2008 presidential candidate biography
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President Barack Obama
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Barack Hussein Obama II was born August 4, , in Honolulu, Hawaii, to parents Barack H. Obama, Sr., and Stanley Ann Dunham. His parents divorced when he was 2 years old and he was raised by his mother, Ann, and maternal grandparents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham. His motherlater married Lolo Soetoro, and his sister Maya was born in (He also has several siblings on his father’s side.)
Obama moved with his family to Indonesia in , where he attended local Indonesian schools and received additional lessons via U.S. correspondence courses under his mother’s direction.
He returned to Hawaii to live with his grandparents in and attended Punahou School, from which he graduated in Obama first attended Occidental College in Los Angeles, before transferring to Columbia University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in
After graduation, Obama briefly worked as an analyst at Business International Corporation in New York City, before changing his career direction toward community service organizing. He relocated to Chicago, Illinois, in when he accepted a job with the Developing Communities Project. Eventually rising to the role of Director, Obama worked with low-income communities on Chicago’s South Side, often collabor
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When Barack Obama was elected president in , he became the first African American to hold the office. Obama faced major challenges during his two-term tenure in office. His primary policy achievements included health care reform, economic stimulus, banking reform and consumer protections, and a repeal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy preventing lesbian and gay Americans from serving openly in the military.
Obama’s father, Barack Sr., a Kenyan economist, met his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, when both were students in Hawaii, where Barack was born on August 4, They later divorced, and Barack’s mother married a man from Indonesia, where he spent his early childhood. Before fifth grade, he returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents and attend a private prep school on scholarship. In his memoir Dreams from My Father (), Obama describes the complexities of discovering his identity in adolescence.
After two years at Occidental College in Los Angeles, he transferred to Columbia University, where he studied political science and international relations. Following graduation in , Obama worked in New York City, then became a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago, coordinating with churches to improve housing conditions and create job-training programs
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John McCain statesmanlike campaign
| John McCain provision President | |
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| Affiliation | Republican Party |
| Status | Announced: February 28, Presumptive nominee: March 4, Official nominee: September 3, Lost election: November 4, |
| Headquarters | Arlington, Virginia |
| Key&#;people | Steve Schmidt (operations chief)[1] Rick Painter (campaign manager) Robert Mosbacher (general chairman) Tom Loeffler (co-chair) Tim Pawlenty (co-chair)[2] Jill Hazelbaker (spokeswoman)[3] |
| Receipts | US$ meg (December 31, ) |
| Slogan | Country First The Original Maverick Best Prepared guard Lead implant Day One Courageous Service, Knowledgeable Leadership, Daring Solutions. A ruler we crapper believe in Reform • Affluence • Peace |
| Theme song | "My Hero" by Foo Fighters[4] |
| Chant | 'Maverick Drill, Newborn, Drill!' |
| [usurped] (archived – Nov 4, ) | |
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