About Politics

Raisa Raima asked:


His parents separated when he was two years old and later divorced. His mother remarried, and the family moved to Indonesia in 1967. Barack Obama attended schools in Jakarta until he was ten years old. Barack returned to Hawaii with his grandparents. He studied at Columbia University in New York, where he majored in political science. He then studied law at Harvard, and graduated in 1991. After Harvard Law School, Obama returned to Chicago, joined a small civil rights firm, ran a voter registration drive, and lectured on constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School. He married Michelle Robinson in October 1992. Their daughters, Malia Ann and Natasha, were born in 1998 and 2001. He delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston. He entered the US Senate on January 4 2005. He announced his intention to run for the 2008 in February 2007. After a lengthy battle with Hillary Clinton, he seized the Democratic nomination in June 2008. He formally accepted his party’s nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, on August 23. For more details about this great man, you can go through Barack Obama Books. If we really talk of politics, the hero obama wins over everything in American politics.Now he is the hero of Americans. Today Obama is the Hero of americans, This is first time in american politics history that one black is the president of America now. And the people are happy to see him as president. He is the new shining pole of politics in America. Now the people of USA are happy to see Obama as a president. They hope that he is the single hero who can change the face of america.



Samantha

Nate Gillespie asked:


This January, Barack Obama became the President of the United States.

It was truly a remarkably moment in our history, for a wide variety of reasons. Obama’s inauguration marked a dramatic reversal in our national politics, likely ending a generation of conservative Republican domination in Washington. It brought a successful conclusion to a new kind of campaign, one based in savvy use of the internet for political fundraising and organizing. It captured the collective imagination of a whole generation of young Americans, inspiring youth political engagement in ways not seen in this country since the era of John F. Kennedy half a century ago.

But more than anything, Barack Obama’s inaugural was remarkable—amazing, astounding, almost unbelievable, considering the long arc of American history—because a black man just became the President of the United States.

The sheer enormity of the moment almost dwarfed the particulars of the day—the words of Obama’s excellent speech, the pageantry of the inaugural spectacle, even the immense numbers of people who turned out in Washington to watch the event in person.

The sheer enormity of the moment was borne of the long and difficult history of race in this country. That story, of course, is much bigger than Barack Obama. Much movement toward racial progress occurred before Obama ever arrived on the scene, and much more remains to be made in the future. But it’s hard not to wonder whether what happened this year changed the meaning of race in America, forever.

The youngest of Obama’s voters, those in their late teens and early twenties, may be the least surprised about what happened this year. They grew up in a world in which the rigid racial boundaries of our past were just that—a part of our past - something that they primarily learned about in school while studying the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. or experiencing the segregated South through the eyes of children in To Kill a Mockingbird. (Not to say that they didn’t confront vexing racial issues of their own, but the lines weren’t drawn quite as sharply as they were in earlier eras.)

But we don’t have to look too far into our nation’s past to begin to see the dark racial legacy that made Obama’s election such a stunning revelation to anyone older than about 35.

As recently as the 1990s, hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur rhymed, without generating much controversy, that “although it seems heaven sent / we ain’t ready to see a black president”; the country divided bitterly along racial lines when a jury found former football star OJ Simpson not guilty of murdering his white wife.

As recently as the 1970s and 1980s, white citizens rioted over school desegregation in supposedly liberal northern cities like Boston, while widespread demonization of black people loomed large in public debates over welfare, crime, and affirmative action.

As recently as the 1960s, it was illegal, in many southern states, for whites and blacks to marry each other, to share the same hotels or restaurants, to use the same bathrooms or water fountains. Before 1965, black people who tried to vote in many parts of this country faced violent intimidation or even death.

All of this in Barack Obama’s own lifetime.

All of this, without even mentioning the even deeper past of slavery - a debate which helped spark The Civil War - and abolition, Reconstruction and Jim Crow, the three-fifths compromise and the “twenty negars” sold into servitude in Virginia in 1619—that’s one year before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.

And yet, despite all this—or perhaps, in a strange way, because of it—a black man named Barack Obama this year became our president. This year, perhaps, American history changed.



Valerie

Gen Wright asked:


The results are out - Barack Obama has won the presidential election! If you are a strong supporter of Obama, perhaps now is the time to buy some Obama merchandise and join in the celebrations. There are many different ways you can get your hands on some high quality Obama products. Such products include posters, shirts, calendars, coins, and more. One of the most convenient way to shop for affordable Obama merchandise is to visit an auction comparison shopping website.

How an auction shopping comparison site works.

An auction shopping comparison site allow you to compare between auctions. You can do so because important information such as number of bids, bid price, and time left for each auction will be presented in a well organized manner. You may also browse by categories if you like.

This is a great way to source for good deals. For instance, if you want to buy an Obama shirt, you can look at the competition that the auction has. The more bids an auction has, the more popular the item. This also means that you may need to pay a higher price for the item. However, some auctions may not have as many bids. The items may be high quality items that are overlooked. Hence the low number of bids. These are the deals that you should be looking out for.

From the comparison table, it is easy to tell the good deals apart from the not so good ones. If you manage to find a good deal, there is no need to be in too much of a hurry to place a bid. This will only attract the attention of competitors, who may try to outbid you. Try placing a bid only when an auction is about to end (i.e. during the last few hours). This information is provided by the auction comparison site.

Items for sale on auction sites may be brand new items or second hand items. This will be disclosed in the product description. You can check out the physical condition of the product from the online photos. If the auction gets too competitive, sometimes it may be better to buy a new item.

Fortunately, a new auction comparison site called Obama-Posters.com allows you to compare prices between a new product offered by established ecommerce sites such as Buy.com, Pinatas.com, or Amazon. You can immediately tell if the price of an auction has gone way too high just by monitoring the prices. If that’s the case, you may be better off buying a new product directly from an ecommerce retailer.

If you want to place a bid, simply click on the product title and you will be directed to the actual auction site. You may then be asked to create an account for free. If you already have an account, feel free to login and place your bids. For all you know, you may get lucky in the next couple of hours and end up with some really great Obama shirts and posters!



Maria

alphabetsoup2 asked:


From what I can determine, Obama is a man of his generation, where, self gratification and moving ahead is the directive.

I know what McCain has done, five years of torture, and, as a Senator, deriding his own party, to his demise in 2000.

What has Obama accomplished? Lying about campaign finance reform? Going to the center after embracing those that would do anything but?

Please, tell me, how has Obama sacrifieced himself on behalf of his nation, and, not his ambition?

Margaret

songchai asked:


I don’t care if you are a democ or republican but i hope you care about your country. Americans dump the Bushes for corruption and Now they have obama who is willingly accepting big corrupts in his side. What do you think?

Sally