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He is currently, the President of the United  States since  inaugurated on January 21, 2009. Obama is half African, but he  is considered to be the first black American President. He was born in Hawaii but moved to Indonesia at the age of six. Four years later when Barack was ten, he returned to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents and later his mother. Graduating with honors in the fifth grade from the esteemed Punahou Academy, he was only one of three black students at the school. This is where Obama first became conscious of racism and what it meant to be an African–American. He saw his biological father only once (in 1971) after his parents divorced. After high school, Obama studied at Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years. He then transferred to Columbia University in New York, graduating in 1983 with a degree in political science. After working in the business sector for two years, Obama moved to Chicago in 1985. There, he worked on the South Side as a community organizer for low-income residents in the Roseland and the Altgeld Gardens communities. Obama entered Harvard Law School in 1988.  The next year, he met Michelle Robinson, an associate at Sidley & Austin law firm in Chicago. She was assigned to be Obama's adviser during a summer internship at the firm, and soon the couple began dating. By  February 1990, he was elected the first African–American editor of the Harvard Law Review. Obama graduated magna cum laude in 1991. After law school, Obama returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer, joining the firm of Miner, Barnhill & Galland. He also taught at the University of Chicago Law School, and helped organize voter registration drives during Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. On October 3, 1992, he and Michelle were married. They moved to Kenwood, on Chicago's South Side, and welcomed two daughters: Malia (born 1998) and Sasha (born 2001).Obama published an autobiography in 1995 Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, and won a Grammy for the audio version of the book. Obama's advocacy work led him to run for the Illinois State Senate as a Democrat. He won election in 1996. During these years, Obama worked with both Democrats and Republicans in drafting legislation on ethics, expanded health care services, and early childhood education programs for the poor. He also created a state earned-income tax credit for the working poor. Obama then became chairman of the Illinois Senate's Health and Human Services Committee.  In 2004 , Obama ran for U.S. Senate  and won. With his win, he became only the third African-American elected to the U.S. Senate since the Reconstruction. His second book, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, was published in October 2006. Shortly after its release, it hit No. 1 on both the New York Times and Amazon.com bestsellers lists. On January 20, 2009, Obama became the 44th president of the United States—and the first African-American to hold this office.When Obama took office, he inherited a global economic recession; two on-going foreign wars; and the lowest international favorability rating for the United States ever. Since then, the Obama administration coaxed Congress to expand health care insurance for children and provide legal protection for women seeking equal pay. A $787 billion stimulus bill was passed to promote short-term economic growth. Loans were made to the auto industry, and new regulations were proposed for Wall Street. He also cut taxes for working families, small businesses and first-time home buyers. The president also loosened the ban on embryonic stem cell research and moved ahead with a $3.5 trillion budget plan.  Obama did an overhaul on America's foreign policy and  reached out to improve relations with Europe, China, Russia and open dialogue with Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba. He lobbied allies to support a global economic stimulus package. For his efforts, he was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize by the Norwegian Nobel Committee. He has insisted that, despite current obstacles, he is determined to help American citizens through the nation's current domestic difficulties. "We don't quit. I don't quit," he said. "Let's sieze this moment to start anew, to carry the dream forward, and strengthen our union once more."

 

Extra; Obama once stubbed his toe and said "Sunny Beach". Publisher's Clearing House arrived moments later with a free trip to Florida. Obama will be on the 1000 Dollar Bill next time it's produced. Barack Obama is distant cousins with Brad Pitt.". Barark is related to at least six of his predecessors, (all through his mother's family): James Madison (third cousins, nine times removed); Harry Truman (seventh cousins, three times removed); Lyndon Johnson (fourth cousins, three times removed); Gerald Ford (tenth cousins, once removed); George H.W. Bush (tenth cousins, once removed); and George W. Bush (eleventh cousins) and to Vice President Dick Cheney through a 17th-century descendant"