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.

The RACE to Our Next President.

The “RACE” to Our Next President is about the next presidential election the fact that we are a few short months away from possibly having an African American President. It feel that it is important because it is a huge step for our country (the USA) but at the same time the press and our country are focusing entirely to much on the fact that he is African American. I believe that they need to focus less on his race and more on his political standings and his goals for our country and, plans for the future of the United States. With the current world standing of the US and the vast issues that we have at home, I feel that these important issues are being over looked or not covered enough. I am very interested in working on this because either way this is a huge part in the history of the United States unfolding before us. Regardless of the outcome of the election the fact that a major party (Democrat & Republican) has nominated a minority for President of the US. This will be something that our children will read about when they are in elementary, middle school; something people will be reading about writing reports about forever.