Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Content
Preface
Introduction
Biography
Spiritual belief
Some pictures of spiritual activities
Reference

Preface

President Obama has many great spiritual quotes. The
majority of them teaches you not to give up in life. He is a
christian and he also believes in god. He believes that God is
always looking after humans.

Introduction

Barack Hussein Obama II was the 44th president of the
United states from 2009 to 2017. He was the first African-American
president of the United States. People thought that Barack Obama
was a Muslime but it was confirmed that he is a practicing Christian
and he was chiefly raised by his mother and her Christian parents.

Biography

Barack Obama was the 44th president of the United
States, and the first African American to serve in the office. First
elected to the presidency in 2008, he won a second term in 2012.
Who Is Barack Obama?

Barack Obama was the 44th president of the United
States and the first African American commander-in-chief. He
served two terms, in 2008 and 2012. The son of parents from
Kenya and Kansas, Obama was born and raised in Hawaii. He
graduated from Columbia University and Harvard Law School,
where he was president of the Harvard Law Review. After serving
on the Illinois State Senate, he was elected a U.S. senator
representing Illinois in 2004. He and wife Michelle Obama have
two daughters, Malia and Sasha.

Early Life and Parents

Barack Hussein Obama II was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on
August 4, 1961. Obama's father, Barack Obama Sr., was born of
Luo ethnicity in Nyanza Province, Kenya. Obama Sr. grew up
herding goats in Africa and eventually earned a scholarship that
allowed him to leave Kenya and pursue his dreams of going to
college in Hawaii.

Education

Obama entered Occidental College in Los Angeles in 1979. After
two years, he transferred to Columbia University in New York
City, graduating in 1983 with a degree in political science. He
graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law in 1991.

After graduating from Columbia University as an undergrad,
Obama worked in the business sector for two years. He moved to
Chicago in 1985, where he worked on the impoverished South
Side as a community organizer for low-income residents in the
Roseland and the Altgeld Gardens communities.

It was during this time that Obama, who said he "was not raised in
a religious household," joined the Trinity United Church of
Christ. He also visited relatives in Kenya, and paid an emotional
visit to the graves of his biological father, who died in a car
accident in November 1982, and paternal grandfather.

"For a long time I sat between the two graves and wept," Obama
wrote. "I saw that my life in America — the Black life, the white
life, the sense of abandonment I'd felt as a boy, the frustration and
hope I'd witnessed in Chicago — all of it was connected with this
small plot of earth an ocean away."

Returning from Kenya with a sense of renewal, Obama entered
Harvard Law School in 1988. The next year, he met with
constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe. Their discussion so
impressed Tribe, that when Obama asked to join his team as a
research assistant, the professor agreed.

“The better he did at Harvard Law School and the more he
impressed people, the more obvious it became that he could have
had anything,“ said Professor Tribe in a 2012 interview with
Frontline, “but it was clear that he wanted to make a difference to
people, to communities.”

Career in Law

After law school, Obama returned to Chicago to practice as a civil
rights lawyer with the firm of Miner, Barnhill & Galland. He also
taught constitutional law part-time at the University of Chicago
Law School between 1992 and 2004 — first as a lecturer and then
as a professor — and helped organize voter registration drives
during Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign.

2008 Presidential Election

In February 2007, Obama made headlines when he announced his
candidacy for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. He
was locked in a tight battle with former first lady and then-U.S.
senator from New York Hillary Rodham Clinton. On June 3,
2008, Obama became the Democratic Party's presumptive
nominee after winning a sufficient 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, Obama defeated Republican presidential
nominee John McCain, 52.9 percent to 45.7 percent, to win
election as the 44th president of the United States—and the first
African American to hold this office. His running mate, Delaware
Senator Joe Biden, became vice president.

Second Term

Obama officially began his second term on January 21, 2013,
when U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts administered the oath of
office. In his inaugural address, Obama called the nation to action
on such issues as climate change, health care and marriage equality
to a crowd gathered in front of the U.S. Capitol building.

2014 Midterm Elections
In November 2014, Obama had to cope with new challenges on
the home front. Republicans made an impressive showing on
Election Day and gained a majority in the Senate, meaning that
Obama would have to contend with Republicans controlling
both houses of Congress for the final two years of his term.

References
https://www.biography.com/us-president/barack-obama
.https://blog.oup.com/2016/01/religion-barack-obama-google/

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