Campus Currents: Barack Obama
Barack Obama is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to be elected to the office. Obama served as U.S. senator representing Illinois until his election in November, 2008.
Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review. Before his career in politics Obama was a community organizer, civil rights attorney and law professor at the University of Chicago Law School.
Obama announced his candidacy for president in February, 2007. His closest competitor in the primaries was Hillary Clinton, although he surpassed her delegate count on Super Tuesday and she never bounced back. Obama and his running mate, Joe Biden, competed against Republican John McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin, in the general election, which Obama won with 53 percent of the popular vote and 365 of 538 electors. He was inaugurated on January 20, 2009.
Articles about Barack Obama:
Thursday, September 17th, 2009, 1:45 amLetters: Obama and Fogler Library
By The Maine Campus
Complaints wrongly filed I am full-time staff at Fogler Library, and since last year, we have placed comment boards in the library for patrons to write on. A continuous source of displeasure has been the Oakes Room Cafe’s … Monday, September 14th, 2009, 1:10 am
Op-Ed: Legislators must take time to craft health care bill
By Jonathan Zappala
The debate about health care reform has been more public than possibly any other legislation in the history of our country. The media for the most part has failed to report on what is actually in …
Thursday, September 10th, 2009, 2:04 amOp-Ed: Political climate could use a touch more decorum
By William P. Davis
Somewhere between worrying about swine flu and obsessing over Iran’s elections, the country apparently lost all sense of reasoning. Obama’s address to schoolchildren on Tuesday was more controversial than it should have been. He wasn’t breaking new …
Monday, April 27th, 2009, 6:17 amOp-Ed: GOP a disservice to the welfare of America
By William P. Davis
President Obama has never professed himself to be the solution to all our problems. His detractors seem to think Obama has failed just 100 days into his presidency. The idea any president can fail that quickly …
Monday, April 27th, 2009, 6:16 amOp-Ed: 100 days of failure for a new president
By Jonathan Zappala
President Obama was elected running on the promise he was going to be the one to come up with a plan to fix the economy. Almost 100 days into his presidency, all he has done of …
