[Taiwan translation] Obama
Barack Hussein Obama
Full name of personal data: 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: 1983 Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University (transferred to Columbia University after studying at California Western College for two years).
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.
2008 165438+ 10 was elected as the 44th president of the United States, becoming the first black president in American history.
On October 20th, 2009, 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 way of doing things." 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).