FACTS ABOUT BARACK OBAMA……THE MAN OBAMA

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FACTS ABOUT BARACK OBAMA……THE MAN OBAMA
Obama is a Christian by religion, a protestant, was baptized at the trinity united church of Christ in 1988 and was an active member there for two decades…
He is married to Michelle Robinson, who he met in June 1989.while serving as a summer associate as Obama’s adviser for three months…they became engaged in 1991, and got married on October 3, 1992... The couple has two daughters, Malia Ann (1998) and Natasha or Sasha(2001)
Obama plays basket-ball, speaks English and Indonesia (to some extent) and has authored two great books: Dreams from my father and the Audacity of hope, as well as delivered papers in many places including Kenya.
Obama has also blamed himself to have taken hard drugs like marijuana, cocaine and even alcohol during his high school days in order to suppress social perception of himself being multi racial in outlook, what he called his greatest moral failure...
Obama’s active political career began in 1996, when he was elected to the Illinois senate, where he served three terms tenures having been re-elected in 1998 and 2002 respectively loosing out in a democratic primaries to the four terms incumbent, bobby rush by a margin of two to one in 2000, when he attempted to go for the us house of reps.
Obama began the consideration of us senate ambition in m,id-2002,enlisting political strategist, David Axelrod and formally announced his candidacy ion January 2003.
On February 10, 2007, Obama announced his candidacy for the presidency of the U.S in front of the old state capitol building in Springfield, Illinois. This location was quite symbolic because it was also where Abraham Lincoln delivered his historic "Hose Divided" speech in 1858... The road to the presidency was not too smooth for obama as he met the stiff opposition of such high profiled personality like Hillary Clinton, who after some stalemate he defeated on June 3, 2008. obama then went ahead to give his victory speech in st. Paul minnesot6a, and got Clinton’s endorsement on June 7 after some days of resentment….on august 23, 2008, Obama announced that he had chosen the Delaware senator, Joe Biden. as his vice presidential running mate..
During te primaries and the general elections, obama campaigns set numerous fund raising records. First major party presidential candidate to turn down public financing in the general election since the system was created in 1976…
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