Thank You, Mr. President by Madyson

Thank You, Mr. President by Madyson - October 2017 Scholarship Essay

"How did you do it", is what I would ask, "How did you break the barriers of two-hundred and nineteen years of normality in the United States?". If I could have dinner with any United States President, living or dead, my selection would be Barack Hussein Obama II. I would determine this president because he is just like me, he was destined for greatness. Being a minority in the United States is not the easiest sometimes, but that should not stop anyone from trying to achieve their dreams. History is being created right now, before your eyes, we as Obama put it "Because of what we did, on this day, in this election, and this defining moment, change, has come to America".
It is not normal for your in-law to one morning be elected president for the gaiety of it. Many people in my life have lead me to think I could not do something, based on me being a girl and equitably-based on my skin color. When Obama was running for president; he and his wife, Michelle LaVaughn Obama, had approved that others were not used to having such a drastic change in generationally routinely selections. Like every other president before him, in order to accomplish something that requires not just your view on how you see your work, but on how others see it also. You cannot get hired at another job, when you did not do your last job well enough to move up from that area of expertise.
Before Obama received being inaugurated for president, he was an upstanding leader, a Civil Rights Attorney, a United States Senator, A Community Organizer in Chicago helping low-income families. While attending Harvard, he was also the first African American President for the Harvard Law Review, before being promoted to Commander in Chief he was successful in his day-to-day life. Obama also accomplished having be an author for multiple books, such as, The Audacity of Hope, Dreams From My Father, and also Of Thee I Sing. He attended Harvard Law School, where he graduated magna cum laude and also became the president of the 1990-1991 Law Review, but I digress. While running for U.S Representative, it was impenetrable for him, a great deal of his African American auxiliaries were facing the poles to come with running as a Kenyan and American man. He ran against a U.S Representative by the name of Bobby Rush, who was a former Illinois Black Panther leader, he was the first mainstream political leader that was elected to Congress from Chicago's first South Side congressional district present 1992, so Obama even said himself he was "spanked" by the voters, meaning he was nearly not as mainstream, and making as many modulations as Rush had did his whole career. But this loss certainly did not stop Obama from moving up until he reached the top.
At my age, a majority of my fellow peers are not thinking about politics because they just seem so boring, when Obama announced he was running, I started to watch political news 24/7 trying to catch up with polls, and with what other candidates were doing to get ahead or behind, or what Obama was doing also; I just had realized how politics can teach us so many things, like being an assertive, non-assertive, or aggressive communicator, how that can influence others idea of you when they first meet you. Or how educational excellence, leadership effectiveness, and community service can all lead you to having an amazing career achievement. Obama, while running, avoided scandal. He had not had any suspicious things going on when he decided to run, he had a clean plate. Obama made me realize, that I can accomplish any goal I set forth consistently, and consecutively planned for. I think every teenager is scared, I sure am. I feel as if a lot of teenagers have the fear of graduating high school with no potential, no drive, and no career path. But really, I feel as if the little accomplishments as a teenager we kind of brush off, like that kid in cooking class, that made the best omelette, she thought it was okay but others uplifted her for the small achievement that could make her career as a chef, or the kid in math, that can calculate most of all numbers in his head, he does not know that he could become an engineer. Or, me, the kid in English class that wrote one little poem for our unit, and the class had to pick the top 3 poems, and she got picked, at that moment in my entire life, I had my epiphany, I didn't realize that my future major would be in creative writing making a book series on being a girl teenager that does not know her way. The applause of my poem, almost made me shed a tear. I felt that in that moment, I was Obama, the first Kenyan American president the United States has ever seen. Obama is my role model in this fast pace world we live in, and for that reason, I would sit and have dinner with this man that helped me pursue my dreams. Zig Ziglar said, "When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there."