Essay on Barack Hussain Obama : Barack Hussain Obama the candidate of Democratic Party has been elected as a 44th President of America on November 4, 2008. He defeated John McCain in the general election and became the first African American to be elected President of the United States. He is also the first black President of U.S.A. Obama was born on August 4, 1961 at the Kap 'Olani Medical Centre for women and children in Honolulu. His parents met in 1960 while attending the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was a foreign student. The couple married on February 2, 1961, they separated when Obama was two year old and subsequently divorced in 1964. Obama's father returned to Kenya and saw his son only once more before dying in an automobile accident in 1982. His name was kept on the base of his father's name. The meaning of Barack is fortunate in the regional language of Kenya.
Essay on Barack Hussain Obama 1200 words
Introduction : Barack Hussain Obama the
candidate of Democratic Party has been elected as a 44th President of America
on November 4, 2008. He defeated John McCain in the general election and became
the first African American to be elected President of the United States. He is
also the first black President of U.S.A.
Victory
speech : In his victory speech, delivered before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of his
supporters in Grant Park in Chicago, Obama proclaimed that "change has
come to America." Born in Hawaii, Obama will be the first U.S. President
born outside the contiguous United States. He also will be fifth youngest
President at a date of accession, and the first since Lincoln whose primary
political base is Illinois.
Birth
and parentage : Obama
was born on August 4, 1961 at the Kap 'Olani Medical Centre for women and
children in Honolulu. His parents met in 1960 while attending the University of
Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was a foreign student. The couple married on
February 2, 1961, they separated when Obama was two year old and subsequently
divorced in 1964. Obama's father returned to Kenya and saw his son only once
more before dying in an automobile accident in 1982. His name was kept on the
base of his father's name. The meaning of Barack is fortunate in the regional
language of Kenya.
Education : Following high school,
Obama moved to Los Angeles, where he studied at Occidental College for two
years. Then he transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where he
majored in political science with a specialization in international relations.
Obama graduated with a B.A. from Columbia in 1983. After completing his
graduation he worked for a year at the Business International Corporation and
then at the New York Public Interest Research Group.
Obama
entered Harvard Law School in late 1988. At the end of his first year, he was
selected, based on his grades and a writing competition, as an editor of the
Harvard Law Review. In February 1990, in his second year, he was elected
president of the Law Review, a full-time volunteer position functioning as
editor-in-chief and supervising the Law Review's staff of eighty editors. After
graduating with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) magna cum laude from Harvard in 1991, he
returned to Chicago. The publicity from his election as the first black
president of the Harvard Law Review led to a publishing contract and advance
for a book about race relations. In an effort to recruit him to their faculty,
the University of Chicago Law School provided Obama with a fellowship and an
office to work on his book.
In
order to work without interruptions, Obama and his wife, Michelle, traveled to
Bali where he wrote for several months. The manuscript was finally published in
mid-1995 as Dreams from My Father. It was the first book of Obama written by
him.
He
is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was
president of the Harvard Law Review. Obama worked as a community organizer and
practiced as a civil rights attorney before serving three terms in the Illinois
Senate from 1997 to 2004. He taught constitutional law at the University of
Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat
in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he announced his campaign for the
U.S. Senate in January 2003, won a primary victory in March 2004, and was
elected to the Senate in November 2004. Obama delivered the keynote address at
the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. In the November 2004 general
election, Obama received 70% of the votes to Keyes's 27%, the largest victory
margin for a statewide race in Illinois history.
As
a senator : Obama was sworn as a senator on January 4, 2005. Obama was the fifth
African-American Senator in U.S. history, and the third to have been popularly
elected. He is the only Senate member of the Congressional Black Caucus. CQ
Weekly, a nonpartisan publication, characterized him as a "loyal
Democrat" based on analysis of all Senate votes in 2005-2007, and the
National Journal ranked him as the "most liberal" senator based on an
assessment of selected votes during 2007. In 2005 he was ranked sixteenth, and
in 2006 he was ranked tenth. Obama resigned his senate seat on November 16,
2008, before the start of the lame-duck session, to focus on his transition
period. His immediate successor will be named by Illinois Governor Rod
Blagojevich.
On
June 3, 2008 Senater Obama, alongwith Senater Thomas, R. Carper, Tom Coburn and
John Mccain introduced follow up legislation strengthening transparency and
accountability in Federal Spending Act of 2008. In December 2006 President Bush
signed into Law the Democratic Republic of the Cargo Relief, Security and
Democracy Promotion Act marking the first Federal legislation to be enacted
with Obama as its primary sponsor.
Candidacy
for President : On
February 10, 2007 Obama announced his candidacy for President election of
U.S.A. in front of the Old State Capital Building in Spring field Illinois. A
large number of candidates initially entered the Democratic Party Presidential
Primaries. After a few initial contests the field narrowed to a contest between
Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton, with each winning some states and with the
race remaining nearly tied through the primary process.
On
May 31, the Democratic National Committee agreed to seat all of the disputed
Michigan and Florida delegates at the national convention, each with a
half-vote, narrowing Obama's delegate lead. On June 3, with all states counted
Obama passed the threshold to become the presumptive nominee. On that day, he
gave a victory speech in St. Paul, Minnesota. Clinton suspended her campaign
and endorsed him on June 7. From that point on, he campaigned for the general
election race against Senator John McCain, the Republican nominee. On August
23, 2008, Obama selected Delaware Senator Joe Biden as his vice presidential
running mate. At the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado,
Obama's former rival Hillary Clinton gave a speech in support of Obama's
candidacy and later called for Obama to be nominated by acclamation as the
Democratic presidential candidate. On August 28 Obama delivered a speech to the
84,000 supporters in Denver. During the speech, which was viewed by over 38
million people worldwide, he accepted his party's nomination and presented his
policy goals.
Victorious
Obama : On
November 4, 2008 the result of Presidential election was declared Obama got
Electoral College votes 349 while McCain 162 only. Obama got 96% of the Black
votes, 43% of the white votes, 78% of youth votes and the majority of almost
every ethnic group and even Jews voted for him.
Conclusion : Obama met his wife
Michelle Robinson in June 1989. Soon they began dating and engaged in 1991.
They married on October 3, 1992. The couple's first, daughter Malia Ann was
born in 1998 and second daughter Natasha (Sasha) in 2001. Obama's family is
Christian (Protestant) by religion. Their residence is at Kenwood in Chicago.
Obama is very fond of playing basketball. He is non smoker. Obama has written
two famous books Dreams from my father in 1995 and The Audacity of Hope in
2006.
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