Question

(a) What internal crises, historic hopes, and world conditions framed (set the conditions for) the election of Barack Obama in 2008? (b) How did President Obama use the political capital he acquired as a result of his clear victory?

Answer 1

election of Barack Obama in 2008

Answer 2

The main internal crisis should be 2008 great depression in economy.

• The Americans expected that Obama will come stronger .

Another reason was Black revolution .Americans wanted a black president because the blacks never got a chance .

An major spoiler was 9/11 .

Obama swered that he will finish Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden and he finished in 2011.