Born in Honolulu to a Kenyan father and an American mother, Obama grew up in culturally diverse surroundings. He lived most of his early life in Hawaii, and spent four of his pre-teen years in Jakarta, Indonesia. A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, Obama worked as a community organizer, university lecturer, and civil rights lawyer before running for public office. He served
Barack Hussein Obama II born August 4, 1961 is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2008 United States presidential election.

Obama is the first African American to be nominated by a major political party for president.[1] A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the Harvard Law Review, Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate in January 2003. After a primary victory in March 2004, Obama delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He was elected to the Senate in November 2004 with 70% of the vote.

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. After announcing his presidential campaign in February 2007, Obama emphasized withdrawing American troops from Iraq, energy independence, decreasing the influence of lobbyists, and promoting universal health care as top national priorities

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Hello Good morning U S citizen,
You are all should be very happy to have Mr. Barack Obama as your president.
He is the man who's not only democratic with his measures, democratic by his heart.
In todays world having person like him at the power is really blessings. You all have trusted him not just for his word "change".
He is out there to do so. He is doing all possible things that to bring you back your those previous years of life that you have enjoyed. The power, desire, not to mention the money and you know better than any body else what all you had.
Apparently things may are little blink now and dark shadows has covered slightly for little longer time. The situations were created by you only. Hold yourself responsible for this situation. You need not have to blame anybody for this. Be pragmatic and shed your lethargic attitude.
Work with integrity. You are sure to prosper. Keep dropping the pebble of confidence in the work/professional world and see how you shine.
All you folks are very determined to bounce back and create the same situations where you were in.

First hours of tomorrow just have a first look of yourself in your mirror and say you will do all the best things to bring those joyous moment of life and secure your family. Teach this logic to one and all and see how your rise back and shine.

Keep up this good work and inculcate this to one and everyone whom you meet across in all walk of life right from the white house to hinterland to all remote places of the country.
All the very best of luck.


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The name of Barack Obama will be written down into the history of the USA. And it's really interesting to know some facts about his biography.