the president was successful a two-term governor of one of the largest states in the union. barack HUSSEIN obama can't say the same by a long-shot.
2007-02-25 14:41:45
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answered by patriot07 5
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Well as far as public office goes, he's got more experience than Hillary. Senators are rarely elected, though.
Actually, I'm a conservative and I'm quite impressed with Obama. Not as a candidate, but as a person. If the election were based solely on character, I might vote for him. He's made a big mistake in kissing up to Hollywood, though. Or, at least, letting Hollywood kiss up to him.
2007-02-25 14:25:00
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answered by Anonymous
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Bush had the most experienced people possible running the war in Iraq and they totally screwed that up.
When I listen to Obama, I hear someone who make much more sense than anyone who is supposedly more experienced.
2007-02-25 14:20:34
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answered by Anonymous
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Bush had 2 four-year terms as Governor of Texas, and owned the Texas Rangers for a time.
2007-02-25 13:47:35
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answered by bigsey93bruschi54 3
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human beings make a huge deal out of Senator Obama's fact of his candidacy for President in Springfield, unwell the as quickly as, abode city of Abe Lincoln. Springfield is the capitol city of Illinois, the two adult males would locate because of the fact of that status it may well be an significant place to make bulletins and so on. it is so conventional of the competition to determine insignificant issues to blow out of share because of the fact they comprehend in the event that they communicate subject concerns, the actual subject concerns, they're going to lose by skill of a landslide.
2016-10-16 12:09:36
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answered by croes 4
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Did you say Osama. Or was it Barack Husein Obama. Who says hes Catholic now but was Muslim. The same guy who isn't even married to the mother of his children. The same guy that has some of the same goals as terrorist They want him to win. That way a Muslim gets US troop out of Iraq either way. Hes a druger too
2007-02-25 14:03:34
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answered by us citizen 5
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Ah....but he has a very rich 7 influential family!
About Bush:
http://www.realchange.org/bushjr.htm
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2007-02-25 13:51:35
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answered by Anonymous
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A Brazilian--How many people is that?--GWB
2007-02-25 13:46:59
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answered by scottyurb 5
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Barack Hussein Obama (born August 4, 1961; IPA pronunciation: [bəˈɹɑk oʊˈbɑː.mə]) is the junior United States Senator from Illinois. According to the U.S. Senate Historical Office, he is the fifth African American Senator in U.S. history and the only African American currently serving in the U.S. Senate.[1] He is a candidate for the Democratic Party's 2008 presidential nomination.[2]
He was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996. Four years later, he made an unsuccessful run for the U.S. House of Representatives. Obama won reelection to the state senate in 2002, running unopposed. As early as 2002, he was a critic of the proposed Iraq War, declaring in a television interview that he would have voted against the Iraq Resolution.[3] In 2004 he ran for an open seat in the U.S. Senate. Midway through the campaign, Obama delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention and became a nationally known political figure. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in November 2004 with a landslide 70% of the vote.[4]
Obama formally announced his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election in Springfield, Illinois, on February 10, 2007.Recent opinion polls rank him as the second most popular choice among Democratic voters for their party's nomination, after Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton
Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. (born in Alego, a village in Nyanza Province, Kenya) and Ann Dunham (born in Wichita, Kansas). His parents met while both were attending the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was enrolled as a foreign student.[6]
When Obama was two years old, his parents separated and later divorced; his father went to Harvard University to pursue Ph.D. studies, eventually returning to Kenya.[7] His mother married Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian foreign student, with whom she had one daughter.[8] The family moved to Jakarta in 1967, where Obama attended local schools from ages 6 to 10.[9] He then returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents, attending Punahou School from 5th through 12th grade and graduating from there in 1979.[10] His father died in a car accident in Kenya when Obama was 21 years old.[11] Obama's mother died of cancer a few months after the publication of his 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father.[12]
In Dreams from My Father, Obama describes his experiences growing up in his mother's white, middle class family. His knowledge about his absent black Kenyan father came mainly through family stories and photographs. Of his early childhood, Obama wrote: "That my father looked nothing like the people around me — that he was black as pitch, my mother white as milk — barely registered in my mind."[13] As a young adult, he struggled to reconcile social perceptions of his multiracial heritage. Obama writes about using marijuana and cocaine during his teenage years to "push questions of who I was out of my mind."[14]
After high school, Obama studied for two years at Occidental College and then transferred to Columbia University, where he majored in political science with a specialization in international relations.[15][16] After receiving his B.A. degree in 1983, Obama worked for one year at Business International Corporation.[17] In 1985, he moved to Chicago to direct a non-profit project assisting local churches to organize job training programs for residents of poor neighborhoods.[18][19]
Obama entered Harvard Law School in 1988. In February 1990, the New York Times reported his election as the Harvard Law Review's "first black president in its 104-year history."[20] He obtained his J.D. degree magna *** laude from Harvard in 1991.[19] On returning to Chicago, Obama directed a voter registration drive, then worked for the civil rights law firm Miner, Barnhill & Galland, and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1993 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004.
In 1996, Obama was elected to the Illinois State Senate from the state's 13th District in the south-side Chicago neighborhood of Hyde Park. In January 2003, when Democrats regained control of the chamber, he was named chairman of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee.[22] Among his legislative initiatives, Obama helped to author an Illinois Earned Income Tax Credit that provided benefits to lower-income families, worked for legislation that would support residents who could not afford health insurance, and helped pass bills to increase funding for AIDS prevention and care programs.[23]
In 2000, Obama made an unsuccessful Democratic primary run for the U.S. House of Representatives seat held by four-term incumbent candidate Bobby Rush. Rush, a former Black Panther and community activist, said that Obama had not "been around the 1st Congressional District long enough to really see what's going on."[24] Rush received 61% of the vote to Obama's 30%.[25] After the loss, Obama focused his efforts on the state Senate, authoring a law requiring police to videotape interrogations for crimes punishable by the death penalty and supporting legislation that required insurance companies to cover routine mammograms.] He ran unopposed in 2002.
Reviewing Obama's career in the Illinois Senate, a February 2007 article in the Washington Post noted his ability to work effectively with both Democrats and Republicans, and to build bipartisan coalitions. In his subsequent campaign for the U.S. Senate, Obama won the endorsement of the Illinois Fraternal Order of Police, whose officials cited his "longtime support of gun control measures and his willingness to negotiate compromises," despite his support for some bills that the police union had opposed.
Read the rest on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama
He would be better than Bush
Personally
I think
Bloomberg would the best President
Followed by Hilary Clinton
Than Barrack has a third choice
2007-02-26 03:23:07
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answered by nonconformiststraightguy 6
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