The 44th Us President

Barack Obama
The 44th US President

Altomare, Lis, Trenovic - 19 ottobre 2016
Biography
INTRODUCTION
Barack Obama is the 44th and the current president of the United States
of America, and the rst African American to serve as U.S. president. He was
elected to the presidency in 2008, and he won again in 2012.
EARLY LIFE
Barack Hussein Obama was born on August 4,

1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His mother Ann Dunham,
was born on Army base in Wichita, Kansas during the
World War II. Obama s father, Barack Obama Sr., was
born in Kenya, He grew up in Africa and then he went
to Hawaii to study at the college. He met Ann
Dunham (She was a student there too), and they
married on February 2, 1961.
As a child, Obama did not have a relationship with his father, in fact his
parents divorced in March 1964 and soon after Obama Sr. returned to Kenya.
At the age of 10 Obama was sent back to Hawaii to live with his maternal
grandparents.
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EDUCATION
While living with his grandparents, Obama enrolled in the esteemed

Punahou Academy, He excelled in basketball and graduated with academic
honors in 1979. After high school, Obama studied at Occidental College in Los
Angeles for two years. He then transferred to Columbia University in New York
City, graduating in 1983 with a degree in political science. After working in the
business sector for two years, Obama moved to Chicago in 1985, working to
help rebuild communities devastated by the closure of local steel plants. In the
mid-time his father died in 1982 because of an accident.
CAREER
During his law career he met Michelle Robinson in 1988, a young lawyer
who was assigned to be his adviser. In 1992 they married. In the mid-time
Barack became a professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago
Law School, he helped Bill Clinton s 1992 presidential campaign too. After that
Barack and Michelle moved to Kenwood, on Chicago s South Side. In 1996 He
ran as a Democrat and won election in the Illinois State Senate. During his years
as a state senator, Obama worked with both Democrats and Republicans to
draft legislation on ethics, as well as expand health care services and early
childhood education programs for the poor. He also created a state earned-
income tax credit for the working poor. In 2000, Obama made an unsuccessful
Democratic primary run for the U.S. Following the 9/11 attacks in 2001, Obama
was an early opponent of President George W. Bush's push to go to war with
Iraq. Obama was still a state senator when he spoke against a resolution
authorizing the use of force against Iraq during a rally at Chicago's Federal
Plaza in October 2002. In February 2007 he announced his candidacy for the
Democratic presidential nomination in 2008. On June 3, 2008, Obama became
the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee after winning a sucient number
of pledged delegates during the primaries, and Clinton delivered her full support
to Obama for the duration of his campaign. On November 4, 2008, Barack
Obama defeated Republican presidential nominee John McCain, 52.9 percent to
45.7 percent, to win election as the 44th president of the United Statesand

the rst African-American to hold this oce. On October 9, 2009 the Norvegian
Nobel Commitee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be
awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary eorts to strengthen
international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. In the 2012 election,
Obama faced Republican opponent Mitt Romney and Romney's vice-presidential
running mate, U.S. Representative Paul Ryan. On November 6, 2012, Obama
won a second four-year term as president by receiving nearly ve million more
votes than Romney and capturing more than 60 percent of the Electoral
College.
Main values
From the Obama's speeches we can see which are his most important
values.
In his Inaugural Address he focused on the responsibility of the citizens to
make America a best country and he said that they should do this "together, as
one nation, one people", to give the sense that he and the Americans are united
and they have the same goals.
In fact he repeated several times the phrase "we, the people", to underline
that he include himself in this challenge.
Another value that he highlight is equality, to guarantee the equal rights

and opportunities for all the people, no matter which is the color of the skin, the
nationality or the religion, so there are no dierences. We can also notice that
he reinforced his speech by including some words that are important for a
strong nation, like security, democracy, freedom, justice and dignity.
An essential thing that he told people to do is to never forget their roots,

because the present is the result of their past (the history, the culture..), and
that our generation's task is to make the words that he said "the pursuit of
happiness real for every American.

MAIN OBAMA'S VALUES:
EQUALITY
SECURITY
DEMOCRACY
FREEDOM
JUSTICE
DIGNITY
Priorities of his Government
Obama is a democrat so his political concerns liberal positions for a society

with more freedom but also he wants the market not to be completely free, and
it to be ruled by the state.
He wants to help minorities and to guarantee things such as free
healthcare not only for rich people.
So Obama's politics has several points of actions, we can nd them down
below.
Plan to make Civil Rights stronger
Combat employment discrimination

Expand hate crimes statutes
End deceptive vote practise
End racial proling
Reduce crime recidivism by providing ex-oender support
Eliminate sentencing disparities
Expand use of drug courts
He also supported the LGBT community
Expand hate crime statuses

Fight workplace discrimination

Support full civil unions and federal rights for LGBT couples
Oppose a costitutional ban on same-sex marrige
Discrimination in the Army
Expand adoptions rights
Promote AIDS prevention
Empower women to prevent HIV/AIDS
About immigration...
For too long politicians have exploited immigrations issues in their favor.
For Obama that was the moment to secure american borders and enforce laws,
to rearm their heritage as a nation of immigrants.
Main points down below.
Create secure borders

Imporve immigration system
Remove incentives to enter illegally
Bring people out of the shadows
Work with Mexico
Mitary defense
Barack Obama invested in a 21st century military to maintain USA

conventional advantage while increasing their capacity to defeat the threats of
tomorrow. They will ensure US troops have the training, equipment and support
that they need when they are deployed.
To those with disabilities
Obama wants equal opportunities for everybody so he proposed to

provide american citizens with disabilities services in order to be able to get the
same level of education as others and to achieve success by funding the
"Individuals with Disabilities Education Act".

He also wanted to increase the employment rate for those with disabilities
to have fairness in the market of workers.
Plan to ght poverty and give everybody fair opportunities
Everytime during his life, Obama had a special consideration for the poor
ones.
As a president, he used his life experiences to ght poverty and improve
opportunities for poor families all across America. Barack Obama experimented
a new federal approach to America's high-poverty areas, an approach that
facilitates the economic integration of families and communities with eorts to
support the current low-income residents of those areas.
Economy
Obama's plan to revitalize the economy:
Immediate action to create good jobs in America

Immediate relief for struggling families
Direct, immediate assistance for homeowners
A rapid, aggressive response to the nancial crisis
Education
Their vision for a 21st century education begins with demanding more
reforms and accountability, coupled with the resources needed to carry out that
reforms; asking parents to take responsibility for their children s success; and
recruiting, and rewarding an army of new teachers to ll new successful schools
that prepare their children for success in college and the workforce.

Last, but not least... Healtcare
The Obama plan provides aordable, accessible health care for all
Americans, builds on the existing health care system, and uses existing
providers, doctors, and plans. Under the Obama plan, patients will be able to
make health care decisions with their doctors, instead of being blocked by
insurance company bureaucrats.
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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama was born on August 4,

BARACK OBAMA - ALTOMARE, LIS, TREBOVIC 1

While living with his grandparents, Obama enrolled in the esteemed

BARACK OBAMA - ALTOMARE, LIS, TREBOVIC 2

Another value that he highlight is equality, to guarantee the equal rights

An essential thing that he told people to do is to never forget their roots,

BARACK OBAMA - ALTOMARE, LIS, TREBOVIC 3

Priorities of his Government

Obama is a democrat so his political concerns liberal positions for a society

Plan to make Civil Rights stronger

Combat employment discrimination

He also supported the LGBT community

Expand hate crime statuses

BARACK OBAMA - ALTOMARE, LIS, TREBOVIC 4

Create secure borders

Barack Obama invested in a 21st century military to maintain USA

To those with disabilities

Obama wants equal opportunities for everybody so he proposed to

BARACK OBAMA - ALTOMARE, LIS, TREBOVIC 5

Plan to ght poverty and give everybody fair opportunities

Obama's plan to revitalize the economy:

Immediate action to create good jobs in America

BARACK OBAMA - ALTOMARE, LIS, TREBOVIC 6

BARACK OBAMA - ALTOMARE, LIS, TREBOVIC 7

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