Lolita Posted November 5, 2008 Share Posted November 5, 2008 (edited) Barack Hussein Obama II born August 4, 1961 is the 44th President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office.Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004, running unsuccessfully for the United States House of Representatives in 2000. In 2004, Obama received national attention during his campaign to represent Illinois in the United States Senate with his victory in the March Democratic Party primary, which intensified with his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July and his election to the Senate in November. He began his presidential campaign in 2007, and in 2008, after a close primary campaign against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won sufficient delegates in the Democratic party primaries to receive the presidential nomination. He then defeated Republican nominee John McCain in the general election, and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. Nine months later, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He was re-elected president in 2012, defeating Republican nominee Mitt Romney by a slightly closer margin than his 2008 victory. He is the first Democrat since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win two presidential elections with a majority of the popular vote. In his first term in office, his major domestic policy initiatives included signing the economic stimulus legislation in the form of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 in response to the 2007–2009 recession in the United States; the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act; the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010; and the Budget Control Act of 2011. In foreign policy, Obama ended U.S. military involvement in the Iraq War, increased troop levels in Afghanistan, signed the New START arms control treaty with Russia, ordered U.S. military involvement in Libya, and ordered the military operation that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden. In May 2012, he became the first sitting U.S. president to publicly support legalizing same-sex marriage. source: wikipedia.org Edited November 22, 2012 by PinkCouture One line for his bio...WTF!? C'mon, he is the POTUS. Added a more elaborate bio and pict. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vyshnavi Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 yaya! i'm so glad he won!!!! and also i think america just got the cutest president ever! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisa Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 agreed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wild Rose Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 I'm so glad that he won and not that potato-guy McCain!Barack seems like a more honest and decent person! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@lice Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 omg i love OBAMA so much i'm so glad that he won!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpsm69 Posted December 27, 2010 Share Posted December 27, 2010 HAHA i can't believe he has a thread here! I really like him!he is the best president ever!USA is a better nation now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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La Parisienne Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 I hope Obama wins. He's an attractive, intelligent, well-spoken and decent left-winger... Perfection! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PinkCouture Posted November 7, 2012 Share Posted November 7, 2012 HE WON!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILUVAdrianaLima Posted November 7, 2012 Share Posted November 7, 2012 The 2nd term is in!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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wendylorene Posted November 16, 2012 Share Posted November 16, 2012 Late but, Congrats Obama! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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russellb Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 USA is a better nation now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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