Canidates Compared

When comparing presidential candidates why would you really need to point out that one is the “first biracial possible president – his father being Kenyan and his mother being Caucasian and a freshman senator from Chicago, and he’s frequently been called inexperienced. With black skin, some consider him unelectable in a country that only 44 years ago had to pass legislation to force an end to the racial segregation that divided the nation.” How is this truly important when it comes to leading our country, when it comes to making decisions that deal with foreign policy, when it comes to helping our country out of its current financial situation that our previous twice elected president was able to put us into. How is it important that his running mate could be the first Roman Catholic Vice-President?

Collin Powell Endorsing Barack Obama

Shelby Steele- Race and The Obama Campaign

Barack Hussein Obama II

Obama is the first African American to be nominated by a major political party for the President of the United States. A graduate of 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 in the Illinois senate from 1997 to 2004. He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 92-04. Obama announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate in January 2003. After a primary victory in 2004. Obama was elected to the senate in 2004 with 70 percent of the vote. On February 10, 2007 he announced his candidacy for President of the United States in front of the Old State Capitol building in Springfield, Illinois. The choice of the announcement site was symbolic since it was also where Abraham Lincoln in 1858 delivered his history “House Divided” speech. Throughout his campaign Obama has emphasized the issues of ending the Iraq War, increasing energy independence, and providing universal health care, at one point identifying these as his top three priorities.