Barack H. Obama
1961-2008
One thing can be said with certainty about the recent passing of Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, that he died far to early. Born in Hawaii in 1961, the child of Stanley Ann DUnham and Barack Obama,Sr. he would go on to have a life that few in America at the time would think a child with a white mother and Black father could have. A Student of Law at Harvard, Obama would spend his life in the late eighties and early nineties as a community organizer in chicago, a proffesor of law, and a civil right attorney. In 1996, Obama would be elected to the 13 district of the Illinios state senate, a position which he was elected to three times. From their his, political career went upwards, and was later elected to the US senate in 2004. At the 2004 National Democratic Convention, Obama gave a key-note speech, which came with much attention and speculation that he could on day be the first African-American President. After Ohn Kerry lost the 2004 election to Geogre W. Bush, many began to throw Obama's name around as a potential candidate for 2008. On February 17th of last year, Obama announced that he would indeed be running for President. During the Democratic primaries of this year, Obama pulled of an amazing victory for the nomination against party favourite, Senator Hilary Clinton. Just as Obama looked set to storm into battle with Republican candidate Mike Huckabee, tragedy struck. Barack Obama was assassinated on August 28th, 2008, right before he was set to give his acceptance speech for the nomination. Though the event still remains coverd in mystery, and as Hillary Clinton and her running mate Joe Biden look set to rise to the challenge of running in the place the should have belonged Barack Obama, Americans can be sure that we have lost a very remarkable man.