Barack Obama

Barack ☭HUSSEIN☭ Soetoro Obama (born August 4, 1961) is the 44th President of the United States and the recipient of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. President Obama defeated Republican nominee John McCain for the presidency in 2008 after an administration headed by George W. Bush and won a second term after defeating former Massachusetts governor, Mitt Romney. He was the junior United States Senator from Illinois from 2005 up until 2008. Navy seals under his watch defeated Osama Bin Laden, a feat which George W. Bush didn't manage. In addition, he has been much tougher in regards to terrorism than George W. Bush.

Barack Obama has overcome racism for his mixed-race heritage and risen up to become a two-term President of the United States. President Obama has shown the world that you don't have to be white to lead a diverse Western nation. He has been frequently opposed by born-again pro-family politicians. In addition, most rich Republicans are against him. Some people, most of them residing in the south hold racist feelings toward President Obama.

Biography
Barack Obama's story is an American story — values from the heartland, hard work and education as the means of getting ahead, and the conviction that a life like his should be lived in service to others.

With a father from Kenya and a mother from Kansas, President Obama was born in Hawaii (yes, he was.) on August 4, 1961. He was raised with help from his grandfather, who served in Patton's army, and his grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle management at a bank.

After working his way through college with the help of scholarships and student loans, President Obama moved to Chicago, where he worked with a group of churches to help rebuild communities devastated by the closure of local steel plants.

He went on to attend law school, where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. Upon graduation, he returned to Chicago to help lead a voter registration drive, teach constitutional law at the University of Chicago, and remain active in his community.

President Obama's years of public service are based around his unwavering belief in the ability to unite people around a politics of purpose. In the Illinois State Senate, he passed the first major ethics reform in 25 years, cut taxes for working families, and expanded health care for children and their parents. As a United States Senator, he reached across the aisle to pass groundbreaking lobbying reform, lock up the world's most dangerous weapons, and bring transparency to government by putting federal spending online.

He was elected the 44th President of the United States on November 4, 2008, and sworn in on January 20, 2009. He was re-elected on November 6, 2012 and he defeated Romney 332-206 in electoral votes. He and his wife, Michelle, are the proud parents of two daughters, Malia, and Sasha,. Learn more about Barack Obama 's spouse, Michelle Obama.

Health Care
Despite Republican attempts to ruin it he passed Universal Health Care Reform which has started to go into effect. Once the United States has Universal Health Care Americans who are sick and can’t work won’t need to worry so much about how they will pay for medical care.

Without 'Obamacare', our health care costs are unsustainable. The United States spends more on healthcare per person than any other compatible country in the world. More than half of the bankruptcies in this country are based on medical expenses and a majority of those people actually had insurance. If Obamacare were repealed, we would have millions of uninsured Americans overnight.

More importantly, the Health Care reform passed by Obama is deficit neutral. It is a fantastic law that will benefit everyone if the conservatives stop opposing it.

Antichrist to conservatives?
Neocons don't like him – because he’s a Democrat. Because he's black (according to a few really irrational Conservatives) he must be Islamic, (Conservapedia thinks he is a Muslim) and of course they imagine, because he must be Islamic he must be a terrorist.

Obama’s policies are working better than the failed policies of Bush so Conservatives do Red baiting. Conservatives (claim) that he is a Socialist, Communist, Fascist, a Muslim, and an Atheist, despite the fact that it is rather difficult to be all five at once; he is actually a Christian politician. Neocons also don't like Barack Obama because he is black and many Neocons are white racists.

Due to conservative hatred of Obama, he has had to put up with an unprecedented level of obstructionism from the opposition party, including a standing Republican Senatorial filibuster on literally any and all Democratic legislation but the purely routine (and even that's not safe as the Republicans voted in lockstep against raising the federal debt ceiling, something which had been purely routine before). That this has led to the Republicans being known as the "Party of No" is something conservatives seem to find a source of pride.

Obama's Birth Certificate?
Conservatives complain about anything - so long as it's not one of their own talking points. They will go on and on about stuff that either hardly matters, or doesn't matter at all.

Who has not heard the usual conservative suspects about President Obama having not yet provided a real birth certificate? Something about the one that got printed isn't right, it is said. It avoids the question about whether these people would have given a damn if one of their own paragons of moral virtue and candidates for God and Country had a glitch on his own birth certificate. They'd just say, ''"Does this really matter? What matters is that the candidate can lead the country!" ''Yes, this is correct.

Speaking of Arnold Schwarzenegger: it is incredible to see how some of these same people have been incessantly whining "Obama can't be President! He was born in Kenya, not the US! It'd be a safe bet that most of them really don't give a damn about the birth certificate in the first place. You may recall, a lot of them had said a few years back that they had wanted that "Born in the USA" clause to be overlooked, when it was thought that the Republican movie star might want to run for President in the somewhat-near-future.

Then there was the time that a bunch of Neocons hijacked Republican Mike Castle's debate on healthcare and changed the subject from healthcare, which is a concern personally involving millions of American people, to the Obama birth certificate issue, which only should be of concern to Barack Obama. Of course, conservatives just aren't all that good at winning debates on issues that are actually important at all, and since the healthcare topic is big, complex and important, compared to the simple and trivial, one can guess why it seemed like a good idea to them to do this. (After all, it seems a lot like what their guru Karl Rove would've done.)

Recently a new certificate has been released stating he was born in Kenya; however due to the vast number of glaring errors it wasn't any real birth certificate. It could've been a fake to fuel the Birthers' nonsense.

The people from Fox News and the like can only get their readers to believe them when they conveniently forget to point to the readily-available truth on this completely pointless issue. The stuff that they chose to lambaste and expose tended to be both actually true, and with some exceptions, important. At any rate, President Barack Obama's birth certificate has been available in high resolution since before the election. His mother was Ann Dunham and his father was Barack Obama Sr.

Conservative media on Obama
Conservative media is constantly trying to crush Obama by calling him a socialist. This is due to the fact he is actually trying to help America and introducing Universal Health Care (something that every developed country should have), Conservatives use America's traditional fear of communism to try and crush Obama. If having a healthcare system means that a country is socialist that means that countries like Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden are all socialist. Well these countries are allies to the United States, do Conservatives want to be allies to countries that they think are socialist?

Firstly, few of these countries are socialist. Secondly, increasing numbers of Americans now believe that Socialism is better than Capitalism. . In fact, conservative claims that Obama is a Socialist may backfire, and increase his support, being that the days of the paranoia about the Soviet Union are far enough behind us now that the younger generations learned about Socialism and Communism from schoolbooks, rather than their dads lecturing their kids about how the Commies were the guys who were supposed to blow us all up soon with all their nuclear missiles".

In a popular YouTube video making the rounds, a documentary filmmaker from Europe interviews random Americans about various subjects that make the panties of right-wing conservatives get squeezed up in a bunch. that make Right wing conservatives really annoyed. One of them was "Socialism". No one seemed to know a thing about it. They could identify no Socialist countries or describe one single thing about it...believing that Socialism was "just another name for Communism"--or else, they'd answer: "Something to do with Facebook." Eergh.

(To be completely fair, the liberals and Democrats in the United States, along with everyone else who disliked Bush II, certainly sent a lot of nasty comments about Dubya across the Internet. The big difference, though, is that most of the time, these referred to things which were actually true about Dubya.)

No success on poverty
The gap in income between rich and poor unfortunately increased under Obama, that makes true Liberals, Social Democrats and Socialists unsure about him. We must not forget that Republicans controlled parts of Congress for some of that time. Obama has promised to take action to improve the postiion of poor Americans but naturally Republicans have promised to fight him hard over this.

Health Care Victory
On June 28, 2012, the Supreme Court Upheld Obama's health care law. The 5-4 ruling was a victory for Obama, but will also serve as a rallying issue for Republicans calling for repeal of the Affordable Care Act passed by Democrats in 2010. "Today's decision was a victory for people all over this country whose lives are more secure because of this law," Obama said in a televised White House statement. Obama won a second term as president which will make it harder to repeal Obamacare though Liberal Americans still need to watch.

2012 Visit to New Orleans
On President Obama's latest visit to New Orleans, he finally broke his silence on gun control because of the Colorado Massacre that took place a couple of days before. The president then told an audience that such tragedies were replayed on a smaller scale in cities through out the country on a daily basis.

"Every day and a half the number of young people we lose to violence is about the same as the number of people we lost in that movie theater," Obama said in remarks at the National Urban League Conference in New Orleans.

Obama then went on to say that he was going to work with members of both parties and with religious groups, along with civic organisations to arrive at a consensus around violence reduction. Talking about the topic of gun control is risky in an election, and Obama has been careful to avoid making sweeping proposals that could offend gun owners and rally his Republican opponents. The president emphasized his support for the US constitution's second amendment, which outlines the right to bear arms.

"We recognise the traditions of gun ownership that passed on from generation to generation, that hunting and shooting are part of a cherished national heritage," Obama said.

"But I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not in the hands of criminals. That they belong on the battlefield of war, not on the streets of our cities."

Obama did not make any new proposals on gun control in his remarks, though he said background checks for people seeking to buy firearms were more thorough since he took office. However, Obama's opponent Mitt Romney has opposite views on gun control.

I don't support new gun laws in our country," Romney told CNN's Piers Morgan in an interview Thursday, adding later that "the effort to continue to look for some law to somehow make violence go away is missing the point."