Barack Obama

Barack Obama (born 1961) is the current President-elect of the United States. A junior United States Senator from Illinois, Obama is the first African American to be elected President of the United States. Obama will take office on January 20, 2009 - becoming the 44th President of the United States.

Durring a 2008 fund-raising dinner, Obama remarked to Sesame Workshop co-founder Joan Ganz Cooney that he "used to watch Sesame Street when [he] was babysitting [his] sister."