Who is President Barack Obama

Barack Obama,47, is the first African American to win the Democratic nomination for the 44th President of the United States of America. Barack Obama was born in Honolulu on August 4, 1961.

Barack Obama was sworn into the Presidency on January 20, 2009 at 12:05 p.m. by Chief Justice John Roberts. Barack Obama impressively won 338 electoral votes which is 51.3 percent of the popular vote. The statistic validity is as of November, 5, 2008. The popular vote win for Barack Obama has increased since that date. Two hundred and twenty electoral votes were needed to secure the win for the Presidency. Senator John McCain,72, Obama's running opponent won 168 electoral votes which is 47.5 per cent of the popular vote.

But who is this man who "barracked" the vote and seems to bring hope with the use of the word "change?" Barack Obama inspired Caroline Kennedy to run for the New York senate seat vacated by Hiliary Clinton.Ms. Kennedy later changed her aspirations to run for political office. Obama also inspired Americans to perform community services for the country in the effort to bring change to the nation. But who is this man willing to take on the challenges of today's global world full of recession woes, two wars, environmental problems and the ever-present energy crisis?

Barack Obama, a former Illinois senator was born of a Kenyan father and a Kansan mother. He was raised by his single mother alone after his father left the family when Obama was two. Obama's mother instilled in him the values of equality and tolerance. Barack Obama was partly raised by his maternal grandparents. He lost his mother to cancer in 1992.Obama lost his grandmother days before he was announced President of the Untied States. Barack Obama's grandfather, also from Kansas enlisted in World War II and was educated by the G.I. Bill.

Obama is a first term senator who entered the Senate race in 2004 who grew up in both Hawaii and Indonesia. Barack Obama got through Harvard Law School with part time jobs and student loans. Michelle Obama, his wife, and Barack Obama admitted they have just recently paid those student loans off prior to being elected president.

After graduation from Havard Law School in 1992 and recently marrying the former Michelle Robinson of Chicago's south side, the couple had two daughters, Malia and Sasha now 10 and 7 respectively. Michelle's father worked for the city of Chicago and her mother was a stay at home mom. They dated while Barack Obama finished his law degree. Obama worked as a community organizer after graduation from Harvard Law School.

Although Barack Obama was offered exclusive jobs on Wall Street, he decided to work as a community organizer to service his country. He worked out of the Harlem campus of a college called the City College of New York. Barack Obama again passed up exclusive Wall Street jobs to help rebuild and restore communities on the south side of Chicago. Jobs had been lost and the city devastated by local steel plant closings. While at Harvard Law School, Barack Obama was elected President of the Harvard Law Review earning the prestigious position of being the first African American named to that office.

In 1993 Barack Obama taught constitutional law as a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He was requested to speak on major issues while a professor there. Obama spoke at the Democratic National Convention because of his proclivity to delivery relevant and interesting speeches.

Barack Obama was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996 where just as the presidential campaign of 2008, he ran on the issues. Barack Obama passed laws that gave tax credits to working families. He transferred thousands of welfare recipients back into the workforce. Barack Obama ran a voter registration drive and brought over 150,000 new voters into the polling booths.While Senator of Illinois, Barack Obama passed laws concerned with the reform of the Illinois State Penal Codes and the expansion of health programs for kids. In 2003,

Barack Obama won an unexpected race for the United States Senate and won by a landslide. His win of the Democratic primary and the general election by a substantial margin was run without negative campaign ads.He created laws that reflect American values on foreign policy and national health care. Barack Obama also passed laws concerned with the environment.

In 2004 Barack Obama gave the keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention. He was known for the following quote during that speech: "We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America."

Barack Obama first saw the White House in 1984 having just graduated from college. He was fascinated with the openess of the building and that it intwined with the businesses of Washington, DC. At his first glance of the White House, never did Barack Obama imagine that he would be Commander in Chief taking on the baggage left by President Bush.

President Barack Obama will face the major economic crisis while upholding his promise to end the wars, to cut taxes and expand health care. Who is Barack Obama? Barack Obama is a former United States Senator, now President of the United States who rides on the coat tales of President Abraham Lincoln in political persuasion. Obama promised to tame the nation's economy as President Lincoln united the north and the south. President Barack Obama, with the coolest of efforts seek to heal the deepened and prolonged recession as the 44th President of the United States of America for all of us.

President Obama is the author of several books, "The Audacity of Hope" and "The Dreams of My Father." He said that it was the sell of these books that helped Michelle and him to pay off the student loans of attending law school.Obama has not had an easy life being raised by a single mother. But if a movie was to be made of his life calling it the Audacity of Hope would be appropriate as he was running on a long shot at being the first African American President of the Untied States.