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 -