Barack Obama is former President of the United States. He served from 2009-2017. Obama is now fifty-five years old. In such bravery to serve this complex country, he was also the first African American president. His mother was from Kansas, and his father …show more content…
Obama argues of the benefits of working together to solve problems, rather than alone, by basing his ideas off of facts that come from his presidential campaign. He turns to Reverend Wright, his pastor in Chicago. Reverend has been “family” to Obama. Wright has a different perspective than Obama. For example, “ This is the reality in which Reverend Wright and other African-Americans of his generation grew up. They came of age in the late '50s and early '60s, a time when segregation was still the law of the land and opportunity was systematically constricted,” states how Obama respects the reverend’s opinion, even though he is on the other side of it. He uses evidence from his campaign, and his personal experiences to describe his major claim and to gain an