 Welcome back to the breakfast and plus TV Africa let's tell you what happened today in 2008 Barack Obama was elected president of the United States of America the first black president to be very precise and it was a time of you know great joy across the country it was not just in the United States especially for the black community or the I'm sure that word is not very very nice you can't see they are black because it sounds very racist so yes Barack Obama defeats Senator John McCain of Arizona to become the 44th US president and the first African-American elected to the White House at a time he was 47 years old Democrat and he gathered 365 electoral votes nearly 53% of the popular vote while a 72-year-old Republican challenger captured 173 electoral vote and more than 45% of the popular vote Obama's vice presidential running mate was senator Joe Biden who is now the president of the United States of America while Macken's running mate was the governor Sarah and she was from Alaska the first female Republican ever nominated for the vice presidency now during the general election campaign as the primaries Obama's team worked to build a following at the grassroots level and use what he I mean his supporters viewed as candidates natural charisma unique lifestyle story inspiring messages of hope and you know change to draw large crowds to his public appearances of course you see that every time Barack Obama makes an appearance I mean he has this charisma he has this he has this thing you know about leadership and he looks very good by the way the campaign was notable for its unprecedented use of internet for organizing constituent and fundraising at the time according to Washington Post three million donors made a total of six point five million dollars donation online adding up to more than five hundred million dollars of course six point five million donation six million were in all of that it was really really really a great one at the time for Barack Obama and a lot of people tilt today still celebrate Barack Obama yeah um yes absolutely he also is one of those well one of the American presidents that ran eight whole years without any scandals whatsoever there was absolutely nothing and you know it's it's crazy because crazy it should be a good thing well it's it's the United States where the system basically will find every single reason to not have a black man in the White House and so for him to have survived eight long years without any scandals without any allegations without anything whatsoever made him definitely one of the most phenomenal you know presidents for the United States he also has been criticized you know a few times for bombing Syria and a couple of places you know it's it's he ordered us you know thousands of bombs to be fired into Syria and you know the during the Arab Spring also so those are some of the things that he's also been criticized for but well still one of my favorite presidents my president now your president you leave it Niger okay so I mean some persons actually would say that that's because he was never criticized because if the book he published he put out all the story his life he felt like everything was already in the book and then there was really and there was really nothing because he felt like everything was already in there so that's really nothing you know to hold them up against I think I think there's there's always going to be in some standard from the Clinton to Jordan to the rest of them anyway stay with us so we'll take a short break when we come back we're moving into our first major discussion for today we're gonna be talking looking deeper rather into the Iqoi building collapse other angles you know that we have not yet spoken about and we'll get into that right after the short break