President-Elect Barack Obama and his wife, First Lady Michelle Obama, both have their own individual covers for a special edition of ESSENCE magazine, which highlights the historic victory of Barack Obama being the first ever African American to be elected president of the United States! Continue reading to peep larger versions of their covers.

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According to People, when Malia and Sasha Obama visited the White House for the first time, they went up to their new bedrooms and jumped on the beds, with the help of Barbara and Jenna Bush, of course.

“We helped them jump on the beds,” Barbara, 26, told PEOPLE. “We used to jump on the beds when we were little, too.” The Bush twins were 7 when they first visited the mansion, when their grandfather, George H. W. Bush, was elected president. With a laugh, Mrs. Bush added, “They’re really tall beds; you need to get a running start.”

As Mrs. Obama checked out the two floors where she, the president-elect and their girls will make their home January 20, she wondered aloud about where they might install a toy closet to keep things tidy. Mrs. Robinson marveled at the “magnificence” of the place, said another person familiar with the details of the tour. “They all just said, ‘Oh my God, it’s just so beautiful!’”

The Obamas have also selected a private school for their daughters. According to CNN, the girls will go to Sidwell Friends School, the same one attended by Chelsea Clinton.

We pray Michelle keeps these girls in check so they don’t turn out like the Bush twins. They aren’t the best role models in the world…

President-elect Barack Obama announces he has directed his economic team to assemble an Economic Recovery Plan that will save or create 2.5 million more jobs by January of 2011. For more information, visit http://change.gov.

Barack Obama is channeling his inner Franklin Delano Roosevelt by addressing the people of the United States with assistance of the latest and greatest technology. In weekly addresses via YouTube, President-Elect Barack Obama will speak directly to the people of America, similar to what FDR used to do with his “Fireside Chats” during his administration during the Great Depression.

FDR got us out of The Great Dpression, and Obama will get us out of this recession. Just wait and see. And when it happens, we won’t even say “we told you so.” Follow the break to check out last week’s address!

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If you thought EVERYBODY is happy about Barack Obama being elected president, then you, my friend, are sadly mistaken. Al Qaeda deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, has released a video tape coldly acknowledging Obama’s win in the November 2008 elections calling him a “house slave”and telling him that “a heavy legacy of failure and crimes awaits” him.

“You have reached the position of president, and a heavy legacy of failure and crimes awaits you. A failure in Iraq to which you have admitted and a failure in Afghanistan to which the commanders of your army have admitted,” the message said. The speaker also said Obama’s plan to pull troops from Iraq and send them to Afghanistan “is a policy which was destined for failure before it was born.”

“If you still want to be stubborn about America’s failure in Afghanistan, then remember the fate of Bush and Pervez Musharraf, and the fate of the Soviets and British before them,” the message said. “And be aware that the dogs of Afghanistan have found the flesh of your soldiers to be delicious, so send thousands after thousands to them.”

The message said Obama appears “to be captive to the same criminal American mentality towards the world and towards the Muslims.” The speaker cited Muslims’ ire toward Obama’s support of Israel. The speaker also said Obama, former and current Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, and “your likes” fit Malcolm X’s description of “house slaves.”

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President-elect Barack Obama graces one of the December 2008 covers of GQ Magazine. Our 44th President is one of four men recognized in this “Men of The Year” issue. Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps, actor Leonardo DiCaprio, and Jon Hamm are the other three men recognized by GQ,

In an article titled, “I Think I’m A Cool Dad!” President-Elect Barack Obama and his girls, Malia & Sasha, share the cover of a recent issue of US Weekly Magazine.

So how will life for this once normal family from Chicago be changing?

Earlier this week, Michelle began visiting potential schools for the girls ahead of the January 20 Inauguration. And even though they’ll have a chef whipping up their favorite treats - and a personal movie theater - in the White House, they’ll still be focusing on, “homework, chores, dance and soccer,” Michelle told Us before the election.

“We have to put [children's] education…first,” Michelle has said.

“I think I’m a pretty cool dad,” Obama told Us earlier in the campaign.

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Robert Kennedy must have been a psychic because in 1968 he said the following:

“Things are moving so fast in race relations a Negro could be president in 40 years. There’s no question about it, in the next 40 years a Negro can achieve the same position that my brother has. Prejudice exists and probably will continue to, but we have tried to make progress and we are making progress. We are not going to accept the status quo.”

And here we are, 2008, no more or no less than 40 years later, and we have elected our first Black president - Barack Obama! It’s been 3 days, and we here at Gossip On This are still in awe. These 74 days will not move quickly enough for us!

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We hear at Gossip On This called it months ago (back in January during the primaries) but CNN is projecting that Barack Obama has won the 2008 presidential election. WE DID IT! Not only have we elected the first African American president in the history of the United States of America, but we have put someone in office who can possibly turn this country around. It’s very doubtful that he’ll be able to restore our country 100% over the next 8 years, but he has a better chance of doing it than old man McLame.

It’s surreal to believe that all of this is a reality…

CNN projects that Barack Obama will be the nation’s 44th president. As polls closed on the West coast, the Illinois senator was projected to receive enough electoral votes to pass the 270-vote threshold. Obama is projected to win California, Washington, Oregon and Hawaii. He also is projected to win Virginia, a state that hasn’t voted for a Democratic president since 1964.

As Obama built up a commanding lead over Sen. John McCain, senior aides to the Arizona senator were growing pessimistic about his chances. When asked if they saw a path to victory, two senior McCain aides said no.

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