Biography of Barack Obama (Part-1)
He was not even born with a golden spoon in his mouth like the current US President Donald Trump, and his own earned money was much less for running a presidential campaign. Unlike his predecessor, George W. Bush, his father is not a former president of the United States. He had no kinship with either the Kennedy or Clinton families. The story of Barack Obama’s victory in the White House, the son of a Kenyan Muslim father who suffered from economic deprivation and deprivation in a white-majority society from an early age, defeats the myth.
Even after being elected President, he has had to deal with a volatile world left by his predecessor and an economically and politically weakened country. But how did Obama make this impossible step by step only with his talent, willpower and honesty? Let’s take inspiration from Obama’s biography.
Barack Obama’s life story at a glance:
Born in 1981 in Honolulu, the USA, to a black Kenyan father and a white American mother, Barack Obama (Jr.) was elected President of the Harvard Law Review while studying at Harvard University. Barack Obama entered the White House as the first black President in the history of the United States, after being elected the 44th American President in Illinois and then in the 2008 national election.
Birth and childhood:
The introduction said that the life story of Barack Obama is a great movie story. That story begins shortly after birth. All the dramatic twists and turns in the story and all the emotional scenes bring tears to the eyes. The story of Obama’s parents is no less varied.
His mother, Anne Dunham, was born in a military camp in Kansas during World War II. Stanley Dunham, Ann’s father, after a horrific attack by Japanese troops on Pearl Harbor
He joined the army and went to fight in Europe:
Anne’s mother, Madeleine, worked in a bomb factory. After the war, Ann’s parents’ GI. Bill (American government agency for the rehabilitation and training of veterans) and bought a house with the help of the government rehabilitation project. After living here and there for a short time, Obama’s grandparents finally settled in Hawaii.
Obama’s father, Barack Obama Sr., was from the Luo tribe in Kenya’s Nyanja province. He spent his childhood and adolescence grazing goats and sheep in the desert on his way to Africa. He received a scholarship and moved to Hawaii, USA, to fulfill his college dream.
While studying at the University of Hawaii, Obama Sr. met his classmate, the beautiful white American Ann Dunham. Ann and Barack Obama Sr. were married on February 2, 1971, and six months later, Barack Obama was born on August 4 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
His father did not have the opportunity to have any kind of relationship with the child Obama. Before Obama left home, his father moved to Massachusetts to pursue a Ph.D. at Harvard. A few months later, Ann and Obama became socially estranged, and in March 1974, they formally divorced. Obama Jr. was only two years old then. Shortly after the breakup, Obama Sr. returned to his home country of Kenya.
In 1965, Ann Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian student at the University of Hawaii. Within a year of that marriage, he left the United States with his family to live in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia. That’s where Obama’s half-sister, Maya Soitoro, was born in 1970. Within a year of this, An Dunham became concerned about his son’s education and safety in Indonesia due to some incidents. Barak, 10, was sent to Hawaii to live with his grandparents. Ann later returned to Hawaii with her daughter Maya.
Education:
While living with his grandparents, Obama enrolled at the famous Poonahu Academy in Hawaii. Gain praise as a good student as well as a good basketball player.
In 1969 he passed the academy with great results. As one of only three black students to study at the academy, he became aware of racism and understood very well what it meant to be an African American.
Law Career & Family:
Barack Obama became a member of the Trinity Church, “not growing up in a religious environment” at the beginning of his legal career. At that time, he also met his Kenyan relatives and went to see the graves of his father and grandfather. In this context, Obama wrote –
“I sat between two graves and cried for a long time. I was thinking about my American life, where life is divided into white and black. The deprivation I experienced as a child, the frustration I felt in Chicago, and the hope – everything is connected to these two pieces of land in the distance of the ocean.”
Returning from Kenya with a new attitude, Obama enrolled at Harvard Law School in 1986. The following year, he met Lawrence Tribe, a professor of constitutional law. The Tribe was so impressed with Obama that Tribe unanimously agreed to Obama’s request to join his team as a research assistant.
In a 2012 interview with Frontline, Tribe said of Obama: “The better he (Obama) did at Harvard Law School, the more people became fascinated with him. It was becoming clear that he would get what he wanted. But it was also clear that he wanted to work for the people, to change the state of society.”
In the same year that Tribe joined the party, Obama joined the Chicago Law Firm of Sidley Austin as an assistant, and a young lawyer named Michelle Robinson was hired as his adviser. In a short time, they fell in love with each other.
In February 1990, Obama became the first African American to be elected editor of the Harvard Law Review. He graduated with a law degree from Harvard in 1991 with a record of good results.
After leaving Harvard, Obama returned to Chicago and began working as a human rights lawyer. He also began teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago as a part-time teacher.
There he was promoted from lecturer to professor at one time. He taught at the University of Chicago from 1992 to 2004. During Bill Clinton’s 1992 election campaign, he was directly involved in the voter registration process.
On October 3 of that same year, Obama married Michelle Robinson and began living in Kenwood, south of Chicago. Their first daughter, Malia, was born in 1997, and Sasha in 2001.
Entering Illinois politics:
In 1995, Barack Obama published an autobiography entitled “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.” The book has been highly acclaimed by writers and has been translated into a total of 25 languages.
The book’s second edition was published in 2004, and another edition of the book was published the same year. In 2006, the audio version of Obama’s audiobook won a Grammy Award for Best Recitation.
After the book came out, Obama’s name became known to the public, and people outside the familiar boundaries began to recognize him. As well as being a civil rights lawyer and for social work, his popularity among the general public increased day by day. In 1996, he ran for and won a seat in the Illinois state Senate on behalf of the Democrats.
As a senator in the state, Democrats and Republicans work together to turn morality into law. He also worked on developing healthcare projects and ensuring early education for disadvantaged children while he was a senator.
He also arranged for loans from the state Hatbil to pay income tax to low-income workers. As a member of the Illinois state Senate, Obama worked with law enforcement officials to collect video records of interrogations and confessions in all major cases after several death row inmates were later acquitted.
Bobby Rush, who was elected four times in 2000, lost to the American House of Representatives. Then, in 2002, almost silently, he began a campaign to raise funds to run in the 2004 state senate elections. With the help of political adviser David Axelrod, he began to explore winning a seat in the Senate.
Obama is one of the first politicians to oppose George W. Bush’s plan to invade Iraq in the wake of 9/11 in 2001. In a speech at the Federal Plaza in Chicago in October 2002, when Obama was the only member of the state senate, he spoke out against Bush’s proposal to authorize an invasion of Iraq.
“I am not against logical warfare, I am just against useless warfare. My position is against the ill efforts of Richard Parle, Paul Wolfowitz and another man sitting in the big seat. Those are actually retired soldiers sitting in the administration. They want to force their own philosophy on us. They have no idea how many precious lives will be lost and how much suffering they will have to endure.”
However, despite the opposition of Obama and many other politicians, the then US administration started the Iraq war in 2003.
Barack Obama’s career as a senator:
Obama decided to run for the vacant Senate seat of Republican Peter Fitzgerald after seeing the preliminary poll results. In 2004, with 52 percent of the vote, he defeated Blair Hall, a billionaire businessman, to win the Democratic nomination.
In the summer of that year, he was invited to give a supplementary speech supporting John Kerry at the Democratic Party’s annual national conference in Boston. In his speech, Obama emphasized the need to remain united and criticized the Bush administration.
Returning from the conference, Obama returned to Illinois to prepare for the Senate election. In June 2004, Ryan withdrew his candidacy from the general election, although he was scheduled to run against wealthy investment banker Jack Ryan.
In August 2004, Alan Case, a former diplomat and presidential candidate, was nominated by the Republican Party to replace Ryan. In three debates in the media, Obama and Case expressed their opposition to the Cell Stream Cell on research, abortion, firearms control, school vouchers, and tax exemptions.
In the November general election, 60 percent of Illinois voters voted for Obama. Only 26 percent of the votes fell in the case. This is the highest margin of victory in Illinois electoral history. And as a result of this victory, he became only the third African American to take a seat in the American State Senate.
After being sworn in on January 3, 2005, Obama worked with Indiana-elected Republican Senator Richard Lugar on a bill to strengthen disarmament in Russia and Eastern Europe.
Then another Republican senator, Tom Cobron, elected from Oklahoma, created a website that would monitor all government spending. He also spoke on behalf of Hurricane Katrina victims, emphasizing alternative fuels and increasing the opportunities available to veterans.
His second book, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, was published in 2006. In this book, he discusses his vision for the future of the United States. Many of which were later the subject of his presidential election campaign speeches. Shortly after its publication, his book rose to number one on the New York Times and Amazon’s list of best-selling books.
2008 presidential election:
In February 2006, Obama made headlines by announcing his candidacy for the Democratic Party’s nomination for next year’s presidential election.
His strongest opponents in the nomination race were former First Lady and then-Senator Hillary Clinton from New York. In June 2008, Obama was nominated as a potential Democratic candidate, and Hillary gave her full support.
On November 4, 2008, Obama defeated Republican candidate John Kerry, who received 45.7 percent of the vote with 52.9 percent of the vote, to begin a new chapter in history by becoming the 44th American President and the first black American President.
Obama began his career at the White House on January 20 of the following year, with Delaware Senator Joe Biden as his Vice President, a key supporter of the electoral process.
When Obama came to the White House as President, he found himself during two ongoing foreign wars left by his predecessor, Bush, the lowest level of international acceptance in the United States and the ongoing global economic downturn.
He plans an ambitious future course of action, including economic transformation, alternative energy, drastic changes in education and healthcare, and state debt reduction.
He believed that all of this was for the good of the people and the country and that his administration had to implement it all at the same time. In his inaugural address, Obama spoke about the current situation.
“Today I want to tell you that all the challenges we face are real. They are many in number and each is difficult. They cannot be solved in a short time and easily. But you know: there must be a solution. “
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