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September 11th, 2001 - We will never forget. It is Bush that we regret.

Congratulations to the 44th President of the United States,
our new Commander in Chief,
BARACK OBAMA!

Barack Obama was raised by a single mother and his grandparents. They didn't have much money, but they taught him values from the Kansas heartland where they grew up. He took out loans to put himself through school. After college, he worked for Christian churches in Chicago, helping communities devastated when steel plants closed. Obama turned down lucrative job offers after law school to return to Chicago, leading a successful voter registration drive. He joined a small law firm, taught constitutional law and, guided by his Christian faith, stayed active in his community. Obama and his wife Michelle are proud parents of two daughters, Sasha and Malia.

He 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

But, now... Osama bin Laden is DEAD!

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  • Nobody has to bow to any leader. Not Bush, not Clinton, not Reagan, not Carter, not Ford, not Nixon, not LBJ, not JFK, not Eisenhower, not Truman, not FDR... nobody.

    If you don't understand that, then it is perhaps you that needs to leave the country, for this is a country that was founded on rebellion. It has a constitution that not only says that people have freedom, including the freedom to disrespect the President, but also to take up arms against their government.

  • get over it. We have a black president! Cotton days are over!

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  • KEN CUCCINELLI did a great job for helping interpret the law that concealed handgun permit holders have the right to defend themselves and their families while at george mason university university of virginia and all other state colleges. Thank you for helping the commonwealth of virginia Cuccinelli. For everyone to know you can open carry a firearm at college in virginia but you must conceal your handgun once inside any building. Rifles and shotguns are not permitted to be concealed.

  • @JTGOB2 so if ur countrys free y dont u guys have free healthcare......js ur countrys not so free now is it

  • @vickytrema07 you r asking ignorant but before asking this you have forgot the history my dear where did you learn and become civilized it was Islam who teaches u and you follow the Muslim to become civilized, your scientist and scholar only did the extension in the basic knowldge and you know this basic knowldge was originated by Muslims and It comes from the Quran the Muslims Holy Book. You must not forgot all these you are civilized only due to Muslims and Islam long live Islam

  • and this is why there is racist. because of ignorant people like the ones that have posted all the racist slurs.PEOPLE SAY WHAT RACE ARE YOU I SAY I AM THE HUMAN RACE . WHAT ARE YOU. WE ARE HUMANS PEOPLE KEEP THE FUKING COLORS WERE THEY BELONG IN THE CRAYON BOX. WE ARE ALL ONE GOD CHILDREN WE ARE EQUAL IN EVERY WAY ONLY THE IGNORANT WILL KEEP US DEVIDED . GOD BLESS AMERICA AND THE HUMANS RACE THAT LIVES HERE . MAY GOD TEACH THE IGNORANT TO FINALLY BE SMART . WE ARE ALL EQUAL STOP RACISM !!!!!!

  • @charliep345 "im with you on this god bless us all...we picked the right man"

    Do you still feel the same way????

  • @MSG685 List those "accomplishments"...

  • @brokedana What a stupid reply. Who cares what color he is.

  • @JTGOB2 You don't have the right to be disrespectful to anyone. You have the right not to like someone, but not liking someone and disrespecting them are two completely different things. I'm not American, but I do not like my country's president. I would never disrespect her though.

  • @JTGOB2 then stop talking shit and bust a fucking move...

  • 10 years. Trillions of dollars. Thousands of soldiers dead. State of the art technology. The US finally found Bin Laden.

    In his house.

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