LONG LIVE OBAMA

Barack Obama takes oath as 44th President of America

Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:56 PM (Washington)

Barack Obama has taken oath as the 44th President of the United States, fulfilling his dream and making history as the first African-American President of the United States.

The oath was administered by the Chief Justice of the United States. Joe Biden has been sworn-in as the Vice-President.

In his inaugural address, Obama said "the challenges we face are real but they will be met. We must begin the work of remaking America."

To witness the historical moment, millions gathered in Washington DC. Crowds thronged Pensylvania Avenue near the White House and along the National Mall in front of the Capitol Hill where Obama took oath.

Obama takes charge when America is in a huge economic crisis. His key adviser says addressing this financial crisis will be his top priority.

EASY WIN FOR OBAMA

SENATOR BARACKOBAMA WON THE U S ELECTIONS TODAY IN A BIG WAY
TO BECOME THE 44TH PRESIDENT OF
U S A TO CHANGE THE WORLD FOR THE BETTER sweeping away the last racial barrier in American politics with ease as the country chose him as its first black chief executive.

The election of Obama amounted to a national catharsis — a repudiation of a historically unpopular Republican president and his economic and foreign policies, and an embrace of Obama's call for a change in the direction and the tone of the country. But it was just as much a strikingly symbolic moment in the evolution of the nation's fraught racial history, a breakthrough that would have seemed unthinkable just two years ago.

Obama, 47, a first-term senator from Illinois, defeated Senator John McCain of Arizona, 72, a former prisoner of war who was making his second bid for the presidency. To the very end, McCain's campaign was eclipsed by an opponent who was nothing short of a phenomenon, drawing huge crowds epitomized by the tens of thousands of people who turned out Tuesday night to hear Obama's victory speech in Grant Park in Chicago.