Barack Houssein Obama II was born in August 4th of 1961 and is the current president of United States of America. He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and came from a half American/half Kenyan family. He was elected president for the first time in 2009 and then reelected in 2012.
Obama graduated in Law on the Harvard University in 1991. President Obama also taught Constitutional Right in the Chicago University from 1992 to 2004. He then was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996, and through the Democratic Party, in this role, he was the president of the Health Committee and of the Human Service Committee, and he was one of the main senators to participate of the approval of a legislation to monitor the racial discrimination. In 2004, Obama ran for the Federal Senate by the state of Illinois, was elected and took the office in 2005. Obama resigned from the Senate in 2008 to run for presidency in 2009.
During his first presidential campaign, Obama was emphatic on the withdraw of the American troops in Iraq. Both the Senator Hilary Clinton and the ex-President Bill Clinton publicly supported the candidacy of Obama, as well as a huge number of personalities as the Academy Winner actor Robert De Niro and the famous writer Stephen King. Obama was elected by 69,4 millions of votes, being the second most voted president in the world.
In his mandate, Obama was responsible for some political changes. Obama revoked the limitations for the stem cells research and proposed the regulation to the greenhouse gases’ emissions. It was during his presidency that the same-sex marriage was upholded constitutionally for the whole country. Obama also was the president that had to deal with the 2008 economic crisis in the US. In his foreign policy, Obama tried an approach to the Muslim countries and declared that he was in search of a “new start for the relations between the USA and the Middle East”. In 2009, Obama was awarded with the Nobel Prize of Peace because of his “extraordinary efforts in the reinforcement of diplomacy and cooperation of the peoples”.
NATO (2014) - 16º MINIONU 