Barack Obama has had a ton of political background throughout his life, such as being a community organizer, civil-rights lawyer and teacher before becoming the first African American president of the U.S. Obama was ambitious for becoming the first African American because he had no idea what would've happened if he did become president, he could've been assassinated this is why he was ambitious. According to theguardian.com this was such a triumph in history and people were very excited and happy to finally have a president and it was time for change in America. This shows his ambition because it was something that has never been done before and nobody knew what was going to happen, it took a lot of bravery to go through with it.Furthermore, President Obama's winning election speech in 2008 he states that "we aren't a collection of red states and blue states, we will always be the United States.." Not only was Obama ambitious,he also inspired his followers to be united and work together to create a better nation, which made them become more ambitious.Furthermore thewhitehouse.gov explains how Obama was able to create a mission to capture and kill Osama Bin Laden.This shows his ambition because when he first became president he told America that he was going to capture Bin Laden just like previous presidents but they never caught him,Obama did. Moving on, according to the washingtonpost.com Obama helped make the decision on making marriage equality a reality. This was an amazing turning point in American history,and him and the supreme were ambitious enough to make this happen,even though not everyone wasn't happy about it.All in all Barack Obama is an amazing example of how America is ambitious by becoming the first black president here in America.