Barack Obama
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Early Years of Obama
Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4th, 1961. Barack Obama’s father, Barack Obama Sr., was born and grew up in in a small town in Kenya bordered by Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic. Barack Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in small-town Wichita, Kansas and then later moved west to Hawaii to go to a university. When Barack’s parents met they were at a university in Hawaii. His mother was a student at the university, and his father had luckily won a scholarship that allowed him to leave Kenya and take-on his dreams in America. Later on, the couple decided to be wed. Barack's father eventually returned to Kenya after he was done with school, but Barack grew up with his mother in Hawaii. Shortly after, he moved to New York. That was where he graduated at, Columbia University in 1983. Then he moved to Indonesia after his parents divorce. As you can see he moves a lot.
The College Years of Obama
Remembering the values of understanding life, moving a lot, and service that his mother had taught him, Barack put law school and business life on hold after college, Because his mother had cancer, and because of moving to Chicago in 1985, where he became a community organizer. The group had some success, but Barack had come to realize that in order to improve the lives of people in that community, it would take a bigger change then he had said it would. He back to earn his degree from Harvard Law in 1991. Finally, his advocacy work led him to run for the Illinois State Senate, where he served for eight years. In 2004, he became the third African American since Reconstruction to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
Political Career of Barack Obama
It has been mixed experiences of Barack Obama's life, growing up in different places with people who had different Ideas, that he has come to realize that people always can't get along and do the right things. Among the bickering of the debate, he still believes in the power to unite people around the world to make a change in everyday lives of our society. In the Illinois State Senate that Barack was working with, he had working with both Democrats and Republicans to help working families get ahead in money to pay for simple things. He also pushed through a growth of children’s education. When he was a part of the Veterans' Affairs Committee, Senator Barack Obama has fought to help Illinois veterans get the disability (an ability to do some or all of the tasks of average life.) pay they were promised. He was trying to get the VA ready for the Veterans that needed medical attention after fighting for so long. Obama is working to find something that will stop our addictiveness of oil. He is also working to bring auto companies, unions, farmers, businesses and politicians together to encourage the greater use of substitute fuels for life and for our cars. Barack Obama continues to speak out on the things that he thinks will help make America better in this 21st century.
Barack Obama Now
Barack Obama is the president elect in 2009. Obama won with 364 electoral to John McCain’s 174. You had to have 270 electoral votes to win. Here are some of the things he will do: Barack Obama is going to fix our economic problems by buying a 30 thousand package to stimulate the economy. It may sound expensive but he says it will work. Obama will cut taxes for 95% of earners and raise them for the rich people. He will make payable plans for us to help Social Security while making really rich people pay a bit more to keep it up and running. He is going to lower gas prices to the relief of Americans. He will make over 5 million new jobs for people who have been laid off to make money. He plans to save as much energy as possible. He will try as hard as possible to stop our Green House Gases. End wars and send our troops home.
