Success Stories: Barack Obama

"As long as I live, I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible."

Never in the history of the world has the election of a President, let alone the President of the United States of America caused as much excitement and joy in the world. Kenya declared 5 November a national holiday, the birthplace of his father, his roots in Africa. The first African man to become president of the most powerful nation in the world.

January 20, 2009, Barack Hussein Obama became the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday before a massive crowd reveling in a moment of historical significance, and called on Americans to confront together an economic crisis that he said was caused by “our collective failure to make hard choices.” October 9, 2009 President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, citing his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation. Barack Hussein Obama (born 4 August 1961) Honolulu (Hawaii),is the first black person to be nominated by a political party to be their candidate for the Presidence of the United States of America, Barack Obama is a man who stands out from the rest, he has been a senator of Illinois since 2005.

He first became noticed nationally when he gave the principal speech at the democratic convention in 2004, the same year when he was elected to become senator to represent Illinois in Congress. Four years later he had become the front runner for his party in the race for the investiture in the White House, having beaten the old hands in the party who were expected to win the nomination.

A speaker with a remarkable style and a master in providing emotive speeches that put across his message, Barack Obama manages to raise enthusiasm in young people. He has used the internet to provide a solid backing to his campaign. Barack Obama is a real 21st Century candidate. He posseses the knowledge and skills necessary to understand the electoral system and which is enabling to get up out of the traditional trenches and throughout the long five months of the electoral campaign with its sometimes brutal conflicts, he managed to eliminate his principal rival senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. During the whole of his campaign, he has made the American people understand that the election is about voting for a man and his ideas and not for a black or a white.

"There is not a liberal America or a Conservator America – there is the Unitded States of America” he declared in his speech to the Democratic congress in 2004. “There is not a black America and a white America and a latino-american America or an asian America; there is the United States of America… we form a single people, we all take our allegance to the same flag, we all strive to ensure the well being of the United States of America”.

Whether he had won or lost in the election? Barack Obama has become a pioneer in politics. His candidancy came at just the moment that a great number of Americans felt that the time had come for a change. Son of a black father who cam from Kenya. Barack Obama senior was a brilliant economist and his mother white from Kansas in the traditional heartland of America (Stanley Ann Dunham). His father was from the Luo tribe had been raised under the muslim religion but had lapsed into atheism. His mother was a chrisitian. From his grandmother (his mother’s mother, Barack has Cherokee blood.