Meet Barack Obama

Barack Obama is the first major African American candidate to run for President. A senator from Illinois, Barack Obama has come out of Abram Lincoln’s home state and he looks like he might just finished what Lincoln started. Barack Obama might become the first ever African American President. Obama broke into the world of national politics at the 2006 Democratic convention, where he gave a speech that knocked the crowd out (I should know I was watching it on TV, I never cheered so much in my life). Ever since then he has been the sweetheart of liberals and even a few moderate conservatives. There is an energy surrounding the Obama campaign that has been compared to that of Jack and Robert Kennedy’s campaigns. He wins the youth vote in every poll. He has to be Hilary Clinton’s strongest opponent, with his opposition to the Iraq war (from the beginning, he is the only one of the major democratic candidates that can say that) and his promise of a “new type of politics”. He has become the candidate know for hope and not using negative campaign tactics, however it has yet to be seen if this is a winning strategy.