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Barack
Hussein Obama, Jr. (b.
1961) 44th
President of the United States
Barack
Hussein Obama, Jr. (b. August 4, 1961)
is the 44th President of the United
States, sworn into office on January 20,
2009. Obama announced on February 10, 2007
that he was a candidate for the Democratic
nomination for President of the United
States. On Nov. 4, 2008, Barack Obama won
the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election by
defeating Senator John McCain. Obama
became the first African-American to win
the presidency in America's
history. Obama was
born in Honolulu, Hawaii, August 4, 1961.
His father was a professor from Kenya and
his mother an American. He obtained his
early education in Jakarta, Indonesia, and
Hawaii, and went on to Occidental College
in Los Angeles, later transferring to
Columbia University in New York City.
After graduating from Columbia, Obama
studied law at Harvard University, where
he became the first African-American
president of the Harvard Law Review, and
received his J.D. in 1992. He served as a
lecturer on constitutional law at the
University of Chicago until winning a seat
in the Illinois State Senate in 1996. He
served in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to
2004, until he was elected as a Democrat
to the U.S. Senate in 2004. He began his
first term in the U.S. Senate on January
3, 2005. In
January, 2007, Obama announced the
formation of his Presidential Exploratory
Committee, which is the first step to
formally declaring his candidacy for the
presidency. Soon thereafter, a controversy
began related to what kind of schools he
attended while living in Indonesia in the
1960s. Fox
News
reported that Obama attended an Islamic
madrassa school called the Basuki school,
that preached a radical version of Islam.
CNN
reported that Obama attended a secular
public school. See also: Obama
Education/Madrassa
Controversy On
February 10, 2007, Senator Obama
formally
declared his
candidacy
for the Democratic nomination for
President of the United States. Obama won
the first contest in the Democratic
nomination battle with his victory over
Hillary
Clinton,
John Edwards and the other candidates in
the Iowa Caucuses. Clinton then won the
New Hampshire Primary, presaging the tight
and sometimes hot battle between Obama and
Clinton as they each vied for the
Democratic Nomination. Controversy
over remarks made by Obama's former
pastor, Jeremiah Wright, led Senator Obama
to make an important speech on race and
religion in America. (See the
YouTube
video below). Barack
Obama's message of change and hope
eventually propelled him past Hillary
Clinton and won him the Democratic
nomination. As the 2008 Presidential
campaign sped on toward its November 4
conclusion, McCain and Obama each spent
millions of dollars, mostly on television
ads, attacking each other. On Nov. 4,
2008, Senator Barack Obama defeated
Republican Senator John McCain in a
decisive Electoral College victory. After
the major media outlets declared that
Obama had won over 270 Electoral Votes,
following the close of voting on the West
Coast, President-Elect Obama and his
family, along with Vice-President-Elect
Joseph Biden, appeared before a huge crowd
of supporters in Grant Park, Chicago.
There, Obama gave an inspiring
victory
speech
in which he declard that he will be the
President of all Americans, not just those
who voted for him. Published
Works: Obama,
Barack.Dreams
From My Father: A Story of Race and
Inheritance Obama,
Barack.The
Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming
the American Dream Video
of President Obama's Inaugural Address on
January 20, 2009 ' Obama
Videos: Obama
Victory Speech, Nov. 4,
2008 Obama
Speech on Race and Religion Published
Works: Obama,
Barack.Dreams
From My Father: A Story of Race and
Inheritance Obama,
Barack.The
Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming
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Marketing You Can Trust Family,
Career, and Personal
Highlights Barack
Hussein Obama, Sr
--Father Ann
Dunham --Mother Michelle
Obama (b.
1964)
--Wife Children: Sasha
(b.
2001)--Daughter Religion:
Education: 1991:
J.D., Harvard Law
School Career: 2004:
Delivered the keynote address
at the 2004 Democratic
National
Convention. 2005-2008:
U.S. Senator from Illinois
(D) 2009-Present:
President of the United States
of America Elections
involving Barack Obama 2008 general election for U.S.
President John McCain (R), 147 Electoral
Votes Bob Barr (L), Ralph Nader (I), 2004 general election for U.S.
Senate Alan Keyes (R), 27% Albert J. Franzen (I), 2% Jerry Kohn (L), 1% 2000 Democratic primary for U.S.
House of Representatives—Illinois 1st
District Barack Obama (D),
30% Donne Trotter (D), 7% Links
and Resources on Barack Hussein Obama,
Jr. White
House
Blog--Official
White House blog site Barack
Obama
- U.S. Senator for Illinois.
Official Senate site Barack
Obama--Wikipedia
Article Senator
Barack Obama Seeks to Become
First Black U.S. President
--Bloomberg.com -Feb. 10,
2007 ) -- Illinois Senator Barack
Obama, standing in front of the
building where Abraham Lincoln
gave his ``House Divided'' speech
in 1858 opposing slavery, told
Americans he will embrace a new
kind of politics as he made his
bid for the Democratic
presidential nomination
official. Barack
Obama formally announces bid for
president --Los Angeles Times
- Feb. 10, 2007--Illinois Sen.
Barack Obama formally announced
his presidential candidacy today
with an invocation of Abraham
Lincoln and a call to end the war
in Iraq and "the smallness of our
politics" that perpetuates so
many of the problems the nation
faces. Transcript
of Barack Obama's Speech CBS News - February 10,
2007--Complete text of Sen.
Barack Obama's speech before the
Old State Capitol in Springfield,
Ill., in which the Illinois
Democrat officially announced he
was running for president. Barack
Obama Presidential Exploratory
Committee--Official
website of the Obama Exploratory
Committee. Commencement
Address Commencement Address
of Senator Barack Obama at Knox
College on June 4, 2005. Senate
bills sponsored by Barack
Obama Senate
bills co-sponsored by Barack
Obama A
Bit More on Barack--Harper's
Magazine, October 26, 2006 Obama's
Game--CounterPunch, April 24,
2006 Five
Minutes With: Sen. Barack
Obama--Campus Progress, March
28, 2005 Deep
Inside the Obama
Effect--Vermont Daily
Briefing, March 11, 2006 Barack
Obama made smashing national
debut--The Progressive, July
28, 2004 Times
Topics: Obama, Barack--New
York Times Obama
in Africa--Chicago
Tribune Barack
Obama in Africa--Chicago
Sun-Times Obama's
Appeal to Blacks Remains an Open
Question--By Michael A.
Fletcher,Washington Post Staff
Writer, Thursday, January 25,
2007; Page A01 Draft Obama
Sites Power
Ranking the Presidential
Candidates: The Big
Board--Dems4Pres.com Madrassa
Controversy CNN
Debunks False Report About
Obama-- Hillary
Clinton Drops Madrassa Bomb on
Barack Obama--Fox News Indonesia
academics dispute report Sen.
Obama attended radical Islamic
school--International Herald
Tribune |
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2004.
