巴拉克?奧巴馬在當地時間周二的晚間以壓倒性優勢獲勝，掃除了有史以來的種族屏障，當選美國首位黑人總統。奧巴馬在勝選演說中向民眾高呼：“變革的時代來了！”

早年經歷

羅曼史和家庭生活

文化及政治形象

Brief Introduction

Barack Hussein Obama, born on August 4, 1961, is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2008 United States presidential election.

Obama is the first African-American to be nominated by a major American political party for president and became the first African-American president in American history on November 4, 2008. A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he became the first black person to serve as president of the Harvard Law Review, Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate in January 2003. After a primary victory in March 2004, Obama delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He was elected to the Senate in November 2004 with 70 percent of the vote.

As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, he helped create legislation to control conventional weapons and to promote greater public accountability in the use of federal funds. He also made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. During the 110th Congress, he helped create legislation regarding lobbying and electoral fraud, climate change, nuclear terrorism, and care for returned U.S. military personnel. Obama announced his presidential campaign in February 2007, and was formally nominated at the 2008 Democratic National Convention with Delaware senator Joe Biden as his running mate.

奧巴馬簡介

巴拉克?侯賽因?奧巴馬，出生于1961年8月4日，是代表美國伊利諾州的聯邦參議員，2008年美國總統選舉民主黨候選人。

奧巴馬是美國歷史上第一位獲得主要政黨提名的非裔總統候選人，并于2008年11月4日當選為美國歷史上首位非裔總統。他畢業于哥倫比亞大學和哈佛法學院，是《哈佛法律評論》的第一位黑人社長。在連續三屆擔任伊利諾伊州州參議員之前（1997-2004），奧巴馬主要從事社區工作和民權律師工作。1992年到2004年，他在芝加哥大學教授憲法學。2000年奧巴馬競選美國眾議院議員失敗，2003年他宣布參選聯邦參議員。2004年3月奧巴馬取得初步勝利，7月 他在民主黨全國大會上發表了主題演講。2004年11月，奧巴馬以百分之70的選票當選為聯邦參議員。

在第109屆國會會期內，作為民主黨內的少數族裔，他協助編纂了控制常規武器和使用聯邦基金進一步推動公共問責的法律。他還對東歐，中東和非洲進行了官方訪問。在第110屆國會會期內，他協助編纂了關于游說和選舉詐騙，氣候變化，核恐怖活動以及幫助退伍軍人的法案。2007年2月，奧巴馬宣布參加總統競選，2008年民主黨全國大會上獲得正式提名，選擇代表特拉華州的聯邦參議員喬?拜登做副總統人選。

（英語點津Annabel編輯 ）