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HISTORY OF
BARACK OBAMA THE 44TH PRESIDENT OF
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
EARLY LIFE
Barack was born on August 4TH 1961 in Honolulu Hawaii.
His mother is Stanley Ann Dunham a White American from Kansas His father is Barack Obama, Sr. from Kenya.
Barack with his mum.
His parents divorced when Obama was 2 years old.
His father returned to Kenya and died in 1982 in a car accident
His mother then married an Indonesian student that was attending collage in Hawaii.
Early childhood
Early life in Indonesia
When his stepfather had to return to Indonesia because of a change of government there Obama also moved with his mother to Indonesia.
Mom lived most of time in Indonesia + Job
Returned to Hawaii 1194, died of cancer 1995
SCHOOLDAYS He attended local schools in Jakarta/Indonesia With 11 he moved back to Hawaii and attended Punahou School for 8 years (High School)
Afterwards: Occidental College Los Angeles
Columbia University NY, Harvard University
School/University/Job
Obama took drugs as a teenager.
After studying he worked in different law firms
later, he went to Europe to further his education.
Obama came down to spend 5 weeks in Kenya, where he met his relatives.
He worked 12 years as a professor in the University of Chicago Law School.
Universities
He studied at Harvard Law School
ONE BIG FAMILY
WITH HIS PARENTAL FAMILY
HIS WEDDING DAY
BARACK OBAMA AND HIS WIFE MICHELLE
His Wife Michelle
His Family He has 2 Daughters:
SASHA AND MALIA
POLITICAL LIFE
U.S. Senator: 2005–2008
PRESIDENCE
State legislator: 1997–2004
2009-2012
What makes Obama a Great
Speaker? One of the Democratic Party’s great
contemporary orators
Lyricism in writing
Obama borrows devices from great speakers of the past (Kennedy)
Body orientation, hands closed,
limited pitch ranges (enables him
to “convey passion without
exhibiting it”)
His contender in the Primary
Colours
HILLARY CLINTON WIFE OF FORMER PRESIDENT BILLCLINTON
PRESIDENITAL CAMPAIGN
HIS POLITICAL CHALLANGER
John McCain
John Sidney McCain
John McCain was born in 1936 at Coco Solo Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zoneb .To naval officer John S. McCain, Jr. (1911–1981) and Roberta (Wright) McCain (b. 1912).
SCHOOL DAYS’
In 1951, the family settled in Northern Virginia, and McCain attended Episcopal High School, a private preparatory boarding school in Alexandria.
Military career He excelled at wrestling and graduated in
1954
McCain entered the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis
He was captured in Vietnam 1967 and was released In mid-1968.
McCains Running Mate
Sarah Palin 1st female Governor of
Alaska
Early life of Sarah Palin
Palin was born in Sandpoint, Idaho, the third of four children of Sarah Heath a school secretary and Charles R. Heath, a science teacher.
Sarah Palin
The family moved to Alaska when she was an infant. Palin attended Wasilla High School in Wasilla, located 70 km north of Anchorage.
SPORTS DAYS’
IN SCHOOL.
After graduating from high school in 1982, she enrolled at Hawaii Pacific College in Honolulu
She was a member and captain of the girls' cross country basketball team.
Obama‘s Running Mate:
Joseph Bidden
Obama and his team
ELECTION DAY
WITH FAMILY AT VOTING CENTER
WAITING PERIOD
Obama is declared as the winner
VICITORY CELEBRATION
VICITORY SPEECH; WE CAN DO
IT , THE CHANGE IS NOW
HIS INUGRATION
HIS POSITION
44TH PRESIDENT AND 5TH YOUNGEST PRESIDENT AFTER JOHN F KENNEDY
Election Promises
o Economic stimulus package - American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
o Health Care
o Close Guantanamo
o End war in Iraq within 16-months
Iraq War and the Capture of Osama
bin Laden
o Began with information received July 2010 and intelligence
developed by the
CIA over the next several months
o Location of Osama bin Laden
o Death of bin Laden
Key Accomplishment -
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