Barack Obama

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United States Senator Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.
United States Senator Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.
Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.
Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.
Texas volunteers of the Barack Obama Campaign with Che Guevara Flag.
Texas volunteers of the Barack Obama Campaign with Che Guevara Flag.
Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. in muslim dress
Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. in muslim dress
AIPAC certified
AIPAC certified

Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. (born August 4, 1961, birth certificate shows his name as Barack Hussein Obama II) [1] known as Barry Obama and Barry Soetoro in his youth, is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party to be President of the United States.

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[edit] Early life and family

Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to a black African father from Kenya, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., and a white American mother, Stanley Ann Dunham. According to divorce records they were married on February 2, 1961 in Maui. No guests attended the ceremony. [2] Barack Obama himself has questions about the marriage. In his memoir, Dreams From My Father he states, “How and when the marriage occurred remains a bit murky, a bill of particulars that I have never quite had the courage to explore.” [3]

Three years later Ann Dunham filed for divorce in January 1964, citing "grievous mental suffering." [4] The previous year Barack Obama Sr. had left the family for Harvard and would see his son only once in 1971. From Harvard, Obama Sr. returned to Kenya and went on to engage in numerous relationships, fathering several children. In 1982 he die in a drunk driving accident.

Stanley Ann Dunham would go on to marry an Indonesian Muslim, Lolo Soetoro, and moved to Jakarta, Indonesia, where the family lived for four years. She later gave birth to a daughter, Maya Soetoro.

While in Indonesia Obama attended two different grade schools. The first one was the Franciscan Asisi Primary School where he claimed he became fluent in the Indonesian language in just six months. His first grade teacher however disputes this and said he struggled with the language and his studies. Although the school was Catholic, Barry Soetoro as he was known then, was registered as an Indonesian citizen born in Honolulu, Hawaii who’s religion was listed as Islam. [5]

Barry attended this school for three years until the family moved and he was enrolled in Besuki Primary School which was predominately Muslim. It has mistakenly been described as a Madrassa, however the school did teach the usual subjects including the Quran. [6]

Ann, Obama and his sister Maya moved back to Hawaii and enrolled him in Punahou School an elite private high school. [7] His mother returned to Indonesia leaving Obama to be raised by his white grandparents. In high school Obama played basketball and admits in his memoir that he drank alcohol and used marijuana and cocaine. He made poor grades in his final high school years due to his drug use. [8] Punahou School was racially diverse with Whites as a minority. The last school day at Punahou was known as "Kill Haole Day" ("Kill Whitey Day"). [9]

[edit] College and University

After graduation from Punahou, Obama attended Occidental College (September 1979 - June 1981) [10] a small liberal arts college in Los Angeles, California where he continued his cocaine use and played basketball. [11][12] At Occidental, Obama became involved in the anti-apartheid movement and divestment in white South Africa. [13] He transferred to Columbia University in his junior year, August 1981. [14]

In 1981 between Occidental and Columbia, Obama and a college friend traveled to Asia. They first visited Obama’s mother and sister in Indonesia. From there Obama and his companion traveled to Karachi, Pakistan and stayed with a friend’s family for three weeks. They also visited Hyderabad in Southern India. [15]

At Columbia he studied political science and international relations writing his thesis on Soviet nuclear disarmament. The Obama campaign has declined media requests to release his transcript at Columbia or name anyone he knew who could give an interview concerning his college days. [16] Barack Obama graduated from Columbia University in June 1983.

[edit] Employment

Directly after graduating Columbia, Obama joined the corporate world and worked for one year at Business International Corporation as an editor in their business information division. Business International (BI) was a newsletter publishing company assisting businesses operating aborad. [17] Obama discussed his time at Business International in his memoir in which he exaggerates his position at the firm. Co-workers found him to be condescending.[18]

In January, 1984 he joined the New York Public Interest Research Group a government reform organization started by Ralph Nader who is an independent candidate in the 2008 presidential election. Obama became an organizer for City College in Harlem working with student volunteers. [19] He was a campus organizer focused on waste management working to promote recycling instead of incineration of solid materials. He worked for three months in Harlem and moved on to Chicago as an organizer for the Industrial Areas Foundation. [20]

[edit] Harvard

At Harvard Law School he was the first Black president at the Harvard Law Review, although he never contributed an article to the publication he supposedly edited. [21]

[edit] Political activism

From New York, Obama went to Chicago and became a community organizer. Politically he moved in black militant and leftist circles. He joined Trinity United Church of Christ, a radical black power church.

He became a state legislator for Illinois from 1997 to 2004, an office held by former radical Alice Palmer. He won the office with no opposition having his supporters to disqualify others who were on the ballot. [22]

Many of Obama’s successes as a state legislator were pushed by Senate President Emil Jones, Jr. a powerful African-American member of the Illinois Senate who added Obama’s name to proposed legislation. Jones became the “king maker” and prepared Obama for a run at the United States Senate. A record 26 bills were passed giving Obama credit for progressive legislation he would later use to propel himself to higher office. [23] Many of the bills were passed in the final year of Obama’s term as Illinois state legislator.

Later Barack Obama ran for US Congress against former Black Panther Rep. Bobby Rush. Rush would claim Obama was an elitist and not black enough to represent the district. Rush won with a 30 percentage point vote margin. [24]

Barack Obama ran for the U.S. Senate and won the election after several Republican candidates droped out of the election due to scandals. Obama’s final Republican opponent was Alan Keyes, a Black religious conservative who once suggested Jesus Christ himself would vote against Obama. [25]

Obama delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention while still an Illinois state legislator. He went on to win election to the U.S. Senate in November 2004 with a landslide 70% of the vote in an election year marked by Republican gains.

As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, Obama co-sponsored the enactment of conventional weapons control and transparency legislation, and made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

He is among the Democratic Party's leading candidates for nomination in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Since announcing his candidacy in February 2007, Obama has emphasized ending the Iraq War and implementing universal health care as campaign themes. He married Michelle Obama in 1992. They were married by their Black racist pastor Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. They have two daughters.

In 1987 Barack Obama visited his African family in Kenya.

[edit] See also

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Negroids
African-Americans
Afro-american Culture, Afro-american sports, Nigger, Wiggers, Hip Hop, Rap, Gangstas, Black crime
Organizations led by Negroids
Nation of Islam (NOI)
Negroid examples
Martin Luther King, Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela

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