Trotter, who is plenty black, got 7 percent. In fact, Obama may be lucky he didn’t win. It’s harder to get to the U.S. Senate — or the cover of Men’s Vogue, or the drawing rooms of Manhattan donors — from a black-majority district.
Obama returned to Springfield a loser. The week of his defeat, he sat down to his regular poker game at the home of state Sen. Terry Link, a fellow Democrat from the Chicago suburbs. The same words were on the lips of every pol at that table: I told you so. Obama didn’t need to hear it. He knew he’d blundered.

“He made a lot of mistakes, and he learned,” Link says now. “He forgot who he was. That he’s Barack. He tried to sell to a crowd who wasn’t buying.”

Around that time, Obama also had a soul-searching drink with Miller, the Capitol Fax publisher. He was upset about the way Miller had characterized him, but “he took that criticism the right way,” Miller remembers six years later, “and he could have taken it the wrong way.”
“A lot of politicians, they know that they’re smart,” Miller says. “They know that they’re capable. It messes with their minds. Politics is not a game of qualifications. It’s a game of winning. That congressional campaign really showed that to him.”
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When reporters go one on one with Barack Obama, they end up writing things they’ll regret in the morning papers. It’s a phenomenon called “drinking the Obama juice.” One besotted scribe called him “tall, fresh and elegant.” And the august Atlantic Monthly mooned about Obama’s “charisma, intelligence and ambition, tempered by a self-deprecating wit,” titling its article “The Natural.”

OK, Obama is tall (6 feet 2 inches), intelligent (Harvard Law, two bestselling books), and damn, he’s ambitious (running for president after two years in Congress). But he’s no natural.

As a correspondent for the Chicago Reader, I covered Obama’s 2000 campaign to unseat Bobby Rush, the ex-Black Panther who’s been a Democratic congressman from Chicago’s South Side since 1993. It’s the only election Obama has ever lost. As even one of his admirers put it, “He was a stiff.” You think John Kerry looked wooden and condescending on the campaign trail? You should have seen this kid Obama. He was the elitist Ivy League Democrat to top them all. Only after losing that race, in humiliating fashion, did he develop the voice, the style, the track record and the agenda that have made him a celebrity senator, and a Next President.
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As the first African American president of the United States of America, Barack Obama was voted during the election in November 2008 and his inauguration took place on 20 January 2009. This made him the 44th President of the United States.

Obama was born in the state of Hawaii on 4th August 1961. He is the first ever president to have been born in Hawaii.
His parents divorced when he was only 3 years old. His mother remarried to an Indonesian man and when he returned to his native Indonesia in 1967, Obama and his mother went with him. He spent four years in Indonesia between the ages of 6 and 10, where he attended school. However he returned to Hawaii to live with his Grandparents in 1971 when his mother decided she did not want him growing up in Indonesia. He has said that during his time in Indonesia, many of his friends were urchins living on the street. He also had a pet ape which went by the name of Tata.
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Unlike the other previous president of the United States of America, Barack Obama has its own fans around the world. His way of live and style were monitored by the world. Not mentioning his full characteristic and charismatic, his action has steal fashion critic.

Along with Christian Bale, Obama was awarded as the world best dressed man for his style on public performance. The politician stole world fashion critic and nominated with many other candidates, but only him and Christian Bale are American.
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The president of United States of America, who never heard about him in present day, I don’t think nobody not know him. The first African American president, the first man who lead one of the most influences country in the world, Barack Obama. Along with his wife Michelle Robinson Obama, they made their own history leading America, which for some country holding USA also consider as one of the top leader who got decision on how the future of the world.

As we could see, the history kept showing us, the result of USA affecting on the world. All the big budget movies centralized in there, one of the biggest business city as well, and also fashion, not mentioning the political act that shocking the world.
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