Why I am supporting Obama [View All]

He's Black, with a Kenyan dad (who was raised Muslim) and a white mom from Kansas. He grew up in Hawaii and Indonesia. His parents were divorced, and he grew up with an Indonesian stepdad. He was the first Black president of the Harvard law review, and graduated magna cum laude.

After he graduated, he directed a voter registration drive and worked as a lawyer in discrimination and voting rights cases. He also taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago.

He was elected to the Illinois State Senate from the south side of Chicago. His major legislation in the state senate concerned helping the poor, health care, and racial profiling by police.

Elected to the US Senate in 2004, he didn't vote for the war.

His primary issues in the senate have been border security, ethics reform, transparency in accounting, and arms reductions and non-proliferation. As a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee he's taken trips to the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, and Africa. While in Africa he and Michelle took HIV tests in order to encourage more Africans to get tested.

All this is just background, though.

Ultimately, I think he would be the best president of the current front-runners because electing a Black man with Muslim ancestry would show the world that we've turned over a new leaf as a country.