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Barack Hussein Obama II (IPA: /bk ob.m/; sinh ngy 4 thng 8, 1961) l tng thng ng nhim ca Hoa K. ng l ngi M gc Phi u tin c bu vo chc v ny. Sinh trng Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama tt nghip Vin i hc Columbia v Trng Lut Vin i hc Harvard, ni ng tng l ch tch Harvard Law Review. Obama hot ng cng ng ti Chicago trc khi nhn vn bng lut, ri lm lut s v dn quyn v dy lut hin php ti Trng Lut Vin i hc Chicago t nm 1992 n 2004. ng phc v ba nhim k i din cho Ht 13 ti Thng vin Tiu bang Illinois t nm 1997 n 2004. Nm 2000, ng ng c vo Vin Dn biu Hoa K nhng tht bi.

Nm 2004, Obama gy ting vang ton quc khi c bi din vn then cht ti i hi Ton quc ng Dn ch vo thng 7, sau vo thng 11, ng c c vo Thng vin Hoa K. Trong chin dch tranh c tng thng khi u t nm 2007, n nm 2008, Obama thng st sao Hillary Rodham Clinton nhn s c ca ng Dn ch. ng nh bi ng c vin Cng ha John McCain trong cuc tng tuyn c, v tuyn th nhm chc Tng thng Hoa K ngy 20 thng 1, 2009. Chn thng sau, Obama c trao gii Nobel Ha bnh. n nm 2012, ng c c nhim k th hai sau chin thng trc ng c vin ng Cng ha Mitt Romney. Obama l ng c vin Dn ch u tin k t Franklin D. Roosevelt chin thng trong hai cuc bu c tng thng vi a s phiu ph thng.

Trong nhim k u, nhng sng kin ca Obama nhm kch thch nn kinh t dn n vic ban hnh o lut Phc hi v Ti u t (2009), o lut Gim thu v to vic lm (2010) hu c th ng ph vi cuc suy thoi ti M giai on 2007-2009; ng cng k ban hnh o lut chm sc v bo v bnh nhn; o lut bo v ngi tiu dng; o lut Dont Ask, Dont Tell Repeal Act (2010). V i ngoi, Obama chm dt s can thip qun s ca Hoa K ti Iraq, tng qun s ti Afghanistan, k hip c kim sot v trang New START vi Nga, ra lnh can thip qun s ti Lybia, v m cc cuc hnh qun tiu dit Osama bin Laden. Thng 5, 2010, Obama tr thnh Tng thng M u tin cng khai ng h vic hp php ha hn nhn ng tnh.

Cho i ngy 4 thng 4, 1961 ti Bnh vin Ph sn Kapiolani (nay l Trung tm Y t Kapolani cho Ph n v Nhi ng) Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama l tng thng u tin sinh ti Hawaii.[1][2] M ca Obama, Ann Duham, sinh ti Wichita, Kansas thuc dng di Anh. Cha ca Obama, Barack Obama, Sr., l ngi b tc Luo Nyanoma Kogelo, Kenya. B m Obama gp nhau nm 1960 trong lp hc ting Nga ti i hc HawaiI ti Mnoa; cha ca Obama c cp hc bng theo hc ti y.[3][4] Hai ngi kt hn ti Wailuku Maui ngy 2 thng 2, 1961,[5][6] ri ly thn khi m Obama em con trai mi sinh ti Seattle, Washington vo cui thng 8, 1961 theo hc ti i hc Washington trong mt nm. Cng lc, Obama, Sr. nhn vn bng tt nghip v kinh t hc ti Hawaii vo thng 6, 1962, ri nhn hc bng n hc cao hc ti i hc Harvard. Thng 3, 1964, hai ngi ly hn.[7] Obama Sr. tr v Kenya trong nm 1964 v ti hn; ng ch n Hawaii thm con trai mt ln duy nht trong nm 1982.[8] ng cht trong mt tai nn xe hi nm 1982.[9]

Nm 1963, Dunham gp Lolo Soetoro, mt sinh vin ngi Indonesia tt nghip mn a l ti Trung tm ng-Ty thuc i hc Hawaii, h kt hn vi nhau ti Molokai ngy 15 thng 3, 1965.[10] Sau mt nm gia hn visa J-1, nm 1966, Lolo tr v Indonesia, 16 thng sau Dunham em con trai n sng vi chng ti khu Menteng Dalam pha nam Jakarta, t nm 1970 h dn n mt khu sung tc hn trung tm Jakarta.[11] T 6 n 10 tui, Obama theo hc ti nhng trng ni ting Indonesia: Trng Cng gio St Francis of Asisi trong hai nm, v Trng Cng lp Besuki, cu cng hc thm ting Anh t b m.[12]

Nm 1971, Obama tr v Honolulu sng vi ng b ngoi, Madelyn v Stanley Dunham, cu ginh c mt hc bng vo Trng Punahou, mt trng t thc, v hc y t lp nm cho n khi tt nghip nm 1979.[13] T nm 1972 n 1975, Ann Dunham nghin cu mn nhn hc ti i hc Hawaii, nh m cu c c hi sng gn m v em gi.[14] Obama quyt nh li Hawaii vi ng b ngoi tip tc chng trnh hc ti Trng Punahou khi m cu, em theo em gi, quay v Indonesia trong nm 1975 nghin cu thc a.[15] Trong gn hai thp nin k tip, Ann sng Indonesia, ly d Lolo nm 1980, ly bng Tin s nm 1992, trc khi qua i nm 1995 ti Hawaii do bnh ung th bung trng v ung th t cung.[16]

V thi th u ca mnh, Obama nhc li, "B ti trng khng ging nhng ngi xung quanh ng en nh nh ni, m m ti trng nh sa ti ch nh nh th."[4] ng cng miu t nhng n lc thi thanh nin thch ng vi nhng nh kin x hi v ngun gc a chng tc ca mnh.[17]

Nhng khi nh v nhng nm sng Honolulu khi tui i tng dn, Obama vit: "C hi Hawaii m cng hin tri nghim mt nn vn ha a dng trong mt mi trng sng tn trng ln nhau tr thnh mt phn khng th thiu trong nhn sinh quan ca ti, v l nn tng cho nhng gi tr thn thit nht m ti lun nm gi."[18] Obama cng k v vic cu dng ru, marijuana, v cocaine khi cn l mt thiu nin "tng kh khi tm tr cu hi ti l ai".[19] Ti Civil Forum on the Presidency nm 2008, Obama by t s n hn v dng ma ty trong nhng ngy trng trung hc.[20]

Sau khi tt nghip trung hc, nm 1979, Obama vo i hc Occidental Los Angeles. Nm 1981, Obama vo i hc Columbia Thnh ph New York, hc mn khoa hc chnh tr, chuyn ngnh quan h quc t,[21] tt nghip vi vn bng c nhn nm 1983, lm vic mt nm cho Business International Corporation,[22] ri New York Public Interest Research Group.[23][24]

Hai nm sau khi tt nghip, Obama tr thnh gim c n Pht trin Cng ng, mt t chc lin kt vi gio hi bao gm 8 gio x Cng gio ti Roseland, West Pullman, v Riverdale thuc khu South Side, Chicago, v hot ng trong khu vc ny nh l mt nh t chc cng ng t thng 6, 1985 n thng 5, 1988.[24][25] ng gip thit lp mt chng trnh hun nghip, mt chng trnh d b i hc, v mt t chc bo v quyn li ngi thu nh thuc n Algeld Gardens.[26] Obama cng m nhn chc trch t vn vin v hng dn vin cho T chc Gamaliel, mt hc vin v t chc cng ng.[27]

n gia nm 1988, ln u tin ng n chu u, lu li y ba tun, ri n Kenya trong nm tun gp g nhiu thn nhn bn h ni, y l ln u tin h gp nhau.[28][29] Nm 1922, Obama tr li Kenya vi hn th, Michelle, v em gi Auma,[28][30] ri n Kenya ln th ba vo thng 8, 2006 thm ni sinh trng ca cha, mt ngi lng gn Kisumu, pha ty Kenya.[31]

Cui nm 1988, Obama vo Trng Lut Harvard, ri c chn lm bin tp vin cho t Harvard Law Review vo cui nm th nht,[32] v ch tch ca t tp ch vo nm hc th hai.[26][33] Vo nhng dp h, ng tr v Chicago, lm vic ti cng ty lut Sidley Austin nm 1989, v Hopkins & Sutter nm 1990.[34] Sau khi tt nghip nm 1991 vi vn bng tin s (J. D.) hng u t Harvard, ng v Chicago.[32] Obama l ngi da en u tin c bu vo chc ch tch tp ch Harvard Law Review nn gy nhiu ch , nh m c c hp ng cho mt quyn sch vit v mi quan h chng tc,[35] c pht trin thnh mt cun hi k, xut bn vo gia nm 1995 vi ta Dreams from My Father.[35]

c th hon thnh quyn sch u tin ca mnh, ng c cp hc bng v mt vn phng vit sch, nm 1991, Obama nhn mt v tr thnh ging v Lut hc v Chnh quyn hc ti Trng Lut i hc Chicago.[35] Ri ng ging dy mn lut hin php ti Trng Lut i hc Chicago sut mi hai nm trong cng v ging vin (1992 1996), v ging vin chnh (1996 2004).[36]

T thng 4 n thng 10, 1992, Obama lnh o t chc Project Vote vi mi nhn vin v by trm tnh nguyn vin, nhm n mc tiu vn ng t 150 000 n 400 000 ngi M gc Phi trong tiu bang Illinois ng k bu c.

Nm 1993, Obama lm vic cho cng ty lut Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Garland chuyn v dn quyn v pht trin kinh t khu dn c.[37]

T nm 1994 n 2002, Obama c b nhim vo ban gim c Woods Fund of Chicago, nm 1985 t chc ny gy qu cho n Pht trin Cng ng.[24] ng cng c tn trong ban gim c Chicago Annenberg Challenge t nm 1995 2002, l ch tch sng lp v ch ta ban gim c t nm 1995-1999.[24]

Obama c c vo Thng vin Illinois nm 1996, k nhim Thng ngh s Alice Palmer i din cho ht 13 ca Illinois.[38] ng ginh c s ng h t hai ng cho nhng n lc ci cch lut l v y t v o c.[39] Nm 2001, trong cng v ng ch ta mt y ban hn hp, Obama ng h Thng c Ryan thuc ng Cng ha ban hnh nhng quy nh v tn dng nhm ngn chn nhng v tch bin nh th chp.[40]

Nm 1988, Obama ti c c vo Thng vin bang Illinois sau khi nh bi ng vin ng Cng ha Yessee Yehudah, ri li c c ln na nm 2002.[41] Trc , trong nm 2000, Obama tht bi trc Bobby Rush trong n lc tranh mt gh trong Vin Dn biu Hoa K.

Khng mt ngi dn no mong i chnh ph gii quyt mi kh khn ca h. Nhng h cm nhn c, t trong su thm ca y lng, cn c mt s thay i da theo nhng u tin hp l, c th bo m rng mi a tr ti M u c s khi u tt cho cuc i chng, v cnh ca c hi lun rng m cho mi ngi. H bit rng chng ta c th lm tt hn. V h mun chng ta phi lm th.

Barack Obama, Din vn ti i hi Ton quc ng Dn ch nm 2004.[42]

Thng 1, 2003, Obama tr thnh ch tch y ban Y t v Dn sinh ti Thng vin Illinois khi ng Dn ch ginh c th a s sau mt thp nin l ng thiu s.[43] ng bo tr v vn ng thng qua o lut gim st vic thc thi lut php da trn s phn loi chng tc bng cch yu cu cnh st bo co chng tc nhng ngi li xe m h bt gi, v o lut bt buc ghi hnh cc cuc thm vn trong nhng v n st nhn.[44] Thng 11, 2004, Obama t nhim khi Thng vin Illinois sau khi c c vo Thng vin Hoa K.[45]

Thng 5, 2002, Obama m mt cuc thm d v trin vng cho cuc ua vo Thng vin Hoa K, thnh lp ban vn ng, khi s gy qu, v tuyn dng c vn chnh tr David Axelrod. n thng 1, 2003, ng chnh thc tuyn b tranh c.[46] Ngay t u, Obama phn i chnh ph George W. Bush v v xm lng Iraq nm 2003.[47] Ngy 2 thng 10, 2002, ngy Tng thng Bush v Quc hi ng thun v ngh quyt tin hnh chin tranh, ng cng khai by t lp trng chng i trong mt ln ni chuyn ti mt cuc t hp chng chin tranh Iraq. Trong mt cuc t hp khc vo thng 3, 2003, Obama ni vi m ng rng " qu tr" dng cuc chin ny.

C 15 ng vin thuc hai ng Cng ha v Dn ch tham d cuc ua, nhng vi chin thng p o trong vng bu c s b, Obama t ngt tr thnh ngi sao y trin vng ca ng Dn ch trn chnh trng lin bang. Bt u xut hin nhng suy din v trin vng tranh c tng thng, nh m quyn hi k ca ng, Dreams from My Father, c ti bn. n thng 7, 2004, Obama c bi din vn then cht ti i hi Ton quc ng Dn ch nm 2004,[48] c 9,1 triu ngi xem. Bi din vn to ting vang v v tr ca Obama trong ng Dn ch c nng cao.

Thng 6, 2004, i th thuc ng Cng ha, Jack Ryan, rt lui khi cuc ua. Su tun l sau, Alan Keyes nhn s ca ng Cng ha thay th v tr ca Ryan. Trong cuc tng tuyn c thng 11, 2004, Obama chim 70% tng s phiu bu.

Ngy 3 thng 1, 2005, Obama tuyn th nhm chc thng ngh s, l thnh vin duy nht ca Cu lc b Ngh s Lin bang Da en n t Thng vin Hoa K. CQ Weekly, cn c trn bng phn tch nhng biu quyt ca Obama ti Thng vin t nm 2005 2007, xp ng vo thnh phn "ng vin Dn ch trung kin". Ngy 13 thng 11, 2008, Obama tuyn b t nhim t ngy 16 thng 11, 2008 tp trung cho giai on tip nhn chc v tng thng.

Obama bo tr o lut Secure America and Orderly Immigration,[49] v gii thiu hai d lut mang tn ng: Lugar-Obama,[50] v o lut Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency nm 2006 thit lp USAspending.gov, mt cng c tm kim trn internet v chi tiu lin bang.[51] Ngy 3 thng 6, 2008, Obama cng cc thng ngh s Tom Carper, Tom Coburn, v John McCain trnh mt d lut gim st chi tiu ca lin bang: o lut Strengthening Transparency and Accountability in Federal Spending 2008.[51] Obama cng bo tr mt d lut i hi ch nhn nhng nh my ht nhn phi thng bo cho gii hu trch tiu bang v a phng v tnh trng r r phng x, nhng khng c Thng vin thng qua.[52]

Thng 1, 2007, Obama trnh d lut Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention nhm buc ti hnh s cc th on la o trong nhng cuc bu c lin bang,[53] v Iraq War De-Escaltion 2007,[54] nhng c hai d lut ny u khng c thng qua. Thng 12 nm 2006, Tng thng Bush k ban hnh o lut Xc tin Dn ch, An ninh, Cu t ti Cng ha Dn ch Congo, nh du n lc u tin ca Chnh ph lin bang c khi xng bi Obama[55].

Cui nm 2007, Obama bo tr mt tu chnh nhm tng thm s bo tr dnh cho qun nhn gii ng do ri lon nhn cch.[56] Tu chnh ny c Thng vin thng qua vo ma xun nm 2008.[57] ng cng bo tr mt tu chnh cho Chng trnh Y t dnh cho tr em, cung ng mt nm bo tr vic lm cho cc thnh vin gia nh ang chm sc thng binh.[58]

Trong nm 2006, Obama c chn trong cc y ban Thng vin nh Ngoi giao, Mi trng v Tin ch cng v Cu Chin binh[55].

Thng 1 nm 2007, ng ri y ban Mi trng v Tin ch cng, nhn nhim v y ban Y t, Gio dc, Lao ng v Hu tr v y ban Ni chnh v Chnh quyn[59]. ng cng l Ch tch Tiu ban Thng vin v u chu[60].

L thnh vin y ban Ngoi giao Thng vin, Obama m cc cuc ving thm chnh thc n ng u, Trung ng v Phi chu. Thng 8 nm 2005, ng n Nga, Ukraina v Azerbaijan. Chuyn i tp ch vo chin lc kim sot ngun cung cp v kh quy c, v kh sinh hc v v kh hy dit hng lot nh l bin php ban u chng cc cuc tn cng khng b[61].

Sau nhng ln thm binh s M tr ng Kuwait v Iraq trong thng 1 nm 2006, Obama n Jordan, Israel v lnh th Palestine. Trong mt ln gp g sinh vin Palestine hai tun l trc khi Hamas thng cuc bu c, Obama cnh bo: "Hoa K s khng bao gi cng nhn cc ng vin Hamas thng c tr khi h t b lp trng xa b quc gia Israel"[61].

Thng 8 nm 2006, ng n thm Nam Phi, Kenya, Djibouti, Ethiopia v Tchad. Khi din thuyt ti i hc Nairobi, ng cp n nn tham nhng v s bt ha gia cc chng tc[62], khi dy nhng tranh ci trong vng gii lnh o Kenya, mt s ngi xem nhn xt ca ng l thiu chnh xc v khng cng bng, trong khi nhng ngi khc bnh vc ng[63].

Thng 2 nm 2007, ng trc ta nh Old State Capitol ti Springfield, Illinois, Obama tuyn b chnh thc tham gia cuc ua vo Ta Bch c nm 2008[64]. im li qu trnh hot ng ca mnh ti Illinois trong hm lin kt vi hnh nh ca Abraham Lincoln khi c bi din vn "Mt nh t chia r" nm 1858 ti chnh a im ny[65], Obama ni: " l l do, ngay di bng ta nh Old State Capitol, ni Lincoln mt ln ku gi s ha gii v on kt cho mt nh t chia r, ni nhng nim hi vng v nhng gic m c mi ngi cng chia s vn cn sng ng, hm nay ti ng trc qu v thng bo quyt nh ra tranh c Tng thng Hip Chng Quc Hoa K."

Obama cng nhn mnh n i hi chm dt cuc chin Iraq, tng cng s c lp v nng lng, v cung ng s chm sc sc khe ph qut,[66] trong chin dch tranh c vi ch chnh l "nim hi vng" v "thay i".[67]

C kh ng ng vin trong vng bu c s b ca ng Dn ch, nhng sau cng ch cn l cuc tranh chp tay i gia Obama v Thng ngh s Hillary Rodham Clinton. Khong cch gia Clinton v Obama thu hp dn, phn ln l do Obama c k hoch di hn tt hn, vt tri v kh nng gy qu, v bit cch tn dng li th theo lut bu c.

Ngy 7 thng 6, 2008, Clinton rt lui khi cuc ua ng thi tuyn b ng h Obama.[68]

Ngy 23 thng 8, Obama chn Joe Biden, thng ngh s i din bang Delaware, vo lin danh.[69]

Ti i hi Ton quc ng Dn ch Denver, Colorado, Obama c bi din vn chp nhn s c, khng phi trong phng hp ca i hi m ti vn ng trng Invesco Field at Mile High trc c ta 75 000 ngi; 38 triu ngi trn khp th gii theo di s kin ny.[70]

Trong giai on bu c s b cng nh trong cuc tng tuyn c, chin dch tranh c ca Obama lp k lc v gy qu, nht l nhng khon ng gp nh.

Obama v John McCain, ng c vin c ng Cng ha c, tham d ba cuc tranh lun trong thng 9 v thng 10 nm 2008. Ngy 4 thng 11, Obama thng c vi 365 phiu c tri on, McCain c 173 phiu. Obama ginh c 52,9% phiu ph thng, t l ny ca McCain l 45,7%.[71]

Obama tr thnh ngi M gc Phi u tin c bu vo chc v Tng thng Hoa K. ng c bi din vn chin thng trc hng trm ngn ngi tp hp v Cng vin Grant Chicago.[72]

Ngy 4 thng 4, 2011, Obama tuyn b ti tranh c qua video "It Begins with Us" c a ln website ca ng, v np h s cho y hi Tuyn c Lin bang.[74][75][76] L tng thng ng chc, Obama khng c i th trong giai on bu c s b ca ng Dn ch,[77] ngy 3 thng 4, 2012, ng c 2778 i biu ng h c ng Dn ch c.[78]

Ti i hi Ton quc ng Dn ch 2012 t chc Charlotte, North Carolina, cu tng thng Bill Clinton chnh thc c Obama v Joe Biden lm ng c vin tng thng v ph tng thng, i u vi ng c vin ng Cng ha Mitt Romney, cu Thng c tiu bang Massachusetts, v Dn biu Paul Ryan.[79]

Ngy 6 thng 11, 2012 Obama ginh c 332 phiu c tri on, vt qu s quy nh 270 phiu tip tc chc v tng thng cho nhim k th hai.[80][81][82]

Obama l tng thng Dn ch u tin k t Franklin D. Roosevelt hai ln ginh c a s phiu ph thng.[83]

Khi pht biu vi nhng ngi ng h v cc tnh nguyn vin ti trung tm hi ngh McCormick Place Chicago sau khi ti c c, Obama ni:

L nhm chc ca Barack Obama nh l Tng thng th 44 ca Hoa K din ra ngy 20 thng 1, 2009. Ngay t nhng ngy u tin, Obama ban hnh nhng sc lnh v nhng bn ghi nh hng dn qun i Hoa K pht trin k hoch trit thoi binh s khi Iraq.[85] ng ra lnh ng ca tri giam Vnh Guantanamo,[86] nhng b Quc hi cn tr bng cch t chi cp ngn qu.[87][88][89] Obama cng cho h thp tiu chun b mt dnh cho cc cuc ghi m ca tng thng.[90]

D lut u tin c Obama k ban hnh l o lut Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act nm 2009.[91] Nm ngy sau, ng k lnh ti khi ng Chng trnh Bo him Sc khe cho Tr em, h tr cho 4 triu tr em khng c bo him.[92] Thng 3, 2009, Obama o ngc chnh sch ca chnh ph Bush hn ch ngn qu dnh cho nghin cu t bo gc t phi, cng lc ng cam kt pht trin "nhng hng dn nghim ngt" cho cc cuc nghin cu.[93]

Ngay trong hai nm u ca nhim k tng thng, Obama b nhim hai ph n vo ta n ti cao. Sonia Sotomayor thay th David Souter v hu. c chun thun ngy 6 thng 8, 2009, Sotomayor l ngi ni ting Ty Ban Nha u tin c b nhim vo ta ti cao.[94][95] Vi vic b nhim Elena Kagan, c Obama c ngy 10 thng 10, 2010 thay th John Paul Stevens v hu, c ph chun ngy 5 thng 8, 2010, ln u tin trong lch s c ba n thm phn phc v ti Ti cao Php vin Hoa K.[96]

Ngy 30 thng 9, 2009, chnh quyn Obama xut bn quy tc mi v nh my in, hng xng v nh my lc du trong n lc hn ch kh thi gy hiu ng nh knh v km hm tnh trng nng m ton cu.[97][98]

Trong thng 4, 2010, Obama cng b mt s thay i trong nh hng ca NASA, c quan khng gian Hoa K, cung cp ngn qu cho cc n khoa hc a cu, mt loi ha tin mi, nghin cu v pht trin cc chuyn thm him Sao Ha, v cc chuyn bay n Trm Khng gian Quc t.[99]

Ngy 22 thng 12, 2010, Obama k ban hnh Sc lnh Dont Ask, Dont Tell Repeal 2010, thc hin li ha ca ng khi tranh c[100][101] chm dt chnh sch Dont ask, dont tell nm 1993 ngn cm ngi ng tnh tham gia lc lng v trang.[102]

Trong thng ip lin bang nm 2011, tng thng tp ch vo cc ch gio dc v i mi, nhn mnh n tm quan trng ca i mi kinh t tng cng sc mnh cnh tranh ca nc M trn th gii. ng ni v vic ng bng chi tiu ni a trong 5 nm, b vic gim thu cho cc cng ty du m, o ngc chnh sch ct gim thu cho gii giu c nht, v ct gim chi ph y t. Tng thng cng cam kt n nm 2015 s c 1 triu xe chy bng in lu thng trn ng.[103][104]

T khi tranh c vo thng vin Illinois nm 1996, Obama ng h hn nhn ng tnh;[105] nhng khi tranh c vo Thng vin Hoa K nm 2004, ng tuyn b ng h s kt c dn s (civil union) v chng i hn nhn ng tnh.[106] Ngy 9 thng 5, 2012, mt thi gian ngn sau khi tuyn b ti tranh c, Obama ni rng ng thay i quan im v cng khai ng h hn nhn ng tnh. Obama l tng thng M u tin ng h hn nhn ng tnh.[107][108]

Ngy 17 thng 2, 2009, Obama ban hnh gi kch thch tr gi 787 t USD nhm phc hi nn kinh t ang chu nh hng t t suy thoi ton cu,[109] vi cc bin php nh gia tng chi tiu lin bang cho y t, c s h tng, gio dc, ct gim thu, v h tr trc tip cho cc c nhn.

i ph vi cn khng hong ti chnh, B trng Ngn kh cung ng qu d phng 2 000 t USD mua bt ng sn ang mt gi. Obama quyt nh can thp vo nn cng nghip t ang b khng hong,[110] cho gia hn cc khon n ca General Motors v Chrysler tip tc sn xut trong khi tin hnh ci t. Trong nhng thng k tip, Ta Bch c thit lp iu kin ph sn cho hai cng ty, trong c vic bn Chrysler cho cng ty Fiat ca ,[111] v ti cu trc GM, chnh ph M mua 60% c phn, chnh ph Canada mua 12%.[112]

n thng 6, 2009, khng hi lng vi tin ca gi kch thch kinh t, Obama ku gi ni cc y mnh u t.[113] ng ban hnh chng trnh Car Allowance Rebate System tr gi 3 t USD, h tr ngi dn i xe c tiu hao nhiu nhin liu cho xe mi tit kim nhin liu.[114][115][116]

Ging nm 2008, t l tht nghip tip tc gia tng trong nm 2009, n nh im vo thng 10 mc 10%. Sang qu 1 nm 2010, t l tht nghip c ko xung cn 9,7%, ri 9,6% trong qu 2 cho n cui nm.[117] T thng 2 n thng 12 nm 2010, t l ngi c vic lm tng 0,8%.[118] Qu 3 nm 2009 chng kin mc tng trng GDP l 1,6%, qu 4 l 5,0%,[119] t l ny trong qu 1 nm 2010 l 3,7%.[119]

Thng 7, 2010, Qu D tr Lin bang cho bit cc hot ng kinh t tip tc gia tng nhng nhp chm. Ch tch Qu D tr Lin bang, Ben Bernake, ni rng tng quan nn kinh t l "khng n nh cch bt thng".[120] Nhn chung, nn kinh t pht trin mc 2,9% trong nm 2010.[121]

Vn phng Ngn sch Quc hi v phn ln cc nh kinh t hc cho rng k hoch kch thch ca Obama gip tng trng kinh t.[122][123] Vn phng pht hnh mt bn bo co theo gi kch thch lm gia tng s ngi c vic lm t 1 2,1 triu.[122][123][124][125][126]

Obama ku gi Quc hi thng qua lut ci t h thng chm sc sc khe ca Hoa K, mt li ha quan trng khi tranh c v l mt mc tiu lp php ca ng.[127]

Obama ngh m rng bo him y t bao gm nhng ngi cha c bo him, v cho php nhng ngi mt vic hoc thay i cng vic duy tr bo him ca mnh. ng ku gi chi tiu 900 t USD trong 10 nm v bao gm mt k hoch bo him ca chnh ph cnh tranh vi khu vc bo him t nh l mt bin php nhm lm gim gi bo him ng thi nng cao cht lng h thng chm sc sc khe. D lut cng quy nh vic b ri ngi mc bnh l bt hp php, v yu cu tt c ngi M u c bo him sc khe. K hoch ny cng tnh n vic ct gim chi tiu y t v nh thu trn nhng cng ty bo him cung ng cc gi bo him t tin.[128][129]

Ngy 14 thng 7, 2009, gii lnh o ng Dn ch Vin Dn biu gii thiu bn k hoch dy 1 017 trang xem xt ton b h thng chm sc sc khe ca nc M; Obama mun Quc hi ph chun k hoch ny vo cui nm 2009.[127]

Sau nhiu cuc tranh lun din ra sut k ngh h nm 2009 ca Quc hi, ngy 9 thng 9,Obama c din vn trc k hp ton th ca Quc hi, by t mi quan tm n nhng xut.[130] Thng 3, 2009, Obama g b lnh cm s dng ngn sch lin bang cho nghin cu t bo gc.[131]

Ngy 21 thng 3, 2010, o lut Patient Protection and Affordable Care c Thng vin thng qua, trc trong thng 12 Vin Dn biu biu quyt vi t l 219-212 ph chun d lut. Tng thng k ban hnh ngy 23 thng 3, 2010.[132][133]

Obama gi cuc cuc bu c ngy 2 thng 11, 2010, khi ng Dn ch mt 63 gh Vin Dn biu,[134] l "ng h thn" v l mt "tht bi nng n".[135] ng ni rng s tht bi ny l do ngi dn M cha cm thy tc dng ca tin trnh phc hi kinh t.[136]

Trong thng 2 v thng 3, Ph Tng thng Joe Biden v Ngoi trng Hillary Rodham Clinton thc hin nhng chuyn cng du ring l nhm cng b mt "k nguyn mi" trong tiu bang giao gia Hoa K vi Nga v u chu, nhng t "t ph" v "iu chnh" c s dng bo trc nhng thay i quan trng trong chnh sch ngoi giao. Obama t mun tip cn vi gii lnh o -rp khi dnh cho knh truyn hnh -rp, Al Arabiya, cuc phng vn u tin ca ng.[137]

Ngy 19 thng 3, Obama tip tc n lc tip cn vi th gii Hi gio bng cch gi thng ip nm mi qua mt video n nhn dn v chnh quyn Iran,[138] nhng b gii lnh o Iran c tuyt.[139] n thng 4, bi din vn ca Obama c ti Ankara, Th Nh K c chnh ph cc nc -rp tip nhn cch thun li.[140] Ngy 4 thng 6, 2009, trong din t c ti i hc Cairo, Ai Cp, Obama ku gi cho "mt s khi u mi" trong mi quan h gia th gii Hi gio vi Hoa K, ng cng ln ting thc y tin trnh ha bnh Trung ng.

Ngy 26 thng 6, 2009, phn ng trc hnh ng ca chnh ph Iran chng li nhng ngi biu tnh sau cuc bu c tng thng 2009 Iran, Obama ni: "S dng bo lc chng li h l v nhn o. Chng ti theo di v ln n chng."[141]

Ngy 24 thng 9, 2009, Obama tr thnh Tng thng Hoa K u tin ch ta mt cuc hp ca Hi ng Bo an Lin Hip Quc.[142]

Thng 3, 2010, Obam cng khai chng li k hoch ca Th tng Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, tip tc n xy dng nh cho ngi Do Thi trong nhng khu dn c c nhiu ngi -rp khu ng Jerusalem.[143][144]

Cng trong thng ny, mt tha thun t c vi chnh ph Dmitry Medvedev ca Nga thay th Tha c Ct gim V trang Chin lc 1991 bng mt hip c mi ct gim mt phn ba s lng v kh ht nhn tm xa trong kho v kh ca c hai bn.[145] Hip c New START ny c Obama v Medvedev k kt trong thng 4, 2010, v c Thng vin Hoa K ph chun vo thng 12, 2010.[146]

Ngy 27 thng 2, 2009, khi ni chuyn vi binh s Thy qun Lc chin M sp c gi n Afghanistan, Obama tuyn b rng qun i Hoa K s chm dt cc cuc hnh qun chin u ti Iraq trong vng 18 thng, "Cho php ti trnh by iu ny cch r rng nht: n 31 thng 8, 2010, nhim v chin u ca chng ta ti Iraq s chm dt."[147] Cuc trit thoi s c hon tt trong thng 8, 2010, li mt lc lng chuyn tip t 35 000 n 50 000 binh s cho n cui nm 2011.

Ngy 19 thng 8, 2010, l on chin u cui cng ri khi Iraq. Lc lng chuyn tip m trch cng tc chng khng b, hun luyn, trang b, v c vn cho lc lng an ninh Iraq.[148][149]

Ngy 31 thng 8, 2010, Obama tuyn b nhim v chin u ca Hoa K ti Iraq chm dt.[150]

Ngy 21 thng 10, 2011, Tng thng Obama tuyn b ton b binh s Hoa K ri khi Iraq kp on t vi gia nh trong nhng ngy l.[151]

T lc mi nhm chc, Obama ch trng tng cng sc mnh qun s ti Afghanistan,[152] ng tuyn b gia tng s binh s M ln n 17 000 ngi nhm "o ngc tnh hnh ang sa st ti Afghanistan", vng t theo ng khng nhn "s quan tm chin lc v ngun lc cn thit".[153]

Thng 5, 2009, Tng thng thay th t lnh qun i ti y, Tng David D. McKiernan, bng cu t lnh Lc lng c bit, Tng Stanley A. McChrystal, ng rng nhng kinh nghim ca McChrystal trong Lc lng c bit s gip p dng hiu qu chin thut chng ni dy trong chin tranh . Ngy 1 thng 12, 2009, Obama tuyn b b sung 30 000 qun n Afghanistan.[154] ng cng xut k hoch rt qun trong vng 18 thng k t ngy ny.[155]

Sau khi b ch huy ca McChrystal ch trch nhn vin Ta Bch c, thng 6, 2010, David Petraeus c b nhim thay th McChrystal.[156]

Obama miu t mi dy rng buc gia Hoa K vi Israel l "khng th ph v c".[157] Ngay t u, chnh ph Obama y mnh hp tc qun s vi Israel bng cch tng vin tr qun s, lp li Nhm Chnh tr Qun s Hoa K-Israel, v Nhm T vn Chnh sch Quc phng, gia tng cc chuyn ving thm qun s cao cp gia hai nc.[158] Chnh ph Obama yu cu Quc hi phn b tin cho chng trnh Iron Dome nhm p tr t sng tn cng bng ha tin ca Paestine nhm vo Israel.[159]

Trong nm 2011, Hoa K ph quyt mt ngh quyt ca Hi ng Bo an Lin Hip Quc ln n cc khu nh c ca Israrel. Hoa K l quc gia duy nht chng li ngh quyt ny.[160] Obama ng h gii php hai nh nc trong cuc tranh chp -rp Israel da trn hin trng nm 1967.[161]

Thng 3, 2011, khi lc lng trung thnh vi Muammar Gaddafi p o nhng nhm ni dy trn khp lnh th Libya, u chu v Lin on -rp ln ting ku gi thnh lp mt khu vc cm bay, v Thng vin Hoa K nht tr thng qua mt ngh quyt.[162]

Phn ng trc Ngh quyt 1973 ca Hi ng Bo an Lin Hip Quc, Gaddafi trc th rng s "khng dung tha" i vi phe ni dy Benghazi[163] tuyn b ngng lp tc mi hot ng qun s.[164] Tuy nhin, c nhng bo co v vic binh s ca Gaddafi tip tc n pho vo Misrata. Hm sau, theo ch th ca Obama, qun lc Hoa K dn u cc cuc khng kch, s dng ha tin Tomahawk, oanh tc c tng hnh B-2 Spirit, v cc chin u c[165][166][167] hy dit kh nng phng v ca chnh ph Libya vi l do bo v tnh mng thng dn v cng ch thi hnh lnh cm bay.[168]

Su ngy sau, 25 thng 3, vi s ng thun ca 23 thnh vin, NATO lnh o chin dch Operation Unified Protector. S h tr ca NATO l nhn t quyt nh dn n s sp ca ch Gaddafi ngy 23 thng 10, 2011.[169]

Khi u vi nhng thng tin tip nhn trong thng 7, 2010, mng li tnh bo ca CIA trong nhng thng k tip xc nh rng Osama bin Laden ang tr n trong mt ta nh kn o Abbottabad, mt vng ngoi cch Islamabad, th Pakistan, 35 dm.[170] Thng 3, 2011, Gim c CIA Leon Panetta tng trnh nhng thng tin tnh bo cho Tng thng Obama.[170] Trong su tun k tip, khi hp bn vi cc c vn an ninh, Obama bc b k hoch nm bom, nhng cho php ton c nhim SEAL ca Hi qun Hoa K t kch vo ta nh.[170]

Kt qu thu c t cuc t kch, tin hnh ngy 1 thng 5, 2011, l ci cht ca bin Laden, nhiu giy t b thu gi, cng nhng a vi tnh.[171][172] Thi th ca bin Laden c nhn dng nh xt nghim DNA,[173] ri c thy tng ch vi gi sau .[174]

Vo chiu ti ngy 1 thng 5 ti Washington, D.C., ngay sau khi Tng thng thng bo, nhiu cuc n mng t pht din ra trn khp t nc, v nhng m ng hoan h t hp bn ngoi Ta Bch c, ti khu bnh a v Qung trng Times New York.[171][175] Trong s nhng phn ng tch cc n t hai chnh ng v t nhiu quc gia trn th gii c li chc tng ca cc cu tng thng Bill Clinton v George W. Bush.[176][177]

t nc ny c nhiu ca ci hn bt c quc gia no khc, nhng iu khng lm chng ta giu c. Chng ta c qun i hng cng nht trong lch s, nhng iu khng lm chng ta mnh m. Nn i hc v vn ha ca chng ta khin th gii phi ganh t, nhng iu khng ko th gii n gn vi chng ta. iu khin nc M ni bt l nhng rng buc khin t nc a dng nht ny trn Tri t on kt vi nhau... l iu khin nc M tr nn v i.

Barack Obama, Din vn Chin thng trong k bu c tng thng 2012.[84]

Cha l ngi Kenya, m ngi M gc u, ln ln Honolulu v Jakarta, theo hc ti nhng vin i hc tinh hoa ca nc M (thuc Ivy League), nhng tri nghim ban u ca Obama khc bit ng k vi th h chnh khch ngi M gc Phi khi nghip chnh tr ca mnh trong thp nin 1960 bng cch tham gia cc cuc u tranh ca Phong tro Dn quyn M[178].

By t s kinh ngc v nhng tra vn liu ng c " en" khng, trong mt ln ni chuyn vi Hip hi Nh bo Da en vo thng 8 nm 2007, Obama nhn xt rng vn khng phi l ngoi din hoc thnh tch ca ng v nhng s vic lin quan n c tri da en, nhng l "no trng ca chng ta vn cn b cu thc bi tng cho rng bt c ai tm kim s ng h t nhng ngi anh em da trng u b coi l ang lm mt iu sai tri"[179].

Obama thng c nhc n nh l mt nh hng bin xut sc. T giai on chun b nhm chc v sut nhim k tng thng, mi tun ng u c mt bi ni chuyn c a ln Internet.

Theo Gallup, Obama khi u nhim k vi t l ng h l 68%, ri suy gim u n sut trong nm, cui cng chm y vo thng 8 nm 2010 mc 41%, tng t vi nhng g xy ra vi hai tng thng tin nhim ca ng, Ronald Reagan v Bill Clinton trong nm u tin ca h ti Ta Bch c. T l ny tng ln i cht sau ci cht ca Osama bin Laden, ko di n thng 6, 2011 ri ri tut tr li mc c vo thi im trc khi m cuc hnh qun tiu dit bin Laden.

Tuy nhin, theo cuc kho st ca Harris Interactive vo thng 1, 2009 cho knh truyn hnh France 24 v nht bo International Herald Tribune, Obama c xem l nh lnh o th gii nhiu quyn lc nht cng nh c tn trng nht. Trong mt cuc kho st vo thng 5, 2009 ca Harris, Obama c nh gi l nh lnh o th gii c yu thch nht, v l nhn vkt c k vng nht c th dn dt th gii ra khi cn suy thoi kinh t.

Obama c trao Gii Grammy cho album ni hay nht v phin bn audio ca quyn Dreams from My Father trong thng 2, 2006 v cho quyn The Audacity of Hope trong thng 2, 2008. Bi din vn chp nhn thua cuc trong k bu c s b New Hampshire ca Obama c ph nhc, khi video "Yes We Can" c a ln YouTube lin c 10 triu lt xem ngay trong thng u tin, v c nhn Gii Daytime Emmy. Thng 12, 2008, Obama c tp ch Time chn lm Nhn vt ca Nm do n lc ca ng trong k bu c tng thng m tp ch ny miu t l "cuc hnh trnh vng chi t n nhng thnh qu hu nh l bt kh".

Ngy 9 thng 10, 2009, y ban Nobel Na Uy tuyn b Obama ot Gii Nobel Ha bnh 2009 "do nhng n lc phi thng ca ng nhm cng c nn ngoi giao quc t v s hp tc gia cc dn tc". Ngy 10 thng 12, 2009, Obama n Oslo nhn gii vi thi "ht sc khim tn v lng bit n su sc". Ln trao gii ny gy ra nhng phn ng tri nghch nhau t nhng nh lnh o th gii cng nh gii truyn thng. Obama l ngi th t trong s cc Tng thng Hoa K c trao gii Nobel Ha bnh, v l ngi th ba nhn gii khi ng chc.

C nhng ngi ng h ln ch trch u xem hnh nh ca Obama nh l mt nhn cch trung tnh m bt c ai cng c th lng vo qu kh v kht vng ca mnh. Nhng cu chuyn ca Obama v ngun gc gia nh cng c thm na iu m mt bi vit ng trn tp ch The New Yorker thng 5 nm 2004 miu t l hnh nh chung cho mi ngi. Trong quyn Dreams from My Fathers, ng gn kt lch s gia nh h ngoi vi t tin l ngi M bn a v l h hng xa vi Jefferson Davis, tng thng Lin minh min Nam trong cuc Ni chin M[180].

Cn khi ni chuyn trc mt c ta ngi Do Thi trong cuc ua vo Thng vin Hoa K nm 2004, Obama tm thy s tng ng trong ngun gc ngn ng gia ci tn Barack bt ngun t ng Phi vi tn Baruch, trong ting Hebrew ngha l "ngi c chc phc".

Thng 10 nm 2006, khi xut hin trong chng trnh truyn hnh The Oprah Winfrey Show, Obama ni v tnh a dng trong i gia nh ca mnh: "Michelle s bo cho cc bn bit, khi hp mt vo dp Ging sinh hoc L T n, th y ng l mt Lin Hip Quc thu nh. Ti c nhng ngi h hng trng ging nh Bernie Mac (din vin v danh hi ngi M gc Phi), trong khi nhng ngi khc trng ging nh Margaret Thatcher. y chng ti c tt c"[181]. Obama gp ngi v tng lai ca mnh, Michelle Robinson, nm 1988 khi nhn mt cng vic ma h cho vn phng lut s Sidley & Austin Chicago[182]. L c vn cho Obama ti cng ty, Robinson cng lm vic vi Obama trong cc hot ng x hi theo nhm. n cui h, h bt u hn h, nh hn nm 1991 v kt hn vo thng 10 nm 1992[183]. Con gi u ca hai ngi, Malia Ann, cho i nm 1999[184], k l Natasha ("Sasha") nm 2001[185].

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Obama, BarackCourtesy of the Office of U.S. Senator Barack Obama

Barack Obama,in full Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961,Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.),44th president of the United States (2009 ) and the first African American to hold the office. Before winning the presidency, Obama represented Illinois in the U.S. Senate (200508). He was the third African American to be elected to that body since the end of Reconstruction (1877). In 2009 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.

Obama, Barack Obama for America/Handout/Reuters/CorbisObamas father, Barack Obama, Sr., was a teenage goatherd in rural Kenya, won a scholarship to study in the United States, and eventually became a senior economist in the Kenyan government. Obamas mother, S. Ann Dunham, grew up in Kansas, Texas, and Washington state before her family settled in Honolulu. In 1960 she and Barack Sr. met in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii and married less than a year later.

Obama, Barack: Harvard, 1990Steve LissTime Life Pictures/Getty ImagesWhen Obama was age two, Barack Sr. left to study at Harvard University; shortly thereafter, in 1964, Ann and Barack Sr. divorced. (Obama saw his father only one more time, during a brief visit when Obama was 10.) Later Ann remarried, this time to another foreign student, Lolo Soetoro from Indonesia, with whom she had a second child, Maya. Obama lived for several years in Jakarta with his half sister, mother, and stepfather. While there, Obama attended both a government-run school where he received some instruction in Islam and a Catholic private school where he took part in Christian schooling.

He returned to Hawaii in 1971 and lived in a modest apartment, sometimes with his grandparents and sometimes with his mother (she remained for a time in Indonesia, returned to Hawaii, and then went abroad againpartly to pursue work on a Ph.D.before divorcing Soetoro in 1980). For a brief period his mother was aided by government food stamps, but the family mostly lived a middle-class existence. In 1979 Obama graduated from Punahou School, an elite college preparatory academy in Honolulu.

Obama attended Occidental College in suburban Los Angeles for two years and then transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where in 1983 he received a bachelors degree in political science. Influenced by professors who pushed him to take his studies more seriously, Obama experienced great intellectual growth during college and for a couple of years thereafter. He led a rather ascetic life and read works of literature and philosophy by William Shakespeare, Friedrich Nietzsche, Toni Morrison, and others. After serving for a couple of years as a writer and editor for Business International Corp., a research, publishing, and consulting firm in Manhattan, he took a position in 1985 as a community organizer on Chicagos largely impoverished Far South Side. He returned to school three years later and graduated magna cum laude in 1991 from Harvard Universitys law school, where he was the first African American to serve as president of the Harvard Law Review. While a summer associate in 1989 at the Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin, Obama had met Chicago native Michelle Robinson, a young lawyer at the firm. The two married in 1992.

Obama, BarackNam Y. Huh/APAfter receiving his law degree, Obama moved to Chicago and became active in the Democratic Party. He organized Project Vote, a drive that registered tens of thousands of African Americans on voting rolls and that is credited with helping Democrat Bill Clinton win Illinois and capture the presidency in 1992. The effort also helped make Carol Moseley Braun, an Illinois state legislator, the first African American woman elected to the U.S. Senate. During this period, Obama wrote his first book and saw it published. The memoir, Dreams from My Father (1995), is the story of Obamas search for his biracial identity by tracing the lives of his now-deceased father and his extended family in Kenya. Obama lectured on constitutional law at the University of Chicago and worked as an attorney on civil rights issues.

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When terrorists have struck during his presidency, Obama has typically reacted cerebrally, trying to ensure that reason triumphs over the fear and emotion of the moment even as critics such as Donald Trump assail it.

On Thursday in Orlando, Obama had to yet again console Americans grieving from a mass shooting -- and on this occasion he had to also reassure Americans reeling from the dawn of a new era of mass casualty, lone wolf, homegrown terrorism that authorities have long feared.

There is a method to Obama's analytical response, namely that he believes it is the best way to neutralize a threat that preys on emotion and paranoia. While he typically offers prayers for the victims and their families and warns he will hunt terrorists wherever they are, the President often makes the point that terrorism in some form is an inevitable fact of modern life.

"I've said before, these lone actors or small cells of terrorists are very hard to detect and very hard to prevent. But across our government ... we are doing everything in our power to stop these kinds of attacks," Obama said Tuesday, leveling with the nation about the reality of homegrown terrorism. "We work to succeed 100% of the time. An attacker, as we saw in Orlando, only has to succeed once."

But this intellectual response to terrorism has also created a political opening that his opponents are exploiting, none more than the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.

With that in mind, Obama also used his speech on Tuesday, delivered after meeting National Security Council officials, to launch a fiery denunciation of Trump's much more visceral response to the tragedy, which called for banning Muslim migration in to the U.S.

Indeed, Obama has steered clear of emotive displays following terror attacks, though he has expressed more impassioned responses to mass shootings such as the one at a school in Newtown, Connecticut, and a church in Charleston, South Carolina.

In Orlando on Thursday, Obama vowed that the United States would do whatever it took to pursue ISIS abroad, but said it was not just the military that had to be involved. He quickly turned from terrorism to focus on gun control, issuing a fresh demand for Congress to take action to keep the most lethal weapons from being used in mass killings that have occurred over and over during his presidency.

His remarks, betraying his frustration at the failure of lawmakers to act, had more in common with his response to gun massacres than his more intellectual approach to talking about terrorism.

"Our politics have conspired to make it as easy as possible for a terrorist or even just a disturbed individual to buy extraordinarily powerful weapons, and they can do so legally," Obama said after meeting families of the 49 victims of the shooting.

"Today, once again, as has been true too many times before, I held and hugged grieving family members and parents, and they asked, 'Why does this keep happening?' And they pleaded that we do more to stop the carnage. They don't care about the politics. Neither do I."

Vice President Joe Biden joined Obama in Orlando, as did Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio in a show of bipartisan unity.

In Obama's mind, the logical reaction to terrorism is to deprive the terrorists of what they want, to stay firm to American values and not to indulge in theatrical vows for vengeance and bloodthirsty rhetoric.

"We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us," Obama said in the seminal speech of his administration about terrorism at the National Defense University in 2013.

Terrorism, as he sees it, is by definition is a tactic designed to create the maximum fear, emotion and panic in the populace, to lure the target into taking irrational responses that highlight the terrorists' cause, impugn its own values and lead to a spiral of chaos and ruin.

At times, as with Orlando Sunday, after the Paris attacks last year, or after the Boston bombings, Obama has seemed to do a better job explaining the reasons for the attacks and the concept of terrorism itself than empathizing with Americans suddenly confronting the prospect of death and destruction being unleashed on the homeland.

It's an approach that lacks the cathartic emotion that a politician like Trump can summon among supporters with claims that America is "weak" and needs to start getting "very tough" with terrorists.

And Trump reacted to the roasting he received from Obama Tuesday by noting that the President seemed "more angry at me than he was at the shooter."

Moreover, his rhetorical style is mirrored by a policy approach that is designed to ensure the United States does not overreact to the terror threat -- by waging new foreign ground wars of compromising its own values in balancing liberty and security.

But that has also offered an opening to critics who say he has played down the terror threat and, while still on a victory lap after the killing of Osama bin Laden, failed to anticipate the rise of ISIS.

His comment in 2014 that ISIS was a "JV" team will haunt his legacy, and his frequent comment that ISIS is not an "existential threat to us" -- though perhaps factually correct -- plays into critiques that he has minimized the group's reach.

Critics argue that his decision to pull all U.S. troops out of Iraq and to sit on his hands as Syria imploded directly contributed to ISIS' seizure of parts of the fractured nations to form its so-called caliphate.

Republican Sen. John McCain on Thursday said Obama was "directly responsible" for the Orlando attack because of the withdrawal from Iraq, in remarks that quickly caused an uproar. The Arizona senator later partly walked back the comments, saying he had misspoken by implying the President was personally responsible for the attacks. But he maintained that Obama's policies were to blame for ISIS.

Obama fires back that the U.S. and allied operation to pound the group in its heartland has taken dozens of terrorists off the battlefield, deflated its resources and trimmed the land it controls.

But the group's success in becoming a rallying call for terrorists everywhere -- including lone wolf operators who struck Americans in Orlando and San Bernardino, California -- tends to obscure the battlefield gains, and sheds doubt on their sufficiency.

There is, however, one aspect of his counterterror approach in which Obama does display the more heightened emotion he otherwise shuns: when making the case that his domestic critics could increase America's vulnerability to terrorism.

On Tuesday, he delivered a jeremiad against Trump's proposals to ban Muslim migration into the United States and his claim that thousands of Muslims already here were consumed by hate for this country, calling them an affront to the idea of America itself that could help ISIS win more recruits.

"If we fall into the trap of painting all Muslims with a broad brush and imply that we are at war with an entire region, then we're doing the terrorists' work for them," Obama said on Tuesday.

He also laid into critics like Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani who contend that his reluctance to use the phrase "radical Islamic terrorism" is proof that he does not understand the nature of the threat, let alone how to confront it.

That language too, he argued, can be counter-productive as it plays into terrorists' desire to see a civilizational struggle with the West and see the alienation of Muslims in America.

And he suggested those who still believe he does not get the nature of the threat talk to U.S. Special Forces soldiers he has deployed to war zones or law enforcement officers on U.S. soil or intelligence officers out in the field.

"They know full well who the enemy is," Obama said, pointedly noting that among those they are keeping safe are "politicians who tweet and appear on cable news shows."

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