Fox News Alert - Obama clinches nomination - 2008-06-03 - 1:31 p.m. (E)

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[0:01] All right, this is a Fox News alert. And

[0:03] AP is now reporting this. I'm going to

[0:05] read directly from the AP report that

[0:07] has just come in. And the headline is

[0:09] Obama clinches Democratic nomination.

[0:12] Barack Obama has effectively clinched

[0:14] the Democratic presidential nomination

[0:15] based on the Associated Press tally of

[0:18] convention delegates. The tally put

[0:19] Obama over the top on Tuesday ahead of

[0:22] the results from the final primaries in

[0:24] Montana and South Dakota. The Illinois

[0:26] senator becomes the first black

[0:27] candidate ever to lead his party into a

[0:31] fall campaign for the White House. Obama

[0:33] outlasted former First Lady Hillary

[0:35] Clinton in historic contest and now

[0:38] faces Republican Senator John McCain of

[0:41] Arizona for the presidency.

[0:44] So this is the first time that we're

[0:46] seeing this in such hard and fast terms

[0:49] and it is truly

[0:51] a stunning moment to report that this is

[0:54] that this is what's taking place. I

[0:55] think I think back to

[0:57] Barack Obama when I watched him on the

[0:58] floor of the 2004 convention. He really

[1:01] arrived on the scene with such force in

[1:04] such a powerful speech that night and it

[1:07] was the first time that people really

[1:08] had a true awareness of who he was and

[1:10] the fact that he was clearly someone who

[1:12] was going to be a formidable

[1:14] person on the scene for the Democratic

[1:16] Party. And he talked that night of the

[1:18] fact that the United States is not a

[1:20] black America and a white America, but

[1:22] it is the United States of America and

[1:24] he went through similar phrases along

[1:25] those lines really talking about the

[1:27] fact that he wan

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