Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
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Every single one of them,” he said in a recent interview, per AZ Central.Sounds like a reasonable guy! Brown started his political career in the late 1980s, working against Democratic presidential nominee and Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis.
The founder of Citizens United, Brown produced the “Willie Horton” ad, an infamous broadside against Dukakis. The commercial contrasted Republican George H.W.
Bush’s support of the death penalty with the liberal Dukakis, who was opposed. To make that point, the commercial highlighted the case of Horton, a convicted murderer who raped a woman and stabbed her partner while he was furloughed from prison.