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Biografi Barack Obama – Biografi Presiden

Biografi Barack Obama – Biografi Presiden.

Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th President of the United States. He was the first African
American to hold an important position as president of the United States. Obama is a U.S.
Senator from Illinois who served from January 3, 2005 to 16 November 2008, after
advancing to the United States presidential election. He's taken the oath as President on
January 20, 2009 in an inaugural ceremony at the U.S. Capitol.

Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the first
African-American who became president of Harvard Law (Faculty of Law, Harvard
University). He worked as a community organizer, and also worked as a civil rights attorney
in Chicago before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He also
taught Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. After
an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House in 2000, Obama was elected to the Senate in
November 2004. Communicate the essence of Obama addresses the Democratic National
Convention in July 2004.

As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109. Congress, Obama helped create
legislation to control conventional weapons and to promote greater public accountability in
the use of federal funds. He also made official trips to Eastern Europe, Middle East, and
Africa. In Congress he helped create legislation on the selection, negotiation and fraud,
climate change, nuclear terrorism, and care for U.S. military personnel returning from
combat duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Barack Obama was born at the Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women & Children in
Honolulu, Hawaii, from Mother Ann Dunham, a white American from Wichita, Kansas from
predominately English descent. Obama's father was Barack Obama, Sr., a Luo from
Nyang'oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya. His parents met in 1960 while attending events
at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was a foreign student. The couple
later married on February 2, 1961, they separated when Obama was two years old and
divorced in 1964. Obama's father returned to Kenya and saw his son only once more before
dying in an automobile accident in 1982.

After her divorce, Dunham married Indonesian student Lolo Soetoro, they met while
attending a college in Hawaii. When Suharto came to power as the military leader in 1967 in
Indonesia. Then Obama and his family moved to Indonesia. Obama later attended a small
local schools in Jakarta, such as Besuki Public School and St. Francis of Assisi School, until he
was ten years old.

He then returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandfather / grandmother, Madelyn
and Stanley Armour Dunham, while attending Punahou School from fifth grade in 1971 until
graduating from high school in 1979. Mrs. Obama returned to Hawaii in 1972 for five years,
then in 1977 returned to Indonesia, where he worked as a worker in the field of
anthropology. He lived there the rest of his life, then returned to Hawaii in 1994. She died of
ovarian cancer in 1995.

After high school, Obama moved to Los Angeles, where he studied at Occidental College for
two years. He was later transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where he
majored in political science with a specialization in international relations. Obama graduated
with a BA from Columbia in 1983. He spent a year working at Business International
Corporation and then at the New York Public Interest Research Group.
After four years in New York City, Obama moved to Chicago, where he was hired as director
of Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based organizations comprising eight
Catholic parishes beginning in Greater Roseland (Roseland, West Pullman, and Riverdale )
away on Chicago's South Side. He worked there for three years from June 1985 until May
1988. Over the past three years as the DCP's director, its staff grew from one to thirteen and
the annual budget grew from $ 70,000 to $ 400,000 including help setting up a job training
program, a preparatory school tutoring program and tenant rights organization in Altgeld
Gardens. Obama also worked as a consultant and instructor for the Gamaliel Foundation, an
agency of organized society. In mid 1988, he traveled for the first time to Europe for three
months and then for five months in Kenya, where he met many people with his brother for
the first time father.

Obama entered Harvard Law School in late 1988. He was selected as an editor at the Harvard
Law Review at the end of the first year and as president of the journals in the second year.
During the summer, he returned to Chicago where he worked as a lawyer law firm of Sidley
& Austin in 1989 and Hopkins & Sutter in 1990. After graduating with a Juris Doctor (JD)
magna cum laude from Harvard in 1991, he returned to Chicago.
From April until October 1992, Obama directed Illinois Project Vote, voter registration is
driving with ten staff and seven hundred volunteers; it achieved the purpose of registration
150 000 400,000 Africans are not registered in the United States, and led to Crain's Chicago
Business names Obama its 1993 list of "40 under Forty" powers to it.

After twelve years, Obama served as a professor at the University of Chicago Law School
teaching Constitutional Law. He was first classified as a Lecturer 1992-1996, and then as
Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004. [39] He also joined Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a
twelve-attorney law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic
development, in which he is an ally for three years from 1993 to 1996, then of counsel from
1996 to 2004, with his law license becoming inactive in 2002.

Obama is a founding member of the board of directors of Public Allies in 1992, before his
wife, Michelle, became the founding executive director of Public Allies Chicago in early
1993. He served from 1994 to 2002 on the board of directors of Woods Fund of Chicago,
who in 1985 became the first foundation to fund the Community Development Project, and
also from 1994 to 2002 on the board of directors of the Joyce Foundation. Obama worked in
Chicago Annenberg Challenge board of directors in 1995-2002, and became president and
chairman of the board of directors from 1995 to 1999. He also worked on the board of
directors of the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Center for
Environmental Technology, and Lugenia Burns Hope Center.

Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996, State Senator Alice Palmer as Senator
follows from Illinois's 13th District, which then spanned Chicago South Side neighborhoods
from Hyde Park-Kenwood south to South Shore and west to Chicago Lawn. Once elected,
Obama supported the bipartisan support for legislative reform health care law and ethics. He
sponsored a law increasing tax credits for low-income workers, negotiated welfare, and
promoting an increase in subsidies for children. In 2001, as co-chair of the two political
parties supported by the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules,

In July 2004, Obama wrote and delivered the address at the essence of the 2004 Democratic
National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts. After explaining to the mother grandfather of
experience as a veteran of World War II and the benefits of the New Deal of the FHA and GI
Bill programs, Obama spoke about changing the U.S. government's economic and social
priorities. He questioned the Bush administration's management of the Iraq War and
highlighted America from liability for the soldiers. Drawing examples from U.S. history, he
was widely criticized partisan views of the electorate and the U.S. to seek unity in diversity,
and said, "There is no liberal America and a conservative America; there is the United
States." Although Was not televised by the three major network newscasts, the combined 9.1
million viewers watching on PBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and C-SPAN saw Obama's
speech, which is the highlight of the convention and confirmed his status as the brightest of
the Democratic Party new star.

Obama's expected to be the opponent in the general election, Republican primary winner Jack
Ryan, withdrew from the race in June 2004. Two months later, and less than three months
before Election Day, Alan Keyes accepted the Illinois Republican Party nomination to
replace Ryan from. In the November 2004 general election, Obama received 70% of the vote
to Keyes's 27%, one of the greatest victories for the state of race in Illinois history.
Obama took the oath as a senator on January 4, 2005. Obama is

Senatot fifth African-American in U.S. history, and the third to have been popularly elected
(see the seventeenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution). In 2008 congress he was ranked
as the eleventh most powerful Senator.
Legislation

Obama also sponsored legislation that would be required nuclear plant owners to notify state
and local authorities of radioactive leaks, but the bill failed to pass the full Senate after a
heavily modified in committee. [80] Obama is not hostile to Tort reform and vote for the
Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 and the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 which grants
immunity from civil liability to telecommunications companies complicit with NSA
warrantless surgery dr voice telephone connection.

On February 10, 2007, Obama declared himself for the nomination of President of the United
States in front of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois. During the campaign, Obama
stressed the issue of the rapid end of the Iraq War, increasing energy independence and
providing universal health care.

After a few initial contests, the field narrowed to a contest between Obama and Senator
Hillary Clinton, with each winning some states and the race remaining close throughout the
primary process. On May 31, Democratic National Committee agreed to seat the disputed
Michigan and Florida all guests at the national convention, each with half the vote, narrowing
Obama's delegate lead. [111] On June 3, with all states counted, Obama passed the threshold
into allegations that candidate. [112] [113] On that day, he gave a victory speech in St. Paul,
Minnesota. Clinton suspended her campaign and supported him on June 7. [114] From the
meantime, he campaigned for the general election race against Senator John McCain, the
Republican candidate.

On August 23, 2008, Obama selected Delaware Senator Joe Biden as vice presidential
running mate.

At the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, Obama's former rival Hillary
Clinton in his speech to support Obama from the nomination and then calling Obama will be
nominated by acclamation as the Democratic presidential candidate. On August 28, Obama
delivered a speech to 84,000 supporters in Denver. During the speech, which has been seen
by more than 38 million people worldwide, he accepted the nomination of the party and
policy objectives are presented.

After McCain was nominated as Republican presidential candidate, three presidential debates
between Obama and McCain in September and October 2008. In November, Obama won the
presidency with 53% of the popular vote and many electoral college margin. His election
sparked celebrations in various cities in the United States and abroad. Then President-elect
Obama met with President George W. Bush in the Oval Office, 10 November 2008.

On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama beat John McCain in the general election with 365
electoral votes to McCain and became the first president of African American descent. In his
victory speech, delivered before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of supporters at Chicago's
Grant Park, Obama declared that "Change has come to America."

On January 8, 2009, joint session of Congress met to explain the Electoral College are
assessed for the 2008 presidential election. Based on the results of the election vote count,
Barack Obama, who has been declared the winner of presidential elections in the United
States and Joseph Biden was declared elected Vice President of the United States.

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