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Obama wins historic nomination

AFP, St Paul, Minnesota
Barack Obama made history Tuesday, capturing the Democratic White House nomination as the first black candidate atop a majorparty ticket, after a giant-slaying win over Hillary Clinton.
"America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past," Obama said even as Clinton, on her own quest to be the first female president, refused to formally concede defeat.
"Tonight, I can stand before you and say that I will be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States," Obama said, in one of the final acts of the longest, most expensive and spellbinding nominating epic ever.
The Illinois senator's momen-
tous victory set up an intriguing general election clash with the 71-year-old Republican senator, John McCain.
On November 4, voters must pick between Obama, a freshman senator and charismatic mixed-race standard-bearer of a new political generation, and McCain, a wounded Vietnam war hero asking for one final call to service.
Clinton congratulated Obama on an "extraordinary" race but refused to bow out, demanding respect for the nearly 18 million people who voted for her and leaving no doubt that she considered herself the best potential president.
"The question is, where do we go from here, and given how far we've come and where we need to go as a party, it's a question I don't take lightly," the 60-year-old New York senator said.
"This has been a long campaign, and I will be making no decisions tonight."
Obama, who must now mend his divided party, paid lavish tribute to Clinton.
"She's a leader who inspires millions of Americans with her strength, her courage and her commitment to the causes that brought us here tonight," he told 19,000 supporters packed inside the stadium in St Paul.
"Our party and our country are better off because of her, and I am a better candidate for having had the honor to compete with Hillary Rodham Clinton."
Obama's soaring calls of hope and change, in a country wearied by the Iraq war and stalked by fears of recession, ended a 16-year era of Clinton family dominance over the Democratic Party.
He claimed victory capturing the final primary in Montana, after a flood of party superdelegates during the day, and vaulting over the winning post of 2,118 delegates to the party’s August nominating convention.
Clinton snapped up a consolation
victory in South Dakota's primary, taking 55 percent of votes to Obama's 45 percent. In Montana, almost complete results showed Obama with 56 percent to Clinton's 41 per cent
Five months before the election, Obama had a slight 49-44 percent lead over McCain in a USA Today/Gallup poll, with their battle already boiling over Iraq, whether to talk to US enemies like Iran and the ailing US economy.
In the frenzied end-game, Clinton meanwhile said for the first time she may be ready to serve as Obama's vice president, in a phone call with lawmakers from her New York state, a staffer with the New York delegation told AFP
Obama needs Clinton's army of white working-class voters, women and I lispanic voters, but some ana lysts question whether he wants to associate himself so closely to the Clinton political legacy.
Obama rocketed to prominence at the 2004 Democratic presidential convention with an electrifying call for unity, proclaiming "there is not a Black America and a White America ... there's the United States of America."
Son of a white American mother and a black Kenyan father, Obama was raised in Hawaii, and lived for several years in Indonesia in the 1960s, which he remembered in a memoir as the "bounty of a young man'slife."
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton came home to New York to praise her White House campaign, not to bury it to flex the muscles of her 18 million supporterseven if her vaulting ambition has been thwarted for now.
On the night that Barack Obama became the Democratic heir apparent, the New York senator returned to her most ardent supporters, whose tears and recriminations laid bare the agonizing nature of her primary defeat.