Politics:

For the first time complexion of the president ceased to be the prime interest of Americans

Barack Obama is now faced with difficult tasks: war in Iraq and Afghanistan, global crisis, relations with Iran, Israel, and, finally, relations with Russia.

November 6, 2008
Once again the USA shocked the world by electing an Afro-American as a US President. Though no one now recalls that he is dark-skinned only on his father's side and is of purely Yankee descent on mother's, these are just particulars now. What is important is that the USA acknowledged that from now on the white race is not a majority dictating terms. Thus, it is not excluded that next US president might be Hispanic or Chinese. Everything is possible in a country of equal rights.
 
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