obama reflection Katie

my role in this campaign was important by helping other people to get to know the candidate and see how his life was when he was young. Making shore that the people know all the information they need to decide how to vote for and persuade them to vote for Obama.

If you want to get a good result in this campaign you have to work together this was accomplished by talking to each other to know how they are doing.I learned that campaign can get very nasty in what they say to each other,it is a lot of work, it was fun to get to know the candidate,I learned that both candidates are good,working in groups can be annoying these thing are important because if you do this you can know the candidates better.I would say to them we are studying the candidates and tell them about the candidates.Now I know how to get to know the candidates.

by Katie













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Reflection By Megan

My role was important in the overall campaign of the candidate because when you want to be elected president you need support, and I give Barack Obama support and encouragement. The most vital part of my job is to help explain Barack Obama's plans and want he wants to do as president. It was necessary to cooperate with my team members because we are a team and teams need to work together, so we can make sure we are all on the same page. Cooperating with each other helped us accomplish these things by working together, asking each other questions, and helping each other with confusing things. Five things that I learned about the role of President during this project that I didn't already know was that there are a lot of consequences for all of your decisions so you have to chose your decisions wisely and carefully. I also learned that everybody needs support, it is important to have support because it helps persuade his/her voters (Obama's) to vote for that candidate, and it also shows that other people besides Obama agree with him and his campaign idea. Third, Obama has a lot of ideas and plans for the future, and our future, so it is very important that you make sure you like what your candidate has planned for president. Another thing I have learned is that "effort" is very important, if you are chasing a dream, like Obama is for president, you have to put in a lot of effort! It is important to use as much effort as possible for EVERYTHING because everything happens for a reason and everything that happens is important! Last of all, I learned that you have to make sure that what your doing is what you really want to do, like Obama, he always has to make sure that what he plans is what he's going to do. I would describe this project as very interesting and challenging because you have to put a lot of "effort" in researching about your candidate and you have to describe all of his plans and projects for the future! This project will make me a better voter when I am an adult because this project shown me that you can't judge a book by it's cover, that you have to vote for the candidate's ideas and plans that you agree with, and not to just vote for somebody just to vote. It's important that you pick the man/women that you think will best be incharge of your and my country!

Reflection by Dani

I learned that during this project that you can't just pick a president because you like them better, you have to pick them by what the issues they are concerned about and what they will do when they become president. My role in the campaign was important because I told voters the biography of my canadidate, Barack Obama. The most vital part of my job was to make sure everyone knows the real truth about Barack Obama's life and to get the people to vote for him. It was necessary to coordinate and coperate with my team because when one of our team members were stuck we would all help that member out. It was accomplished by the members of our team all working hard and working together.

Five things I learned about Barack Obama is that he was born in Hawaii and also lived in Indonesia for a few years. I learned that after college he put corporate life on hold and went to help poor neighborhoods with lots of crime and high unemployment. I also learned that he ran for the Illinois State Senate, where he served for 8 years. Also I learned that when Barack was Illinois State Senate he had to work with both Democrats and Republicans. Lastly I learned that he is happily married to his wife Michelle and have two daughters named Sasha and Malia.

I would describe this to someone out of school by saying in Social Studies we are doing a Presidential Campaign Webquest. Its where we get into groups of who wants McCain and Obama to be become president. Then we would seperate into groups of three that were voting for the same person. Next we all decide what job we want to have and there are three jobs, campagin manager, policy writer, and the speech writer. Then we go down to the computer lab and we start researching about our canddidite by what are job was. Next when were finished researching we can start typing. Lastly we post it and let everyone read it.

I think that this project will help me to become a better voter because now i know that i can't just pick a president by who I like the best. I have to base it off the decision that if I am a Republican or Democrat. Also that I have know about what the issues that they are concerned with and what they will do once they become president. Now I know How to decide who I want to vote for.

Policy by Miki

Barack Obama: issues

Hi, I am Barack Obama. I believe I will make a good
president because I will make the change that America needs.

Healthcare
My plan for change in healthcare will cover every American. People who already have health insurance will have to pay less on premiums. If you are one of the millions without health insurance, you will have it after this plan becomes law. I will lower the cost of health insurance by up to $2,500. I think that there are two extremes offered to Americans: government-run healthcare with higher taxes or letting the insurance companiesrun withe no rules or regulations.

Environment

i will provide short-term relief to americans facing problems at the gas pump. I'll help create five million new green jobs by investing $150 million over the next ten years. Within ten years we'll save more oilthan we currently have imported. I'll put 1 million plug-in hybrid cars on the road.

Education

Joe Biden and I will make college affordable for all Americans. College will be affordable because we will create a new American Opportunity Tax Credit.The credit will be refundable and universal. It will ensure that the first $4,000 of college education is free for most Americans. It will also cover two-thirds of the cost of tuition at the average university or public college.

health care by helen

At a Glance
Make Health Insurance Work for People and Businesses - Not Just Insurance and Drug Companies.
Reduce Costs and Save a Typical American Family up to $2,500

Barack Obama and Joe Biden's Plan

When talking about health care the American people are offered two extremes - higher taxes because of government run health care or letting the insurance companies operate without rules. My self and Joe Biden believe both of these extremes are wrong, and that’s why we have proposed a plan that strengthens employer coverage, makes insurance companies less powerful over coverage and ensures the patient choice of doctor and their health care without the government interfering.

My and Joe Biden`s plan provides affordable, accessible health care for all Americans, builds on the existing health care system, and uses existing providers, doctors and plans to start the plan. Under this plan, patients will be able to make health care decisions with their doctors, instead of having to go with the inchurence companies decsion.
Under the plan, if you like your current health insurance, nothing changes, except your costs will go down by as much as $2,500 per year.
If you don’t have health insurance, you will have a choice of new, affordable health insurance options.

Require insurance companies to cover all benefits at fair and stable costs.
We will create a new Small Business Health Tax Credit to help small businesses provide affordable health insurance to their employees.

We will create lower costs for businesses by covering a portion of the expensive health costs they pay in return for lower costs for employees.

We will prevent insurers from overcharging doctors for their malpractice insurance (incase they make a mistake) and invest in proven strategies to reduce preventable medical errors.

Speech By Megan

Barack Obama made a difference in June 2008 when he became the first African American to head a major party ticket in a presidential election. He beat Sen. Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination after a long primary season. He ran as the candidate of change and made hope to the center of his campaign. He is to run against Sen. John McCain in the final election. Obama's platform has focused on advocating for working families, poor communities, education, caring for the environment, and ethics reform.

Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961 to an American mother and a Kenyan father. When he was two, his parents who had met as students at the University of Hawaii, divorced. Obama's Harvard-educated father then returned to Kenya where he worked in the economics ministry. Obama lived in Indonesia with his mother and stepfather for part of his childhood, returning to Hawaii to finish high school. He graduated from Columbia University where he majored in political science and specialized in international relations. He then attended Harvard Law School, graduated magna cum laude, and served as the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. After law school he worked as a community organizer and a civil rights lawyer in Chicago. He also taught at the University of Chicago Law School as a senior lecturer specializing in constitutional law. Obama represented the South Side of Chicago in the Illinois State Senate from 1996–2004 as a Democrat. In 2004 he was elected to the U.S. Senate, winning with 70% of the vote against the conservative black Republican Alan Keyes. Obama became the only African-American serving in the U.S. Senate (and the fifth in U.S. history). Obama's idealism commitment to civil rights, and telegenic good looks generated enormous media attention for his Senate campaign. The eloquence of his keynote address at the 2004 Democratic Nation Convention in Boston, Massachusetts confirmed his status as one of the Democratic party's freshest and most inspirational new leaders.

Obama published an autobiography, "Dreams From My Father", in 1995. It became a best-seller during his 2004 Senate campaign. His next autobiography, The Audacity of Hope, became a bestseller after its Oct. 2006 publication, and won both the Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards and the NAACP Image Awards in 2007. He is married to Michelle Obama, a Chicago native who also graduated from Harvard Law School. They have two daughters: Malia Ann and Sasha.

Biogrhy by kyndal

Barack Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961 August 4th. Then he went to colleage at Columbia University in New,York and graduatedin 1983. And moved to Chicago and put law behind. Then a couple years later he went to Harvard law graduated in 1991. After colleage he worked in Christain churches in Chicago.

Barack Obama was married to Michelle on October 18,1992. They had two daughters Mali Ann Obama born in 1999 and Natasha Obama born in 2001. And still today they are loved and cared by their two parents.

Barack was elected in November 2004 as U.S senator.To represent Illinois. Community orginizer. And in 1997he was electedas Illinois state senator representing the 13th senate district on Chicago south side.