Barack Obama Biography - Everything You Need to Know About President Obama

Barack Obama will make history as the first black president of the United States.Barack Obama   place in history is secure, if for no other reason. However, it does not stop there. Barack Obama  was elected President in 2008. Though Barack Obama popularity has dropped significantly since his election, due to many factors, there are still many people who support Obama in 2012.

Unique story of President Obama - 

While all presidents of the United States has a somewhat different history of the middle American history, President Barack Obama  stands, even within this group. Born in Hawaii, he was born to two students at the University of Hawaii. His mother was American, and his father, a Kenyan student Nyanza, who was studying in the United States. The 1960s was a difficult period for interracial marriages, and tremendous pressure in front of the young Obama. This, among other things led to the couple's divorce when young Barack was only 2 years old.

His mother then met and fell in love with an Indonesian man studying for his master, Lolo Soetoro. They soon married and the family, so they moved to Jakarta, Indonesia. When moving, Barack Obama was 6. Once there, they had a daughter, half-sister of Barack Maya. While in Indonesia, Barack Obama attended a private Catholic school, SD Assisi. Later, Barack Obama attended another excellent primary school, SD Besuki Menteng. After 4 years in Indonesia, Barack returned to Hawaii and lived with his maternal grandmother.

After returning to Hawaii, often played basketball, a sport in which Barack Obama excelled, and loves to play to this day. By most accounts, it's still pretty good. Even on the varsity team played well regarded school, even if it does not start. In high school, he worked in an ice cream shop Baskin-Robins.

After graduating from high school, he moved to Los Angeles, California, where Barack Obama  attended Occidental College for two years. Barack Obama got good grades, and after his second year, he transferred to Columbia University in New York. In this prestigious Ivy League, which once again highlighted, and earned a degree in political science.

Early political career of Barack Obama 

Barack has reached the pinnacle of American politics, being elected president of the United States in 2008. Yet it began much more modestly, back in his adopted hometown of Chicago. Barack Obama  won his Illinois Senate seat in 1996, after he managed to get all his opponents disqualified. As Barack Obama  was the only candidate on the ballot, won easily.

In 1999, Obama began his fight for the seat of the U.S. Congress Rep. Bobby Rush. He lost the contest in 2000, but he is determined to continue his quest for a federal office. To this end, Obama set his sights on the United States Senate.in 2003 in preparation for the 2004 elections.

Again, Barack Obama  was able to receive significant support from the press and the missteps of his opponents. His main rival for the Democratic primary was ousted because of a sexual that the Obama campaign was more than happy to assist the media in reporting scandal. Again, the future president used what some considered "dirty tactics" to help secure an appointment.

But this was only the beginning. Later in the season, after winning the Democratic primary, which again received substantial assistance for the scandal of the opponent, his campaign was the beneficiary. This time it is his Republican opponent in the 2004 Senate campaign, which fell by the wayside, in fact, withdraw from the election, and paving the way for an Obama victory unanimously. Now he was a U.S. senator.

If anyone thinks that receiving such easy in Barack Obama  run for presidential victory would be a mistake. Although he had no experience of very limited government, and no leadership experience in the private sector, Obama leaves not intimidated in the pursuit of the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party in 2008.

Facts about Barack Obama - 

Barack Obama

44th President of the United States (D)

Date of birth:

August 4, 1961

Place of birth:

Honolulu, Hawaii

Parents: 

Mother - Ann Dunham, Father - Barack Obama Sr. (They divorced when Barack was 2 years old)

Barack lived with his grandparents (Madelyn and Stanley Dunham) in Hawaii after 10 years

woman: 

Michelle, born in 1963 - Married Barack on 10/18/1992

children: 

Mailia Ann, born in 1998

Natasha, born in 2001

Secondary education:

Punahou Academy - Honolulu, HI - Graduating Class of 1979

Faculty of Education: 

BA Political Science, Columbia University, 1983

Faculty of Law:

Harvard, 1991, editor and president of the Harvard Law Review

Jobs: 

Project Manager, Community Development (PCD), 1985-1988

Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago 1992 - 2004

Government: 

Illinois State Senate, 1997 - 2004

Senate of the United States, 2004 - 2008

President of the United States, 2009 -

Barack Obama Books: 

The president is a bestselling author. He is the author of two books.

The first dreams of my father was: A Story of Race and Inheritance

published by Times Books in 1995, and the second, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Vintage), published in 2006 by Crown Publishing. They had a lot of success and probably not the last.

Barack Obama Quotes - a window to your soul? 

Much can be discovered about a person by the original things they say. Here are some quotes from Barack Obama. We get a glimpse of the man himself.

"A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence, or a good piece of music everyone can recognize that.". Huh .. Works sense. "

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time." Those re we had expected. We are the change that we seek. "

"Focusing your life solely on making a dollar shows a certain poverty of ambition. Requests little himself. Because it is only when Hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. "

"I can not swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator."

"I know my country has not itself developed. Sometimes we struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all people. We made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world was not up to our best intentions. "

"I do not take a dime of their lobbyist money, and when I am president, they will not find a job in my White House."

"If people can not trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare -. All is lost "

List of accomplishments Barack Obama will not stop with his presidency. After this chapter of his life ends, it will be the gateway to the next step on the road to the most amazing things.