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Obama biography
Barack Obama
aka Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.
(1961-)
Quick Facts
- Born: August 4, 1961 (Hawaii)
- Lives in: Chicago, Illinois
- Zodiac Sign: Leo
Breaking News: President-elect Barack Obama told
reporters at a news conference on Thursday (December 11, 2008) that he never spoke with Governor Rod R. Blagojevich of Illinois,
about who would replace the president-elect in his United States Senate seat. Obama also added that he was "absolutely certain" his staff
was not involved in any inappropriate dealings in regards to his successor.
"That would be a violation of everything that this campaign
has been about," Obama said.
Nonetheless, Obama said he was gathering an
account of any contacts between his staff and the Blagojevich administration, and promised to release those details in the next few days.
In his conference, Obama said he was
"appalled and disappointed" by accusations that Blagojevich tried to profit from his power. He again called for the governor to resign.
Blagojevich is still in his position as governor.
Biography: Barack Hussein Obama was born Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father, Barack Obama, Sr., was born of Luo ethnicity in
Nyanza Province, Kenya.
He grew up herding goats with his own father, who was a domestic servant to the British. Although reared among Muslims, Obama, Sr.,
became an atheist at some point.
Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in Wichita, Kansas. Her father worked on oil rigs during the Depression.
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he signed up for service in World War II and marched across Europe in Patton's army.
Dunham's mother went to work on a bomber assembly line. After the war, they studied on the G. I. Bill, bought a house
through the Federal Housing Program, and moved to Hawaii.
Meantime, Barack's father had won a scholarship that allowed him to leave Kenya pursue his dreams in Hawaii.
At the time of his birth, Obama's parents were students at the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Obama's parents separated when he was two years old and later divorced. Obama's father went to Harvard to pursue Ph. D. studies and then returned to Kenya.
His mother married Lolo Soetoro, another East-West Center student from Indonesia. In 1967, the family moved to Jakarta, where
Obama's half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng was born. Obama attended schools in Jakarta, where classes were taught in the Indonesian language.
Four years later when Barack (commonly known throughout his early years as "Barry") was ten, he returned to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents,
Madelyn and Stanley Dunham, and later his mother (who died of ovarian cancer in 1995).
He was enrolled in the fifth grade at the esteemed Punahou Academy, graduating with honors in 1979. 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.
In his memoir, Obama described how he struggled to reconcile social perceptions of his multiracial heritage. He saw his biological father (
who died in a 1982 car accident) only once (in 1971) after his parents divorced. And he admitted using alcohol, marijuana and cocaine during his teenage years.
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 at Business International Corporation (a company that provided international business information to corporate clients) and NYPIRG,
Obama moved to Chicago in 1985. There, he worked as a community organizer with low-income residents in Chicago's Roseland community
and the Altgeld Gardens public housing development on the city's South Side.
It is pretty much hope and wish, but I dont know will this become a reality. Lets hope so. I am glad to be living in the time when America has got i
ts first Afroamerican
president. 30 years ago, that was unthinkable and today we can be proud that we come to that level, that we are accepting differences and nothing is
unthinkable now anymore.
America has made step forward unto destruction of prejudices. Unfortunately it would be great when rest the World would follow American
example but I am afraid that some parts of the World are very slowly accepting progress and there is too many prejudices.
People are still living in bonds and are not happy