1) Barack Hussein Obama is famous for being the first African-American of the United States. He is the 44th president of the United States and is recognized for health care reform as well as economic stimulus legislation‚ essentially an act of congress to boost the economy of the United States. Obama grew up in Hawaii‚ born from a white American mother and a black Kenyan father. He earned degrees from both Columbia University as well as Harvard Law school. In 1992‚ Barack Obama married Michelle Robinson
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Barack Obama: Man on a Wire By Steven Malik Shelton With the success of president Barack Obama’s reelection campaign which paved the way for him to exhaust a second term‚ he faces dilemmas as dangerous and precarious as he did during his first term. It is quite a balancing act that president Obama must perform if he is to maintain equilibrium between the demands of the wealthy elite and the
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East‚ and many other events. President Barack Obama came in during one of the worst economic recessions since the Great Depression‚ and somehow he managed to control the situation. Obama came in when the country needed to count on the president the most‚ and he did his job as best as he could‚ he did it well enough that he served as president for eight years. Although he didn’t do something extraordinary to be one of the top ten presidents ever‚ Obama sure does deserve to be placed at least in the
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Barack Obama Response 2 In his days as a community organizer in the city of Chicago‚ Barack Obama encountered the movement of Black Nationalism. He encountered it primarily through his associate Rafiq al-Shabazz‚ and his dealings with the Nation of Islam. These marked the concrete pillars of the movement‚ however through his experience as a young black man in the United States‚ and his interactions with others in the African-American community‚ he was able to see the motives‚ thoughts‚ and desires
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It includes assessing followers’ motives‚ satisfying their needs and treating them as full human beings (1). President Obama is a transformational leader in my opinion; his great vision and management skills help him develop a strong emotional bond with his followers. The vision that he wanted to get across to his followers in his first election was “change” (2)‚ President Obama was so passionate with his vision for where he wanted the country to be in four years that it was hard not to follow him
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As I first learned about the Affordable Care Act (ACA)‚ which was passed March 23‚ 2010‚ I was intrigued to hear that every American had to get it. I for one believe that the congressional republicans should continue seeking to repeal the law of Obama Care. I understand that the ACA is made to make health insurance more accessible for Americans to be provided aid for families with a low income. In fact that some of the benefits was to prevent insurance companies from increasing rate on families
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Jeremy Cooper Senior Seminar Race and Politics‚ Revisited By ANDREW ROSENTHAL (Blog) A post in my blog on Tuesday‚ about the undertone of racism in American politics‚ drew a great deal of angry e-mail and critical commentary‚ most recently from the Bill O’Reilly program on Fox News. I thought the subject was worth another visit. Some people who have reacted to the post have sincerely taken issue with my opinions‚ which is one of the reasons we publish opinions – to generate debate. Other
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told me they wished they could feel inspired and hopeful about America the way people did when my father was president. This sense is even more profound today. That is why I am supporting a presidential candidate in the Democratic primaries‚ Barack Obama. My reasons are patriotic‚ political and personal‚ and the three are intertwined. All my life‚ people have told me that my father changed their lives‚ that they got involved in public service or politics because he asked them to. And the generation
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David E. Sanger‚ “In Step on ‘Light Footprint’” The New York Times‚ January 9‚ 2013‚ A1 WASHINGTON — With the selection of a new national security team deeply suspicious of the wisdom of American military interventions around the world‚ President Obama appears to have ended‚ at least for the moment‚ many of the internal administration debates that played out in the Situation Room over the past four years. He has sided‚ without quite saying so‚ with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s view — argued
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11/8/12 AP government Position paper I believe that Barack Obama is the most qualified candidate to run for the president of the United Sates of America. I believe that his plan of moving forward will indeed move us forward. Obama has interesting views that I agree with‚ and you should consider them‚ as did I. The first issue is innovation‚ more jobs and reviving manufacturing and the auto industry. Since Obama became president both manufacturing and the auto industry have had a total
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