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00:00The Nobel Prize
00:15Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time.
00:20We are the ones we've been waiting for.
00:22We are the change that we seek.
00:25Barack Obama
00:27Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961.
00:34His father left soon after his birth, and the couple divorced two years later.
00:39At the age of ten, Obama was sent to live with his maternal grandparents.
00:44His mother and half-sister later joined them.
00:47While living with his grandparents, Obama enrolled in the esteemed Pinahoe Academy.
00:53He excelled in basketball and graduated with academic honors in 1979.
01:00As one of only three black students at the school, he became conscious of racism and what it meant to be African American.
01:08In 1981, Obama transferred to Columbia University, where he graduated with a degree in political science and English literature.
01:17In 1988, Obama began studying at Harvard Law School.
01:22He became the first black president of the Harvard Law Review and spent his summers working at law firms in Chicago.
01:30He graduated Magni Cum Laude in 1991.
01:35Obama married Michelle Lavon Robinson, a lawyer from Chicago he met while he was working in the city, on October 3, 1992.
01:45Together they have two children, Malia and Sasha.
01:49Upon graduating from Columbia University, Barack Obama worked at Business International Cooperation
01:56and then at the New York Public Interest Research Group, a non-partisan political organization.
02:03He then moved to Chicago and became director of the Developing Communities Project.
02:08Obama worked as a community organizer and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for 12 years.
02:17He also worked as a lawyer during the same period.
02:21In 1996, Obama made his foray into political life as a member of the Illinois State Senate.
02:29He supported bipartisan efforts to improve healthcare and increase tax credits for childcare.
02:36In 2004, Obama launched a campaign for U.S. Senate.
02:41He positioned himself as a progressive and an opponent of the Iraq War.
02:47Obama won a decisive victory in November with 70% of the vote and was sworn in as a U.S. Senator in January 2005.
02:57Obama began his run for U.S. President in February 2007.
03:02He was nominated after a very close primary race against key opponent Hillary Clinton, the wife of former President Bill Clinton.
03:12Obama chose Delaware Senator Joe Biden to be his running mate.
03:16The two campaigned on a platform of hope and change.
03:19Obama made ending the Iraq War and passing healthcare reform his primary issues.
03:26His campaign was notable for its digital strategy and fundraising efforts.
03:32With support from small donors and activists across the nation, the campaign raised a record $750 million.
03:41Obama's main opponent in the presidential race was Republican Senator John McCain.
03:47In the end, Obama won 365 electoral votes and 52.9% of the popular vote.
03:56Between Inauguration Day and April 29, 2009, the Obama administration took action on many fronts.
04:05For his efforts, during his debut in office, the Nobel Committee in Norway awarded Obama the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
04:14Obama is the first African American to not only be nominated by a major political party, but also to win the presidency of the United States.
04:25He ran as an agent of change.
04:28His true impact and the significance of his presidency will not be determined for many years to come.
04:35His own United States is the United States.
04:36The United States has been a part of its leadership's mission and a part of its leadership's mission.
04:37To be yourself, his national leader, the
04:43long-term public duty to serve the Anger, the peace of the world beyond his views.
04:48He's the main-imagined economic justice for a part of its consciousness.
04:51The new needs of the change in the world where he goes on
04:53To be your head and the future, so he continues to be our allies on Whenever we go on,
04:55To be your head and see your head and the needs of your efforts and your response on his behalf.
04:58The most important thing is he is to try to improve the progress of the work of the global partners.
05:00But that's it, he was a political policy in the history of his career.
05:01The most important thing on his work is to do as a political policy in the country where he lives.
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