The 46-year-old senator is the son of Barack Obama., A Kenyan economist educated at Harvard, and Ann Dunham, a woman from Wichita (Kansas, state embedded in the heart of USA), both deceased.

Born in Honolulu (Hawaii) and raised between U.S. and Indonesia, known both sophisticated corridors of power and privilege, as the most deprived neighbourhoods U.S.. Such comings and goings what has equipped, in his view, with the necessary tools to build bridges and forge alliances.

His hermanastra, Maya Soetoro-Ng, put it another way earlier this year in statements to U.S. media: "It moves between several worlds. It is what it has done all his life."

His adolescence in Hawaii was marked not only by a distinguished school career, but also by years of rebellion and escarceos with drugs.
Professor at Chicago

In those years, was followed by a select training in Columbia and Harvard universities, the stage as a teacher and defender of civil rights in Chicago, his election as state senator and landing as a senator in Washington in 2004.

Helped by his charisma, Obama has gained a popularity similar to that of a star of 'rock'. His two autobiographical books' The Audacity of Hope '(The audacity of hope) and' Dreams from my father '(Dreams of my father) have become best sellers.

He has been named by some as "the great white hope", embody the dream of reconciliation in a country with deep racial divisions.

Observers often mention that the secret of her success is due to a rudimentary weapon: the power of the word.

Obama says not having learned their power dialectical until participated in a march against racial segregation in college and discovered that it had captured the attention of attendees after start talking. "The congregation remained silent and looked at me," recalls' Dreams From My Father '.

His political career started, curiously, with speeches that not connected well with the public and which abounded details about their programs.

It would not be until 2004, during his campaign for the Senate, when introduced elements of "hope, change and future" that stained the enthusiastic rhetoric so that has given good results so far.

Obama is married to Michelle Robinson Obama. The couple has two daughters: Ann Malia and Natasha (Sasha).Se