Barack Hussein Obama

Barack Hussein Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (ː k hu ː bərɑ oʊbɑ seɪn mə ː /, born August 4, 1961) 44 and the current president of the United States. He is the first African American in the office. Obama has already worked as a U.S. senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned after winning the 2008 presidential election.

Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Barack Obama graduated from Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights lawyer in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing District 13 in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.

After an unsuccessful attempt against the Democratic incumbent for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, ran for U.S. Senate, Obama in 2004. More events brought him to national attention during the campaign, including his victory in the March 2004 Democratic primary and his speech at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He won election to the U.S. Senate from Illinois in November 2004. His presidential campaign began in February 2007 and after a close campaign for the 2008 primary against the Democratic presidential Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won the nomination of his party. In 2008, the presidential election, he defeated Republican candidate John McCain, and was inaugurated as president January 20, 2009. Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.

As president, Barack Obama signed an Economic Recovery Act in the form of the Recovery and Reinvestment Act in February 2009 and reduced taxes, unemployment insurance Reauthorization and the Law of job creation in December 2010. Other initiatives include protecting the patient's internal politics and Affordable Care Act, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection, the Do not Ask, Do not tell the Act and the Repeal Act of 2011 budget control . In foreign policy, removed combat troops from Iraq, the surge in Afghanistan, signed the START arms control with Russia, ordered the execution of UN sanctioned U.S. no-fly zone in Libya, issued a direct order from a small group of U.S. military forces to kill al-Qaeda Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. In April 2011, Obama has declared his intention to run for another term in presidential elections in 2012.