Joined: Mar 19, 2004
Posts: 3054
Location: Sydney, Australia
Posted:
Sat Nov 08, 2008 8:01 am
Barack Obama is the U.S. president-elect. Following are some of his biographical details:
Age: 47
Birthdate: August 4, 1961
Birthplace: Honolulu, Hawaii
Education: Columbia University; Harvard Law School
Wife: Michelle Robinson
Children: Two daughters
Religious affiliation: United Church of Christ
Family: Barack Obama was born in Hawaii to a Kenyan father and a white American mother. His father, Barack Obama Sr., married his mother, Ann Dunham, while studying at the University of Hawaii. The couple separated two years after Obama was born. His father ultimately returned to Kenya, where he became a noted economist. He died in a car accident in 1982.
Obama's mother's second marriage was to an Indonesian man named Lolo Soetoro. The family moved to Indonesia and Obama remained there until he was 10 when he moved back to Hawaii and lived with his grandparents while studying on a scholarship at the elite Punahou Academy.
He has seven half brothers and sisters in Kenya from his father's other marriages, and a half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, from his mother's second marriage.
Career: After finishing college in 1983, Obama worked for a New York financial consultant and a consumer organization. He landed a job in Chicago in 1985 as an organizer for Developing Communities Project, a church-based group seeking to improve living conditions in poor neighborhoods.
Three years later, Obama left to go to Harvard Law School, where he became the first black president of the law review. He worked as a summer associate at the Sidley Austin law firm in Chicago, where he met his future wife. After graduation from Harvard in 1991, Obama practiced civil rights law at a small firm in Chicago, then became a lecturer in constitutional law at the University of Chicago in 1993.
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LukeLord HM Contributor
Joined: Nov 18, 2005
Posts: 880
Location: Lake Macquarie
Posted:
Sat Nov 08, 2008 5:10 pm
Its not going to be too hard to be better than his predessor...
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byrne HM Administrator
Joined: Mar 25, 2004
Posts: 1726
Location: At the Gates
Posted:
Mon Nov 10, 2008 9:43 pm
what happened during that 15 year period .... american politics is a joke. aside from americans en masse being as intelligent as a gaggle of geese, their political debates are cliche laden meaningless rhetortic. much like kevin rudd was when he was elected, and look at what he's done so far ... nothing, other than rack up 1,000,000 frequent flyer miles.
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