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 * Obama Notes-**
 * 1) His name means __**one who is blessed**__in Swahili
 * 2) He won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir, Dreams From My Father
 * 3) He can speak Spanish
 * 4) While on the campaign trail he refused to watch CNN and had sports channels on instead
 * 5) He said he would wuit smoking before electons and didnt
 * 6) His desk in his Senate office once belonged to Robert Kennedy
 * 7) He and Michelle made $4.2 million last year, with much coming from sales of his books
 * 8) He doesn't drink coffee and rarely drinks alcohol
 * 9) As a teenager he took drugs including marijuana and cocaine
 * 10) His father was a senior economist for the Kenyan government
 * 11) He keeps on his desk a carving of a wooden hand holding an egg an Kenyan symbol of the fragility of life
 * 12) He was given the code name "Renegade" by his Secret Service handlers
 * 13) He drives a Ford Escape Hybrid, having ditched his gas-guzzling Chrysler 300
 * 14) He repaid his student loan only four years ago after signing his book deal
 * 15) Attended Unviserty of Hawaii
 * 16) He plans to install a basketball court in the White House grounds
 * 17) He hates the youth trend for trousers which sag beneath the backside
 * 18) He ate dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper while living in Indonesia
 * 19) His favorite meal is his wife's Shrimp Linguini
 * 20) He is left handed the sixth post-war president to be left handed

"Barack Obama: The 50 Facts You Might Not Know - Telegraph." //Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph Online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph - Telegraph//. Web. 11 Nov. 2011. [].


 * Obama Notes**
 * 1) Obama was born August 4, 1961
 * 2) In Honolulu, Hawaii
 * 3) He was a civil rights before his president carrer
 * 4) First as an Illinois State Senator
 * 5) Was the first African American President
 * 6) Named after his father
 * 7) His dad was born in Nyanza Province, Kenya
 * 8) He grew up in Africa
 * 9) Eventually earning a scholarship that allowed him to leave Kenya
 * 10) He left for college as soon as possible in America
 * 11) Obama enrolled in the esteemed Punahou Academy, excelling in basketball and graduating with academic honors
 * 12) He was 1 of 3 black people at the school
 * 13) "I began to notice there was nobody like me in the Sears, Roebuck Christmas catalog...and that Santa was a white man" quote from Obama During his years in the Universty of Hawaii
 * 14) Obama also struggled with the absence of his father, who he saw only once more after his parents divorced, in a brief 1971 visit.
 * 15) Obama studied at Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years
 * 16) He then transferred to Columbia University in New York, graduating in 1983 with a degree in political science.
 * 17) In 1982 Obama's Dad passed away from a fatal car crash as he was driving to Nairobi.
 * 18) Joined the Trinity United Church of Christ
 * 19) His gpa in harvard was a 3.3 but that is a guess becuz obama hasnt released his gpa, but a former room mate said his gpa was a good average score.
 * 20) In law school he recived the second highest honors there is

Barack Obama Biography - Facts, Birthday, Life Story - Biography.com." //Famous Biographies & TV Shows - Biography.com//. Web. 11 Nov. 2011. [].


 * Obama Notes-**
 * 1) Democratic
 * 2) He became the Senate's only African American lawmaker
 * 3) "Dreams from my father" adn"Audacity of Hope"
 * 4) Was one of three black sentaors to ever serve
 * 5) First black senator sence 1880
 * 6) He was a member of Kenya's Luo ethnic group
 * 7) His parents marrige could have been illigeal
 * 8) When Obama was 2 years old his parents divorce
 * 9) His mom got remarride and they moved to Indonesia
 * 10) In 1990, he was elected president of the Harvard Law Review journal
 * 11) He was the first African American to serve in the post, which virtually assured him of any career path he chose after graduation
 * 12) During his Harvard Law School years, he took a job as a summer associate at a Chicago firm, and the attorney assigned to mentor him was also a Harvard Law graduate, Michelle Robinson
 * 13) Re held teaching classes at the University of Chicago Law School
 * 14) He also was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, a very prestigious honor.
 * 15) Registered thousands of black voters in Chicago
 * 16) The effort was said to have helped Bill Clinton win the state in his successful bid for the White House in 1992.
 * 17) Obama won that 1996 election and went on to an impressive career in the Senate chambers in Springfield
 * 18) He championed a bill that gave tax breaks to low-income families
 * 19) Worked to expand a state health-insurance program for uninsured children
 * 20) Wrote a bill that required law enforcement officials in every community to begin keeping track of their traffic stops and noting the race of the driver

"Barack Obama Biography - Life, Family, Children, Parents, Story, History, Wife, School, Mother, Young." //Encyclopedia of World Biography//. Web. 13 Nov. 2011. [].

Obama Notes-
 * 1) important piece of legislation that required police to videotape homicide confessions
 * 2) Obama made his first bid for U.S. Congress in 2000
 * 3) Barack Obama became the fifth African American senator in U.S. history in 2005
 * 4) He was only the third elected since the end of the Reconstruction
 * 5) As Obama was running for senator repub. canadates posted TV commericals about him and drugs
 * 6) Obama, by contrast, was winning public-opinion polls among every demographic group
 * 7) moved overseas thanks to free-trade agreements that eliminated tariffs
 * 8) another free-trade agreement was in the works for Central America
 * 9) Obama to deliver the convention's keynote address
 * 10) keynote speech is expected to set the tone of the political campaign, and those chosen to give face tremendous expectations.
 * 11) That makes my life poorer- Famour qoute from Obama
 * 12) Obama's speech, analysts said almost immediately, struck a hopeful healing tone for a drastically divided nation and what had become a bitter, insult-heavy presidential contest- Quote from new york times maganize about his speech
 * 13) Obama won his bid for the Senate a few months later by a large margin, taking 70 percent of the Illinois vote against just 27 percent for Keyes
 * 14) Higher Education Opportunity through Pell Grant Expansion Act of 2005
 * 15) Also know as the HOPE act
 * 16) increasw the maximum amount that the federal government provides each student who receives need-based financial aid for college
 * 17) just 23 percent of the tuition at state schools. Accept the bill
 * 18) Obama and his wife have two young daughters, Malia and Sasha
 * 19) "I always knew I could express myself," he said in //O, The Oprah Magazine//
 * 20) "I knew I could win some arguments. I knew I could get my grandparents and mom frustrated!"- in the O. The oprah Magazine

"Barack Obama Biography: Detailed Barack Obama Biography with Speech Videos." //Share Files, Calendars, Photos & To Do Lists Online for Free//. Web. 13 Nov. 2011. [].

End the "Stop-loss" program of forcing troops to stay in service beyond their expected commitments
Restore the Deployment Policies Under Which the Reserve and Guard Enlisted: America should recommit to the broken promises made to the men and women who serve in the Guard and Reserves. An Obama administration will: • Limit lengthy deployments to one year for every six years • Restore the 24-month limit on cumulative deployment time • End the "Stop-Loss" program of forcing troops to stay in service beyond their expected commitments. "Stop-loss" stopped in early 2011
 * The Promise:**
 * Update November 4th, 2011:**

Launch robust diplomatic effort with Iraq and its neighbors
"Launch an aggressive diplomatic effort to reach a comprehensive compact on the stability of Iraq and the region. ... include all of Iraq's neighbors -- including Iran and Syria, as suggested by the bi-partisan The Iraq Study Group Report." Diplomacy continues in region with some compromise
 * The Promise:**
 * Update November 7th, 2011:**

End the use of torture
"From both a moral standpoint and a practical standpoint, torture is wrong. Barack Obama will end the use torture without exception. He also will eliminate the practice of extreme rendition, where we outsource our torture to other countries." Wide agreement that Obama's torture ban has held
 * The Promise:**
 * Update November 14th, 2011:**

Obama repeated his commitment to working for immigration reform, but only through congressional legislative action.
 * Immigration reform** is a term used in political discussion regarding changes to current immagration laws, to make better to condition.

President made it clear he is willing to use whatever political capital he has to make the case for immigration reform that can fix our nation’s dysfunctional immigration system in a way that ends illegal immigration

"Http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/."// Http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises///. Web. []. He also was the first black president of the //Harvard Law Review//, a very prestigious honor.