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World Awaits Obama Election in 2008

February 23, 2008
Barcelona, Spain
BarcelonaReporter.com

Like other countries the world over, Europe awaits the United States Presidential Election results for 2008. It seems the entire world is anxiously awaiting the announcement of Barack Obama, a Hawaii born native, to become the newly elected President of the United States of America. Despite a hard fought battle from former first lady, Hillary Clinton, state after state within the United States seems intent to elect the nation’s first African American president ever.

Perhaps as Obama’s slogan suggests, in America it is “Time for Change”. And despite proclamations from Douglas Herbert, business editor with the TV news station France 24, suggesting this 2008 election is, “Too important to be left to the American electorate to decide.” In fact, the presidential election is in fact an American Democratic tradition, yet this is one the entire world is poised to embrace.

Now being dubbed the “second coming of J.F.K.” the world appears to be backing this American candidate.
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Lessons from 2008 Campaign: What is an Anaphora?

Anaphora
a common technique of repeating a word or phrase for emphasis in a speech.

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2008 Presidential Election Yields Lessons
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Lessons Learned from 2008 Presidential Elections

The Word Fashionista is going to jump on the political band wagon and begin adding to our own trendy vocabulary with a few lessons we are learning from the battle of wills between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

On February 18, 2008, Bob Cesca a blogger from the Huffington Post website discusses the recent attack by the Clinton supporters who hoped to inflict harm on Obama accusing him of plagiarizing certain portions of his speeches.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/the-wolfson-plagiarism-at_b_87209.html
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