Barbados: Obama’s Speech

Barbados: Obama's Speech

Posted 29 August 2008 10:32 GMT

Countries	Barbados, U.S.A.
Topics	Elections, History, International Relations, Politics, Ethnicity & Race, Media & Journalism
Languages	English

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Barbados Underground says that Barack Obama “delivered a high impact speech” at the Democratic National Convention, while Bajan Global Report refers to a story that claims Barbados' Prime Minister “is…the only high ranking Caribbean official invited to witness the historic first embrace of an African-American as Presidential candidate for a leading political party.”

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