Barack Hussein Obama jr. was born August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, the capital of of Hawaii. In his school years Obama was basketball player. He even won the state championship. After school he arrived to the Western college Of Los Angeles, where he entered Columbia university and graduated in 1983. Having degree of the Bachelor, Barack Obama began to work in a large International Business corporations as editor of the department of financial information. Obama worked there for a year, and this was his first job after graduating from college.
In 2000, Obama made an attempt to stand for election to the House of representatives, but lost the primaries, Obama was an active supporter of the development of pre-school education. Supported measures to tighten control over the work of the investigative bodies. In 2002, Obama condemned the plans of Bush’s administration about invading Iraq. In 2004, he put his candidacy to the elections for the vacant place in the Senate of the U. S. Congress and was able to score 70 percent of the vote. In the primaries, he managed to win a convincing victory over the six opponents. Obama became the fifth in the history of the U. S. black senator. The applicant for participation in the 2008 presidential election as a candidate from the Democratic party. In 2005, Time magazine named Him among the most influential people of the world, the british magazine New Statement placed him in a number of 10 persons, able to shake the world".
Interesting facts O Obama countless relatives, as his ancestors in the male line had several wives and many children. O Some relatives of Barack's maternal line were slave owners. . . O Once Obama has admitted that the Indian Mahatma Gandhi, a white American Abraham Lincoln and African American Martin Luther king is the people he wanted to be like always.
Barack Obama is the author of two books: in 1995 he published his memoir, "Dreams from my father", and in 2006 “The Audacity of hope". Since 1992 Obama is married to Michelle Robinson Obama, a practicing lawyer. They have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Barack Obama still is the president of the USA!
