From the tipping point crowds in Iowa during early presidential campaigning, to the nearly quarter million gathered in Berlin to hear his speech, Barack Obama has shared his story of success with scores. “Yes we can,” the soon-to-be Commander in Chief bellowed again and again. Obama continues to leave his crowds inspired, excited, and in awe with his captivating messages of change. Barack Obama has won a Nobel Peace Prize, a Grammy Award, a Emmy Award, and Time magazine's Person of the Year Award.
The President has signed into law the following: Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act and Consumer Protection Act, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Civil Rights History Project Act, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act, Jobs for Main Street Act, Responsibility and Disclosure Act, and more acts, executive orders, and reform policies.
Obama is the first African American to hold the highest office in America, but the question of who is Obama began in 1961. Barack Obama was born in Hawaii to a Kenyan father and a Caucasian mother from Kansas. As a young teen, Obama spent a few years in Indonesia. After returning to Hawaii, Obama would begin to address the question of who he was. To help answer that question, and to help solidify where he was going in life, Obama spent time in Los Angeles attending Occidental College.
After graduation Barack Obama headed to Chicago, and it was in the windy city that Mr. Obama decided to become a community organizer. He successfully created a job training program, a college preparatory tutoring program, and a tenants' rights organization. Building upon this success, Obama enrolled in Harvard Law School and became the editor of the Harvard Law Review within his first year. Graduating from Harvard, magna cum laude, Obama returned to Chicago to further his passion in civil service.
Once settled in Chicago, Barack Obama taught at the University of Chicago Law School for the next twelve years. After successfully completing his tenure at the university, Mr. Obama turned his attention to the Illinois Senate. In the span of seven short years, Barack Obama went from the Illinois Senate, to being elected to the U.S. Senate, and eventually the White House. Time magazine summed up the making of this successful president with the following statement: “the steady march of seemingly impossible accomplishments.”
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