http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1682433/bio
http://www.biography.com/featured-biography/barack-obama/index.jsp
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/issues/
Barrack Obama’s background offers him an awareness of many issues influencing Americans today. When his parents divorced, he was raised without a father. This experience gives him insight into different types of families and he supports same sex marriage because of it. He moved to Ohio, while therre he was a community organizer and helped people cope with job loss. The time he spent in Ohio has given him a perspective at the unemployed of America and this has caused him to raise a fund to prevent foreclosure. The influences and experiences in Barrack Obama’s raising have given him a connection to the American people.
Barrack Obama’s exposure to poverty and racism has been the basis for many of his stances. Later, Obama was raised in lower middle class by his grandparents in Honolulu, the way he got out of it was through a scholarship to a top prep-academy. Obama wants to eliminate poverty through education, the way he’s doing it is creating an American Opportunity Tax Credit which will allow all Americans to attend college. When Obama moved back to Hawaii he was only one of three African-American students in his high school and had his first experience with racism there. This exposure to racism as high scholar has lead him to say the Employment Non-Discrimination Act should be expanded to include sexual orientation and gender. Obama has experienced the aspects of everyday life and can connect with the American people.
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Again, I think you (along with the rest of us...) went the slightly more obvious way with Obama, which was how his poor early life affects a lot of his issues now. It was really interesting learning how he was one of only three black students at his Hawaiian high school, though, and I love his employment discrimination act(something I also didn't know), because a lot of people people in the United States are discriminated because of that. Although, I don't see how his race discrimination would lead to gender and sexual orientation discrimination, the way you wrote it?
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