He is the 47-year-old man with the funny name and athletic build who came out of nowhere to rise to the height of political success. He is uniquely American; the son of an African father, a white mother from Kansas who was raised in picturesque Hawaii by his white grandparents only to grow up and marry a black female attorney from a working class family.

He is a father, a brother, a lawyer, a community activist. He has been a unifying force in the country unlike no other since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., drawing a record setting crowd estimated at 2 million to the nation's capitol to watch him take the oath of office today, January 20, 2009.

He is the 44th President of the United States today, Barack Hussein Obama: the first African American in history to lead America. ...