PBL-election 2008: Obama Biography

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Obama Biography

People have different beliefs, emotional responses and make different decisions, because of their different backgrounds and how it affected them. Barack Hussein Obama was born on August 4Th 1961 in Hawaii, and to a racially mixed couple named Barack Obama Sr. and Anne Dunham. He went to school in Jarakta, Indonesia. Following high school he atteneded a college in Los Angeles, California. There he obtained his B.A. in 1983. Then he attended Colombia University in New York. He moved to Chicago in 1985. Obama tried to improve living conditions in poor neighborhoods and neighborhoods with a high crime rate. He did this by working with a church based group. He also attended Harvard following this program, and became the first African-American to become president of Harvard Law Review and got his J.D. in 1991. He married his current wife in 1992 and had 2 daughters. He currently lives in south Chicago.
In 1997 Barack became a senator for Illinois and was re-elected in 2005. He served on a committee which served health care, school, employment, and retirement programs. One of his goals is to change energy to things such as solar and wind energy. He is for conserving oil and improving technology. He also wants to with draw troops in Iraq and reform the tax code.

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Lea Cenname said...: I enjoyed reading about the indepth history of Barrack Obama, you realy went into his backround story. What i found intresting was that Barrack Obama had attended more colleges than i thought.; September 26, 2008 at 8:35 AM

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