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| Today in history, November 4, 2008, the presidential | | | | child’s upbringing. Every parent would agree |
| election of 2008 will place an asterisk in the history of | | | | with that. When a family has to move their children |
| US Presidents next to the 44th President as the first | | | | from one location to another for whatever reason, |
| black American President, Barack Obama. His name | | | | their parents recognize the difficulties that their child will |
| will be found on lists that include major historical events, | | | | have to face in readjusting to their new locale, school, |
| American history, famous people in history, history of | | | | and fitting in with their new schoolmates. He returns to |
| racial discrimination, famous black Americans, and | | | | Hawaii at the age of ten, and attends a top Prep |
| historical event dates. | | | | Academy in Hawaii. |
| The “Obama for President” theme was | | | | Los Angeles hosted his next educational stop at |
| a dream for many Americans, particularly the | | | | Occidental College for two years. He then crossed the |
| Afro-American community. Given very little chance to | | | | mainland and attended Columbia University in New |
| succeed at the start of the primary season in 2007, | | | | York City. There he graduated with a major in Political |
| history channel will chronicle his journey to the White | | | | Science specializing in International Relations. |
| House. The historical events timeline of his run for the | | | | He worked in NYC after Columbia with a New York |
| Presidency began on a cold winter day on the steps | | | | Public Interest Research Group. Then in 1985 he |
| of the Old Capitol in Springfield, Illinois, where President | | | | moved to Chicago, and worked as a Community |
| Abraham Lincoln announced his run for the Presidency | | | | Organizer. In 1988 he joined Harvard Law School. |
| almost one hundred fifty years before. | | | | There he became the first *Black* President of the |
| This will be included among the interesting president | | | | Harvard Law Review. He graduated in 1991. *To avoid |
| facts that historically connect these two tall young | | | | a color, use “culturally-mixed”* in your |
| lawyers from Illinois who made their way as little | | | | story. He married his wife, Michelle, in 1992, and they |
| known individuals to the nation and reached the White | | | | have 2 children. |
| House to heal a divided nation. Each attracted attention | | | | He worked at a Law Firm, in Chicago and was a |
| of their political parties through speeches they gave | | | | part-time lecturer at the University of Chicago Law |
| prior to running for office. And each will be historically | | | | School. He was elected to the Illinois State Senate in |
| recorded in the almanac of Black American History. | | | | 1996, and re-elected in 1998 and 2002. In 2004 he was |
| This day in history also makes internet history with the | | | | elected the junior Senator from Illinois to the United |
| fact that prior to going out to make his Election Day | | | | States Senate with 70% of the vote. |
| victory speech Barack Obama texted a message to | | | | In 2007 he ran in the Democratic Primary and |
| all his supporters. His Speech in Grant Park in Chicago, | | | | defeated Senator Hillary Clinton in June 2008 to be the |
| Illinois, his home town, brought out almost a quarter of a | | | | Democratic Party’s Nominee for the President |
| million people and journalist from around the world. | | | | of the United States. He defeated Senator John |
| Nearly as many as Martin Luther King had in | | | | McCain, the Republican candidate, in the general |
| Washington, D.C. for his “I Have A | | | | election to become the 44th President of the United |
| Dream” Speech. | | | | States, and will be sworn into Office on January 20th, |
| Now that the election is over, and the truth can be | | | | 2009. |
| spoken more freely without distortions about the next | | | | This is an amazing story of Success in America. A |
| President of the United States, Americans can | | | | young boy from a divorced home, who barely knew |
| celebrate his story of success, and make it the | | | | his biological father, left to be cared for by his |
| bedtime story they tell their children as they go off to | | | | grandparents while his mother was off studying, being |
| sleep. | | | | uprooted from his home to live in a foreign country half |
| Barack Obama’s life story is the American | | | | way around the world, dealing with feelings of |
| dream brought to life before our very eyes. Every | | | | abandonment and loneliness returning to complete his |
| parent’s dream is that their child can and will be | | | | junior high and high school education. Leaving home |
| a success in life, even become the President of the | | | | again and travelling 2,000 miles to go to College. After |
| United States. This story is not about race, as much as | | | | his first 2 years, he travelled another 3,000 miles to |
| it is about success; but because it includes the race | | | | complete his College education. |
| factor, it is more impressive because of Barack | | | | He applied and was accepted at one of the most |
| Obama’s biracial makeup. The storyteller is free | | | | prestigious Law Schools in the Country. He became |
| to tell the story in any color they wish. | | | | the President of their Law Review Publication. Five |
| It is a story of a young boy who grows up without a | | | | years later he was elected to the first of three terms |
| father present in his life. His parents separated when | | | | in the State Senate of Illinois. In 2004 He was elected |
| he was 2, and later divorced. His mother works hard | | | | to the U.S. Senate. Just 17 years after graduating from |
| to care for the children while at the same time works | | | | Law School he has become the country’s |
| and goes to night school. Then when she takes leave | | | | choice to be the next President of the United States. |
| from her children for educational pursuits, he is left in | | | | Only in America can this be possible. A little known |
| the care of his grandparents, having to deal with his | | | | young politician born in Hawaii, and calling Chicago his |
| feelings of abandonment by his parents. Moved not | | | | home, can become President of the United States |
| just from one town to the next, he is uprooted and | | | | after only 4 years after gaining national political |
| transported half way around a world at the age of 6 | | | | attention with a speech given at his party’s |
| to Indonesia. Brought to a foreign land with a new | | | | convention in 2004. |