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Thursday, March 5, 2009
Obama VS Bush
Biography: Barack Hussein Obama was born Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father, Barack Obama, Sr., was born of Luo ethnicity in Nyanza Province, Kenya. He grew up herding goats with his own father, who was a domestic servant to the British. Although reared among Muslims, Obama, Sr., became an atheist at some point.
Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in Wichita, Kansas. Her father worked on oil rigs during the Depression. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he signed up for service in World War II and marched across Europe in Patton’s army. Dunham’s mother went to work on a bomber assembly line. After the war, they studied on the G. I. Bill, bought a house through the Federal Housing Program, and moved to Hawaii.
Meantime, Barack’s father had won a scholarship that allowed him to leave Kenya pursue his dreams in Hawaii. At the time of his birth, Obama’s parents were students at the East–West Center of the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Obama’s parents separated when he was two years old and later divorced. Obama’s father went to Harvard to pursue Ph. D. studies and then returned to Kenya.
His mother married Lolo Soetoro, another East–West Center student from Indonesia. In 1967, the family moved to Jakarta, where Obama’s half-sister Maya Soetoro–Ng was born. Obama attended schools in Jakarta, where classes were taught in the Indonesian language.
Four years later when Barack (commonly known throughout his early years as "Barry") was ten, he returned to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents, Madelyn and Stanley Dunham, and later his mother (who died of ovarian cancer in 1995).
He was enrolled in the fifth grade at the esteemed Punahou Academy, graduating with honors in 1979. He was only one of three black students at the school. This is where Obama first became conscious of racism and what it meant to be an African–American.
In his memoir, Obama described how he struggled to reconcile social perceptions of his multiracial heritage. He saw his biological father (who died in a 1982 car accident) only once (in 1971) after his parents divorced. And he admitted using alcohol, marijuana and cocaine during his teenage years.
After high school, Obama studied at Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years. He then transferred to Columbia University in New York, graduating in 1983 with a degree in political science.
After working at Business International Corporation (a company that provided international business information to corporate clients) and NYPIRG, Obama moved to Chicago in 1985. There, he worked as a community organizer with low-income residents in Chicago’s Roseland community and the Altgeld Gardens public housing development on the city’s South Side.
Obama calls a foul on Bush endangered-species rule
President Obama overturned an 11th-hour attempt by the departing Bush administration to allow government agencies to skip asking their scientists for advice and opinions on endangered species.
Seattle Times editorial
THE Bush administration elbowed the Endangered Species Act on the way out the door, with one of those little regulatory jabs no one was supposed to notice. President Obama did and applied a policy balm.
In mid-December, the Interior Department finalized rules to allow government agencies to decide if one of their projects is a threat to endangered species. The clarification allowed agencies to come to their own self-serving conclusions without getting a second opinion from the Fish and Wildlife Service, or the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Environmental groups filed a court challenge of the Bush administration's dismissal of consultations, but Obama got there first.
He used a meeting with Department of Interior employees to announce he had undone the regulation. His intent was to return "the scientific process to its rightful place at the heart of the Endangered Species Act, a process undermined by past administrations."
Shortcuts on environmental topics are a false economy, for time and dollars. Court challenges, popular disapproval and harm to the environment and its endangered creatures all carry cost.
Having the government seek advice from its own scientific experts is a basic step toward avoiding trouble later, or at least being prepared for the predictable uproar to follow. Obama corrected shortsighted regulatory and environmental mischief.
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