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=__**Barack Obama **__=

Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He graduated from Colombia University and Harvard Law School. Obama
====worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004 for the Democratic Party. He ran for the United States House of Representatives, but was unsuccessful. During his campaign to represent the state of Illinois in the U.S. Senate he won the March 2004 Illinois Democratic primary and made his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in 2004, and he won the Senate election in November of 2004. In 2008 he won the presidential election against John McCain with vice president Joe Biden and became the 44th president of the United States in 2009. Nine months later he won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. In April of 2011 he announced he would be running for re-election in 2012. Obama signed economic stimulus legislation in the form of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Re-authorization, and the Job Creation Act of 2012. Obama wants to have healthcare for all people in the United States, end the war in Iraq, and provide social security to those who need it. Interesting facts about Barack Obama are that he collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics, he was known as "O'Bomber" in high school for his skill at basketball, and his name means "one who is blessed" in Swahili. Obama stated, "//We need to steer clear of the poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential//." Mitt Romney had quoted against Obama, "//As this president wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse'. It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American. It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better//." Obama said, "//There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America - there's the United States of America//." ====

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