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The fabulous life of Barack Obama

- born 4th August 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii
- mother was American, father African
- 44th but 1st Afro American president of the United States
- graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School
- 2004 won election to the U.S. Senate
- defeated Republican Nominee John McCain
- inauguration as president since 20th January 2009
- received the Nobel Peace Prize





Privacy

- married to Michelle Obama since 1992
- two daughters: Malia Ann, Natasha
- has a younger half-sister Maya
- Hobbies: cooking, poker, basketball, spending time with his family, dancing
- not ashamed of his drug experience as teenager
- has a Portuguese water dog named Bo
- wrote two books, plans to write three others
- after nicotine replacement therapy quits smoking



Political Aims

- U.S. troops to leave Iraq in the end of 2011
- avoiding production of nuclear weapons in Iran
- Turkey to join the European Union for better relationship between the west and the
Muslim world
- more democracy in Arabian states
- fighting terrorism
- stop genocide (the deliberate and systematic destruction of a certain national group)
- creating a new, sustainable foundation for the economy's future




sources: www.wikipedia.com; www.barackobama.com; www.nytimes.com



Barrack obama
>;Born: August 4, 1961
>;Famous For: Candidate for Democratic
Party's 2008 presidential nomination.
>;In August 2008, Barack was nominated by
the Democratic party as their candidate to
be President of the United States

His mother was from heartland-of-the-U.S.
Kansas, and his father from Kenya. Barack's
parents eventually divorced, and after his mother
remarried, he lived in Indonesia for a time before
returning to Hawaii to live with his grandparents.
He later moved to New York, where he graduated
from Columbia University in 1983.

>;Barack put law school on hold after college and
moved to Chicago, where he became a community
organizer with a church-based group that was
dedicated to improving living conditions in poor
neighborhoods.
>;Barack earned his law degree from Harvard in
1991, where he became the first African-American
president of the Harvard Law Review. He then
returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights
lawyer and teach constitutional law

>;In 2004, Barack wrote and delivered the keynote address at
the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, and
became a rising star in U.S. politics. A few months later,
he was elected to the U.S. Senate with a landslide 70% of
the vote. Four months into his senate career,Time
magazine named him "one of the world's most influential
people," calling him "one of the most admired politicians
in America." Barack formally announced his candidacy for
the 2008 presidential election in Springfield, Illinois on
February 10, 2007


Summary
>;Obama was a nominated candidate of
democratic party at united states
>;Current president of U.S
>;A rising star in U.S politics
>;Barack is also an accomplished author
>;Misconceptions about his religion didn't
affect his presidential campaign



zitate: I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars -> Bush

Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us -- the spin masters, the negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. Well, I say to them tonight, there is not a liberal America and a conservative America -- there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America -- there's the United States of America. The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats. But I've got news for them, too. We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around in our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and yes, we've got some gay friends in the Red States. There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
"Selbst jetzt, in diesem Moment, in dem wir miteinander sprechen, gibt es Menschen, die daran arbeiten, uns von einander zu trennen, die Manipulatoren und jene, die uns ständig Negatives unterschieben wollen, die nach der Maxime handeln: Der Zweck heiligt die Mittel. Nun, heute Abend möchte ich jenen sagen: Es gibt nicht ein liberales Amerika und ein konservatives Amerika - es gibt die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. Es gibt nicht ein Schwarzes Amerika und ein Weißes Amerika und ein Latino-Amerika und Asiatisches Amerika - es gibt die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. Kritiker möchten unser Land gerne in Rote und Blaue Staaten zerstückeln: Rote Staaten für Republikaner und Blaue Staaten für Demokraten. Aber auch für jene habe ich Neuigkeiten. Wir beten zu einem ehrfurchtgebietenden Gott in den Blauen Staaten, und wir mögen keine Bundesagenten, die in unseren Bibliotheken in den Roten Staaten herumstöbern. Wir trainieren die Little League in den Blauen Staaten und ja, wir haben ein paar schwule Freunde in den Roten Staaten. Es gibt Patrioten, die gegen den Krieg im Irak waren, und es gibt Patrioten, die ihn unterstützten. Wir sind ein Volk, wir alle schwören dem Sternenbanner Gefolgschaft, wir alle verteidigen die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika."


"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

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