Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Barack Obama is the 44th and the current President of the United States. He announced his candidacy for President of the United States on February 10, 2007. He won the 2008 presidential election, defeating his opponent John McCain, a republican, and announced president on January 20, 2009. Obama is the first African American to be on top in the office. When Obama was in the election he advertised himself as hope and change. He emphasized through the issues of quickly ending the Iraq War, increasing energy independence and providing universal health care. It is now three years later, we have yet to see “change“, and the US economy is at an all time low.

One of Obama’s proposals was the health care reform. The plan was an expand health insurance coverage to cover the people that were un-insured, put a price ceiling premium increases, and to allow people to leave and or change jobs and retain coverage. To make this plan successful, he proposed to spend $900 billion over ten years and include a government insurance plan (also called the public option) to lowering costs and improving the quality of health care. This plan also includes medical expenses retrenchment and taxes on insurance companies that offer costly prices. On March 21, 2010 the health care reform bill was passed by the Senate, which Obama signed the bill into law on March 23, 2010.

Another plan Obama proposed during his election was to end the war in Iraq within 18 months, “Let me say this as plainly as I can: By August 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end”. On August 31, 2010 Obama announced that the United States battle mission in Iraq was over. This month (October 2011) Obama declared that all of the United States troops would leave Iraq in time to be “home for holidays.”

Since the economy began to fumble in 2007, Congress has passed what amounts to three stimulus bills, a bipartisan $158 billion package of tax cuts signed by President George W. Bush in early 2008, a...