Why Did Obama To Become President?

This essay is about young African America President Barack Obama who had to overcome all kind of adversity in America growing up as multicultural black young man. His mother was white American and his dad was Black Kenyan citizen. Obama dad left him when he was two years old. His Mother remarried a foreign student from Indonesia. President Barack Obama lived in Indonesia for four years and return back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents who was white American. During his child hood President Barack Obama was raised an Indonesian child and a Hawaiian child and black and white young man. His grandparents was non-religious believers and he had nonexistence relationship with his grandfather, and there was no role model black men in Hawaii

President Obama came into office in the aftermath of the disastrous foreign policy record of the Bush administration. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 had served as a “switchman,” leading to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Bush administration exercised unilateral use of force and reluctance to engage the international community. As a result global elites and publics viewed the US unfavorably. The US economy was negatively affected by the costs of the wars coupled with the financial crisis of 2007. It was this environment that defined the contours of the election campaign of 2008. Obama campaigned on the idea of change, which represented a regeneration of America through domestic public policy reform and a return to multilateralism in foreign policy. Both domestic and international publics and elites were galvanized by Obama’s message.

Barack Obama has impacted America in many ways since he was elected the 44th president on November 4th, 2008. The first African American president of the United States has taken the world by storm and done many great things for this country. Barack Obama has accomplished many things in his personal life, and also as the president of the United States. Obama has affected the world financially, economically, and rebuilt our image as a nation.

President Barack Obama did many things to get to the positions he is at now.” Obama himself struggled with his mixed-race identity and sought to figure out how he fit in with the rest of the world”(Source B). He also had many problems growing up and many complications to get through school since he didn’t have much money. But Obama showed great appreciation for the things he had. He went out in his community becoming a great leader. Not only did he go out in his community and be a leader, But he showed great leadership, as a senate and as a president.Barack Obama was more than just an ordinary President, but he showed great leadership, hard work and cared for others than himself.

Obama was elected in 2008; how do you think people will explain this time period 100 years from now? How do you think this time period is similar to or different from other eras in American history?

Under the Obama regime there has been an uptake of education which was not always the case and more so for the African Americans. This has been linked to the blacks accessing schools they could not have done in other regimes which is a great effort on the government.

The election of President Obama marks the most noteworthy political accomplishment for African Americans in the United States during the post-civil rights revolution, thus bringing about a change in the country’s social and political landscape that was steeped in racial discrimination since the founding of this great nation. Because social and political conditions are subject to constant change, President Obama’s

There will be many times where people will look back into history years from now and remember the significant events of the 2000s, and a big reason for that is the advances both in technology and society that took place. On the day of November 4, 2008, a man of strong beliefs from Hawaii named Barack Obama announced that he was running for president of the United States. He won the election and was sworn into office becoming the 44th president of the United States on January 20, 2009. He has not only marked a page in history in becoming the first African American president, but has tried to work to better the economic and political aspects of the country. After his term in office was coming to a close, he won the re-election in 2012 and will be currently running in office until January 2017 when his final term ends and a new presidential candidate will gain office.

The election of Barack Obama as the president of the United States surprised Americans as much as it did the world. The first African American and non-white to be in the White House, Barack Obama symbolized a major historical event, another step-forward toward racial equality in the history of America. Civil rights activists, experts in the racial conflict of the U.S., and many liberal citizens believed that Obama’s election means the realization of the ideas of black civil rights leaders, the completion of the Civil Rights Movement, the beginning of a post-racial society, and the downfall of

Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States of America on November 4, 2008. He was the first black man to be elected to office. Due to the Civil Rights Movement and abolishment of slavery, African Americans gained many new freedoms and possibilities. African Americans gained the right to vote, the right to get a quality education, and they were seen as equals to the whites. This all eventually lead to the election of Barack Obama.

what does it mean when the united states is ran by a black man... Since 2008, Obama has Protected American jobs, Improved Health Care, Education and has been supporting troops.Although president Obama has been a strong president, he hasn 't achieved to end wars and attacks around the world.

George .W. Bush and Barrack Obama two of America’s great presidents, both filled with their individual ambitions and charisma. These prominent presidents have ruled the most powerful country in the world using their different strategies and policies. George Bush, a republican was the 43rd president of America had two terms in power (cite). On the other hand Barrack Obama the first black president of America and a democrat was his successor. He is known for his charisma. Notwithstanding, their various good leadership skills and the criticisms, Obama has been a better and more successful president United States than George Bush. Despite the fact that his presidency being criticized for being a failure he has done a good job so far. Obama is showing promise in his policies trying fix the problems that were created by past American presidents in terms of handling the domestic and foreign policies.

Barack Hussein Obama Jr, the first African American President of the United States, was born on August the 4th 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Obama’s birth is considered as an important turning point for African American’s in history, he was the first African American to serve as a United States president. Barack Obama is currently the 44th president of the United States. He was raised in a middle class family with education being the core of their lives and had very noble values. Obama was a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, he was elected the first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review. Obama met Michelle Robinson in 1989 in Chicago’s law firm of Sidley Austin as a summer associate and not too long after that they began to date. Obama was a civil rights attorney, community organizer in Chicago where he helped rebuild communities that was devastated by the closure of the local street plants and a teacher at University of Chicago Law School before pursuing a political career. The time Obama spent helping rebuild the communities he that this time of his life “the best education I ever had, better than anything I got at Harvard Law School” (1). For Obama, he explains that from that experience is what contributed to finding his identity and forming the path that he has taken whilst in the white house. Barack Obama won the election in November 4th 2008 and then took office on January the 20th 2009, these two dates were significant days for America.

Richard Wright would write about Barack Obama earning the honor of being the first black man to be the head of the country. Obama made history on January 20th, 2009, when he was inaugurated into presidency of America as the first African American to become the president of the US. He made history, he went on to start programs like ObamaCare, Helped Gay marriage rights make it to the supreme court, as well as combat global warming. Obamacare, also known as the affordable care act, is helping many people in America gain health care when they can not afford it, for many, it is helping with “Job lock”, a situation where you need to continue working at a job that you hate but need to have health care, as explained in the article titled Will Obamacare end Job Lock? By Dean Baker, Los Angeles Times. Obama is helping many of us with the pursuit of happiness, and with acts such as the affordable care act, we can do such things. Obama is closing in on the end of his

Democratic presidential candidate Obama won the U.S. presidential election to be the 44th President of the United States, and he is the first black President in American history. The election of Obama causing a big stir inside and outside the United States into politics, but also aroused the culture reflection about the status of Black Americans again.