BARACK OBAMA
Barack Husseino Obama II is the 44th President of
United States. He is born on August 4th,
1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
His father was
a black exchange student named Barack Obama Sr, his mother was a white woman
from Kankas named Ann Dunhan, who was an anthropologists. His parents married in the year 1961 and
divorced in 1964. Later Obama’s mom
married an Indonesian by name Lolosoetoro in 1965. She divorced in 1980. He spent most of his
childhood in Hawaii and Chicago, Illiom’s .
He lived Indonesia with his mother and stepfather from age 6 to 10 and
thereafter he moved back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents.
He started his College life at
Ouidental College in his Angeles, and graduated from Columbia University in New
York City. Obama took interest in being
a community organizer in a low income neighborhood, and served as a Church
based community organizer before studying law at Harvard law school. He eventually had sworn in as Senator of
Illinois in 2004. While he was Illinois
state senator, he was known for writing a law
that required police to keep records on the race of people they stopped. The law that he wrote also forced police to
videotape when they talked to people they suspect murder. He also taught law part time at the
University of Chicago law school. Obama
later ran for the U.S Senate. While
renewing for Senate, John Kerry asked him to speak at the Democratic National
Convention. Most people had never heard
of Obama, but many people saw him speak on Television and he became well known
after that. He was a U.S.Senator from
2005 to 2008. Obama won the Presidential
election of 2008 and was sworn in as President of the United States of
America. Obama saw United States
battling a tough recession. During the
tough times, he asked Congress to spend an extra $787 Billion to try to end the
recession. He called the plan the stimulus bill. The stimulus
bill funded many road projects, gave money to schools, gave tax credits to
many Americans and funded many science and research projects. He gave billions of dollars to Car companies
and banks so that they would not go bankrupt he also signed an Act written by
Barney Frank and chris Dodd which regulate (the financial industry) to prevent
another recession like this from happening again. He signed patient protection and affordable
care Act which would being health care reform to the United States, which he
said would change the system so that
more people can afford health care.
He was influenced by the great leaders Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela, he always used to say in many speeches about the influence of Mahatma Gandhi on american leaders such as Martin Luther King.
During the rising deficits, under his
administration, he called for taxes to be increased on the rich and wealthy
Americans, who can afford to pay them.
Obama has also initiated the ending of the Iraq war and continued the
war on terror which resulted in the killing of Osama bill Laden on May 2,
2011. He initiated a no-fly-zone policy
on Libya which ended the Civil war in October 2011 with the killing of Muammar
al-Gaddafi.
Obama is a multitalented person, he
knows different languages and even the sign language. He was a member of his high school basket
ball and worked as a Lecturer for 10 years and also published a book. He is a Nobel Prize winner. He is a leader who took up tough decisions
during crucial times in America. He is a
man who kept his promise. Health care,
Foreign policy, auto industry, war and economic reform-there have been many
promises which Obama has delivered on.
Though it was not a smooth sailing, Obama has somehow lived up to the
expectations of his people.
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