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Straight out of the “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress”, Barack Obama is a Senator from Illinois and 44th President of the United States; born in Honolulu, Hawaii, August 4, 1961; obtained early education in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Hawaii; continued education at Occidental College, Los Angeles, Calif.; received a B.A. in 1983 from Columbia University, New York City; worked as a community organizer in Chicago, Ill.; studied law at Harvard University, where he became the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review, and received J.D. in 1991; lecturer on constitutional law, University of Chicago; member, Illinois State senate 1997-2004; elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in 2004, and served from January 3, 2005, to November 16, 2008, when he resigned from office, having been elected president; elected as the 44th President of the United States on November 4, 2008, and was inaugurated on January 20, 2009.
He has some impressive credentials and rare achievements few others will experience in their lives, but in terms of being the President of the United States of America, the greatest country on Earth, he falls short. First, the birth certificate fiasco was absolutely ridiculous. I don’t know anyone who would not simply show another person their birth certificate if they were asked to present it. Regardless of where our president was born, the simple fact that he was so reluctant to prove his origin speaks for itself. People do not behave the way he did when they have nothing to hide. Second, Barack Obama was not the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review and nor is he the first African-American to reside as the President of the United States of America. I hope that within my lifetime I do get to witness a black man or woman sitting behind the desk in the Oval Office. I also hope that man or woman will have enough sense and integrity to not refer to his or herself as an “African-American” because an American is simply an American. I’d also like to see a woman elected as president in my lifetime because these are things that have never happened before and they would be signs of progress. If Barack Obama was conceived by a red man and a blue woman and he was born purple, why would he refer to himself as the first Red-American president when he is clearly as purple as an eggplant? It makes no sense. And, finally, a Community Planner and three years as a Senator? If I were a Community Planner with three years of experience in the army would I campaign for General? No!
America voted him in and America can vote him out.
1,811.6 miles to go.
- Illinois was the twenty-first state to join the union on December 3, 1818, one year before Alabama and one year after Mississippi.
- Population, as of 2009, is 12,910,409.
- Senators are Richard Durbin (D) and Mark Kirk (R).
- Representatives are Bobby Rush (D), Jesse Jackson (D), Daniel Lipinski (D), Luis Gutierrez (D), Mike Quigley (D), Peter Roskam (R), Danny Davis (D), Melissa Bean (D), Janice Schakowsky (D), Deborah Halvorson (D), Jerry Costello (D), Judy Biggert (R), Bill Foster (D), Timothy Johnson (R), Donald Manzullo (R), Phil Hare (D), Aaron Schock (R), and John Shimkus (R).
- Illinois has 21 electoral votes. Historically, the state has voted largely Republican from the Civil War through the 1920s. Through the Great Depression and World War II, Illinois voted blue. Between 1952 and 1988 the state voted red for eight out of ten presidential elections. And all the way up to Barack Obama’s presidential election, Illinois has voted for a Democrat in the last five elections.
Straight out of the “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress”, Barack Obama is a Senator from Illinois and 44th President of the United States; born in Honolulu, Hawaii, August 4, 1961; obtained early education in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Hawaii; continued education at Occidental College, Los Angeles, Calif.; received a B.A. in 1983 from Columbia University, New York City; worked as a community organizer in Chicago, Ill.; studied law at Harvard University, where he became the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review, and received J.D. in 1991; lecturer on constitutional law, University of Chicago; member, Illinois State senate 1997-2004; elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in 2004, and served from January 3, 2005, to November 16, 2008, when he resigned from office, having been elected president; elected as the 44th President of the United States on November 4, 2008, and was inaugurated on January 20, 2009.
He has some impressive credentials and rare achievements few others will experience in their lives, but in terms of being the President of the United States of America, the greatest country on Earth, he falls short. First, the birth certificate fiasco was absolutely ridiculous. I don’t know anyone who would not simply show another person their birth certificate if they were asked to present it. Regardless of where our president was born, the simple fact that he was so reluctant to prove his origin speaks for itself. People do not behave the way he did when they have nothing to hide. Second, Barack Obama was not the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review and nor is he the first African-American to reside as the President of the United States of America. I hope that within my lifetime I do get to witness a black man or woman sitting behind the desk in the Oval Office. I also hope that man or woman will have enough sense and integrity to not refer to his or herself as an “African-American” because an American is simply an American. I’d also like to see a woman elected as president in my lifetime because these are things that have never happened before and they would be signs of progress. If Barack Obama was conceived by a red man and a blue woman and he was born purple, why would he refer to himself as the first Red-American president when he is clearly as purple as an eggplant? It makes no sense. And, finally, a Community Planner and three years as a Senator? If I were a Community Planner with three years of experience in the army would I campaign for General? No!
America voted him in and America can vote him out.
1,811.6 miles to go.
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