Senator Barack Obama! An Icon

The Democratic Party in United States of America has given the America public in the time past the best, it has presented America with Men and women of valor both on the local scene and international scene.

I am about to write what I have been able to gather from different sources about the new era in American Politics. I am about to write about a man who is ready and steady in changing the course of destiny. Here is the truth and lies about Senator Barack Obama.

Barack Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4th, 1961. His father, Barack Obama Sr., was born and raised in a small village in Kenya, where he grew up herding goats with his own father, who was a domestic servant to the British.

Married to Michelle, who bore him their two daughters, Malia, 9, and Sasha, 6, live on Chicago's South Side where they attend Trinity United Church of Christ.

Barack's mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in small-town Kansas. Her father worked on oil rigs during the Depression, and then signed up for World War II after Pearl Harbor, where he marched across Europe in Patton's army. Her mother went to work on a bomber assembly line, and after the war, they studied on the G.I. Bill, bought a house through the Federal Housing Program, and moved west to Hawaii.

Barack’s parent met in University of Hawaii, were the mother was a student and the father just won a scholarship which gave him the opportunity to leave Kenya and move to America.

Barack's father eventually returned to Kenya, and Barack grew up with his mother in Hawaii, and for a few years in Indonesia. Later, he moved to New York, where he graduated from Columbia University in 1983.

The values which his mother taught him while much younger made barrack leave Law school and the ability to lead a good life in the corporate world behind after college and instead moved to Chicago in 1985, where he became a community organizer with a church-based group seeking to improve living conditions in poor neighborhoods plagued with crime and high unemployment.

This group mad huge success but he realized that in order to truly improve the lives of people in that community and other communities, it would take not just a change at the local level, but a change in our laws and in our politics.

He earned his law degree from Harvard in 1991, where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. Soon after, he returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer and teach constitutional law. Finally, his advocacy work led him to run for the Illinois State Senate, where he served for eight years. In 2004, he became the third African American since Reconstruction to be elected to the U.S. Senate.

In the midst of the political debates and its partisanship, senator Obama still believes in the ability to unite people around a politics of purpose - a politics that puts solving the challenges of everyday Americans ahead of partisan calculation and political gain.

In the Illinois State Senate, this meant working with both Democrats and Republicans to help working families get ahead by creating programs like the state Earned Income Tax Credit, which in three years provided over $100 million in tax cuts to families across the state. He also pushed through an expansion of early childhood education, and after a number of inmates on death row were found innocent, Senator Obama worked with law enforcement officials to require the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases.

As a member of the Veterans' Affairs Committee, Senator Obama has fought to help Illinois veterans get the disability pay they were promised, while working to prepare the VA for the return of the thousands of veterans who will need care after Iraq and Afghanistan. Recognizing the terrorist threat posed by weapons of mass destruction, he traveled to Russia with Republican Dick Lugar to begin a new generation of non-proliferation efforts designed to find and secure deadly weapons around the world. And knowing the threat we face to our economy and our security from America's addiction to oil, he's working to bring auto companies, unions, farmers, businesses and politicians of both parties together to promote the greater use of alternative fuels and higher fuel standards in our cars.

Obama’s Political Profile:

First Elected To Office: November 2, 2004
Year of Next Election: November 2, 2010
Previous Political Work: Illinois Senate
Committee Membership:
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations - 7
Subcommittee on African Affairs - 3
Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs - 4
Subcommittee on European Affairs - Chair
Subcommittee on International Development and Foreign Assistance Economic Affairs and International Environmental Protection - 4
Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs - 7
Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management Government Information Federal Services and International Security - 4
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations - 4
Subcommittee on State Local and Private Sector Preparedness and Integration - 4
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions - 9
Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety - 6
Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs – 4

Personal Bio

Gender: Male
Hometown: Chicago
Birth: August 4, 1961
in Waikiki, HI
Professional Experience (including Military):College instructor, Attorney
Education: JD, Harvard University, BA, Columbia University
Family: Wife, Michelle, 2 children
Faith: United Church of Christ

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Truth and Lies about Obama