Any Hussein Obama
born in Honolulu, Hawaii, 4 August 1961; age 47 years old) is a politician the United States and winner of Presidential Election 2008. As President-elect U.S., he will begin officially appointed as President of the U.S. to-44 on 20 January 2009. Currently he is the Junior Senator from Illinois. Contents
Obama is the first African-American nominated by a major American political party to become president.Graduates of Columbia University and Harvard Law School; there, he served as president of the Harvard Law Review, Obama worked as a coordinator of the community and served as counsel rights civilian before a Senate Illinois for three times starting in 1997 until 2004. He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School since 1992 until 2004. After failing to reach the seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he announced the campaign for U.S. Senate in January 2003. After the victory of March 2004, Obama delivered a key note at the Democratic National Convention July 2004. He was selected as the Senate in November 2004 with 70 percent of the vote.
As a member of the Democratic minority in Congress to-109, he helped create the laws that govern conventional weapons and promoting public accountability in the use of federal funds. He also made an official trip to Europe, Middle East, and Africa. During the congress to-110, he helped create the law on lobbying and election cheating, climate change, nuclear terrorism, and care for U.S. military personnel who return home. Obama announced presidennya campaign in February 2007, and nominated at the Democratic National Convention in 2008 with the senator Delaware, Joe Biden as a pair of campaigns. And the 4 November 2008 Barack Obama successfully overcome rivalnya senator John McCain from the republican party and become president of the United States to 44 and the first black president of America union.
Early life and career
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Barack Obama was born in the Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women & Children in Honolulu, Hawaii, from the pair of any Hussein Obama, Sr.., A Kenyan crusted black from Nyang'oma Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya, and Ann Dunham, a United States white from Wichita, Kansas. Her parents met while attending school at the University of Hawaii, where his father's status as a study by foreign students. They separated when Obama aged two years and eventually divorced .. Obama's father returned to the Kenya and see their children for the last time before died in a traffic accident of 1982. After the divorce, Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, and his family moved to Indonesia 1967. Obama then in the local schools in Jakarta until he was aged 10 years. Currently, Obama can still speak the Indonesian language that barely.
He returned to Honolulu to live with her grandmother and grandfather and learning at Punahou School in the class five years between 1971 and graduated high school in 1979. Mrs. Obama returned to Hawaii since 1972 for several years and then to Indonesia to complete the field work for the dissertation doctoral . He died because of womb cancer in 1995. As an adult, Obama acknowledges that the high school when he uses mariyuana, cocaine and alcohol, which he described in the Civil Forum President 2008 as the biggest moral error. After High school, Obama moved to Los Angeles and he was studying in universities Occidental for two years. He then moved to Columbia University in New York City, and then he graduated in political knowledge with the surplus in international relations. Obama graduated with a BA from Columbia 1983, then worked for a year at the International Business Corporation [and then at the New York Public Interest Research Group.
Barack Obama were raised by his mother, Ann Dunham.
After four years in New York City, Obama moved to Chicago, and he served as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), an association of community-based church, which actually consists of eight Catholic parish in Roseland Raya (Roseland, West Pullman, and Riverdale) in the South Side, Chicago, and worked there for three years starting in June 1985 to May 1988.
During served as director of the DCP, the staff increased from one in three teens earnings-per-year increase from $ 70,000 to $ 400,000, with success include help create job training programs, preparation of training programs of universities, and rights organizations seller in Altgeld Gardens. Obama also worked as a consultant and instructor for the Gamaliel Foundation, an association of the institute. In mid-1988, he for the first time visit Europe for three weeks and five weeks in Kenya, and he met many relatives Kenya will for the first time. Obama entered Harvard Law School in 1988. At the end of the first year, he was selected, according to the class and writing competitions, as the editor of Harvard Law Review. February 1990, in both years, he was elected as president of Law Review, a full-time volunteer position, which is useful as leaders and observers editor 80 Law Review editor. Obama as Election Law Review president with black first widely known and followed by several lengthy profiles.
In the summer, he returned to Chicago to work as a summer associate at the law firm Sidley & Austin in 1989 and Hopkins & Sutter in 1990. After graduating with Magna cum laude Juris Doctor (JD) Harvard from 1991, he returned to Chicago. Publicity from his election as president of Harvard Law Review of color bring in the first publishing contract and the making of books about race relations.
In an effort to merekrutnya to their faculties, the University of Chicago Law School to provide scholarships and Obama office to make a book. He originally planned completing the book in one years, but it requires a longer time after this book was changed to Memoirs private. To work without interference, Obama and his wife, Michelle, a holiday to Bali and he was writing a book for several months. Manuscript was finally published in mid-1995 with the title Dreams from My Father. Obama led Project Vote Illinois from April to October 1992, with voter registration dnegan ten seven hundred staff and volunteers; successfully with the objective to register 150,000 people from 400,000 African-American in the state, the sehingaga Crain's Chicago Business put Obama in the list of "40 under Forty" in 1993. [26] [27]
Right to left: Barack Obama and Maya Soetoro with his mother, Ann Dunham and grandfather Stanley Dunham in Hawaii (early 1970s).
Starting in 1992, Obama teaches constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for two years, became the first classified as lector since 1992 until 1996, and later as a lecturer Seniors since 1996 until 2004. [28] He also, in 1993, joined Davis, miner, Barnhill & Galland, a law firm with twelve lawyers experienced in litigation civil rights and economic development community, and he is an associate for three years from 1993 to 1996, then Counsel start of 1996 until 2004, with legal license expires in 2002.
Obama is a member of the board of directors of Public Allies in 1992, step down before his wife, Michelle, a founder executive Director Public Allies Chicago in early 1993. He served from 1993 to 2002 on the board of directors of Woods Fund of Chicago, which in 1985 became a foundation to fund the first Developing Communities Project, and also since 1994 until 2002 on the board of directors of the Joyce Foundation. [14] Obama work on the board of directors of Chicago Annenberg Challenge in 1995-2002, as president and founder of the leadership board of directors since 1995-1999. [14] He also worked on the board of directors of Chicago lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Center for Neighborhood Technology, and Lugenia Burns Hope Center.
State legislators 1997-2004
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Obama successfully overcome all the competitors of the election and appears in the election without competition. He was then selected as the Illinois Senate in 1996, replacing State Senator Alice Palmer as Senator from District 13 to Illinois, then membentangi the South Side of Chicago Hyde Park - Kenwood to the south, in South Shore and west to Chicago Lawn. Once elected, Obama with Illinois Senate President to help the new senator is successful. He sponsored a law that increase the tax credit for lower-income workers, negotiating the reform welfare, promote and increase subsidies for child care.
Obama re-elected as the Illinois Senate in 1998, and again in 2002. In 2000, he was defeated in the election for the Democratic U.S. House of Representatives by Bobby Rush for four years with two one appeal.
January 2003, Obama became pimipinan Health Committee and the Civil Service when the Illinois Senate Democrats, after a decade seabgai minority, eventually obtain a majority. He was the lead sponsor and validation bipartisan law to monitor racial pemrofilan ask the police to record the race of the detainees and the Law it makes Illinois the first state to do the recording interrogation of murder. Obama resign from the Illinois Senate in November 2004 after his election to the U.S. Senate.
2004 U.S. Senate campaign
See also: Selection of the United States Senate in Illinois in 2004
In mid 2002, Obama began a campaign to make the U.S. Senate; he entered politics expert David Axelrod, which failed and announced the nomination in January 2003. The decision by Peter Fitzgerald of the Republic and its Carol Moseley Braun from Democrats who do not follow the competition is not open election and the Democratic Republic of involving the fifteen candidates. Obama candidacy is driven by ad campaigns that show the face of Axelrod of Chicago Mayor Harold Washington and encouraging the children darai by Paul Simon, former U.S. Senator for Illinois. He received 52% vote in the preliminary March 2004, leaving 29% for the rival Democratic terdekatnya.
Obama rivals in the general election, preliminary winner Jack Ryan from the Republic Party, to resign from this competition in June 2004.
July 2004, Obama catatannya write and deliver the Democratic National Convention 2004 in Boston, Massachusetts. After explaining the grandfather of experience as a veteran of World War II and the program FHA and GI Bill New Deal, Obama spoke about the changes in the economic and social priorities the government U.S.. He questioned the Iraq war by the Bush administration and gave the award to the army. Following the history of the U.S., he criticizes the views of partisan elektorat ask the United States and united in diversity, with said, "No United States is a liberal and a conservative America; that only the United States." Broadcast speeches by various news organizations large Obama toss status as a national political figure and help the campaign to the U.S. Senate.
August 2004, two months after the secession Ryan and less than three months before Election Day, Alan Keyes received Illinois Republic Party nomination to replace Ryan. A long lived in Maryland, Keyes set permanennya residence in Illinois because the nomination. In the November 2004 general election, Obama received 70% of votes, while Keyes 27%, the biggest victory for the state of competition in the history of Illinois.
U.S. senator since 2005
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Obama are sworn as a senator on 4 January 2005.
Senator Obama is the fifth African American in U.S. history, and a third that many selected. He is a member of Senate only from Kaukus Black Kongresional. cq Weekly, a nonpartisan publication, call as a "Democratic faithful", based on analysis of all the votes in the Senate 2005-2007, and the National Journal put it as a senator "most liberal" based on the research of the selected sound during 2007. 2005, he ranks to-16, and in 2006 at the rank-to 10.
In 2008, according to Congress.org Senator Obama is terkuat to-11.
Law
See also: List of laws sponsored by Barack Obama in the Senate of the United States
Sponsorship laws Senate, Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Obama discuss the Coburn-Obama Transparency Act. [58]
Obama gave voice to the Law on Energy Policy, 2005, and sponsoring the Immigration Act and the United States regularly safe. September 2006, Obama supports such a law, Security Law. Obama introduce two initiatives that use the name: Lugar-Obama, that expand the concept of cooperative threat reduction Nunn-Lugar to conventional weapons, and Transparency Act Coburn-Obama, who initiated the creation of USAspending.gov, a web search engine for federal spending. Date June 3 2008, Senator Obama, with Senator Thomas R. Carper, Tom Coburn, and John McCain, introducing legislation for the following: Law Strengthening Transparency and Accountability Federal expenditures in 2008.
Obama sponsored legislation requesting the Nuclear power plant owners to warn local authorities and the state about radioactive leaks, but this failed law passed by the full Senate after a large-scale change in the committee. December 2006, President Bush signed the law-legitimation Assistance Law, Security, Democracy and the Campaign for Democratic Republic of Congo, marks the first federal law that was passed with Obama as the main sponsor. Month January 2007, Obama and Senator Feingold introduced the provision of company jet on the Law Leadership honest and open government, which was passed in September 2007. Obama also introduced the Law on Prevention of Fraud Practices and Voter intimidation, a law intended to prevent fraudulent practices in the federal election and the Law on De-escalation of Iraq War, 2007, but none passed.
Obama and Richard Lugar to visit a missile facility renovation Russian move.
Then in 2007, Obama sponsored an amendment Act Defense Authorization add a sentence to guard against the abuse of military personality. This amendment was passed by the full Senate in spring 2008. He sponsored a law that determination of the Iran Sanctions supports repeal the state pension funds from oil and gas industries of Iran, which is not passed committee, and sponsor legislation to reduce the risk of nuclear terrorism. Obama also sponsored a Senate amendment to the State Program for Children's Health Insurance, which provides one year employment protection for family members caring for soldiers with war wounds.
Committee
Obama perform tasks for the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, the Environment and Public Works and Veterans Affairs throughout December 2006. Month January 2007, he was out of the committee of the Environment and Public Works and perform additional duties with the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and Security Affairs and Government Affairs. He also became the chairmen Subkomite Senate for European Affairs. As a member of Senate Committee for Foreign Relations, Obama traveled to foreign countries to East Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa . He met with Mahmoud Abbas before becoming President of Palestine, and deliver a speech at the University of Nairobi, which criticizes corruption in the government of Kenya.
2008 presidential campaign
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February 10, 2007, Obama announced the nomination for President of the United States in front of the building Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois. election speech this place is very symbolic because it is in place Abraham Lincoln delivered a speech historical, "House Divided" year 1858. During the campaign, Obama raise issues of the Iraq War, increasing energy independence, and provide universal health care, which at one point as the three main promises.
Obama on stage with his wife and two children before announcing the presidential campaign in Springfield, Illinois.
Obama campaign takes $ 58 million in the first mid-2007, including donations of less than $ 200, are categorized as a "small donation", according to the legal campaign, totaling $ 16.4 million. Figures $ 58 million this record fundraising in the presidential campaign six months before the first calendar year election. The impact of this very small donations from large absoolut viewpoint and perspective. [87] Month January 2008, the campaign record fundraising with the other $ 36.8 million, the largest amount collected in one month by a presidential candidate in the Democratic campaign introduction.
At the Democratic National Convention competition in January 2008, Obama tie with Hillary Clinton for the number of delegations in the preliminary selection of New Hampshire and won more delegates than Clinton in the election and kaukus in Iowa, Nevada and South Carolina. On Super Tuesday, winning it with 20 more delegates from Clinton. He then record leveraging other funds in the first two months 2008, worth $ 90 million for the campaign than Clinton preliminary worth $ 45 million. After Super Tuesday, Obama won eleven preliminary and kaukus February remaining. Obama and Clinton tie in the competition on March 4 in Vermont, Texas, Ohio, and Rhode Island; Obama close the month with a win in Wyoming and Mississippi.
In March 2008, a controversy occurred involving a former pastor Obama for twenty years, Jeremiah Wright, after the clip broadcast on the ABC News political talk, which is very racial. Initially, Obama told to respond with a role in the Wright Chicago's African American community, but criticize his speech and the Wright relationship with this campaign. During this controversy, Obama delivered a speech entitled "A More Perfect Union"raise the issue of race. Obama immediately resign from the Trinity United Church of Christ "to avoid allegations that he has set all the opinions expressed in the church."
Family and personal life
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Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama.
Obama met his wife, Michelle Robinson, in June 1989 when he worked as a asosiat summer for the law firm Sidley Austin in Chicago. As an Obama adviser for three months at the firm, Robinson joined in with social groups, but was initially refused a request to dating. [They began dating in the summer, the betrothed 1991, and married October 3 1992. their first child, Malia Ann, born 1998, followed by a second child, Natasha ( "Sasha "), 2001.
Approve the creation of the book, This family moved in 2005 from a condominium in Hyde Park, Chicago to their homes worth $ 1.6 million in Kenwood, Chicago. Purchases and sales of land to Obama by the wife of the developer and his friend Tony Rezko attract attention media because of the allegations against Rezko confidence and conviction that political corruption is not associated with Obama. [109]
December 2007, the magazine Money estimates the family wealth Obama reached $ 1.3 million.Payment of the tax year 2007 showed their household income around $ 4.2 million from about $ 1 million in 2006 and $ 1.6 million in 2005 to form the majority of the sales of books.
Obama play basketball with the U.S. military in Djibouti in 2006
In an interview in 2006, Obama describes the diversity of families. "Michelle will tell you that when we together for Christmas Day or Pronunciation Some, it seems like a small United Nations," he said. "I have a brother like Bernie Mac, and I also have a brother like that of Margaret Thatcher." Obama has a stepbrother of seventeen families Kenyan father, six people, and a step-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, a child from his mother and her husband both from Indonesia. Mrs. Obama was born from his mother's parents in Kansas, Madelyn Dunham until his death in November 2, 2008, before the presidential election. In the book Dreams from My Father, Obama linking her mother with a family history of Native American residents and relatives far Jefferson Davis, president of Confederation in the southern United States Civil War.
Obama play basketball, a sport that suitable objects as a member of his high school team. Before announcing the nomination presidennya, he started the business to stop smoking.
Obama is a Christian religious views that have been developed in the dewasanya. In the book The Audacity of Hope, Obama wrote that "it was not brought up in religious families." He describes his mother, were raised by parents of non-religious (which Obama described as a "methodical and non-Baptist who practices"),
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