Barack Obama Day!!!

It's Barack Obama day everyone!!! He is now officially the 44th president of the United States, and more importantly, their first African-American president. His inauguration happened at 11 AM MT today in front of 3 million attendees. This will probably go down as one of the most important days in history. As I promised, this would be the in-depth look at the president. 

Early Life

Barack Obama was born February 2, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. His parents divorced when he was 2 years old, and when his mother re-married, they moved to Indonesia until he was 10 years old. When he was 10, he returned to America to live with his grandparents on his mother's side. During his teenage years, he has wrote that used cocaine, marjuiana, and drank to deal with the difficulties of his heritage that he was faced with during that time period. He has refered to this as his "greatest moral failure".

Education

After high school, Obama first studied at Occidental college for two years, then he transferred to Colombia University where he majored in political science, and specialized in international relations.  In 1988, Obama started at Harvard Law. In his first year, he was selected as an editor of Harvard Law Review, by his second year, he was president of the journal.

Pre-Politics

Before entering the senate in 2004, he served as a professor at University of Chicago Law School for 12 years. 

Political Life

Barack Obama was first elected to the Illinois Senate at 1996, and from day one he was known for bipartisanship reforming ethics and health care laws. He also sponsered a law increasing tax-credits to low-income families, negotiated for welfare reform, and increased child-care subsidies. 

In 2004, Barack Obama was elected to the United States Senate. Where he served until November 16, 2008 he resigned his seat before a lame-duck session in the senate.

He was elected president-elect on November 4, 2008, and sworn in today, January 20, 2009, as the 44th president of the United States. This following election was the longest campaign in the history of the USA. He built his ground-roots campaign on change. His vocalized policies have been compared to Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. 

During the campaign, Obama gained the nickname "No Drama Obama" for his relentless deliberating on issues and his methodical speech writing process. This characteristic is exactly what America needs right now, methodical, rational thought on important issues, not rushed, hastey decisions that could cost America for years. 

The election of Barack Obama has brought a lot of hope for African-Americans everywhere, and as reported on CNN, James "Little Man" Presley refered to Obama as Moses. Obama has brought hope for almost everyone in the world as he takes on the role as Commander-in-Chief of the United States.

"I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream." - Martin Luther King Jr.

I wish the best of luck for his presidency, may he go down as one of the greatest presidents of all-time.

Amos13

picture courtesy of www.barack-obama.tv

infomation from www.wikipedia.com and www.cnn.com