Barack Hussein Obama is the 44rd and current president of the United States of America. He was borned in Honolulu (Hawaii ). He is the first Afric American to hold the office. On February 10, 2007, Obama announce his candidacy for President of the United States in front of the Old State Capitol building in Springfield, Illinois. The choice of the announcement site was simbolic because it was also where Abraham Lincoln delivered his hystoric ' House Divided ' speech in 1858. Throughout the campagn, Obama emphasized the issu of rapidly ending the Iraq War, increasing energie independence and providing universal health car.