The Time for change has come....

Remember the Sam Cooke classic song “A Change Gone Come”? Best known from Spike Lee’s “Malcolm X” it should be the theme song for Senator Barack Obama’s Presidential campaign. He represents the change America needs. Before becoming the junior U.S senator from Illinois running for president in 2008.Barack Obama is a son, father, author, student, husband, and etc…this is the Come up story of Barack Obama.

Know as “Barry” over the years, Barack was born the 4th day of August in 1961, in one of the top vacation spots of Honolulu, Hawaii known for their white sandy beaches, and gorgeous palm trees. Born to Barack Obama Sr., and Ann Durham.
“Barry” was two years old when his parents divorced, and then attended school in Jakarta where he moved with his half sister Maya, and stepfather Lolo in 1967 where classes were taught in Indonesian language. It wasn’t until later on when “Barry” was first introduced to racism when he attended Punahou Academy where he was one of three black students, however he was a stellar student and graduated with honors in 1979. During which, he admitted to experimenting with marijuana, cocaine, and alcohol as most teenagers do. Still he graduated from Columbia University in 1983 with a degree in Political Science.

Now Barack, then moved to the windy city of Chicago in 1985, where he worked on the cities south side as a community organizer. “We worship an awesome God in the blue states, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the red states. We coach little league in the blue states, and yes we’ve got some gay friends in the red states.” Obama says at 2004’s Democratic National Convention in Boston.” There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America”

In 1991, he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard where he was the first African American editor of Harvard Law Review. He then went on to work as a civil rights attorney at Chicago’s Miner, Barnhill & Gallard, and also taught at the University of Chicago. During which time he was also working with both the democrats, and republicans; expanding health care services, creating state earned income tax credit, and requiring videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases.
“I am not opposed to all wars, I’m opposed to dumb wars. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perle, and Paul Wolfowtiz and other arm chair, weekend warriors in this administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats” Obama says at a rally at Federal Plaza in Chicago.
Michelle, and Barack married in 1992. Then in 2004, Barack became the 3rd African American elected to the U.S Senate since reconstruction.
Barack is responsible for three books; The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, It Takes A Nation: How Strangers Became Family in the Wake if Hurricane Katrina, and his Grammy Award winning audio version of 1995’s Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.