Obama brought back victory to Africa

When is Africa going to emulate the ideology and technology of voting in the morning and pronouncing election result in the night? The day African will perform such task of voting and releasing a free and fair election result immediately will be the beginning of a real democracy in Africa. Obama victory on Tuesday November 6, 2012 was not only for Americans but for the world in general and most especially Africans. The growing grey hair of President Obama during the first four years of his tenure was an indication of add work, stress, determination, commitment, devotion and dedication to all his promises, and trying to mend fences with the Republican congressional leaders that is blocking his every good and honest move to change the economic challenges and a looming fiscal showdown. Obama defeated Romney in one of the hardest fought campaign in recent history and won series of key swing states despite a weak economic recovery and persistent high unemployment. He certainly inherited serious problems and sincerely believed that he had done a competent job and blamed the deficit entirely on George W Bush and the republican obduracy in the congress Mitt Romney, the 65-year old challenger, lost his home state of Michigan as well as Massachusetts where he served as governor but secured all his conservative base while Obama won the reliably Democratic Northeast. The high turnout of AfricanAmerican voters was even higher when compared with 2008 turn out. Barrack Obama, the first black president of America fought his way to victory to avoid being relegated to a single term president, something that has happened to only one of the previous four occupants of the white house. His second four year term is faced with a difficult task of tackling $1 trillion annual deficits, reducing $16 trillion national debt, overhauling expensive social programs and also dealing with gridlocked congress men. You voted for action, not politics as usual was Obama statement after victory, calling for compromise and pledging to work with leaders of both parties to reduce the deficit, to reform the tax code and immigration laws, and to cut dependence on foreign oil. Barack Hussein Obama II was born August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. President Obama worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He represented the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004 for three terms

He received national attention during the election and primaries of the 2004 U.S. senate in Illinois which he won, and his keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. After a close race in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries, he won his party's nomination against Hillary Rodham Clinton. In the 2008 presidential election, he defeated Republican nominee John McCain, and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. Nine months later, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. As president, Obama signed economic stimulus legislation in the form of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 in response to the 20072009 recessions in the United States. Other major domestic policy initiatives include the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the DoddFrank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the Budget Control Act of 2011. In foreign policy, Obama ended U.S. military involvement in the Iraq War, increased troop levels in Afghanistan, signed the New Start arms control treaty with Russia, ordered U.S. military involvement in Libya, the first American President to be televised and broadcast at a war zone and ordered the military operation that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden. In May 2012, he became the first sitting U.S. president to publicly support legalizing same-sex marriage. Finally, for the good of the country and for his place in history, Obama needs to fulfill his 2008 promises in the second term.

Akintunde Adebayo