Barack Hussein Obama II (British spelling: [bərɑ ː k ː mə hʊseɪn oʊbɑ]; born in Honolulu, Hawaii, August 4, 1961, age 50 years) is the President of the United States who now serves and is President of the United States-44. Barack served since January 20, 2009 to replace George W. Bush. Previously he was the Junior Senator from Illinois and later won the 2008 presidential election on November 4, 2008. In 2009, Obama was announced as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize gift for promoting international diplomacy to solve international problems.
Obama is the first African-American descent who was President of the United States after the first African-American to be nominated by a major American political party to be president. [1] A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard University Law School, where he served as president Harvard Law Review, Obama worked as a community coordinator and served as a civil rights lawyer before becoming the Illinois Senate for three times from 1997 to 2004. He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. After the failure of reaching the U.S. House of Representatives seat in 2000, he announced his campaign for U.S. Senate in January 2003. After the victory in March 2004, Obama delivered the key notenya at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He was elected as the Senate in November 2004 with 70 percent of the vote.
As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, he helped create legislation regulating conventional weapons and to promote public accountability in the use of federal funds. He also made official trips to Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa. During the 110th Congress, he helped make the laws regarding lobbying and electoral fraud, climate change, nuclear terrorism, and care for returned U.S. military personnel. Obama announced his presidential campaign in February 2007, and nominated at the Democratic National Convention in 2008 with Delaware senator Joe Biden as a campaign partner. And On November 4, 2008 Barack Obama's successful defeat of his rival Senator John McCain and the republican party became the 44th U.S. president and the first black person as president of the United States.
Excellence in Schools
While staying with his grandparents, Obama enrolled at Punahou Academy honor, excelling in basketball and graduated with academic honors in 1979. As one of three black students at the school, Obama became aware of racism and what it means to be African-American. He then describes how he struggled to reconcile social perceptions of multiracial heritage with a sense of self. "I began to notice there was no one like me in the catalog, Sears Roebuck Christmas ... and that Santa was a white man," he said. "I went to the bathroom and stood in front of the mirror with all my senses and limbs appeared intact, to find a way I always saw, and wondered if there is something wrong with me."
Obama also struggled with the absence of his father, which he saw only once more after his parents divorced, in a brief visit in 1971. "[My father] had left heaven, and there's nothing my mother or grandfather told me could negate the fact a single, unwavering," he later reflected. "They can not describe what might have been like, she was living." Obama, Sr. eventually lost his legs in a car accident, also lost his job as a result. In 1982, he died in another car accident while traveling in Nairobi. Obama, Jr. was 22 years old when he received news of the death of his father. "At the time of his death, my father remained a myth to me," Obama said, "better and less of a man."
After high school, Obama studied at Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years. He then transferred to Columbia University in New York, graduating in 1983 with a degree in political science. After working in the business sector over the past two years, Obama moved to Chicago in 1985. There, he worked on the South Side as a community organizer for low-income residents in Roseland and Altgeld Gardens community.
Legal Career
It was during this time that Obama, who said he "was not raised in a religious household," joined the Trinity United Church of Christ. He also visited relatives in Kenya, including an emotional visit to the tomb of his biological father and paternal grandfather. "For a long time I sat between two grave and cry," Obama said. "I saw that my life-life in black America, white life, feelings of abandonment I felt as a child, frustrations and hopefully I will see in Chicago-all connected with a small plot of earth an ocean away."
Obama returned from Kenya with a sense of renewal, entered Harvard Law School in 1988. The following year, he met Michelle Robinson, an associate at Sidley & Austin law firm in Chicago. He was assigned to be Obama's adviser during a summer internship at the company, and the couple soon began dating. In February 1990, Obama was elected the first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review, and he graduated magna cum laude in 1991.
After law school, Obama returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer, joined the firm of Miner, Barnhill & Galland. He also taught at the University of Chicago Law School, and helped organize voter registration drives during Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. On October 3, 1992, he and Michelle were married. They moved to Kenwood, on the South Side of Chicago, and welcomed two daughters: Malia (born 1998) and Sasha (born 2001).Go to Illinois Politics
Obama published his autobiography in 1995 Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. The work received high praise from literary figures such as Toni Morrison and has been printed in 10 languages, including Chinese, Swedish and Hebrew. This book has a second printing in 2004, and is currently being adapted into a children's version. Year 2006 version of Dreams audio book, narrated by Obama, received a Grammy award for Best Spoken Word Album.
Obama's advocacy led him to run for the Illinois State Senate as a Democrat. He won election in 1996. During the year, Obama worked with both Democrats and Republicans in drafting legislation on ethics, expanded health care and early childhood education programs for the poor. He also created a state earned income tax credit for poor workers. Obama became chairman of the Illinois Senate Health and Human Services Committee, as well, and after a number of prisoners sentenced to death was found guilty, he worked with law enforcement officials to require video recordings of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases.
In 2000, Obama made a failed run Democratic primary for the U.S. House of Representatives seat held by four-term incumbent candidate Bobby Rush. Undeterred, Obama formed a campaign committee in 2002, and began raising funds to run in the 2004 U.S. Senate Race. With the help of political consultant David Axelrod, Obama began to assess his prospects of winning Senate.
After 9 / 11 attacks in 2001, Obama is pushing early opponent of President George W. Bush to war with Iraq. Obama is still a state senator when he spoke against the resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq during a rally at Chicago's Federal Plaza in October 2002. "I do not oppose all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars," he said. "What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other arm-chair, weekend warriors in this Administration to push their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the cost in lives lost and suffering endured."
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