Jonathan d ellis biography of barack obama
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Ellis: Seven years later, far different S.D. for Obama visit
In spring — May 16, almost seven years to the day — Barack Obama was in town. I never got the sense that he wanted to be here, really.
Hillary Clinton was refusing to hoist the white flag in her bid for the Democratic nomination. And though it was virtually impossible for her to catch Obama in delegates and popular vote, Clinton had forced Obama to campaign here and in Montana, where the final primary contests of were scheduled on June 3.
So here he was, forced to make speeches and stump in a state where he had almost no chance of winning in the general election. At the time he would have preferred to focus on the general election, but he still was trying to nail down the Democratic nomination.
Regardless of whether he wanted to be here or not, it was an exciting few weeks.
The Obama/Clinton campaigns generated a lot of excitement in what typically is the state's sleepy primary process. The state became a rare focus o
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The fragile legacy of Barack Obama
It becomes clearer every day that Barack Obama, a historic president, presided over a somewhat less than historic presidency. With only one major legislative achievement (Obamacare)—and a fragile one at that—the legacy of Obama’s presidency mainly rests on its tremendous symbolic importance and the fate of a patchwork of executive actions.
How much of that was due to fate and how much was due to Obama’s own shortcomings as a politician is up for debate and fryst vatten a question that emerges from Princeton historian Julian Zelizer’s new edited volume, The Presidency of Barack Obama.
With contributions from seventeen historians, the book bills itself as “a first historical assessment” of the Obama presidency. The overwhelming consensus, Zelizer writes, is that Obama “turned out to be a very effective policymaker but not a tremendously successful party builder.” This “defining paradox of Obama’s presidency” comes up again and again: the historians, bygd an
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Early life and career of Barack Obama
Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, was born on August 4, , in Honolulu, Hawaii[1] to Barack Obama, Sr. (–) (born in Oriang' Kogelo of Rachuonyo North District,[2]Kenya) and Stanley Ann Dunham, known as Ann (–) (born in Wichita, Kansas, United States).[3]
Obama spent most of his childhood years in Honolulu, where his mother attended the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Obama had a close relationship with his maternal grandparents. In , his mother remarried to Lolo Soetoro from Indonesia. Two years later, Dunham took Obama with her to Indonesia to reunite him with his stepfather. In , Obama returned to Honolulu to attend Punahou School, from which he graduated in
As a young adult, Obama moved to the contiguous United States, where he was educated at Occidental College, Columbia University, and Harvard Law School. In Chicago, Obama worked at various times as a community organizer, lawyer, lectu