barack obama

President Obama's middle name is in honor of his grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama. “Hussein” is a derivative of the Arabic name Hassan, meaning “to be good,” “Husayn” is the affectionate form.

On January 20th, 2009, masses of people gathered on the Mall in Washington D.C. to witness the inauguration of President Obama.

He travels through the landscapes, the small towns and counties of the "narrow victories" of 2000 and 2004 to get to a Sarah Palin "barn" rally. Again he looks for answers in the faces of her supporters.

A Sunday morning drive takes them to a McCain rally in a wealthy suburb of Columbus surrounded by vast malls. There the main action is outside where the McCain and Obama supporters square off in a classic tit-for-tat, young versus old, have versus have not exchange. The red and the blue divide in action.