Barack Obama The first African American President of the United States

Barack Hussein Obama, it’s the name American will have to remember, the “ FIRST” African American President of the United States. Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States on Jan. 20, 2009. He was born in August 4, 1961, to Stanley Ann Dunham, a European American from Kansas and Barack Obam, Sr., a Luo from Kenya. Obama's parents met in 1960 in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, where his father was a foreign student on scholarship.

In his 1995 memoir, he described his struggles as a young adult to reconcile social perceptions of his multiracial heritage. He wrote that he used alcohol, marijuana and cocaine during his teenage years to "push questions of who I was out of my mind."

Reflecting later on his formative years in Honolulu, Obama wrote: "The opportunity that Hawaii offered — to experience a variety of cultures in a climate of mutual respect — became an integral part of my world view, and a basis for the values that I hold most dear".

His parent divorce and after, his mother moved him to Indonesia and he was return to Hawaii to live with grandparents.

His father from Kenyan, he died from an accident in 1982, and his mother was American, she died of ovarian cancer in 1995.

Obama entered Harvard Law School in late 1988. He was selected as an editor of the Harvard Law Review at the end of his first year and president of the journal in his second year. During his summers, he returned to Chicago where he worked as a summer associate at the law firms of Sidley & Austin in 1989 and Hopkins & Sutter in 1990.

Barack Obama married with Michelle Robinson on October 18, 1992, they have two young daughters, the first daughter Malia Ann, was born on July 4,1998. On June 10, 2001 Michelle Robinson gave birth to a second daughter named Natasha or known as “Sasha”

In 1996, Obama was elected to be a state senator and began to navigate the sometimes troubled waters of racial politics with ease and grace. He move into the largest African-American community in the country which is the South Side of Chicago." Senator Obama has been able to develop innovative approaches to challenge the status quo and get results. Americans are tired of divisive ideological politics, which is why Senator Obama has reached out to Republicans to find areas of common ground. He has tried to break partisan logjams and take on seemingly intractable problems. During his tenure in Washington and in the Illinois State Senate, Barack Obama has accumulated a record of bipartisan success.

After seven years, Obama tried to unseat a former Black Panther from the House of Representatives, he decided to the US Senate.

That time Barack Obama chose to speak at the Democratic convention in 2004, that coasting to victory and destined for Washington. Two years for presidential campaign he have to fight with John Mc Crain for the President of the United States, he had many Hollywood supporters such as Barbra Streisand, Steven Spielberg, Leonardo Dicaprio, Ryan Phillippe, Jessica Biel, Scarlett Johansson. January 20, 2009 Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as President of the United State after a hard fought two years of presidential campaign.
Mr Obama spent much of his first week trying to push his gargantuan stimulus package through Congress. The package includes some $275 billion in tax cuts and handouts and $300 billion in short-term spending, such as aid to cash-strapped states for providing health care, unemployment benefits and so forth.


Without a single Republican vote, President Obama won House approval for an $819 billion economic recovery plan as Congressional Democrats sought to temper their own differences over the enormous package of tax cuts and spending.
Mr Obama has fists as well as ears. Three days after his inauguration, missiles apparently fired from American drones killed eight suspected foreign terrorists in Pakistan, and more than a dozen civilians. Such attacks are unpopular with Pakistanis. Following Mr Bush’s practice, Mr Obama made no comment about them.
Meanwhile the defence secretary, Robert Gates, said that Mr Obama’s plan to double American forces in Afghanistan would probably lead to higher casualties.