오바마(Barack Hussein Obama) 상원의원에 대한 관심이 갑자기 증폭되고 있다. 비록 여론조사이지만 힐러리를 눌렀다는 뉴스는 대단히 의미가 크기 때문이다. 분석에 따르면, 케냐 출신의 아버지와 백인 어머니의 혈통을 지녔다. 전통적으로 민주당을 지지했던 흑인층이 오바마로 지지결집이 이루어지고 있고 이에 따라 힐러리의 지지세력이 붕괴되고 있다고 한다.
그런데 역시나 미국도 네거티브 선거전략은 주요 메뉴인 듯 싶다. 그가 흑인이라는 점 외에 Middle name으로 후세인(Hussein)을 쓴다는 점이 공격대상이다. 이슬람교가 아니냐는 의혹이다. 힐러리 측에서도 보수진영에서도 동시다발적으로 퍼붓는 양상이다. 이런 면에서는 아무래도 우리나라와 별반 다를게 없어 보인다.
보수언론에서는 그의 아버지가 이슬람교도이며 오바마가 인도네시아의 이슬람 학교인 '마드라사'를 다녔다는 점을 주로 강조하고 있다. 하지만 오바마의 아버지 종교는 이슬람이었지만 실제로 이슬람교 교리를 실천하지는 않았고, 오바마 역시 인도네시아의 평범한 공립학교를 다녔던 것으로 확인됐다고 한다. 그럼에도 그에 대한 열광 만큼이나 곱지 않은 시선이 존재하는 것은 사실이다.
유튜브에서도 그의 이름을 검색하면 이런 네거티브 동영상을 쉽게 찾을 수 있다. 아직 먼 대선 레이스지만 과연 미국에서 최초의 흑인 대통령이 탄생할 수 있을지 궁금해진다.
아래는 오바마에 대한 위키피디아의 소개글이다.
Early life and career :
Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to Barack Obama, Sr. (born in Nyanza Province, Kenya) and Ann Dunham (born in Wichita, Kansas).[7] His parents met while both were attending the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was enrolled as a foreign student.[8] Obama's parents separated when he was two years old and later divorced.[9][10] His father went to Harvard University to pursue Ph.D. studies, then returned to Kenya, where he died in a car accident when Obama was 21 years old.[11] His mother married Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian foreign student, with whom she had one daughter.[12] The family moved to Jakarta in 1967, where Obama attended local schools from ages 6 to 10.[13] He then returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents while attending Punahou School from 5th grade until his graduation in 1979.[14] Obama's mother died of ovarian cancer a few months after the publication of his 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father.[15]
In the memoir, Obama describes his experiences growing up in his mother's American middle class family. His knowledge about his absent Luo father came mainly through family stories and photographs.[16] Of his early childhood, Obama writes: "That my father looked nothing like the people around me—that he was black as pitch, my mother white as milk—barely registered in my mind."[17] The book describes his struggles as a young adult to reconcile social perceptions of his multiracial heritage.[18] He used alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine during his teenage years, Obama writes, to "push questions of who I was out of my mind."[19]
After graduating from Punahou, Obama studied at Occidental College for two years, then transferred to Columbia University, where he majored in political science with a specialization in international relations.[20][21] He received his B.A. degree in 1983, then worked for one year at Business International Corporation.[22] In 1985, Obama moved to Chicago to direct a non-profit project assisting local churches to organize job training programs.[23] He entered Harvard Law School in 1988.[24] In 1990, The New York Times reported his election as the Harvard Law Review's "first black president in its 104-year history."[25] He completed his J.D. degree magna cum laude in 1991.[26] On returning to Chicago, Obama directed a voter registration drive.[26] As an associate attorney with Miner, Barnhill & Galland from 1993 to 1996, he represented community organizers, discrimination claims, and voting rights cases.[27] He was a lecturer of constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1993 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004.[28]
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