we have got to know him over the last two years or so?

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