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As well as making history as America's first black president, Barack Obama is the most charismatic American President since JFK. In a world of uninspiring political figures, Obama sticks out like the proverbial sore thumb.

Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4th, 1961, Barack Hussein Obama had a black African father, also called Barack, and a white American mother, Ann. Barack Junior's parents split before their son was three, and both parents had died before Obama was out of his early 30s. But they had given him the tools which were to make him. His parents intelligence was passed on down the genes, and Barack Obama's view of the world was coloured by living in Indonesia when a small boy, and witnessing the poverty there, before returning to Hawaii and experiencing the twisted logic of racism - albeit not at the vile intensity of more volatile areas of the US.

The world began to sit up and take notice of Barack Obama in 2004. His inspirational speech in Boston, Massachusetts, when pretty much unknown on the political stage, was really the start of something...

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