Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama

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General

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• The 44th and the first African American president of the US
• 2008: elected to presidency
• 2012: re-elected

"Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and thy are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America: They will be met."

Childhood

• Birthday: 4th August 1961 in Honolulu
• Parents: Barack Hussein Obama Senior, Stanley Ann Dunham
• last contact to his father at the age of ten
• 3 older, 3 younder stepbrothers and sisters
• Punhaou private school: graduated in 1979

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Career

1979: Occidental College Los Angeles

two years later: Columbia University New York

1985: Chicago: supported low income families

Later: studied "law" at the Harward Law School

1991: Chicago: political tasks for the first time

1993 - 2004: Law Firm "Miner, Barnhill and Gallad; thaught Constitutional Law

Before becoming pesident and presidential campaign

Presidency and 2nd term

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• 1996: Chairman of the comittee of helathcare, Illlinois
• 2004: was elected in the US-senate
• 27 July 2004: keynote speech
• Since 2005: represented Illinois in the Senate
• 2007: pre-election campaign
• 20th January 2009: inauguration

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• 2009: Nobel Peace Prize
• In his first year: Obama received hardly consent of the Republicans, Tee-Party-movement spoke up against his policy
• 4th April 2011: stand for re-election for a second term in 2012
• 2013: introduction of the controversial universal health care
• 2014: start of his second term

• much criticism but he has also changed many things for the better
• he can not run for the elections in 2016: he is already in his second term