Barack Obama, Great US President

Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on 4 August 1961 to a Kenyan father and American mother. Obama's parents, Barack Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham met while studying at the University of Hawaii.
Obama spent his early years in Honolulu before moving to Indonesia, at the age of six. Obama's parents separated when he was two years old. His mother married Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian. The family moved to Jakarta in 1967.
After spending four years in Indonesia, Obama returned to Honolulu to study at Punahou School. He studied at Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years before moving to Columbia University in New York. Obama graduated from Columbia University in 1983 with a specialization in political science and a specialization in International Relations.
Barack Obama's Graduation
After graduation, Obama worked at Business International Corporation and the New York Public Interest Research Group. In 1985, he moved to Chicago to work as a community organizer. Later, in 1988, Obama joined the Harvard Law School. He became the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. He graduated from law school in 1991.
Barack Obama met Michelle Robinson, in 1989, whom he married in 1992. Michelle and Barack has two daughters.
Obama had several roles professionally between 1993 and 2004. He worked as a lawyer for the firm, David Miner, Barnhill & Galland. He also worked as part-time professor at the University of Chicago Law School from 1993 to 2004, he taught constitutional law at the Faculty of Law. Obama also served as board member in Chicago Bretton Fund, a philanthropic organization.
Senator Barack Obama
In 1996, Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate. He was elected again in 1998 and 2002. In 2000, he lost a primary for the House of Representatives of the United States.
In 2003, Obama was appointed chairman of the Illinois Senate Health and Human Services. Obama became U.S. senator in late 2004 to become the fifth African American Senator in history. He received 70 votes%.
In 1991 while in charge of a voter registration drive in Chicago, Obama began writing a memoir that was later published in 1995, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. Obama wrote another book that was later published in 2006. The book, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream became a part of the list of the New York Times bestseller.
Once elected to the Illinois state Senate, Obama took a deep interest in the reforms and policies, decisions and change some accordingly. Beginning of the requirement to videotape interrogations mandatory in murder cases. He enthusiastically participated in creating the "Earned Income Tax Credit program for the state to assist people in low-income groups. He went on to initiate reforms in the areas of health and childcare. A law Interestingly, it arose because it was the law to monitor racial profiling. He became compulsory regardless of race drivers who are arrested by state police.
After his election in the U.S. Senate, Obama showed great interest in immigration reform and improved border security. He became a co-sponsor of the America safe and orderly immigration law, the act was introduced by John McCain, his Republican opponent who ran for the post of President of the United States. A year later, Obama also favored other security bill that later became the Secure Fence Act.
Obama, in association with Tom Coburn, brought the Coburn-Obama Transparency Act into existence, the act of execution of government spending transparent through a website called the USAspending.gov. Moreover, in association with Republican Richard Lugar, a place was Obama's program to make additions to existing Nunn-Lugar concept of cooperative threat reduction.
In 2007, Obama, in association with Senator Russ Feingold, brought to the existence of honest leadership and open government law. Later he introduced the Iraq War De-Escalation Act of 2007.
Last year, in February, said he will run for the post of President of the United States. He has shown his rejection of negative campaigning.
Obama has been advocating for an end to the war in Iraq, a universal health care and energy independence as its most important programs in its manifesto.
Obama has surprised his critics by raising huge amounts of money through their campaigns. In January this year, his campaign raised U.S. $ 36.8 million, the highest amount ever raised in the Democratic primaries. In the first six months of his campaign last year, 58 million USD have been raised, breaking previous records.
After a series of hate mail sent to Obama, the U.S. Secret Service introduced special protection for Obama. "Fired up! Ready to go!" Is a cry making the rounds in the campaigns of Obama.
Barack Obama and his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, are now virtually tied in the total estimated superdelegate votes.
Obama has been dubbed the most liberal senator in his political life. In his personal life, played basketball and claims to be a good poker player.