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Barack Obama: Democratic Party

Previous government activity: Civil Rights Lawyer. Illinois State Senate. United States Senate.

Home State: Honolulu, Hawaii

Biography: Barack Obama was born August 4th, 1961. He is the 44th and current president of the United States. He was a civil rights lawyer and a teacher before coming into his political career. He was elected for senate in Illinois in 1996 and stopped in 2004. He was elected for presidency in 2008, and is still the current president to this day.

Health Care: Obama believes that quality, affordable health insurance you can rely on is a key part of middle- class security.By putting a stop to insurance company abuses, Obama Care is giving millions of people peace of mind.

Education: By spurring states to raise classroom standards and reforming student loans, President Obama has put an affordable, high quality education within reach for millions more students and their families.

Economy: Obama is fighting to grow the economy from the middle class out, not the top down. This election presents a choice between two fundamentally different visions of how to grow our economy and create good middle class jobs.

Energy: We are less reliant on foreign oil than at any time in the last 20 years, and President Obama has a plan to further cut oil imports in half by 2020. By developing all of our resources, we can create jobs and make America more energy independent.

Environment: President Obama has made record investments in clean energy, and refuses to let polluters play by a different set of rules than everyone else. He's implementing new standards to keep our air and water clean and our children safe.

Political Spectrum: Barack Obama is open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values. That put him more to the right at the Liberal stage.

Base of support: Democrat Party Source of opposition: Republican Party

Quotes: "The truth gets buries under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I." -Barack Obama "Yes, our path is harder -- but it leads to a better place. Yes our road is longer -- but we travel it together. We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up. We draw strength from our victories, and we learn from our mistakes, but we keep our eyes fixed on that distant horizon, knowing that Providence is with us, and that we are surely blessed to be citizens of the greatest nation on Earth." -Barack Obama "What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it time he assumed responsibility." -Paul Ryan

Interesting facts: He won a Grammy Award in 2006 for Best Spoken Word Recording. It was for the audio version of his book //Dreams From My Father.// He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii but went to live in Indonesia with his mom when the parents divorced. There he was introduced to dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper. Barack Hussein Obama is named after his father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (1936- 1982). "Barack" means blessing/blessed/to bless in Swahili and Semitic languages, and "Hussein" is a Semitic word meaning good or beautiful. Swahili was Obama Sr.'s native language

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Political Observers Analysis: President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney are battling for voters in the key swing states of Ohio, and it appears the president is pulling ahead in the polls, and will stay that way.