22h 4min, nov 4, 2008 y - President Obama elected

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Barack Obama was elected president of the United States as defeated Senator John McCain in the 2008 election. This was a big deal in the U.S. because Obama made history by becoming the first African American president. He pledged to get the United States out of the Iraq war, expand health care, create or save one million jobs, establish a credit card bill of rights to protect consumers, streamline the college financial process, improve education, and deploy at least two additional combat brigades.