Project Obama

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The Chosen Leader Barack Obama

• COLL148 Prof. Barry Coppock
• Nathan Carter
• Rico Pineda
• Ivaness Chiong
• April 18, 2012

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Introduction

• Barack Hussein Obama II
• Excellent Student
• Spouse Michelle Obama (2 kids)
• Community Organizer, Lawyer, Constitutional Law
  Professor, Author
• U.S. Senator from Illinois
• First African-American 44th President of the US

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Purpose

• To highlight Obamas journey
• To detail pre-presidential accomplishments
• To define his qualifications for leadership

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Main Ideas

• Childhood and the search for his identity
• Education and community activism
• Political Career (Pre-Presidential life)
• Barack Obamas leadership qualities

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Childhood and the Search for His Identity

• Youth spent in Hawaii
• Exposed to different cultures
• Life dramatically changed in Jakarta
• Poverty and Human Despair
• Race and racial differences
• Return to Hawaii and
• his search for identity
• Proud as an African-American

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Education and Community
Activism

• 1979 High School Diploma Occidental College
• - Black Students Association
• - Apartheid in South Africa
• 1981 College Transfer Program Columbia
  University
• 1983 Graduated from Columbia
• - Community Organizer
• 1985 Moved to Chicago
• - Chicagos Developing Communities Project
• 1988 Harvard Law School
• 1990 1st African-American Pres. of Harvard Law
  Review
• 1991 Graduated from Harvard (J.D Magna Cum
  Laude)

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Political Career (Pre-Presidential)

• 1991 Visiting Law Government Fellow
  (University of
• Chicago Law School)
• - 1992-1996 Lecturer 1996-2004 Senior
  Lecturer (Constitutional Law)
• 1992 April October
• - Illinoiss Project Vote (150,000 of 400,000
  Unregistered)
• 1996 Illinois Senate Democratic Unopposed
  (Re-election in 1998 2002)
• 1997 Illinois Senate career began
• 2000 Unsuccessful for the U.S. House of
  Representatives Elections
• - more active in legislation (health care,
  labor, law enforcement, campaign finance
  reform, welfare, community reinvestment)
• 2002 George W. Bushs Administrations 2003
  Invasion in Iraq
• 2003 Chairman of the IL Senates Health Human
  Services Committee
• - monitor racial profiling (record race of
  drivers and videotaping of homicide
  interrogations)

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Political Career (Pre-Presidential)

• 2004 General Election Campaign for U.S. Senate
• - active engagement police organizations
  (death penalty reforms)
• - Democratic National Convention Keynote Speech
• 2005 Sworn as Senator (January 3)
• - Congressional Black Caucus U.S. Senate
  Foreign Relations
• Subcommittee on European Affairs
• - 109th Congress (1st session) Immigration
  reform armament reduction federal
  transparency relief aid
• - 110th Congress (1st year) lobbying and
  campaign finance reform election reform
  climate control troop reduction
• - 2nd year military discharges Iran
  divestment nuclear terrorism reduction
• 2007 (February 10 in Springfield, IL) Candidacy
  for President of US
• - ending Iraq war energy independence
  providing universal health care
• - long-range planning superior fundraising
  organizing in caucus states delegate
  allocation rules

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Political Career (Pre-Presidential life)

• June 19, 2008 First major-party presidential
  candidate (public financing)
• Aug. 28, 2008 Acceptance Speech at the DNC in
  Denver, Colorado
• Nov. 4, 2008 Won the Presidency
• - 365 electoral votes to 173 by McCain
• - 52.9 to McCains 45.7
• Victory Speech in Chicagos Grant Park

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Leadership Qualities

• Honest
• Forward-Looking
• Competent
• Inspiring
• Intelligent

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Honesty as a Leadership Quality
Victory Speech in Chicagos Grant Park (Nov.
2008)
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Forward-Looking as a Leadership Trait
YES WE CAN Campaign in New Hampshire (Jan. 8
2008)
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Competency as a Leadership Quality
GOP House Issues Conference (Jan. 29, 2010)
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Inspiration as Leadership Trait
On Community Organizing
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Intelligence as a Leadership Trait
Democratic National Convention Keynote Speech
(Jul. 27, 2004)
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Summary
Summary
Integrity
Intelligence
Scholarship
Compassion
Raised the bar for future scholars
Strength
Politicians
Activists.
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Conclusion
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