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Half black and half white, the president-elect has had to fight the undertow of race.
Nearly 4 1/2 years ago, Barack Obama introduced himself to America by painting a picture of a country that was united, somehow, in spite of itself. ¶ The pundits, he said in the keynote address to the Democratic National Convention, like to "slice and dice" the country: red states for Republicans, blue states for Democrats. ¶ "But I've got news for them too: We worship an awesome God in the blue states, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the red states. We coach Little League in the blue states, and yes, we've got some gay friends in the red states." ¶ His task that night in Boston was to ready the crowd for the presidential nominee, John F. Kerry, but in the end his words were most memorable for an argument that challenged the partisan divide and was built on the foundation of his own unique story.
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