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lørdag 10. oktober 2009

The US Embassy

Thursday October 8th a woman from California came to visit our school. She held a presentation where she spoke about the US Embassy, Barack Obama and the possibilities of studying in the USA. In this entry I will write some of the things she was telling us about.

Barack Obama is the first Afro-American, black president of the USA. The vote statistics told us that the plural of Obama’s votes came from women, blacks, youths, people with lower/no education, first time voters, and Jews. Obama has been very active so far this year. He has visited a lot of different countries, been in meetings with foreign leaders, and so on.

The key issues for 2009 US Presidential Election were economy, health care and the war in Iraq. Other issues, indeed a bit less important, were terrorism and illegeal immigration. Their budget for 2010 is at 3.6 trillion dollars.


The USA has always involved themselves in internationnal conflicts, as wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Recent news: The nobel committee have decided to hand over the Nobel Peace Price of 2009 to President Obama. They're giving him the price because of his visions and work for a world without nuclear weapons. There are a lot of different opinions on this action, and many people think that one should be given the peace price for the difference one actually does make in the world, and not only for one’s visions.