Barack Hussein Obama II
Barack Obama was born August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, Ann Dunham and Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. His parents met at university. They went back apart already since Barack Obama was two years old and his father, who was an exchange student, returned to Kenya. Then the father saw only Barack Obama once before he died in a car accident in Kenya in 1982. After the divorce, married mother with the Indonesian Lolo Soetoro. The family moved to Indonesia, where Barack Obama went to local schools until he was 10 years old. In high school were wild Barack Obama slightly. He said that the most immoral he made was in high school. Here he took cocaine, smoked pot and drank alcohol. After high school he moved to Los Angeles, where he attended two years at Occidental College. Then he continued at Columbia University in New York, where he specialized in political science and international relations. He received in 1983 his bachelor's degree here and then worked for a year. After a total of four years in New York moved Barack Obama to Chicago, where he was hired as director of "Developing Communities Project (DCP)", which is a Catholic church organization. Here worked Barack Obama for three years and during those three years increased the organization's budget from $ 70,000 to $ 400,000 and went from one to thirteen employees. At the end of 1988, started Barack Obama his education at Harvard Law School. In February 1990 he was elected leader of the "Law Review", which is a voluntary full-time, where he served as editor of eighty writers. He was the time the first black editor ever on "the Law Review", which gave him considerable publicity. In summer, he returned to Chicago and worked in law firms Sidley & Austin in 1989 and Hopkins & Sutter in 1990. After he graduated as a Juris Doctor (JD) magna cum laude from Harvard in 1991 he returned to Chicago. Due. the much publicity he was invited to write a book about race relations and offered an office at the University of Chicago Law School, which he could write the book. He planned to finish the book in one year, but it came to take much longer . In order to concentrate on the book traveled Barack Obama and his wife to Bali. Here he wrote for several months and was finished with the book, Dreams from My Father, in 1995. From April to October in 1992, Barack Obama also looking for "Project Vote". This was a project that was to get 150,000 of 400,000 unregistered African-American voters to register. This project got "Crain 's Chicago Business" to nominate Barack Obama as one among the forty most likely the most powerful people in the future. From 1992 worked Barack Obama for 12 years at the "University of Chicago Law School" as a teacher in the US Constitution. From 1993 he worked with Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, who was a law firm. Here he was as a specialist in the US Constitution and developer of urban districts economy. Here he was until 2002. During the time worked Barack Obama also in various charitable organizations. Blue. organizations for the development of different groups of people and neighborhoods.
Barack Obama's political career In 1996, Barack Obama was voted in as senator for Illinois's 13th district. He quickly gained support for laws to improve The conditions for different ethnicities and hospitals. He also implemented laws that gave greater tax credits for low-paid workers, a welfare reform and more support for parents. In both 1998 and in 2002 Barack Obama re-elected in the Senate. In 2000 he lost, however, the elections to the House of Representatives to the opponent Bobby Rush. Bobby Rush won by 2/3 of the votes. In 2003, the Democrats taken over the Senate and Barack Obama was put in charge of "Illinois Senate 's Health and Human Services Committee." In that period he also conducted, that it should be mandatory for the police to record the race of drivers they detained and videotape all interrogations of murder term. He also fought for reform of the law concerning. Death penalty. The police praised Barack Obama for his involvement in police work. In 2004, he stopped in the Illinois Senate to begin his election campaign to "the US senate."
US Senate as early as 2002 pågyndte Barack Obama planning to Senate elections in 2004. He hired the political strategist, David Axelrod, to run his campaign. And in January 2003, his campaign announced. Completed advertising campaigns created by David Axelrod gave Barack Obama a solid victory. His closest Democratic rival candidate had 29% less votes than him. He was then up against the Republican politician Jack Ryan, who in 2004 withdrew from the election. His goal in the Senate was, inter alia, to change the government's economic and sociale priorities. He questioned George Bush's management of the Iraq war and made US 's obligations to their soldiers clear. In the same period, he tried to bring together the United States with the comment: "There is not a liberal America and a conservative America; there 's the United States of America. ". This statement gave Barack Obama's campaign a boost. He was now up against Republican Alan Keyes, who took over for Jack Ryan. Barack Obama won a landslide victory with no less than 70% of the votes against Alan Keyes 27%. On January 4, 2005, Barack Obama hereby senator in "the US senate." This made Barack Obama the fifth black senator in the Senate ever. He has been assessed as a loyal Democrat, with nearly all his votes in the Senate have gone to the Democratic bill, while one of the most liberal Democrats - derived using the same method. In 2008 he was chosen by Congress.org as the most powerful senator in the United States.
Legislation Barack Obama has in his term as senator voted for "the Energy Policy Act of 2005" helped to support "the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act "and supported the similar bill called" Secure Fence Act ". "The Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act" was one of John McCain's bill and it would allow illegal immigrant workers to become US citizens. So with these proposals is Barack Obama for the environment and better conditions for immigrants in the United States. Barack Obama has repeatedly worked with, his opponent in the presidential election, John McCain. Further, he fought for legislation for tighter laws against nuclear power plants, for better control of lobbying, the criminalization of deceptive states by choice as well as a settlement of the war in Iraq. He was in favor of legislation that would withdraw US investment back from Iran, relating to the reduction of terrorism with nuclear weapons and a bill that would help soldiers wounded in battle. Barack Obama was in the Senate member of the following committees: Foreign Relations, Environment and Public Works, Veterans 'Affairs, Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and head of the Senate underkomitee, European Affairs. As a member of the Committee, Foreign Relations, was Barack Obama officially travels in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. He also met with Mahmoud Abbas before he became President of Palestine. He held further a speech at the "University of Nairobi" against corruption in Kenya.
Presidential Campaign On February 10, 2007 announces Barack Obama his lineup for the US presidential election. He goes to the polls on a swift conclusion of the Iraq war that the United States must be independent of foreign energy and health security for all. Barack Obama raised money for his campaign in sizes not previously seen on the democratic side. At the same time in the campaign came his two-year-long relationship with the pastor, Jeremiah Wright forward. Jeremiah Wright was known for very radical and political sermons and Barack Obama's pastor for 20 years, this part of the election campaign. Barack Obama volunteered then out of "Trinity United Church of Christ." After the defeat of Hillary Barack Obama became the first politician from a large lot turned down public campaign financing. At the same time, he chose Delaware Senator Joe Biden as running mate.
Political Views Barack Obama was one of the first to cast doubt on George Bush's line in the Iraq war. He gave a speech against the Iraq war for the people who were with the "anti-Iraq War rally" at Federal Plaza in Chicago. He wants to cut more than ten billion of the defense budget. Defence budgets will, if elected, would be cut by more than ten billion from missile defense and from research into new weapons. At the same time, he wants to abolish all nuclear weapons - not just in the US but worldwide. While the withdrawal from Iraq want Barack Obama to start diplomatic relations with Syria and Iran again. He will through diplomatic ways to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons, but he will not rule out military means. In August 2007, al-Qaeda leaders gathered in Pakistan to meet. The United States did not act and Barack Obama said: "it was a terrible mistake to fail to act " and said then that as president, he would not let such a chance go past - even if Pakistan's permission was missing the action. By the genocide in Darfur, he fought for more help there and invested even $ 180,000 in shares linked to Darfur. Barack Obama spoke out against what he called the government's indifference to the divide between rich and poor in the United States. Barack Obama advocates more equality, in economic terms, among the people in the US and want a better safety net for the US 'spoorest. For tax purposes, he wants to eliminate taxes for elderly who earn under $ 50,000 a year and raise it for older people earning over $ 250,000 a year. He also wants to tighten the tax code in general. This includes a tightening of Corporation Tax and closing opportunities for the movement of money to tax havens. Barack Obama also wants to fight against AIDS / HIV and also for abortion.
Barack Obama personally Barack Obama has two døtrer with his wife, Michelle Robinson. Since 2005, the family lived in Kenwood in Chicago. He has played some basketball also in high school. Before the presidential campaign, he stopped public smoking, which was awarded the well-publicized for. Although his stepfather was raised as a Muslim mentions Barack Obama him as an atheist like the rest of his immediate family. He found, however, even religion important as he began to understand the importance of African-American churches for enhancing changes involved. During his campaign was sown doubt among African-American journalists about Barack Obama was "black enough" for black voters. He said for this particular "We 're still locked in this notion att if you appeal two white people then there must be something wrong. ". Global Language Monitor has added the name Obama as a word in their English lexicon as it has been used to following words: obamamentum, obamaBot, obamacize, obamarama, obamaNation, obamanomics, obamican, obamafy, Obamamania and obamacam. In the end, Barack Obama extremely popular around the world also among state leader. This popularity is also believed to give Barack Obama a good boost to the election. You can read more about
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