DENVER -- It's official. At 4:48 p.m. local time (6:48 EDT and 3:48 PDT), Barack Obama became the first biracial American nominated for president of the United States by one of the nation's major parties. After a roll call that proceeded through the states until New York was reached, Hillary Clinton -- Obama's rival in the party's prolonged, combative primary season -- moved for his nomination by acclamation. She did so, she said, "in the spirit of unity, with the goal of victory" in November. In terms of precedent, Obama joins: *
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