Democrat candidate Barack Obama makes to White House as 44th US President after a two year long campaign defeating Republican John McCain. He made it to the chair by crushing the hopes of McCain in states that were the Republican forts such as Ohio and Virginia.
Thousands of Obama supporters gathered in Chicago's Grant Park for a rally celebrating his victory and marking the start of a new era. The new President will sworn in his office on January 20, 2009. He will have to face a challenging environment. Obama is married to a lawyer and blessed with two daughters.
Born to a black father who was a farmer from Kenya and a white mother of Kansas, the 47 years young democrat made history in US politics and obviously the world history, 45 years after the height of the civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King.
The defeated Republican – McCain, 72 years old, Arizona senator and former Vietnam War Prisoner, planned to become the oldest president to begin a first term in the White House. However the voters who chose 'economy' as the most serious issue in USA elections, decided to sideline him as an answer to the Republican strategies that failed in both domestic economy and in the international politics.
Obama early years
Barack Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4th, 1961. His father, Barack Obama Sr., was born and raised in a small village in Kenya, where he grew up herding goats with his own father, who was a domestic servant to the British.
Barack's mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in small-town Kansas. Her father worked on oil rigs during the Depression, and then signed up for World War II after Pearl Harbor, where he marched across Europe in Patton's army. Her mother went to work on a bomber assembly line, and after the war, they studied on the G.I. Bill, bought a house through the Federal Housing Program, and moved west to Hawaii. |
