Barack Obama moving film - A Mothers Promise

Barack Obama was born to a white American mother, Ann Dunham, and a black Kenyan father, Barack Obama, Sr., who were both young college students at the University of Hawaii. When his father left for Harvard, she and Barack stayed behind, and his father ultimately returned alone to Kenya, where he worked as a government economist. Barack's mother remarried an Indonesian oil manager and moved to Jakarta when Barack was six. He later recounted Indonesia as simultaneously lush and a harrowing exposure to tropical poverty. He returned to Hawaii, where he was brought up largely by his grandparents. The family lived in a small apartment - his grandfather was a furniture salesman and an unsuccessful insurance agent and his grandmother worked in a bank - but Barack managed to get into Punahou School, Hawaii's top prep academy. His father wrote to him regularly but, though he traveled around the world on official business for Kenya, he visited only once, when Barack was ten.

Obama attended Columbia University, but found New York's racial tension inescapable. He became a community organizer for a small Chicago church-based group for three years, helping poor South Side residents cope with a wave of plant closings. He then attended Harvard Law School, and in 1990 became the first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review. He turned down a prestigious judicial clerkship, choosing instead to practice civil-rights law back in Chicago, representing victims of housing and employment discrimination and working on voting-rights legislation. He also began teaching at the University of Chicago Law School. Eventually he ran as a Democrat for the state senate seat from his district, which included both Hyde Park and some of the poorest ghettos on the South Side, and won.

In 2004 Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat, representing Illinois, and gained national attention by giving a rousing and well-received keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. In 2008 he ran for president as a democrat and won. He is set to become the 44th president of the Unites States and the first African-American ever elected to that position.

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[actforus333]

Finally: The man who is now our President is someone with an enlightened mind and a compassionate heart, a man who knows the value of empathy and honesty. THANK YOU to all my fellow Americans who took the time to get to know Barack Obama and then chose to judge him by the content of his character instead of the color of his skin. Let's work together now to meet the challenges he outlined today 1-20-09. May understanding and cooperation prevail!

[Fringe111]

I truly believe this man will be our way to a healthy future. Good Luck Barrack

[jiggar22]

@Shortbus5100 you are a liar

[bs2502]

As the leader of the free world and as a man with a genuinely good heart, he has my full respect.

[bsahle]

@Shortbus5100 No he doesn't and people like you actually helped Obama to become the president. You hate only makes you weak but makes those you hate strong. He is a brilliant man and that makes you right wing nut bags really mad. You hate is driven by fear like every bigot who is out there.

[bsahle]

@Shortbus5100 no he doesn't that is just the hate in you talking.

[MRbossman1982]

@Shortbus5100 Are you fukking kidding me, you NEED TO STOP USING DRUGS. OBAMA dosnt hate his white blood, or any white people. he comes froma rainbow of race of a family his step dad is Asian and so is his half sister .THE MAN DOESNT SEE RACE. matter of fact , he has probably done more good for white people and rich white people than for poor or blacks you smh.

[Fringe111]

@Shortbus5100 Exactly the same or even more so.

[1wulffen]

ROFLMAO!! have ya'll figured you got screwed by this white nigah!

[MRbossman1982]

Obamas white mom dosnt getenough credit.

[msboricua57]

ZIONIST PIG!!!!