Barack Obama, JD Biography
- Title:
- 44th President of the United States
- Position:
- NC to the question "Was Ronald Reagan a Good President?"
- Reasoning:
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“Reagan spoke to America’s longing for order, our need to believe that we are not simply subject to blind, impersonal forces but that we can shape our individual and collective destinies, so long as we rediscover the traditional virtues of hard work, patriotism, personal responsibility, optimism, and faith…
Reagan may have exaggerated the sins of the welfare state, and certainly liberals were right to complain that his domestic policies tilted heavily toward economic elites… Nevertheless, by promising to side with those who worked hard, obeyed the law, cared for their families, and loved their country, Reagan offered Americans a sense of a common purpose that liberals seemed no longer able to muster.”
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, 2006
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- 44th President of the United States, Jan. 20, 2009-Jan. 2016
- Member, US Senate (D-IL), 2005-2008
- Member, US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, 2005-2006
- Member, Illinois State Senate, 1997-2004
- Attorney, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, 1993-2004
- Former Teacher, Constitutional Law, University of Chicago
- Former community organizer, Chicago
- Education:
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- JD, Harvard University, 1991
- BA, Columbia University, 1983
- Other:
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- None found
- Quoted in:
- Pro & Con Quotes: Was Ronald Reagan a Good President?