Michelle Obama Essay

Soon Michelle and Barack began dating as a couple. In February 1990, Obama was given a special honor. He was titled as the first African American editor of Harvard Law Review. Obama graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1991. Obama, feeling well accomplished and motivated, returned to his city, Chicago. There he went to practice acting as a civil rights lawyer for a firm called Miner, Barnhill & Galland. He also landed a job as a part-time lecturer and eventually a professor at the University of Chicago Law School between

1992-2004. on October 3, 1992 Michelle and Obama were married. They happily moved to a nearby town by the name of Kenwood, on Chicago’s east side. Together they had 2 daughters Malina (born 1998) and Sasha

The book later won him a Grammy for best spoken audio word album in 2006. Obama’s advocacy work landed him in a position to run for the Illinois state senate. He ran under the title a democrat and won the election in 1996. During his time in the state senate he worked with both political parties to fix common issues. He also did a number of helpful things in his time in the state senate such as expanding health care services and early childhood education programs for the poor.

Driving on his newly found momentum, he ran for US senate in 2000. But the run was for nothing. He miserably lost and started from the bottom again. In 2002, he created a campaign committee and with the help of his political consultant, David Axelrod. Obama and his consultant began sizing up his chances for another election run. Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Obama was a heavy opponent against George W. Bush’s go to war in Iraq stance. He even gave a speech at Chicago’s federal hall and said “I am not opposed to all wars; I’m opposed to dumb wars”. Despite his protests, the Iraq war began anyway in

In his time in office he completed many things such as working to destroy weapons of mass destruction in Eastern Europe. Obama made headlines in 2007 by announcing his run for president. Soon he was fighting tooth and nail with former first lady Hillary Clinton. On June 3, 2008 Obama became the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee. After beating Clinton in the primary round, she gave Obama her full support in the campaign. Obama soon prepared himself for the next hard fought battle against john McCain. He did battle with McCain and when the dust settled the poll showed Obama 52.9% and McCain 45.7%. Obama had won the 2008 presidential election and was now the 44th president of the United States of America. But not everything was butterflies and unicorns, the U.S. was locked in 2 ongoing foreign wars and the lowest ever international favorability rating for the U.S. Between the day Obama was inaugurated and till the end of his term the Obama administration did a huge amount of things. Obama signed the Affordable Care Act law in March of 2010, as well as a $787 billion dollar stimulus bill was passed to help economic growth. Obama worked to steer the U.S. in a safe economic road. He signed the Budget Control Act of 2011. Also that same year he confirmed the decision to move in on and eventually kill the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin