Yes, we can

 

Barack Hussain Obama Junior or Barack Obama is one of the most popular U.S Presidents. He is also the first black President of the United States.President of the United States. Born Barack Hussein Obama on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Barack Obama was born to a white American mother, Ann Dunham, and a bBarack Obama Senior. Black Kenyan.He enrolled himself at Punahou Academy, Honolulu and graduate from the academy in the year 1979. This was the first time when Obama experienced racism and became conscious of discrimination. By now, he has started realizing what the difference between "Black" and "White" is.

In the meantime his father had died in Kenya in 1982. Barack Obama moved to Chicago after spending four years in New York and working at Business International Corporation and New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG). He was hired as Community organizer by Developing Communities Project, a church based community organization. The organization wanted a young black man to help them collaborate with black churches in the south side. From 1985 to 1988, Obama worked there as Director of the organization. He helped blacks fight for their rights from the city government. He worked to improve the living conditions of poor neighborhoods which faced crimes unemployment.He was always good with words and was known for making speeches which people could emotionally connect to. He worked with Saul Alinsky whose method was agitation which meant getting people angry enough about their current state of things that they are compelled to take some step and do something. During his tenure at Developing Communities Project, the staff at this organization grew from 1 to 13 and so did their budget.

Starting of 20th century changed the entire of life of Barack Obama. By this time, he was absolutely unaware that in some time he is going to be the most powerful man on this earth. In 2000, he for the first time bid for U.S congress. Year 2005, was the year full of surprise for him as he was considered as one of the most influential people in the world and in 2007, a popular U.S magazine counted him among top ten people who have the potential of changing the entire world.

Few thing about the man

• In 1990 became the first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review.
• Is the first American president to be born in Hawaii.
• Is the first African-American man to be elected President of the United States (November 2008).
• In 2004 Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat.
• Candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 US presidential election.
• In 2008 he ran for President, and despite having only four years of national political experience, he won.
• In January 2009, he was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States, and the first African-American ever elected to that position.
• Won a Grammy for Best Spoken Word for the CD version of his autobiography "Dreams From My Father" (2006).
• Won his second Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for "The Audacity of Hope" (2008).
• Named one of Time magazine's "100 most influential people in the world" list in 2005 and 2007.
• Chosen as one of "10 people would change the world" by New Statesman magazine (2005).
• October 2009, won the Nobel Peace Prize.
• Fourth US President to win a Nobel Peace Prize.

Yes, we can. Yes, we can change. Yes, we can.

US President Barack Obama's popularization of the slogan "Yes we can." During the 2008 US presidential campaign following the New Hampshire Democratic Primary, then-Senator (now President) Barack Obama, used the similar English translation of the slogan of United Farm Workers (UFW) – "Sí, se puede" (Spanish for "Yes, it can be done") in his speech.

Yes, we can heal this nation. Yes, we can seize our future. And as we leave this great state with a new wind at our backs and we take this journey across this great country, a country we love, with the message we carry from the plains of Iowa to the hills of New Hampshire, from the Nevada desert to the South Carolina coast, the same message we had when we were up and when we were down, that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we will hope.
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And where we are met with cynicism and doubt and fear and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of the American people in three simple words -- yes, we can.