Barack Obama - Hope Is Never False - YES WE CAN Music Video

The Audacity of Hope
Yes We Can!

Meet Barack
Early Years
Barack Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4th, 1961. His father, Barack Obama Sr., was born and raised in a small village in Kenya, where he grew up herding goats with his own father, who was a domestic servant to the British.

Barack's mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in small-town Kansas. Her father worked on oil rigs during the Depression, and then signed up for World War II after Pearl Harbor, where he marched across Europe in Patton's army. Her mother went to work on a bomber assembly line, and after the war, they studied on the G.I. Bill, bought a house through the Federal Housing Program, and moved west to Hawaii.

It was there, at the University of Hawaii, where Barack's parents met. His mother was a student there, and his father had won a scholarship that allowed him to leave Kenya and pursue his dreams in America.

Barack's father eventually returned to Kenya, and Barack grew up with his mother in Hawaii, and for a few years in Indonesia. Later, he moved to New York, where he graduated from Columbia University in 1983.

The College Years
Remembering the values of empathy and service that his mother taught him, Barack put law school and corporate life on hold after college and moved to Chicago in 1985, where he became a community organizer with a church-based group seeking to improve living conditions in poor neighborhoods plagued with crime and high unemployment.

The group had some success, but Barack had come to realize that in order to truly improve the lives of people in that community and other communities, it would take not just a change at the local level, but a change in our laws and in our politics.

He went on to earn his law degree from Harvard in 1991, where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. Soon after, he returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer and teach constitutional law. Finally, his advocacy work led him to run for the Illinois State Senate, where he served for eight years. In 2004, he became the third African American since Reconstruction to be elected to the U.S. Senate.

Political Career
It has been the rich and varied experiences of Barack Obama's life - growing up in different places with people who had differing ideas - that have animated his political journey. Amid the partisanship and bickering of today's public debate, he still believes in the ability to unite people around a politics of purpose - a politics that puts solving the challenges of everyday Americans ahead of partisan calculation and political gain.

In the Illinois State Senate, this meant working with both Democrats and Republicans to help working families get ahead by creating programs like the state Earned Income Tax Credit, which in three years provided over $100 million in tax cuts to families across the state. He also pushed through an expansion of early childhood education, and after a number of inmates on death row were found innocent, Senator Obama worked with law enforcement officials to require the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases.

In the U.S. Senate, he has focused on tackling the challenges of a globalized, 21st century world with fresh thinking and a politics that no longer settles for the lowest common denominator. His first law was passed with Republican Tom Coburn, a measure to rebuild trust in government by allowing every American to go online and see how and where every dime of their tax dollars is spent. He has also been the lead voice in championing ethics reform that would root out Jack Abramoff-style corruption in Congress.

As a member of the Veterans' Affairs Committee, Senator Obama has fought to help Illinois veterans get the disability pay they were promised, while working to prepare the VA for the return of the thousands of veterans who will need care after Iraq and Afghanistan. Recognizing the terrorist threat posed by weapons of mass destruction, he traveled to Russia with Republican Dick Lugar to begin a new generation of non-proliferation efforts designed to find and secure deadly weapons around the world. And knowing the threat we face to our economy and our security from America's addiction to oil, he's working to bring auto companies, unions, farmers, businesses and politicians of both parties together to promote the greater use of alternative fuels and higher fuel standards in our cars.

Whether it's the poverty exposed by Katrina, the genocide in Darfur, or the role of faith in our politics, Barack Obama continues to speak out on the issues that will define America in the 21st century. But above all his accomplishments and experiences, he is most proud and grateful for his family. His wife, Michelle, and his two daughters, Malia, 9, and Sasha, 6, live on Chicago's South Side where they attend Trinity United Church of Christ.

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[AgesOfYou827]

Did you REALLY believe he would keep his promises? How about the "middle class tax cut"? Dead on arrival.

What about the promise to eliminate taxes for seniors making less than $50,000 a year? Dead on arrival.

No more pork? Dead on arrival, with almost 9,000 earmarks in the spending bill.

No lobbyists in his administration? Dead on arrival.

5 days for the public to view and debate new legislation? Dead on arrival

Tax credits for businesses that hire new worker in 2009 and 2010? Dead on arrival

[AgesOfYou827]

Well, we'll have to wait and see on the war issue. So far, the "anti-war" candidate has proven to be anything but.

I couldn't live with myself if I had voted Obama/McCain. McCain isn't even a conservative, and Obama's voting record was a joke. Oh well.

In the end, don't blame me. I voted for Ron Paul :)

[fibromyalgia1inil]

wrongfully arrested disabled man with disabled wife and 3 daughters but cannot get help even after getting tased and arrested a second time WRONGFULLY....still my family awaits an appeal.....why is it noone cares???????family turns back on us and many friends because they are 2 stupid to realize this can happen

[RobMonty248]

Yes We ca... sing played backwards is Thank you Satan, if you think its coincidence you watch to much tv that alters the minds frequencies.

This lowers IQ and metabolism, get fat fast, drink soda and sing obama songs to praise the devil?

Obama is Osama...

watch?v=w53TMpk6QNc

[yendytok]

David Cameron’s forebears have a long history in financial racketeering. His great-great grandfather, Emile Levita, a German Jew, was related to the German-Jewish Goldsmid banking family, and obtained British citizenship in 1871. He was the director of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China. - PLEASE Watch this video - Lyndon LaRouche explains start of WW III . or this one - The Obama Deception HQ Full length version . here on youtube . PLUR .

[Randyrhoads4lyfe]

2pac "I see no changes"

[meforgodforall]

absolute shit. you people need to stand up and be the change you want...

[cptcolo]

reading these comments I can tell the tone of the country has changed. idealized hopeful views of Obama are gone but what are they replaced with? For all his bluster, it is the sad province of this man that he cannot choose his triumph. He can only choose how he will stand when the call of destiny comes. Hoping that he'll have the courage to answer.

[truefaith00]

He (and his supporters) will blame the Bush administration for creating a huge mess that Obama 'walked in to' but then continue the same assinine programs and wars that Bush did, and all the presidents before him did.

When you continue the torture, drone strikes, troop commitments and reckless fiscal policy that Bush apparently began, how are you any different? Where is the change? A change in appearance?

No thanks. Short on substance, long on blame and rhetoric.

[fatkenstein]

Finally, one of the secondary goals was to remove clunkers from the streets meaning less clunkers next year. This is especially true because most cars being produced now are not clunkers but relatively efficient. When did only useless people own clunkers? That statement is completely off base. Finally I will show you evidence of the stimulating effects of cash for clunkers. I would still appreciate the source of your mechanics losing jobs statement.

[fatkenstein]

Your argument is analogous to this. Two men are at an aircraft carrier to judge it's effectiveness. Man A points out the sterling battle record, and low loss of life. Man B points out that the materials used to build the arircraft carrier could have been used to build low cost cars for the poor here. Does Man B's argument mean the aircraft carrier is ineffective. NO, Man B's argument(much like yours) is besides the point!