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Barack Obama, was born on August 4,1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii to Ann Dunham, from Wichita, Kansas and Barack Obama, Sr. a US immigrant from Nyang’oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya. Obama graduated with a B.A. from Columbia University in 1983. He entered Harvard Law School in late 1988 and was the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. After graduating with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) magna cum laude from Harvard in 1991, he returned to Chicago where he worked as a community organizer and practiced law as a civil rights attorney in Chicago. He served three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. During this time he also taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, Obama was elected to the Senate in November of 2004. Obama delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004.
Mr. Obama met his wife, Michelle Robinson, in June 1989, while employed as a summer associate at the Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin. They became engaged in 1991, and were married on October 3, 1992. Their first daughter, Malia Ann, was born in 1998, and their second daughter Natasha ("Sasha"), was born in 2001.
On November 4th 2008 Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States. The 47 year old senator from Illinois, shattered more than 200 years of American history by winning election as the first African-American president of the United States. “If there is anyone out there who doubts that America is a place where anything is possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer,” Obama declared. “Young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled, Americans have sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of red states and blue states,” he said. “We have been and always will be the United States of America. “It’s been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America.”
Notable Eco Activity
In 2006, Obama developed an innovative approach to gradually increase CAFE standards while protecting the financial future of American automakers. The resulting Obama-Lugar-Biden Fuel Economy Reform Act gained the support of senators who had never supported CAFE increases before.
In 2007 he cosponsored the Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act. The bill proposed a reduction of national greenhouse gas emissions of 80% by the year 2050.
President Obama is a supporter of coal-to-liquid technology, as a method to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fight global warming.
A supporter of ethanol production, Mr. Obama would like to cut the use of traditional fossil fuels In the United States.
His plans would see a quarter of all US electricity generated from renewable sources by 2020. He is a supporter of Smart grid technology.
He has called for all US government buildings to be carbon neutral by 2030, and would like to see a drop in oil consumption in the US by 35% at minimum by the year 2030
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“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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Man Made Global warming is a scam, and anyone who cannot see that is a moron. Al Gore used pseudo-science and faulty math to sell a movie. There is so much evidence to the fact that man has nothing to do with global warming, that I actually feel sorry for the people who cannot see it. They are sheep who believe whatever they are told and have no critical thinking skills of their own.
How do we explain all the warming periods and ice ages before man? How do we explain the melting polar ice caps on Mars? No soccer moms in their SUVs driving around on Mars, right?
Speaking of Barack Obama:
Barack Obama is a racial-minority individual, and in his heart and mind he inevitably does not endorse hate crimes committed by George W. Bush.
George W. Bush committed hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism (indicated in my blog).
George W. Bush did in fact commit innumerable hate crimes.
And I do solemnly swear by Almighty God that George W. Bush committed other hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism which I am not at liberty to mention.
Many people know what Bush did.
And many people will know what Bush did-even to the end of the world.
Bush was absolute evil.
Bush is now like a fugitive from justice.
Bush is a psychological prisoner.
Bush has a lot to worry about.
Bush can technically be prosecuted for hate crimes at any time.
In any case, Bush will go down in history in infamy.
Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993
"GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY" BLOG OF ANDREW YU-JEN WANG
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I am not sure where I had read it before, but anyway, it is a linguistically excellent statement, and it goes kind of like this: "If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memories so they never got stale and faded." Oh wait-off the top of my head-I think the quotation came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.
Not trying to be a poop but What hospital was Obama born in? Who delivered him? Where is the house he was brought back to? Being that his family was poor who funded his education? Why only when elected president does he denounce his mentor and long time friend and spiritual leader? Where is his birth certificate? Why did Obama seek education in a Muslim country? You mention only the skin of Obama's career. There lies the issue. Beauty is only skin deep! Lets look deep inside and answer these questions. Here is the most important question. Obama today runs car companies, banks and insurance companies. What in his lifetime gave him the experience to do such things. Did he ever run a lemonade stand? ACORN is full of corruption. As a lawyer representing ACORN what was Obamas role? Anyone in this country can be president no matter the color or gender. I see Obama now as a black president thanks to the media and his campaign. I would never vote for a black president. I would definately vote for a president who happens to be black! I vote for the honor and integrity of a person not for skin color or gender. Your definition above only is surface knowledge. It is only what you see on the skin. It is time people look a little deeper!!!! We are told to look past the skin. I have and the person inside is full of doubt and corruption and inexperiance. I think people who voted for Obama never looked past his skin. This to me is an insult to any hard working African American who wants to get to the top through honesty.
One more thing when someone downs Obama why does someone mention Bush. This definition is not about Bush. The current president is Obama. I can not stand Hilary Clinton but by gosh Golly she has tons more experiance than Obama and would of been a better choice. At least if she was Pres I would only be able to debate her politics and not her history of radical left wing socialistic communistic mayhem such has Obama. So stop looking at the past and look into the future!!!!! Yes Andrew I am talking to you.... We live in a Republic!!! Look it up! Obama is taking us away from it fast. This country is not a democracy, nor a socialist country. It is a Republic for which it stands! You tell me how Obama is keeping this country a Republic!!!