This week multiple news organizations honored Obama. In his hometown the Chicago Sun Times named him on of the "Year's Biggest" local stories... "Obama charged onto the national stage at the Democratic National Convention in July with an acclaimed keynote speech declaring "in no other country on earth is my story even possible.'' When his campaign to get to Washington was beginning, Obama himself joked about his name, which he received from his Kenyan father, calling it a possible political liability. But behind the jokes, Obama ran a serious, textbook-perfect campaign. And on the campaign trail, he appealed to...