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    Barack Obama was the 44th president of the United States, serving from 2009 to 2017. He was the first African American president and was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1961. Obama worked as a community organizer and civil rights attorney before serving in the Illinois State Senate from 1997 to 2004 and the U.S. Senate from 2005 to 2008. Some key policies and accomplishments of his presidency included passing healthcare reform, Wall Street reform, and the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, as well as authorizing military operations that led to the deaths of Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki.

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    Barack Obama was the 44th president of the United States, serving from 2009 to 2017. He was the first African American president and was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1961. Obama worked as a community organizer and civil rights attorney before serving in the Illinois State Senate from 1997 to 2004 and the U.S. Senate from 2005 to 2008. Some key policies and accomplishments of his presidency included passing healthcare reform, Wall Street reform, and the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, as well as authorizing military operations that led to the deaths of Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki.

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    Barack Obama was the 44th president of the United States, serving from 2009 to 2017. He was the first African American president and was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1961. Obama worked as a community organizer and civil rights attorney before serving in the Illinois State Senate from 1997 to 2004 and the U.S. Senate from 2005 to 2008. Some key policies and accomplishments of his presidency included passing healthcare reform, Wall Street reform, and the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, as well as authorizing military operations that led to the deaths of Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki.

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    Barack Hussein Obama II (/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊ

    ˈbɑːmə/ ( listen);[1] born August 4, 1961) is an American


    politician and attorney who served as the 44th president
    of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of
    the Democratic Party, Barack Obama was the
    first African-American president of the United States. He
    previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from
    2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to
    2004.
    Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, making him the
    first president not born in the contiguous United States.
    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 person to be 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 from 1997 until 2004 in the Illinois Senate,
    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, he was
    nominated for president a year after his presidential
    campaign began, and after close primary
    campaigns against Hillary Clinton. Obama
    was elected over Republican John McCain and
    was inaugurated alongside Joe Biden on January 20,
    2009. Nine months later, he was named the 2009 Nobel
    Peace Prize laureate.
    Obama signed many landmark bills into law during his
    first two years in office. The main reforms that were
    passed include the Patient Protection and Affordable
    Care Act (commonly referred to as the "Affordable Care
    Act" or "Obamacare"), the Dodd–Frank Wall Street
    Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and the Don't
    Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010. The American
    Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and Tax Relief,
    Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job
    Creation Act of 2010 served as economic stimulus
    amidst the Great Recession. After a lengthy debate over
    the national debt limit, he signed the Budget Control and
    the American Taxpayer Relief Acts. In foreign policy, he
    increased U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan, reduced
    nuclear weapons with the United States–Russia New
    START treaty, and ended military involvement in
    the Iraq War. He ordered military involvement in Libya,
    contributing to the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi. He
    also ordered the military operations that resulted in the
    deaths of Osama bin Laden and suspected Yemeni Al-
    Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki.
    After winning re-election by defeating Republican
    opponent Mitt Romney, Obama was sworn in for a
    second term in 2013. During this term, he promoted
    inclusion for LGBT Americans. His administration filed
    briefs that urged the Supreme Court to strike
    down same-sex marriage bans as unconstitutional
    (United States v. Windsor and Obergefell v. Hodges);
    same-sex marriage was legalized nationwide in 2015
    after the Court ruled so in Obergefell. He advocated
    for gun control in response to the Sandy Hook
    Elementary School shooting, indicating support for a ban
    on assault weapons, and issued wide-ranging executive
    actions concerning global warming and immigration. In
    foreign policy, he ordered military intervention in Iraq in
    response to gains made by ISIL after the 2011
    withdrawal from Iraq, continued the process of ending
    U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan in 2016,
    promoted discussions that led to the 2015 Paris
    Agreement on global climate change, initiated sanctions
    against Russia following the invasion in Ukraine and
    again after Russian interference in the 2016 United
    States elections, brokered a nuclear deal with Iran,
    and normalized U.S. relations with Cuba. Obama
    nominated three justices to the Supreme Court: Sonia
    Sotomayor and Elena Kagan were confirmed as
    justices, while Merrick Garland faced
    partisan obstruction and was not confirmed. During his
    term in office, America's reputation abroad significantly
    impr

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