Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whanau a Obama ki Honolulu, Hawaii. I muri i tana tohu i te Whare Wananga o Columbia i te 1983, i mahi ia hei kaiwhakahaere hapori i Chicago. I te tau 1988, i uru ia ki te Kura Ture o Harvard, ko ia te perehitini pango tuatahi o te "Harvard Law Review". Whai muri i tana tohu, ka noho ia hei roia mo nga tika tangata me te kaiwhakaako, e whakaako ana i te ture ture i te Whare Wananga o Chicago Law School mai i te 1992 ki te 2004. I te huri ki nga mahi torangapu, i tohu ia i te rohe 13 i te Whare Kaunihera o Illinois mai i te 1997 tae noa ki te 2004, i te wa i whakataetae ai ia mo te Whare Kaunihera o Amerika. I riro a Obama i te aro a motu i te tau 2004 me tana wikitoria tuatahi o te Senate i te Maehe, tana korero matua i te Hui-tanguru o te Democratic National Convention, me tana pooti nui i te marama o Noema ki te Senate. I te tau 2008, kotahi tau i muri i te tīmatanga
tana pakanga, ā, i muri i te pakanga tuatahi tata ki a Hillary Clinton, i tohua ia e te Pāti Manapori hei perehitini. I pōtitia a Obama i runga i te kaitono Republican a John McCain i te pōtitanga whānui, ā, i whakatūria i te taha o tana hoa whakahaere, a Joe Biden, i te 20 o Hānuere 2009. E iwa marama i muri mai, i whakaingoatia ia hei toa Nobel Peace Prize 2009.