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"President Barack Obama." //The White House//. The White House. Web. 17 Nov. 2011. .
 * 1) Barack obama is the 44th president of the united states
 * 2) He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on august, 4. 1961
 * 3) His father from Kenya and his mother from Kansas.
 * 4) He was raised by grand parents; His grand dad who served in the patton's army and his grandmother who worked her way up to the secretarial pool to middle management at a bank.
 * 5) He worked his way through college with scholarships and student loans and moved to Chicago to work with a church group that helped rebuild communities.
 * 6) He was a middle class hard working man
 * 7) Obama went on to attend law school, where he became the first African American president of the //Harvard law review//.
 * 8) He did years of public services which were based on his belief in the ability to unite people around the politics of purpose.
 * 9) As a Illinois state senate, he passed the first major ethic reforms in 25 years.
 * 10) He passed the reform to cut taxes for working families, and expand health services for children and there parents.
 * 11) As the united states senator, he make lobbying reforms to lock up the most dangerous weapons.
 * 12) Was elected the united states president on November, 4, 2008
 * 13) He has a wife, Michelle, and two daughters Malia,13 and Sasha, 10
 * 14) Was sworn in on January, 20, 2009
 * 15) He is the first African American man to hold office
 * 16) He practiced as a civil rights lawyer, joining the firm of miner, barn hill and galland.
 * 17) He taught at the university of Chicago law school, and helped voter registration during bill Clinton's campaign
 * 18) He got married to Michelle obama on October, 3,1992
 * 19) he is not racist to any kind
 * 20) his advocacy work led him to run for illnois state senate as a democrat
 * 21) he worked both democrats and republicans in drafting legislation to expand health services, and early childhood education for the poor

"Barack Obama Biography - Facts, Birthday, Life Story - Biography.com." //Famous Biographies & TV Shows - Biography.com//. Http://www.aetn.com/, 1996-2011. Web. 17 Nov. 2011. .
 * 1) He created a state earned income tax credit for the poor.
 * 2) Obama became the chairman of the Illinois senate's health and human services commitee
 * 3) He worked with law enforcement officials to require the videotaping of interrogations and confessions of all capital cities
 * 4) Following the 9/11 attacks in 2001, Obama was an early opponent of President George bush's push to war with Iraq.
 * 5) He said he wasn't opposed to all war
 * 6) He's opposed to dumb wars, he said
 * 7) Became the 3rd African American elected to the united states senate since the reconstruction
 * 8) Partnered with senator Richard lugar of Indiana, on bill that expanded efforts to destroy weapons of mass destruction in eastern Europe and Russia.
 * 9) He also created a website to track all government spending
 * 10) Spoke out to victims of hurricane katrina
 * 11) pushed for alternative energy development
 * 12) Championed improved veterans benefit
 * 13) When Obama took office, he inherited a global economic recession
 * 14) a recession of two on-going foreign wars; and the lowest international favorability rating for the United States ever.
 * 15) He campaigned on an ambitious agenda of financial reform, alternative energy, and reinventing education and health care
 * 16) all while bringing down the national debt in the government
 * 17) During his inauguration speech, Obama said about the situation by saying, "Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real.
 * 18) He coaxed congress to expand health care insurance for children and legal protection for women seeking equal pay
 * 19) He cut taxes for small families, small businesses and first time home buyers
 * 20) He also loosened the ban on embryonic stem cell research and moved ahead with a $3.5 trillion budget plan.

"Barack Obama on Abortion and Birth Control." //Glassbooth - Quiz to Help You Choose the Candidate That Represents Your Beliefs the Best//. 2011. Web. 17 Nov. 2011. .
 * 1) He strongly supports keeping abortion legal
 * 2) Supports the 2006 extension of the patriot act
 * 3) Supports the death penalty is proven guilty
 * 4) Opposes renewing the no child left behind
 * 5) Supports the idea that pollution plays a big part in global warming
 * 6) opposes gay marriage
 * 7) Is neutral on public financing of elections
 * 8) Supports restriction to access of firearms
 * 9) Strongly supports the path of citizenship of illegal immigrants
 * 10) Supports making marijuana available for medical reasons
 * 11) Strongly supports more funding for scientific research
 * 12) strongly opposes privatizing social security through personal social securities
 * 13) Strongly supports increasing taxes for wealthier Americans
 * 14) neutral on unrestricted free trade
 * 15) he supports rules on limiting the number of media outlets
 * 16) He believes to help reduce teen pregnancies and abortion is an option in rape or incest or danger to the woman's health
 * 17) Some woman agree with obama on the pregnancies and abortion and the rights with it
 * 18) A lot people oppose the view he supports on immigrants
 * 19) People say that obama is the best president yet because of how much he got rid of the national debt and his views on topics and believe in the rights of people/
 * 20) He got 70% of presidential votes against Alan Keyes, who got 27% of votes; the largest electoral victory in Illinois history.