Presidential Elections 2008/Chapter 3: The candidates and their backgrounds

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Barack Obama (by Lisa T.)

Barack Obama a Senator from Illinois; born in Honolulu, Hawaii, August 4, 1961; obtained early education in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Hawaii; continued education at Occidental College, Los Angeles, Calif.; received a B.A. in 1983 from Columbia University, New York City; worked as a community organizer in Chicago, Ill.; studied law at Harvard University, where he became the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review, and received J.D. in 1991; lecturer on constitutional law, University of Chicago; member, Illinois State senate 1997-2004; elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in 2004 for term beginning January 3, 2005.

curriculum vitae

Here is a curriculum vitae about Barack Obama! I hope you´ll enjoy reading!

Barack Obama was born on August the 4th 1961 in Honululu.
He is an US-americain politician and he´s a member of the Democrats.

From 1967 till 1970 he visited a catholic school and 1970/71 a muslim school.
1971 he went back to Hawaii where he visited a private-school and afterwards in 1979 he graduaded the High-School with distinction.

Barack Obama studied for two years at the Occidental College in Los Angeles and 1981 he changed to the Columbia University in New York City.
After he had finished his studies in political science he worked one year for Business International Corporation in New York.
1985 he switched to Chicago where he worked for an organisation.The organisation helped the churches with the worktraining in skid rows (Armenviertel.
Afterwards he studied for further three years law at Harward Law School.
1991 Barack Obama graduaded his Juris Doctor with overall estimation (Gesamtbewertung) : magna cum laude (mit großem Lob).
1992 he came back to Chicago and worked since 1993 at a law office.
Till 2004 he learned constitutional law (Verfassungsrecht) at the University of Chicago.

Finally some information about his private life.
In 1992 he married his wife Michelle Obama. They´ve got two daughters and they live in Chicago.

John McCain

On his journey to the Baltic John McCain drunk Wodka with Hillary Clinton and since this journey he gets on with her.
He is fair to friend and enemy!
John McCain can´t walk very well since his captivity of war in Vietnam.
He can´t brush his hairs, too, because he isn´t able to move his arms and he has a thick cheek since an operation.
Mc Cain was tortured in Vietnam. He was hanged on both broken arms and he was hitted violently. Sometimes he hadn´t enough strength and he did this, what the vietnameses wanted.
He has written a book, too. The title is: "Why is the courage so important?
His wife he met in America. But he couldn´t forget the captivity in Vietnam, he had a lot of other women and let his wife alone. Four month later he married his present wife!