The Introduction of Barack Obama

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Barack Obama is the 44th and current president of the United States. He is the first person of African-American descent to be nominated by a major American political party for president, and the first person of African American descent to be elected president of the United States of America. A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he became the first black person to serve as president of the Harvard Law Review, Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.

1.The Basic Information of Barack Obama

The full name of Obama is Barack Hussein Obama II, and in Aug 4th, 1961, Obama born in Honolulu ,Hawaii, America. His father is Barack Hussein I, Kenyan, a black Muslims. And his mother is Ann Dunham, a white teacher. So, Obama’nationality is American and belief is Protestants. From1967 to 1970, Obama in an elementary of Indonesia. In 1979, he graduated from middle school. In 1983, he graduated from Columbia University. From 1985 to 1988, he was hired as director of the Developing Communities Project and work there. In late 1988, he entered Harvard Law School. In 1996, he was elected to the Illinois Senate. In 2003, he became chairman of the Illinois Senate Health and Human Services Committee. In 2004, he resigned from the Illinois Senate following his election to the US Senate. In 2007, he formally announced his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election in Springfield Illinois. In 2008,Obama was elected as the first black American President. In 2009, he won the election and took the oath of office.

2.The Legislative Career of Obama

2.1 State Senator: 1997-2004

Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996, succeeding State Senator Alice Palmer as senator from Illinois’s 13th District, which at that time spanned Chicago South Side neighborhoods from Hyde Park-Kenwood south to south Shore and west to Chicago Lawn once elected, Obama gained bipartisan support for legislation reforming ethics and health care laws. He sponsored a law increasing tax credits for low-income workers,negotiated welfare reform, and promoted increased subsidies for childcare. In 2001, as co-chairman of the bipartisan Joint Committee on

Administrative Rules, Obama supported Republican Governor Ryan’s pay day loan regulations and predatory mortgage lending regulations aimed at averting home foreclosures.

Obama was reelected to the Illinois Senate in 1998, defeating Republic yesse yehudah in the general election, and was reelected again in 2002. In 2000, he lost a Democratic primary run for the U.S. House of Representatives to four-term incumbent Bobby Rush by a margin of two to one.

In January 2003, Obama became chairman of the Illinois senate’s Health and Human Services Committee when Democrats, after a decade in the minority, regained a majority. He sponsored and led unanimous, bipartisan passage of legislation to monitor racial profiling by requiring police to record the race of drivers they detained, and legislation making Illinois the first state to mandate. Videotaping of homicide interrogations. During his 2004 general election campaign foe U.S. Senate, police representatives credited Obama for his active engagement with police organizations in enacting death penalty reforms. Obama resigned from the Illinois Senate in November 2004 following his election to the U.S. Senate.

2.2 U.S. Senator: 2005-2008

Obama was sworn in as a Senator on January 4,2005, at which time he became the only Senate member of the Congressional Black Caucus. CQ Weekly characterized him as a “loyal Democrat” based on analysis of all Senate votes in 2005-2007. The National Journal ranked him among the “most liberal” Senators during 2005 through 2007. He enjoyed high popularity as Senator with a 72% approval in Illinois. Obama announced on November 13,2008, that he would resign his Senate seat on November 16,2008, before the start of the lame-duck session, to focus on his transition period for the presidency.

2.3 Presidential campaign: 2008

On February 10, 2007, Obama announced his candidacy for president of the United States in front of the Old State Capitol building in Springfield, Illinois. The choice of the announcement site was viewed as symbolic because it was also where Abraham Lincoln delivered his historic “House Divided” speech in 1858. Throughout the campaign, Obama emphasized the issues of rapidly ending the Iraq War, increasing energy independence end providing universal health care. A large number of candidates entered the Democratic Party presidential primaries. The field narrowed to a duel between Obama and Senate Hillary Rodham Clinton after early contests, with the race remaining close throughout the primary process but with Obama gaining a steady lead in pledged delegates due to better long-range planning, superior fundraising, dominant organizing in caucus states, and counted, Obama was named the presumptive nominee and delivered a victory speech in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Clinton endorsed him on June 7,2008.

Obama proceeded to focus on the general election campaign against Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, in the lead up to the Democratic National Convention. He announced on August 23, 2008, that he had selected

Delaware Senator Joe Biden as his vice presidential running mate. At the convention, held August 25 to August 28 in Denver, Colorado, Hillary Clinton gave convention speeches in support of Obama. Obama delivered his acceptance presented his policy goals; the speech was viewed by over 38 million people worldwide.

3. Conclusion

U.S. President Barack Obama is a hero, is an example to all learning. His strength, his efforts, his wisdom is worthy of a new generation of young people to learn. Obama is not only the President of the United States, is also the world’s political leaders, as in today’s world has made great contribution to peace and development made great contribution. America is a world superpower, America’s leasers who is well-deserved. He has many advantages is worth us to explore, to learn.