"If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer." (Barack Obama's victory speech)
The United States presidential election of 2008, scheduled for Tuesday November 4, 2008, will be the 56th consecutive quadrennial United States presidential election and will select the President and the Vice President of the United States. (Wikipedia)
Barack Obama was approached by one of the media; it appeared he was going to win the election.
The reporter asked him, "Do you have any plans on making changes in the war in Iraq immediately?"
Obama looked at him, and said, "The first thing I want to do is switch generals. It seems to me that General Motors isn't doing too well, and I want to replace with General Electric
The United States presidential election of 2008, scheduled for Tuesday November 4, 2008, will be the 56th consecutive quadrennial United States presidential election and will select the President and the Vice President of the United States.
The ex-mayor of the Romanian city Voineşti, Neculai Ivaşcu, tried to get a new mandate during the second tour of the local election. Unfortunately, he died right in the morning of the day of the election, yesterday, due to an older disease.
The law didn't specify what to be done in this situation, so he remained on the list of the candidates for the mayor of that city.
