Background

Mr Obama was born in 1961 and named after his father, a Kenyan
intellectual who met the future president's mother, Ann, a white teenager from
Kansas, while studying at the University of Hawaii. When Mr Obama was a
toddler, his father abandoned the family and the couple divorced. Father and
son were to meet only once more, during a brief visit to Hawaii in 1971 by the
elder Barack Obama. He died in a car crash in 1982 in Nairobi.
When Mr Obama was six, his mother married an Indonesian man and the
family moved to Jakarta. Then known as "Barry", Mr Obama later moved back to
Hawaii, where he was raised mainly by his grandparents. Mr Obama's upbringing
in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim country by population, and his KenyanMuslim heritage fuelled right-wing conspiracy theories that he was not born in
the US, or that he was a secret Muslim.
In 2008 and 2011, Mr Obama produced two separate copies of his birth
certificate to prove that he had been born in the US state of Hawaii. After
graduating from Columbia University in New York, Mr Obama worked for three
years as a community organiser in poor neighbourhoods in Chicago.
He then attended Harvard Law School, becoming the first AfricanAmerican president of the Harvard Law Review. While working at a Chicago law
firm, he met Michelle Robinson. The couple married in 1992 and have two
daughters, Malia and Sasha; the Obamas became the first couple since Jimmy
and Rosalynn Carter to live in the White House with young children.

After Harvard, Mr Obama returned to Chicago to practise civil rights

law, representing victims of housing and employment discrimination. Obama only
met his father once after Barack Obama Sr left the family to study at Harvard
He joined the law faculty at the University of Chicago, where he was lauded as a
popular teacher and an exceptional legal thinker.
In 1995 he published his first book, Dreams from My Father, a memoir,
and the following year he was elected to the Illinois state senate. As a state
senator, he spoke out strongly against the coming Iraq war, a position that later
helped him win early support in the Democratic primary race.
Mr Obama tried to run for Congress in 2000, but was thrashed by the
incumbent in a Democratic primary. After his landslide election to the Senate a
few months later, he became one of the most visible figures in Washington, and
soon published a second best-selling book, a politics-and-policy tract entitled
The Audacity of Hope. On Capitol Hill, Mr Obama established a liberal voting
record, but also worked with Republican colleagues on HIV/Aids-education and
prevention and nuclear weapons proliferation.
When he embarked on his presidential campaign in February 2007, he had
been in the Senate only two years, and his opponents sought to cast him as illprepared for the presidency. But his campaign excited millions of liberals especially young voters - who were yearning for something new in Washington
after two terms under George W Bush. Mr Obama clinched the Democratic
nomination after a long and gruelling battle against former first lady Hillary
Clinton, whom he later appointed secretary of state.

Obamas Presidency

Bushs presidency was characterized by a series of severe terrorist

attacks. Obamas presidency had national security as his main objective.
Obamas vision is to improve the national security of the Americans as well as
other continents as evident in the speech he delivered at the National
Archives. Through enhancing the level of national security across the States,
he has ensured a complete elimination of any act of terrorism within America.
When Barack Obama took power and office, the economy of America
was already in recession. At this time, the economy of United States was
believed to be in a critical and devastated state as it nearly fell. This forced
the President Obama to include vital themes and issues associated to financial
crises among his policy decisions. Obamas presidency aims at saving,
reconstructing and even restructuring the failing economy which had resulted
to severe recession.
The presidency of Barack Obama has been characterized by a series
and a sequence of wins as well as losses. In his first two years in office,
President Barack Obama managed to pass quite a number of legislations
successfully which included the healthcare bill. The bill was aimed at ensuring
substantial coverage, which provided affordable healthcare services without
any discrimination among the citizens of the United States. Moreover,
Obamas presidency is also signified by outstanding victories or wins such as
the 787 billion dollars Stimulus Bill. This bill was passed merely one month
after Barack Obama assumed the office after succeeding George Bush. The
stimulus bill reconstructed the falling economy through reforming the

financial policies. Furthermore, Obamas presidency is characterized by losses

such as the unemployment rates in the United States still remain to be a
major alarming issue. This has greatly reduced Obamas presidency popularity
among the citizens as evident in a recent research which states that his
popularity fell from 70% to 50%.
Obamas presidency has managed to address the global financial crises
which have resulted to massive changes and adjustments in tax policies,
effective initiatives on foreign policies, legislation reforms to amend the
Healthcare industry in United States as well as addressing issues surrounding
Guantanamo Bay Detention.

Successors
Mr Obama is scheduled to leave the White House at the end of this year
after handing over his duties to his successor. It will either be Hillary Clinton or
Donald Trump. However, Mr Obama has endorsed Hillary Clinton as his
successor as the November 2016 election draws closer. Early poll results place
Hillary Clinton as most likely to succeed Mr Obama.

Barack Hussein Obama II

44th President Of The United States (POTUS)

Done By : Dhiraj Singh Gill

Quotes by Barack Obama

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We
are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking,
eventually you'll make progress.
The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for
myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on .