<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/512746a0-e306-4d59-9e7d-ac942a627786/D4E7A5BF-39BD-49C5-95C3-272CFBFFA5D1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-07-11-voa23.cfm?rss=topstories" href="http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-07-11-voa23.cfm?rss=topstories" style="font-size: 11px;">www.voanews.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-07-11-voa23.cfm?rss=topstories"><SPAN class="articleheadline">Obama Ends Ghana Visit</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-07-11-voa23.cfm?rss=topstories"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top"><SPAN class="byline"> By Paula Wolfson</SPAN> <SPAN class="dateline">Accra</SPAN> <SPAN class="datetime"><EM>11 July 2009</EM></SPAN> </TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-07-11-voa23.cfm?rss=topstories"><P class="article_14"><DIV>"You can conquer disease, end conflicts, and make change from the bottom up. You can do that. Yes you can," he said.</DIV><BR /><DIV>Earlier, Mr. Obama met privately with Ghanaian President John Atta Mills.  He also visited a hospital, a symbolic stop designed to highlight American support for development efforts in Africa.</DIV><BR /><DIV>But the emotional highpoint of his visit to Ghana came at the end - a tour of a coastal fortress, where for 300 years, countless Africans boarded ships bound for death at sea or a life in slavery. </DIV> <BR />His wife and young daughters accompanied him to the site. First Lady Michelle Obama is the great-great-granddaughter of African slaves <BR /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-07-11-voa23.cfm?rss=topstories"><DIV>"I think as Americans and African-Americans, obviously, there is a special sense that on the one hand this place was a place of profound sadness. On the other hand, it is here where that the journey and much of the African American experience begin," he said.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D4E7A5BF-39BD-49C5-95C3-272CFBFFA5D1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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