If you knew anything about him you would know that he was not privileged nor wealthy, yet he still rose to become the man he is today--Well-spoken, brilliant, and a natural leader. Read his two books. Had you done so, you would have known he grew up almost his entire life without his real father, grew up in bad neighborhoods, and STILL overcame all the adversity to become a U.S. senator. Barack Obama truly knows what it's like to be an ordinary person, not pretend to be one, like Bush.