Catapulted to the world's most powerful office on the slogan of 'hope' and 'change' just four years ago, America's first African-American President Barack Hussein Obama is today engaged in a tough race to regain the White House.
Scoring a landslide victory over Vietnam War veteran Republican John McCain in the 2008 election, the son of a Kenyan father and a White American mother from Kansas caught the imagination of the world as he overcame challenges about his place of birth, his religion and his race.
Just nine months into his presidency, Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples" to a mixture of praise and criticism from world leaders and media figures...Read More
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