Henry Clay's Public House shared Greg Austin Band's photo. September 18 at 12:34pm Â·. Greg Austin Band. September 18 at 4:23am Â·.
Reminderâ¦Assad was democratically re-elected by a landslide in the midst of a war that began as an attempt to overthrow his regime & yet the opposition & their international backers denounced the election as a farce. Ironic how democracy is only considered legitimate if it benefits the aggressorsâ¦ (self.conspiracy)
On November 4, 2008, Obama defeated the Republican nominee, Senator John McCain of Arizona, making him the President-elect and the first African American elected President. He was the third sitting U.S. Senator, after Warren G. Harding and John F. Kennedy, to be elected President.pon the vote of the Electoral College on December 15, 2008, and the subsequent certification thereof by a Joint Session of the United States Congress on January 8, 2009, Barack Obama was elected President of the United States and Joe Biden Vice President of the United States, with 365 of 538 electors.