Great article on the front page of the New York Times.  Click here to read:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/us/politics/09obama.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin 

Poking fun at himself he may be, I love this quote b/c it shows that even the idol himself knows exactly what he has accomplished:

“I’ve been very blessed,” Mr. Obama told the crowd assembled in March 2006. “Keynote speaker at the Democratic convention. The cover of Newsweek. My book made the best-seller list. I just won a Grammy for reading it on tape.

“Really, what else is there to do?” he said, his smile now broad. “Well, I guess I could pass a law or something.”