Barack Obama was the first African American president of the United States. He was elected in 2008, defeating Republican John McCain. As president, Obama implemented a major economic stimulus package to respond to the recession, invested in education and infrastructure, and nominated the first Hispanic woman, Sonia Sotomayor, to the Supreme Court. His domestic policies also addressed environmental protection, gun control, and health care reform. In foreign policy, Obama increased troop levels in Afghanistan and oversaw the mission that killed Osama bin Laden in 2011. He was re-elected president in 2012.

1. Barack Obama
44TH U.S. PRESIDENT
1 ST AFRICAN AMERICAN PRESIDENT
(YOUTUBECLIP)

3. 2008
Democratic Primary
 Hillary Rodham Clinton vs. Barack
Obama
 Obama ended up winning but Hillary
was the first legitimate female
candidate for presidency in American
history
 Youtube clip
 3min
*would
become
Obama’s
secretary of
state

4. General Election 2008
 Defeated (R) Sen. John McCain 2008 to
become the first African American
President of the United States Nov. 2008.

5. Domestic Policy
 Responds to America’s position in
a worldwide recession with
American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009.
 stimulus program had an original
estimated cost of $787 billion which was
revised to $831 billion spent between
2009-2019.
 Investing in education,
infrastructure, welfare programs,
and unemployment support.

6. Impact of Technology: New Pope announcement

7. Sonia
Sotomayor
-Sandra Day O’Connor
retires from SCOTUS
-Obama nominates
1st Hispanic
American Women to
court
 Above (left to right)
 Sandra Day O’conner
(ret), Sonya Sotomayor,
Ruth Ellen Ginsberg,
Elena Kagan

8. Domestic Policy
 Environmental – limits deep off shore
drilling in response to BP oil spill in
Gulf of Mexico and fights Canadian
“pipeline”

9. Quiz Yo’self

10. Domestic Policy
 Gun Control – signed 23 executive orders
addressing limiting certain gun and
ammunition sales, and harsher penalties
for gun trafficking

11. Domestic Policy
 The Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act or Obamacare – controversial
affordable health care for all- still not
fully implemented at this time

12. Foreign Policy –Iraq/Afghanistan
 Feb, 27, 2009 – announces combat operations in
Iraq would end in 18 months
 Dec. 1, 2009 – announces a “SURGE” of troops in
Afghanistan in an attempt to wipe out the
insurgents/terrorists to end war

13. Foreign Policy-Obama gets Osama 
 May 1, 2011 – U.S. Navy SEALs kill Osama
bin Laden in a “surgical raid”

14. Re-elected
 Obama was re-elected in November 2012
and is currently the U.S. President