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1 S T A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N P R E S I D E N T( Y O U T U B E C L I P )

Barack Obama

2008 Democratic Primary

Hillary Rodham Clinton vs. Barack Obama

Obama ended up winning but Hillary was the first legitimate female candidate for presidency in American history

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*would become Obama’s secretary of state

General Election 2008

Defeated (R) Sen. John McCain 2008 to become the first African American President of the United States Nov. 2008.

Domestic Policy

Responds to America’s position in a worldwide recession with American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. stimulus program had an original

estimated cost of $787 billion which was revised to $831 billion spent between 2009-2019.

Investing in education, infrastructure, welfare programs, and unemployment support.

Impact of Technology: New Pope announcement

Sonia Sotomayor

-Sandra Day O’Connor retires from SCOTUS

-Obama nominates 1st Hispanic American Women to court

Above (left to right) Sandra Day O’conner

(ret), Sonya Sotomayor, Ruth Ellen Ginsberg, Elena Kagan

Domestic Policy

Environmental – limits deep off shore drilling in response to BP oil spill in Gulf of Mexico and fights Canadian “pipeline”

Quiz Yo’self

Domestic Policy

Gun Control – signed 23 executive orders addressing limiting certain gun and ammunition sales, and harsher penalties for gun trafficking

Domestic Policy

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or Obamacare – controversial affordable health care for all- still not fully implemented at this time

Foreign Policy –Iraq/Afghanistan

Feb, 27, 2009 – announces combat operations in

Iraq would end in 18 months

Dec. 1, 2009 – announces a “SURGE” of troops in Afghanistan in an attempt to wipe out the insurgents/terrorists to end war

Foreign Policy-Obama gets Osama

May 1, 2011 – U.S. Navy SEALs kill Osama bin Laden in a “surgical raid”

Re-elected

Obama was re-elected in November 2012 and is currently the U.S. President