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Barack Hussein Obama II (/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/ ( listen); born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as the junior United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned after his election to the presidency in November 2008. Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Obama served three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he ran for United States Senate in 2004. Several events brought him to national attention during the campaign, including his victory in the March 2004 Democratic primary election for the United States Senator from Illinois and his prime-time televised keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He won election to the U.S. Senate in November 2004. Obama's presidential campaign began in February 2007, and after a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won his party's nomination. In the 2008 general election, he defeated Republican nominee John McCain and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. Obama is also the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. From Wikipedia under the
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Q. I am in an ongoing battle with my brother who is a college professor. Unfortunately, I do not have the resources that he does at my fingertips. I need some ammunition to fire back at him. What are some bad things about Barack Obama? Asked by Josh S - Sat Feb 16 01:23:05 2008 - - 16 Answers - 3 Comments A. Just curious, if you don't already know bad things about him why are you against him in the first place?? I take it your brother is an Obama supporter. Smart guy! Answered by IMHO - Sat Feb 16 01:32:03 2008 From Yahoo Answer Search: "barack obama" Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is the 44th President of the United States of America. Born in Hawaii, the son of a Kenyan father and a mother from Kansas, the former United States Senator from Illinois won the 2008 presidential election to become the first president of African-American descent. The inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States took place on January 20, 2009. In October 2009 it was announced that he is the recipient of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. From Wikiquote under the GNU Free Documentation License. |
