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Is the United States going to have its first black President in its history?

This question has been lingering in the minds not only of Americans but of everyone who has been paying close attention to the US Presidential elections that will culminate this coming November.

Ever since Illinois Sen. Barack Obama announced his intentions to run for President, he got everyone buzzing. He may have been a senator since 2005, but no one has really ever heard of him. He was a good-looking 47-year-old gentleman with eloquence going around for him. Once you hear him speak, you get this feeling that things will go for the better. He used this eloquence and a promise of change to sway Democratic voters to his side despite facing a more experienced opponent in the person of New York Sen. And former US First Lady Hillary Clinton.

Obama, who was born in Hawaii, is of Kenyan and American descent. He went to Harvard Law School in 1988, and finished his Juris Doctor as magna cum laude in 1991. He served as a teacher in the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He was an admired man in the city of Chicago because of his intelligence and passion. It was no longer surprising that he won convincingly when he ran for senator in the state of Illinois in 2004. During his stint in the senate, Obama advocated children’s health insurance, environment and foreign relations, among many others.

When he was still vying for the Democratic nomination, Obama made the halting of the war in Iraq, universal health care, and energy independence as the focal points of his campaign. He drew support from numerous celebrities, most notable of whom is the queen of talk shows, Oprah Winfrey. His optimism for a newly-reformed America and American government was voiced out by his campaign slogan, “Yes We Can!” Other people, however, were not impressed. They only saw Obama as a mere motivational speaker with no experience under his belt. He did not need their opinions because in June 3, 2008, he won enough Democratic votes to be his party’s sole nominee to the Presidential race.

After he has gotten the nomination, Obama made clearer his platforms and positions in several issues. Just recently, he criticized outgoing President George W. Bush, saying that the Bush was the reason for US’s woeful economy, “When Bush came in, we had a surplus; now we have a deficit.”

In a move that surprised most Democrats, Obama picked last Aug. 23 a relatively unknown Delaware Sen. Joe Biden to be his Vice President. Almost everyone was clamoring that he picked his former Democratic rival Clinton to be his running mate.

Although quite unfamiliar to many US voters, Biden actually has a lot of experiences under his belt, being elected Senator at the age of 30 (he is now 65). Not surprisingly, he was picked by critics as the unanimous winner of the Vice Presidential debate last Oct. 2. During the debate, he showed his vulnerability—a side that was not really played in the media—without him compromising his stand on a number of issues.