MICHELLE ROBINSON OBAMA'S BIOGRAPHY

75 Days until Inauguration Day - January 20, 2009

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* MICHELLE ROBINSON OBAMA - THE EARLY YEARS

Born on January 17, 1964, Michelle Robinson was raised in a one-bedroom apartment on Chicago's South Shore.

Of note is that she shared a "bedroom" with her brother, but it wasn't much of a bedroom. It was actually the living room with a divider down the middle. Michelle's father died in 1990 two years before she married Barack, but her mother is still alive and living in the same one-bedroom apartment, protected by a burglar-proof wrought-iron door and secured windows.

After high school Michelle Robinson majored in sociology at Princeton University, graduating with cum laude honors in 1985. From there she attended Harvard where she earned her law degree in 1988, one year ahead of her husband-to-be, Barack, whom she hadn't met yet but attended the same law school.


* MICHELLE AND BARACK MEET
After graduating from Harvard, Michelle accepted a position at a downtown Chicago law firm. In 1989 she was asked to mentor a summer associate from Harvard name Barack Obama. According to reports, Barack didn't have much interest in corporate law, but did have a lot of interest in Michelle.

Apparently Michelle Robinson initially brushed off advances from Barack because they were working at same firm...and he was an intern and she higher up the law firm's foodchain as an associate. But love prevailed and they were married on October 18, 1992.

Interestingly Barack and Michelle waited almost seven years before having children. Their first daughter name Malia Ann Obama was born in 1999 with Natasha (often called "sasha") following two years later in 2001.

When asked about what made her fall in love with him she replied "for the same reason many other people respect him; his connection with people."

Even though her husband is the center of attention, Michelle has zero concerns about fidelity in their marriage. She told Ebony magazine in March 2006, "I never worry about things I can't affect, and with fidelity . . . that is between Barack and me, and if somebody can come between us, we didn't have much to begin with."


* MICHELLE'S ROBINSON OBAMA'S CAREER
Michelle's impressive resume includes: Former associate dean at the University of Chicago; a member of six boards of directors including the prestigious Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and Tree House Foods; and Vice President, Community and External Affairs at the University of Chicago Hospitals. In this position she was responsible for all programs and initiatives that involve the relationships between the hospitals and the community as well as management of the hospitals' business diversity program.

* MICHELLE OBAMA'S INFLUENCES ON BARACK'S POLITICAL CAREER
Michelle's professional relationships were helpful when her husband in 2004, then a state senator, ran for the United States Senate, where he faced a primary dominated by some of the Democratic Party's most powerful political families.

In this 2004 race, Obama had the support of influential black business leaders, some of whom had closer ties to his wife than they did to him. According to Newsweek, a former boss of Michelle Obama's, a powerful black woman Valerie Jarrett, chair of the Chicago Stock Exchange, served as finance chair of Barack Obama's U.S. Senate campaign.


* MICHELLE OBAMA: THE MOM & WIFE
After Barack was elected to the U.S. Senate, Barack and Michelle choose to keep their children in Chicago, where Michelle continued her career as well. "We made a good decision to stay in Chicago so that has kept our family stable," Michelle Obama told the Chicago Tribune. Every Sunday the family attends services at the Trinity United Church of Christ.

According to reports, Michelle has mastered being a mother, career woman and the wife of a politician. When Newsweek magazine trailed her in 2004, the reporter could not help but notice a to-do list for her two daughters Malia and Natasha that included time for "play." She is in bed most nights by 9:30 and rises each morning at 4:30 to run on a treadmill. This level of discipline and organization helps her manage her public and private pressures with poise. In New Yorker magazine Michelle noted that the life of a political wife is "hard and that's why Barack is such a grateful man."

But there's more to it. "Barack didn't pledge riches" Michelle explains to Newsweek. "Only a life that would be interesting. On that promise he's delivered."

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President - Elect Obama - Victory Speech

75 Days until Inauguration Day - January 20, 2009


Immediately below you will find Senator Barack Obama's victory speech in election eve in Chicago. A very gracious and humbling speech !!
He has made many promises throughout his campaign, and no one person realizes more than him that he had a long and difficult journey in an attempt to keep his promise to his country. But to his credit, I believe that he knows what he must do. His theme throughout the election was 'CHANGE'. He stated in the speech that he may not be able to carry out different things in just the first year, or 1st term in office.

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Have you ever heard of George Clinton?

75 Days until Inauguration Day - January 20, 2009



Here is an interesting fact. There is a man who ran for President of the United States in 1789. Who was he running against? He was running against George Washington, the 1st President of the United States. So why then is he important? I felt that it would be nice to know that he had our present president's first name, and our last Democratic President's last name. But what is striking about all of that is that he ran in a party called 'The Democratic-Republican' party. Wow, now that's a twist. Also an interesting fact, George Washington ran against someone from his own party, the Federalist party named John Adams, and won the presidency with only 69 electoral votes, verses John Adams total of 34. By the way, every party was called 'Federalist', except that of George Clinton. George was the 'maverick' back in 1789. If George was running today, you can bet that he wouldn't be running against anyone with that party name, especially seeing how opposite they are from each other now. But at least he did have an eye for the future. Maybe the Democratic and Republican party was born because of him.

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Vindication of this Blog - Daily Opinions of this Next President

76 Days until Inauguration Day - January 20, 2009

August 1st seems just like yesterday, but in fact it was the date of my first article published on this website. Back in the beginning, which seems to be yesterday, I expressed my reasons for creating this blog and my intentions for it in the future. I had very high hopes then, and I do now, as this blog has won its right to continue it's now projected long journey to follow our now new president-elect Barack Obama, throughout his days in the Whitehouse. Therefore, it is my most serious intention to constantly update this blog with updates about Barack Obama up to his inauguration and throughout his tenure as the 44th president of the United States. If for any reason it is not updated on a daily basis, all events that happen with Barack Obama will be covered, even if they are reported a day late.
Again, as just stated, ALL EVENTS will be covered in this blog, therefore if you want to know what's happening with your new president Obama, then all you have to do is get caught up with the facts right here.
Have you ever heard that 'there are 2 sides to a coin' or maybe consider 'heads and tales' ? If you did, you can think that maybe you can relate what you will be able to read here. Reading this blog from it's beginning on August 1st, you would think that it is 'EXTREMELY LIBERAL' being that it covered 'Barack Obama' during the campaign and didn't highlight many articles centered around John McCain, and when it did, portrayed Barack over McCain. Well, the buck stops right here.
That's not to say that this blog will not be covering Barack Obama, because I can assure you that it is and always will. But what you will see are objective articles, good and bad about Barack Obama during his Presidency. I have created this blog because of my high interest in this man, soon to become the 44th President of the United States, but I vow also to report the truth.
Barack Obama will have his good days and his bad days. So the good and the not so good, and maybe down right ugly will be reported here.
When I was born in 1952, the President Elect of the United States was Dwight David
Eisenhower an Republican as he won the presidency over Adlai Stevenson. At the time the Electoral vote count was 442 for Eisenhower to 89 for Stevenson, and that was a landslide victory. Since that time, no other man running for the presidency has caught my attention more than Barack Obama, and to tell you frankly, I'm pretty fascinated with him. This blog helps me keep up with all the facts surrounding him and from this point on, I'll be sharing the facts with you, good or bad about Barack Obama.

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OBAMA WINS and WINS BIG

76 Days until Inauguration Day - January 20, 2009



History has been made.....Barack Obama has officially become the President-Elect and will become the 44th President of the United States on January 20, 2009. It was a super win for the Democrats, but even a bigger win for so many African Americans in this country. Barack Obama made history as he became the first black man to become President.
How did he do it? Well he crushed his opponent with both the popular vote and electoral vote. Per CNN "According to exit polls, Obama crushed McCain among women voters (56 percent to 43 percent); voters under 30 (66 percent to 32 percent); African-American voters (95 percent to 4 percent); Latino voters (66 percent to 32 percent); first-time voters (68 percent to 31 percent); and voters making less than $100,000 a year (55 percent to 43 percent)." When Indiana fell into Obama's column Wednesday morning, he had a 349-163 lead over his rival in electoral votes, with only 26 undecided. The popular vote was decisive also while Barack Obama won with 53% of the vote (63,944,551) while John McCain acquired only 46% of the vote (56,440,616). Tuesday marked the end of the longest presidential campaign season in U.S. history -- 21 months. Now, it's time to see who he picks to be in his Whitehouse staff.
Obama, 47, will begin his transition to the White House. He will be sworn in as the 44th president on January 20.

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One Single Day Left before the Presidential Elections

1 Day until the Presidential Election - November 4, 2008
79 Days until Inauguration Day - January 20, 2009

With just one single day to go before the next President of the United States is elected, the candidates are going full steam in attempt to win over as many voters as possible Still, the polls show that Barack Obama is way ahead in the race, concerning the electoral vote pre-counts. Of course the real electoral votes for this election will be tallied by tomorrow evening, and then we will know who will be inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States On January 20, 2009.
Neither candidate is giving up without a fight, although it is agreed by most people that John McCain is fighing an uphill battle to gain votes. As previously reported in the last article, Barack Obama made extensive efforts to get new voters to sign up to vote and it looks like it is paying off. So far up to this date, there has been at least 20 million people that voted prior to election day. That is a staggering number of people, and the majority has already been determined as Democrat. If that is true and the trend of expected voters and electoral votes keeps on the path of Barack Obama, he should win the election with an unprecedented victory over John McCain. Of course, the polls prior to the actual general election on November 4th are just predicted vote tallies, and factors that can be unannounced to us now may become factors that would ultimately sway the outcome of the race.
Still there is one more day of hard campaigning by both contenders. Barack Obama will spend his very last day of his 22 month presidential campaign beginning in Jacksonville, Florida and an event in Charlotte, North Carolina. The finale will be the end of the trail on election night in a special event in Manassas, Virginia.
A few states that normally go to the Republicans like Florida and North Carolina, as voters leaning towards supporting Barack Obama this year.
Also on the trail, Michelle Obama and Joe Biden are campaigning on the very last day before the election. Michelle meets with voters in Nevada and
Colorado, while Joe Biden campaigns in Missouri, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

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The Voting is ON and ON and ON ! ! !

2 Days until the Presidential Election - November 4, 2008
80 Days until Inauguration Day - January 20, 2009


This is the final weekend push by both candidates Barack Obama and John McCain in an attempt to win the Whitehouse. Prior to even this weekend, long lines of people came to vote early and stayed in line in some cases over 12 hours. Never before have you seen these long lines prior to election day, but thanks to Barack Obama and his voters registration push, it might be just what he needs to get over the top and reach that 270 electoral voting mark. Even though, some Democrats were watching the pools to look for signs of tricks.
It's not even November 4th yet, but at least 20 million people have already cast their ballots, and most of them being Democrats. Meanwhile, Barack Obama is trying to put in his 'killer punch'. So how is he doing that? Well, he has the bright idea that he wants to spend the final 96 hours of the election traveling to 8 different states, while the early voter hopes look fantastic. But the Democratic campaign takes nothing for granted, especially since a past candidate named Al Gore lost the election 8 years ago because of 'chads'. That was an issue with the punch cards that were not being 'punched' properly. It took intervention by the Supreme Court to stop the recount after about 36 days of counting. That was in Florida, and Al Gore just yesterday stopped there to remind the voters what happened to him in the 2000 election. Sadly to say at this time that there are still many issues regarding voting machines. Al Gore also reminded the people "Take if from me, every vote matters," He lost the election by as little as 500 votes.

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