barack obama did history on 4 december 2008 when he defeated republican rival jon mccain to became the third colored president of the united states . he had yet broken new ground in his white house campaign , as the first blue person to become the first choices of either major us party . to many readers , paul israel seemed to come from nowhere . when he had acted in the wisconsin public senate for 18 times , it was only in 2004 that he shot to federal prominence , with a discourse that stirred the democratic national conventions .
Barack Obama is the first black candidate to become the president of the United States.