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Barack Obama

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Barack Obama's Biography

 

He is the 44th President of the United States, and the first Afro-American ever elected to that position. A rousing and well received keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston catapulted him to fame. In 2009, Americans elected him as the President, despite having a mere four years of political experience.

Born to a white American mother and Kenyan father, he had to move to Indonesia, at the age of 6, when his mother remarried an Indonesian oil manager. In Indonesia, he experienced and saw a culture steeped in poverty which he later enumerated his autobiography ‘Dreams From My Father’ (2006).

Obama later returned to Hawaii where he was brought up by his grandparents and attended Hawaii’s top prep academy. Later he attended Columbia University. In New York, Obama found that he was unable to escape New York’s racial tension. This motivated him to join a Chicago-based church group that did social work. 

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  • Kremlin says Putin, Obama agree security contacts after Boston

    News Source: Reuters | 26 days ago
    President Barack Obama (R) shakes hands with Russia's President Vladimir Putin in Los Cabos, Mexico, June 18, 2012. Presidents Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama agreed on Monday to maintain close contacts between U.S. and Russian intelligence agencies

  • Obama Jokes Government Out of Money Then Calls for More Research Funding

    News Source: CNSNews.com | 26 days ago
    President Barack Obama joked Monday about how the federal government is out of money then later called for increasing funding for science and technology parallel to the space race. Obama spoke at the 150th Anniversary of the National Academy of

  • Obama taps Charlotte's Mayor Foxx to run Transportation

    News Source: Charlotte Observer Online | 26 days ago
    How would you rate Anthony Foxx's two terms as mayor of Charlotte? President Barack Obama on Monday tapped rising Democratic politician Anthony Foxx to lead the Department of Transportation, an agency at the center of Washington's fiscal fights. Foxx,
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  • Daily Kos: Jon Karl demands answers on why President Obama .....

    Blog Source: www.dailykos.com | 2 days ago
    Jon Karl is part of Barack Obama's conspiracy to make Republicans look like dolts. First, he uses nonexistent email quotes to convince Republicans that a nonexistent Benghazi scandal is actually the biggest thing ever, only to have the air ...

  • What President Obama Can and Can't Do | Slog

    Blog Source: slog.thestranger.com | 2 days ago
    James Fallows writes about the response to President Obama's Morehouse graduation speech, and why it outlines how impossible it is to be Barack Obama:...

  • Barack Obama finally cops to ordering a drone strike on an .....

    Blog Source: www.redstate.com | 2 days ago
    ... day before President Obama is due to deliver a major speech on national security, his administration on Wednesday formally acknowledged that the United States had killed four American citizens in drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan.
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