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Obama takes office as 44th President of US
By Oludare Fase/Ayo Fawibe/Taiye Olayemi/USA
The junior senator from the state of Illinois Barack Obama has been sworn in as the 44th president of
the united states, becoming the first African American to be elected in to the US white house.
Obama journey to the white house started in 2007 when he defeated the former first lady Hillary
Clinton in a hotly primary elections of the democratic party, and later in the fall of 2008 defeated John
McCain of the Republican party in the historic elections.
Many hitherto red states of Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa, Montana, went deep blue as
they gave their votes to the Democratic party.
During the campaign, Obama intelligently told the American people what they wanted to hear, as he
promised the revitalized of the nose dived economy, job creations, tax breaks for the poor, health care
boost and fight against terrors.
In his acceptance speech during the victory of the last November election, Obama said "There are
many who won't agree with every
decision or policy I make as president, and we know that government can't solve every problem. But I
will always be honest with you about the challenges we face."
Road to glory: From Jr. Senator to President of the United States
In February 2007, when Sen. Obama announced his presidential bid, many did not give it a big thought.
He was not given any thought because; the Clinton machinery was almost insurmountable and a big
obstacle to cross in the democratic primaries. However, against all odds and long heated primaries,
Obama defeated former first lady Hillary Clinton to be nominated as the presidential flag bearer of the
Democratic Party. And on November 4, 2008, America voters elected him as the 44th and first black
president.
Biography
Sen. Barak Obama was born on August 4, 1961, is the junior United States Senator from Illinois.
Obama is the first African American to be nominated by a major American political party for president
and now the first black president-elect of the United States of America .
He attended Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the
Harvard Law Review, Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney
before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.
He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.
Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he announced
his campaign for the U.S. Senate in January 2003. After a primary victory in March 2004, Obama
delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. Some political
commentator believed the powerful key not address at 2004 democratic brought him in the national
limelight.
He was elected to the Senate in November 2004 with 70 percent of the vote. As a member of the
Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, he helped create legislation to control conventional
weapons and to promote greater public accountability in the use of federal funds. He also made official
trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa .
During the 110th Congress, he helped create legislation regarding lobbying and electoral fraud, climate
change, nuclear terrorism, and care for returned U.S. military personnel.
Obama announced his presidential campaign in February 2007, he defeated Sen. Hillary Clinton in a
tough battle democratic primaries and was formally nominated at the 2008 Democratic National
Convention. He subsequently mad history in November 4, 2008, as he was elected 44th president of
the United States .
Obama’s story will not be complete without telling his Kenyan born father who was a US trained
economist, and later became a senior government economists in Kenyan until his death in auto crash at
the age of 46.
Biography of Sen. Obama’s Father
Barack Hussein Obama (1936–1982) was a Kenyan senior governmental economist, and father of
Illinois Senator and 2008 Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.
Early years
Obama Sr. was born on the shores of Lake Victoria in Kendu Bay, Rachuonyo and raised in Nyang’
oma Kogelo, Alego, Siaya, Kenya. He was the son of Hussein Onyango Obama ( 1895–1979) by his
second wife, Akumu Habiba. His family are members of the Luo ethnic group. Obama Sr. was raised
as a Muslim, but later became an atheist. He grew up in Nyang’oma Kogelo, and was married at the
age of eighteen in a tribal ceremony to Kezia, with whom he had four children.
Education
Obama Sr. received a scholarship in economics through a program organized by nationalist leader Tom
Mboya. The program offered Western educational opportunities to outstanding Kenyan students.
Senator Obama said of his father's scholarship, "The Kennedys decided: 'We're going to do an airlift.
We're going to go to Africa and start bringing young Africans over to this country and give them
scholarships to study so they can learn what a wonderful country America is. This young man named
Barack Obama [Sr.] got one of those tickets and came over to this country.'"
Initial financial supporters of the program included Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Jackie Robinson,
and Elizabeth Mooney Kirk, a literacy advocate who provided most of the financial support for Obama
Sr.'s early years in the United States, according to the Tom Mboya archives at Stanford University.
At the age of 23, Obama Sr. enrolled at the University of Hawaii, leaving behind a pregnant Kezia and
their infant son. Obama Sr. had already turned away from Islam and become an atheist by the time he
moved to the United States . Barack Obama Sr.'s daughter Auma has commented that her father"was
never a Muslim although he was born into a Muslim family with a Muslim name."
On 21 February 1961, Obama Sr. married fellow student Ann Dunham in Maui, Hawaii. Their son,
Barack Obama, ( now president-elect) was born on August 4, 1961. Dunham left school to care for
the baby, while Obama Sr.
completed his degree. He graduated from the University of Hawaii in June 1962, leaving shortly
thereafter to travel
to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he would begin graduate study at Harvard University in the fall
ater that summer, Dunham and the year-old baby Barack stopped to visit her friends in Mercer Island,
Washington, the
Seattle suburb where she had grown up, before joining Obama Sr. in Cambridge .
However, mother and son soon returned to Seattle , where she enrolled in the University of
Washington. Dunham, missing her family, then moved back to Hawaii and filed for divorce in Honolulu
in January 1964. Obama Sr. did not contest, and the divorce was granted. He only saw his son again
once, in 1971, when Barack was 10 years old.
While at Harvard, Obama Sr. met an American-born teacher named Ruth Nidesand. She followed him
to Kenya when he returned there after receiving a Masters degree (AM) in economics from Harvard in
1965. Nidesand eventually became his third wife and had two children with him before they divorced.
Return to Kenya
On his return to Kenya , Obama Sr. was hired by an oil company and then served as an economist in
the Ministry of Transportation, and later became senior economist in the Kenyan Ministry of Finance. In
1965 Obama Sr. wrote a paper titled "Problems Facing Our Socialism," published in the East Africa
Journal, harshly criticizing the blueprint for national planning titled "African Socialism and Its
Applicability to Planning in Kenya" produced by Tom Mboya's Ministry of Economic Planning and
Development. As Senator Barack Obama describes in his memoir, his father's conflict with President
Kenyatta destroyed his career.
Obama Sr.'s life then took a tailspin into drinking and poverty, from which he never recovered. His
friend, Kenyan journalist Philip Ochieng, has described Obama Sr.'s difficult personality and drinking
problems in the Kenya newspaper The Nation. Obama Sr. lost both legs in an automobile collision, and
subsequently lost his job. He died not long afterward at the age of 46 in a car crash in Nairobi. Obama
Sr. is buried in Alego, at the village of Nyang’oma Kogelo , Siaya District , Kenya .
Prelude to yesterday’s inauguration, on Saturday then president-elect Obama whose mentor is the
fellow Illinois former president of the United states the great Abraham Lincoln took a train ride for
Delaware to Washington DC, giving speech at stops in Delaware, Baltimore and Washington DC.
In his inaugural speech, Obama preached unity among American people adding that "What is required
of us now is a new era of responsibility, a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have
duties to ourselves, our nation and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize
gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character,
than giving our all to a difficult task."
Political analysts said president Obama will face a daunting tasks of rebuilding the economy that is
almost in imperil, two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, growing conflicts between Israel and her neighbors
in middle east, job losses at home and war against US sworn enemies.
By Oludare Fase/Ayo Fawibe/Taiye Olayemi/USA
The junior senator from the state of Illinois Barack Obama has been sworn in as the 44th president of
the united states, becoming the first African American to be elected in to the US white house.
Obama journey to the white house started in 2007 when he defeated the former first lady Hillary
Clinton in a hotly primary elections of the democratic party, and later in the fall of 2008 defeated John
McCain of the Republican party in the historic elections.
Many hitherto red states of Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa, Montana, went deep blue as
they gave their votes to the Democratic party.
During the campaign, Obama intelligently told the American people what they wanted to hear, as he
promised the revitalized of the nose dived economy, job creations, tax breaks for the poor, health care
boost and fight against terrors.
In his acceptance speech during the victory of the last November election, Obama said "There are
many who won't agree with every
decision or policy I make as president, and we know that government can't solve every problem. But I
will always be honest with you about the challenges we face."
Road to glory: From Jr. Senator to President of the United States
In February 2007, when Sen. Obama announced his presidential bid, many did not give it a big thought.
He was not given any thought because; the Clinton machinery was almost insurmountable and a big
obstacle to cross in the democratic primaries. However, against all odds and long heated primaries,
Obama defeated former first lady Hillary Clinton to be nominated as the presidential flag bearer of the
Democratic Party. And on November 4, 2008, America voters elected him as the 44th and first black
president.
Biography
Sen. Barak Obama was born on August 4, 1961, is the junior United States Senator from Illinois.
Obama is the first African American to be nominated by a major American political party for president
and now the first black president-elect of the United States of America .
He attended Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the
Harvard Law Review, Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney
before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.
He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.
Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he announced
his campaign for the U.S. Senate in January 2003. After a primary victory in March 2004, Obama
delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. Some political
commentator believed the powerful key not address at 2004 democratic brought him in the national
limelight.
He was elected to the Senate in November 2004 with 70 percent of the vote. As a member of the
Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, he helped create legislation to control conventional
weapons and to promote greater public accountability in the use of federal funds. He also made official
trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa .
During the 110th Congress, he helped create legislation regarding lobbying and electoral fraud, climate
change, nuclear terrorism, and care for returned U.S. military personnel.
Obama announced his presidential campaign in February 2007, he defeated Sen. Hillary Clinton in a
tough battle democratic primaries and was formally nominated at the 2008 Democratic National
Convention. He subsequently mad history in November 4, 2008, as he was elected 44th president of
the United States .
Obama’s story will not be complete without telling his Kenyan born father who was a US trained
economist, and later became a senior government economists in Kenyan until his death in auto crash at
the age of 46.
Biography of Sen. Obama’s Father
Barack Hussein Obama (1936–1982) was a Kenyan senior governmental economist, and father of
Illinois Senator and 2008 Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.
Early years
Obama Sr. was born on the shores of Lake Victoria in Kendu Bay, Rachuonyo and raised in Nyang’
oma Kogelo, Alego, Siaya, Kenya. He was the son of Hussein Onyango Obama ( 1895–1979) by his
second wife, Akumu Habiba. His family are members of the Luo ethnic group. Obama Sr. was raised
as a Muslim, but later became an atheist. He grew up in Nyang’oma Kogelo, and was married at the
age of eighteen in a tribal ceremony to Kezia, with whom he had four children.
Education
Obama Sr. received a scholarship in economics through a program organized by nationalist leader Tom
Mboya. The program offered Western educational opportunities to outstanding Kenyan students.
Senator Obama said of his father's scholarship, "The Kennedys decided: 'We're going to do an airlift.
We're going to go to Africa and start bringing young Africans over to this country and give them
scholarships to study so they can learn what a wonderful country America is. This young man named
Barack Obama [Sr.] got one of those tickets and came over to this country.'"
Initial financial supporters of the program included Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Jackie Robinson,
and Elizabeth Mooney Kirk, a literacy advocate who provided most of the financial support for Obama
Sr.'s early years in the United States, according to the Tom Mboya archives at Stanford University.
At the age of 23, Obama Sr. enrolled at the University of Hawaii, leaving behind a pregnant Kezia and
their infant son. Obama Sr. had already turned away from Islam and become an atheist by the time he
moved to the United States . Barack Obama Sr.'s daughter Auma has commented that her father"was
never a Muslim although he was born into a Muslim family with a Muslim name."
On 21 February 1961, Obama Sr. married fellow student Ann Dunham in Maui, Hawaii. Their son,
Barack Obama, ( now president-elect) was born on August 4, 1961. Dunham left school to care for
the baby, while Obama Sr.
completed his degree. He graduated from the University of Hawaii in June 1962, leaving shortly
thereafter to travel
to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he would begin graduate study at Harvard University in the fall
ater that summer, Dunham and the year-old baby Barack stopped to visit her friends in Mercer Island,
Washington, the
Seattle suburb where she had grown up, before joining Obama Sr. in Cambridge .
However, mother and son soon returned to Seattle , where she enrolled in the University of
Washington. Dunham, missing her family, then moved back to Hawaii and filed for divorce in Honolulu
in January 1964. Obama Sr. did not contest, and the divorce was granted. He only saw his son again
once, in 1971, when Barack was 10 years old.
While at Harvard, Obama Sr. met an American-born teacher named Ruth Nidesand. She followed him
to Kenya when he returned there after receiving a Masters degree (AM) in economics from Harvard in
1965. Nidesand eventually became his third wife and had two children with him before they divorced.
Return to Kenya
On his return to Kenya , Obama Sr. was hired by an oil company and then served as an economist in
the Ministry of Transportation, and later became senior economist in the Kenyan Ministry of Finance. In
1965 Obama Sr. wrote a paper titled "Problems Facing Our Socialism," published in the East Africa
Journal, harshly criticizing the blueprint for national planning titled "African Socialism and Its
Applicability to Planning in Kenya" produced by Tom Mboya's Ministry of Economic Planning and
Development. As Senator Barack Obama describes in his memoir, his father's conflict with President
Kenyatta destroyed his career.
Obama Sr.'s life then took a tailspin into drinking and poverty, from which he never recovered. His
friend, Kenyan journalist Philip Ochieng, has described Obama Sr.'s difficult personality and drinking
problems in the Kenya newspaper The Nation. Obama Sr. lost both legs in an automobile collision, and
subsequently lost his job. He died not long afterward at the age of 46 in a car crash in Nairobi. Obama
Sr. is buried in Alego, at the village of Nyang’oma Kogelo , Siaya District , Kenya .
Prelude to yesterday’s inauguration, on Saturday then president-elect Obama whose mentor is the
fellow Illinois former president of the United states the great Abraham Lincoln took a train ride for
Delaware to Washington DC, giving speech at stops in Delaware, Baltimore and Washington DC.
In his inaugural speech, Obama preached unity among American people adding that "What is required
of us now is a new era of responsibility, a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have
duties to ourselves, our nation and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize
gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character,
than giving our all to a difficult task."
Political analysts said president Obama will face a daunting tasks of rebuilding the economy that is
almost in imperil, two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, growing conflicts between Israel and her neighbors
in middle east, job losses at home and war against US sworn enemies.
President Barack Obama/USA