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Obama Is Nominated by Acclamation

by: John M. Broder, The New York Times

Democratic Presidential Nominee Barack Obama.
Democratic Presidential Nominee Barack Obama. (Photo: Scott Olson / Getty Images)

    Denver – Senator Barack Obama, the Hawaiian-born son of a father from Kenya and a mother from Kansas, officially became the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party on Wednesday, capping a meteoric rise from a little-known first-term senator to the first African-American to win a major-party nomination. »

General James T. Conway.

US Forces to Transfer Control of Anbar to Iraqis

by: Agence France-Presse

    Washington - US forces will hand over control of Anbar province to Iraqi troops in the coming days, military officials said Wednesday, touting improved security in the region.

    "We believe the province could turn over to Iraqi control in just a few days," Marine General James Conway said.

    "The change in the Al-Anbar province is real and perceptible," Conway said of the majority-Sunni region, which is Iraq's largest province.

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Senator Barack Obama in Montana.

The Speech Progressives Have Been Waiting For?

by: Paul Waldman, The American Prospect

    In Obama's much-anticipated address tomorrow, we can expect soaring rhetoric infused with a sense of history. Let's hope he also includes a full-throated endorsement of progressivism as an ideology.

    It's hard to think of a speech that was more eagerly anticipated and subjected to as much prior commentary as the one Barack Obama will deliver tomorrow night at Invesco Field in Denver. »

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