Full name: Barack Hussein Obama Jr. (translated as Obama in Taiwan Province Province)

Political Party: Democratic Party

Height: 186cm

Birthday:1961August 4th.

Birthplace: Honolulu, Hawaii

Address: Chicago, Illinois

Public office: the 44th President of the United States (56th and 43rd sessions) (term: 65438+20091October 20th -65438+20031October 20th).

Illinois Senator (first elected in 2004)

Illinois Senator (1997-2004)(65438+20051October 3–65438+20091October 3)

Occupational background: 1993-2004, miner Barnhill &; Lawyer, Galland Law Firm (Chicago, Illinois)

Education: Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University, 65438-0983.

199 1 received the doctor of law degree from Harvard Law School.

Marital status: married 1992, with two daughters (the eldest daughter: Maria Maria, born in1999; Daughter: Natasha Natasha, 200 1 born)

Religion: United Christian Church (Protestantism)

Works: Fearless Hope: Reflections on Regaining the American Dream [2006];

A dream from my father: a story about race and heredity [1995].

[Edit this paragraph] Biography

Obama was born in Hawaii. My father is a black economist in Kenya and my mother is a white female teacher in the United States. His parents divorced when Obama was two years old. Before hearing that his father died in a car accident in Kenya on 1982, Obama only met his father once. Obama grew up with his mother and grandparents.

Father barack obama is a Kenyan student studying in Hawaii. Mother ann dunham is a white woman from Kansas. Dunham was only 18 years old when he married Obama Sr, and the marriage was short. When Obama left home to study for a doctorate in economics at Harvard University, he left a young wife and a young son, Obama (he was only two years old at that time), and he had no money to take his wife and children with him. After graduation, he returned to Kenya with another American woman, Ruth, who became his third wife because he had already married a wife in his hometown.

Obama grew up with his mother after his father left. Dunham later married Lolo Sutoro, the manager of an Indonesian oil company. Sutoro had to go to Jakarta for work, so Dunham took the 6-year-old Obama to Indonesia. Obama spent four years in Indonesia when he was a child.

/kloc-At the age of 0/0, his mother divorced his stepfather, and Obama returned to Hawaii to live with his grandfather and grandmother most of the time. Dunham returned to Indonesia from Sutoro with her daughter Maya. At that time, life in Dunham was very difficult. She is studying for a doctorate in anthropology, and she saves money for her son to study. When Obama was young and old, the Obamas crowded into a small apartment. Obama's grandfather changed jobs a lot, first as a furniture salesman and then as a failed insurance broker. Grandma works in a bank. But Obama actually entered a private school after Pune, Hawaii. It can be seen that the little guy is learning well, but the burden at home is not light. Houpune Private School in Hawaii is the best private school in Hawaii and even the whole country. It has a history of 100 years and its tuition is expensive. However, some people with money status will put their children in anyway. As soon as you enter, there will be light on your parents' faces, and your child will have a bright future.

When it comes to this matter, Dunham always thinks with half pride that Obama has inherited his father's wisdom and is taking his father's road to success.

In July 2004, the Democratic Party held a national congress, and Obama was assigned to give a "keynote speech" the next day. The so-called "keynote speech" refers to the democratic party's program and policy declaration, which is usually published by the party's promising political stars. 1988 The keynote speaker was Clinton, then governor of Arkansas. Obama lived up to expectations. He personally wrote the speech and delivered an impassioned speech. In his speech, he proposed to eliminate party differences and racial differences and realize the dream of "one America."

The 45-year-old Obama's speech was very charming, and his bright smile won many people's hearts. Compared with the black predecessors who intended to run for the presidency in the past, Obama was the first rising star to win national support in the polls before the primary election, and defeated Hillary Clinton, one of the popular candidates for the Democratic presidential candidate in 2008, to become the Democratic presidential candidate.

In just over two years, Obama set off a whirlwind in the political arena, and some even compared the "Obama phenomenon" with former President Kennedy's strong popularity of 1960 to enter the White House.

Obama chronicle

196 1 was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA on August 4th.

1983 obtained a bachelor's degree in literature from Columbia University;

199 1 received the doctor of law degree from Harvard Law School;

1992 married with two daughters;

1993-2004, Miner Barnhill Company; Lawyer of Garland Law Firm (Chicago, Illinois);

1996, first elected to the Illinois Senate;

In 2004, he was first elected to the Senate in Illinois.

In February 2007, Obama officially announced his candidacy for the presidency. On August 27th, he was nominated as the presidential candidate at the Democratic National Congress.

In 2008, he was elected as the 56th president of the United States and became the first black president in American history.

June 5438 +2009 10, the first African-American President barack obama was sworn in as the new owner of the White House.

[Edit this paragraph ]2008 presidential election

1, party primary election

Obama announced his candidacy.

Barack obama announced on June 6th, 2007 that he intended to run for the presidency in 2008. On the same day, he submitted relevant documents to the US federal election agency and set up a committee to evaluate the feasibility of his participation in the presidential election.

In a statement on his website 16, Obama said that he has been considering whether to participate in the 2008 presidential election for months, but whether to participate will not depend on media propaganda and personal ambition. In the past six years, the decisions made by the federal government and neglected problems have put the United States in a very unsafe situation. The United States is caught in an "unfortunate and costly" war, which should not have been launched, but the leaders in Washington cannot cooperate in a pragmatic way.

Hillary announced her candidacy.

654381October 20th, Hillary Clinton, the wife of former US President Bill Clinton, announced her participation in the 2008 US presidential election on her personal website. Her campaign slogan is: I'm here, I'm here to win.

The struggle between the two sides is fierce.

Due to the large number of supporters in the party, a fierce ticket-grabbing war is indispensable, which is no less than the subsequent presidential election.

Obama pays attention to young voters, especially through the Internet. In March 2007, Obama was at Yahoo! The answer "(Yahoo! The American version of knowledge+ published a publication entitled "How can we let more people participate in the democratic process? How to attract more people to participate in the democratic movement? ), the number of replies exceeds 17000. After that, he also opened an account on the social networking site Facebook, and the layout was very popular.

Hillary's greatest advantage is that her husband Clinton and herself are women, which is easy to attract the attention of female voters. When pollster Mark Mayerman asked 10 black women to choose their political heroes, eight of them chose Hillary.

(See entry Hillary for details)

Obama won the primary election and Hillary withdrew.

After a series of canvassing activities, on June 3, 2008, local time in the United States, US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama announced that he won the primary election within the party and was nominated as the Democratic presidential candidate.

On June 7, Hillary officially announced that she would stop running, calling on her voters to support Obama, the winner of the party's primary election, to become president.

2. Nominate the vice president and accept the nomination within the party.

On August 23rd, 2008, Obama announced that Joseph Robinett, a 65-year-old senior senator from Delaware, was the Democratic vice presidential candidate. Obama's campaign website said: "Biden brings a lot of foreign policy experience, an admirable record of cross-party camp cooperation and a direct business model." The analysis shows that Biden's diplomatic experience is helpful to Obama's administration, but choosing a senior politician as his running mate will weaken the legitimacy of Obama's emphasis on change.

On August 28th, Obama accepted the Democratic presidential nomination at Jing Shun Football Stadium in Denver, becoming the first black presidential candidate in the history of the two parties in the United States. This day is also the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. In his speech, Obama outlined his blueprint for governance, covering the challenges of the 2 1 century, such as economy, diplomacy, terrorism, poverty, climate change and disease.

3. Enter the presidential campaign stage.

After winning the party's primary election, Obama began his campaign. Especially for * * * and the party's traditional States and swing States (especially those with more votes), such as Ohio, Indiana, Florida, Pennsylvania and so on. It has achieved good results. Polls in several States show that Obama has surpassed * * * and party candidate John McCain from the previous backward situation.

In the face of Obama's initiative to attack the traditional "red state", and almost all the polls were ahead of him, McCain's final battle gradually approached Obama as the presidential election date approached, but the gap was still around 5%~ 10%.

4. Win the presidential election

1 1 20081October 4th1p.m. The counting results show that Obama was elected as the 44th (56th, 43rd) president of the United States with 349 votes, significantly ahead of McCain1. He also became the first African-American president in American history (Obama's father is a Kenyan citizen and Obama's mother is a white American).

Later, Obama delivered a speech entitled "Change in America" at the campaign headquarters in Chicago, saying that the era of change in America has arrived. He talked about the significance of winning the election, McCain, family, grandma's death, bipartisan cooperation and American power.

Professor paul krugman, winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Economics, supported Obama's election. After his election, Krugman published an article in165438+1October 7, expressing his excitement and pride at being elected as the president of the United States for the first time. More importantly, he urged Obama not to listen to his suggestion that policy changes should be postponed, analyzed the possibility and necessity of sticking to the radical reform agenda put forward in the campaign, and put forward the slogan of the new New Deal (see Krugman: Obama Agenda).

mother

Obama's father, Obama Sr, is Kenyan, and his mother, ann dunham, is a white female teacher in the United States. Their marriage didn't last long. They only had one child, Obama. Later, Obama lived in Indonesia with his mother and stepfather for four years.

Dunham was born in Wichita, Kansas, and later moved to Hawaii with his parents. In Hawaii, Dunham met and married Kenyan student barack obama (Obama Sr.) and gave birth to a son named Barry, who is now Senator Obama. This marriage didn't last long, and it ended when Obama Sr left home for further study at Harvard University.

Dunham later married Lolo Sutoro, an Indonesian student, and came to Indonesia on 1967, bringing 6-year-old Barry to Indonesia.

The recent rumor about Obama is that when Obama lived in Indonesia, he studied in an extreme religious school. But the truth is, it is just an ordinary religious school. When I heard this rumor, what surprised me most was Julia Suryakusuma, who was a friend of Obama's mother.

Suryakusuma, 53, is one of the most famous feminists in Indonesia. She has published many works and criticized extreme religionism. Suryakusuma said that Dunham is a liberal and humanitarian, speaks fluent Indonesian and loves Indonesian culture. Although he is interested in religion, he has not joined any religion.

On the coffee table of Suryakusuma's residence in Jakarta, there is a photo album. This photo album records happy times. In the photo, Dunham has lively curly hair, wears loose Bohemian clothes and always smiles.

Suryakusuma said, "You know, Ann (Dunham) is white, although she told me that she is of Cherokee descent." According to Obama, a distant ancestor of the mother's family is a pure Cherokee.

Obama returned to Hawaii at the age of 10 to live with his grandparents. Dunham returned to Indonesia from Sutoro with her daughter Maya. Dunham is keen on making Indonesian folk female handicrafts, such as knitting and basket weaving, and has become an expert. Maya is now a professor at the University of Hawaii.

Suryakusuma recalled: "We are all mothers. We talked about how sad it is for a mother to be separated from her children, but she (Dunham) is more concerned about Barry's education."

Suryakusuma met the future senator for the first time when Obama went to Indonesia to visit his mother when he was young. She said, "Dunham is proud of him. I remember when Obama became the first black president in the history of Harvard Law Review, Dunham was full of pride. "

Dunham died of ovarian cancer on 1995.

father

After his parents broke up, Obama only met his father once before he heard that he 1982 was killed in a car accident in Kenya.

Although he didn't spend much time with his father, he inherited his father's skin color and became a banner in his political career. His memoir, 1995, was first published as Father's Dream. After entering politics, Obama borrowed his father's name (Barack) and felt his father's brand in the name he was called every day.

Born in a poor village in western Kenya, Obama Sr is a cattle herder. Later, by a very accidental opportunity, he went to the United States to study, got to know Dunham and gave birth to Obama.

Obama's grandmother and many relatives still live in that small village. Old Obama 1982 was buried in the village after he died in a car accident. 1992, Obama returned to his hometown for the first time and led his fiancee into the door.

Old Obama's life is very complicated. While in Kenya, he married his first wife Kirzia and had two children, a son Roy and a daughter Omar.

According to Obama, my father never really left Cotzia. Dunham, however, said that Obama Sr did separate from Kirzia, but "because this marriage is a rural wedding, there is no document to prove the divorce".

The Hawaiian marriage between Obama Sr and Dunham may not have been properly recorded. Obama said in his memoirs, "How and when this marriage began is still unclear. I will never have the courage to figure out some details."

After Obama Sr left Dunham and his two-year-old son to study at Harvard, he and another American woman, Ruth, returned to Africa. Ruth became his third wife and gave birth to two sons in Kenya, one of whom died in a car accident.

However, Obama Sr also often goes to Cotzia. A relative explained that according to tradition, Cotzia was still his wife. Obama Sr also had a son with another Kenyan woman.

dream

Obama's life experience is complicated and bumpy, but when he grew up, he organized charity in Chicago and gradually accumulated his reputation. While studying at Harvard Law School, he became the first black chairman of Harvard Law Review. This position is usually regarded as a stepping stone for law students to enter the Supreme Court of the United States as a judge's secretary after graduation, but after graduation, Obama chose a small law firm specializing in civil rights litigation in Chicago.

After that, Obama chose politics and was re-elected as an Illinois senator for three times. In 2004, he stood out from the crowd at the Democratic National Congress and extended his popularity to the whole country. That year, he won the Senate election and became the fifth black federal senator in American history.

Suryakusuma said: "You know, there is a white mother and a black father, and he has been to Indonesia, which makes him as easy to identify with all kinds of people as his mother."

Some American communities see Obama as proof that integration can transcend race. William galston, a public policy researcher at the Brookings Institution, said: "I think American voters are ready to support leaders who embody the American dream."

Larry Sabato, a professor of political science at the University of Virginia, believes that no matter what controversy exists, Obama can attract voters by making his life story public. Sabato said, "Americans like success stories."

Suryakusuma said that she could imagine Obama's mother's "enthusiastic performance" and "how proud she would be if she knew that Barry and her children were running for president of the United States".

Obama is currently ranked second among Democrats who announced their participation in the presidential election, second only to former First Lady and New York Senator Hillary Clinton.