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Barack Obama

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August 04, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, The United States

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Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States of America. He is the first African-American President to be elected President of the United States, and was the first to be nominated for President by a major U.S. political party. He was the junior U.S. Senator from Illinois from 2005 until he resigned on November 16, 2008, following his election to the Presidency.

Barack Obama is the son of Barack Obama, Sr. and Ann Dunham. He graduated from Columbia University in 1983, and moved to Chicago in 1985 to work for a church-based group seeking to improve living conditions in poor neighborhoods plagued with crime and high unemployment. In 1991, Obama graduated from Harvard Law School where he was the first African American pre...moreBarack Obama is the 44th President of the United States of America. He is the first African-American President to be elected President of the United States, and was the first to be nominated for President by a major U.S. political party. He was the junior U.S. Senator from Illinois from 2005 until he resigned on November 16, 2008, following his election to the Presidency.

Barack Obama is the son of Barack Obama, Sr. and Ann Dunham. He graduated from Columbia University in 1983, and moved to Chicago in 1985 to work for a church-based group seeking to improve living conditions in poor neighborhoods plagued with crime and high unemployment. In 1991, Obama graduated from Harvard Law School where he was the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review. In addition to his work as a community organizer, Obama practiced as a civil rights attorney 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.

During his eight years in the Illinois state Senate, Obama worked with both Democrats and Republicans to help working families get ahead by creating programs like the state Earned Income Tax Credit, which in three years provided over $100 million in tax cuts to families across the state. Obama also pushed through an expansion of early childhood education, and after a number of inmates on death row were found innocent, Senator Obama enlisted the support of law enforcement officials to draft legislation requiring the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases.

As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, he 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, the Middle East, and Africa. During the 110th Congress, he helped create legislation regarding lobbying and electoral fraud, climate change, nuclear terrorism, and care for returned U.S. military personnel.

Obama is especially proud of being a husband and father of two daughters, Malia and Sasha. Obama and his wife, Michelle, married in 1992 and have a home in Chicago’s South Side.(less)

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Books by Barack Obama

Average rating: 3.77 · 54,991 ratings · 7,823 reviews · 59 distinct works

	Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance 3.83 avg rating — 27,908 ratings — published 1995 — 49 editions	My rating:
	The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream 3.69 avg rating — 25,569 ratings — published 2006 — 39 editions	My rating:
	Of Thee I Sing: A Letter To My Daughters by Barack Obama, Loren Long (Illustrator) 4.11 avg rating — 664 ratings — published 2010 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise by Barack Obama, Obama for America 3.49 avg rating — 344 ratings — published 2008 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Inaugural Address, 2009: Together with Abraham Lincoln's First and Second Inaugural Addresses and The Gettysburg Address and Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance 4.04 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Collectors Edition 2008: Elected President Barack Obama: The Victory Speech 4.39 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Inspire A Nation: Barack Obama's Most Electrifying Speeches Of The 2008 Election 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Essential Barack Obama: The Grammy Award-Winning Recordings 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Our Enduring Spirit: President Barack Obama's First Words to America by Barack Obama, Greg Ruth (Illustrator) 4.33 avg rating — 18 ratings — 26 editions	My rating:
	Barack Obama: What He Believes in - From His Own Works by Barack Obama, (U. S.) Senate 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2008	My rating:

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“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
― Barack Obama

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“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
― Barack Obama

tags: hope , service , work

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“Yes We Can!”
― Barack Obama

tags: action , hope , positivity

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Who do you want to win the 2008 United States presidential election?

Barack Obama, Democratic Party candidate

3247 votes, 70.2%

John McCain, Republican Party candidate

1063 votes, 23.0%

Someone else (tell us who in comments below)

128 votes, 2.8%

Bob Barr, Libertarian Party candidate

69 votes, 1.5%

Ralph Nader, Independent candidate

65 votes, 1.4%

Cynthia McKinney, Green Party candidate

53 votes, 1.1%

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