Michelle Obama: A Woman of Influence http://www.america.gov/michelle_obama.html

First lady Michelle Obama serves as a role model for women who strive to balance their professional careers and their roles as mothers and wives.

Washington — When Michelle Obama becomes first lady of the United States on January 20, she will join her husband in a partnership widely expected to transform the public face America presents to the world. In the process, she will assume a new role that offers exciting opportunities and challenges.

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Obama told Cabinet members and senior staff at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

"It's not about advantaging yourself. It's not about advancing your friends or your corporate clients. It's not about advancing an ideological agenda or the special interests of any organization,"

..."Public service is, simply and absolutely, about advancing the interests of Americans."

FREE AT LAST: The U.S. Civil Rights Movement

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This book recounts how African-American slaves and their descendants struggled to win — both in law and in practice — the civil rights enjoyed by other Americans. It is a story of dignified persistence and struggle, a story that produced great heroes and heroines, and one that ultimately succeeded by forcing Americans to confront squarely the shameful gap between their universal principles of equality and justice and the inequality, injustice, and oppression faced by millions of their fellow citizens.
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BARACK OBAMA: 44TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

Photo: Courtesy FP Magazine Cover January 2009
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=220

BARACK OBAMA’S VICTORY SPEECH
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EN: http://www.america.gov/st/elections08-english/2008/November/20081105101958abretnuh0.580044.html?CP.rss=true
AR: http://www.america.gov/st/elections08-arabic/2008/November/20081105151948bsibhew0.672909.html


BARACK OBAMA BIOGRAPHY
Biographical info from America.gov http://uspolitics.america.gov/uspolitics/elections/candidates.html#11
Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress entry
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000167


BARACK OBAMA: 44TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
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EN: http://www.america.gov/media/pdf/books/obamaen.pdf (10 pages)
AR: http://www.america.gov/ar/media/pdf/books/obama.pdf (10 pages)

Barack Obama, elected the 44th President of the United States, has lived a truly American life, and has opened a new chapter in American politics. This publication tells the story of Obama’s life, describes how he captured the presidency, and portrays his vision for the future. It also introduces readers to the Obama family and to the new Vice President, Joseph Biden.

OBAMA
November 2008, Special Edition Oxford Analytica
The Political Economist.com http://www.thepoliticaleconomist.com/resources/ThePoliticalEconomist2008-11.pdf


PRESIDENT OBAMA
A HISTORIC ELECTION ON THE WORLD’S FRONT PAGES
Images of front pages from many newspapers worldwide, the day after the November 4 U.S. election http://www.poynterextra.org/gallery/frontpages.html

THE JOSHUA GENERATION

A Reporter at Large
The Joshua Generation
Race and the campaign of Barack Obama.
by David Remnick November 17, 2008



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Speaking at a church in Selma, Obama was not a patriarch and not a prophet but the prophesied. “I’m here because somebody marched,” he said. “I’m here because you all sacrificed for me.”

Barack Obama could not run his campaign for the Presidency based on political accomplishment or on the heroic service of his youth. His record was too slight. His Democratic and Republican opponents were right: he ran largely on language, on the expression of a country’s potential and the self-expression of a complicated man who could reflect and lead that country. And a powerful thematic undercurrent of his oratory and prose was race. Not race as invoked by his predecessors in electoral politics or in the civil-rights movement, not race as an insistence on tribe or on redress; rather, Obama made his biracial ancestry a metaphor for his ambition to create a broad coalition of support, to rally Americans behind a narrative of moral and political progress. He was not its hero, but he just might be its culmination.