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PRESIDENT PROJECT PD 4

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PRESIDENT PROJECT PD 4

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  1. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA t ChristinaMcfadden Pd:4 Mr.Ross

  2. 44th President Of the United States - Assumed Office:January 20, 2009 - First Lady: Michelle Obama - Vice President:Joe Biden. • Preceded by: George W. Bush.

  3. About 0ur President - The 44th President Of The United States, was born on August 4, 1961 Honolulu in the state of Hawaii[ to Barack Hussein Obama Sr and Stanley Ann Dunham. Obama is the first President to have been born in Hawaii. FurthermoreOriginally from Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School , where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Obama served three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he ran for United States Senate in 2004. His presidential campaign began in February 2007, and after a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won his party's nomination. In the 2008 general election, he defeated Republican nominee John McCain and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009.

  4. What is the President’s Duty? • The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is one of only two nationally elected federal officers, the other being the Vice President of the United States other powers and responsibilities, Article II of the U.S. Constitution charges the president to "faithfully execute" federal law, makes the president commander-in-chief of the United States armed forces, allows the president to nominate executive and judicial officers with the advice and consent of the Senate, and allows the president to grant pardons and reprieves. The president is indirectly elected by the people through the Electoral College to a four-year term. Since 1951, presidents have been limited to two terms by the Twenty-second Amendment.

  5. Obama Quotes • -”Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” -Barack Obama • -”If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.”-Barack Obama • -”I stand here today as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure, that it will prevail, that the dream of our founders will live on in our time. –Barack 0bama”

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