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Barack Hussein Obama II ( born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African-American president of the United States.
Obama previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. After graduating from Columbia University in 1983, he worked as a community organizer in Chicago.
In 1988, he enrolled in Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.
After graduating, he became a civil rights attorney and an academic, teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.
Turning to elective politics, he represented the 13th district in the Illinois Senate from 1997 until 2004, when he ran for the U.S. Senate.
Obama received national attention in 2004 with his March Senate primary win, his well-received July Democratic National Convention keynote address, and his landslide November election to the Senate.
In 2008, after a close primary campaign against Hillary Clinton, he was nominated by the Democratic Party for president. Obama was elected over Republican nominee John McCain in the general election and was inaugurated alongside his running mate Joe Biden, on January 20, 2009. Nine months later, he was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, a decision that drew a mixture of praise and criticism.

Discours choisis pdf by Barack Obama

L’entrée de Barack Obama à la Maison-Blanche en 2009 a marqué un tournant dans l’histoire des États-Unis. Il s’est notamment imposé au fil des ans comme un orateur hors pair, et nombre de ses discours demeurent en mémoire. Cette anthologie en rassemble huit. Dans une langue tour à tour déterminée, grave ou encore exaltée, Barack Obama n’a de cesse de réaffirmer son amour et sa confiance en son pays et ses habitants et, quelles que soient les circonstances, de toujours véhiculer un message porteur d’espoir, à l’image de son slogan : Yes, we can !
"Parce que le plus puissant vocable de notre démocratie, c’est ce "Nous". "Nous, le peuple." "Nous vaincrons." "Oui, nous pouvons." Ce mot, personne ne le possède. Il appartient à tous. Oh, quelle glorieuse mission nous a-t-on confiée, de tâcher sans cesse d’améliorer ce grand pays qui est le nôtre !"