President Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on 4/8/1961.
Father Mother
Barack Obama Sir Stanley Ann Dunham
Kenya, Africa Honolulu, Hawaii
When Obama was still a kid. Every one didn't call him as Barack Obama, Instead everybody give him a nickname as "Barry". When he was only 2 years old his parents split up. His father went back to Kenya, but his mother stayed at Hawaii with Barry. Every morning, his mother will wake him up at 4 o'clock to give him english lesson because she doesn't want Barry's english to be bad. But Barry didn't like it. He would try anything to miss the english lesson, but he failed, his mother won't listen to any of his excuses.
4 years later (1967) his mother married to a guy name Lolo Soetoro. Barry did not hate him. But instead he liked Lolo right away. Lolo come from Jakarta, Indonesia. When Lolo return to Indonesia, Ann and Barry followed him. At Jakarta, Barry got a new ape, named Tata. He also got a new baby sister named Maya. Lolo Soetoro also taught Barry Boxing, because he always get picked up by some bullys at the school.
Then, Barry was sent back to Hawaii, because his mother want him to learn at a better school. So he was sent to Punahou school.
At Punahou school, everyone made fun of Barry because he's black. Every one was a racism back then. He always try to fit in with other student. But he fails most of the time. Days pass, he found out that his father was coming to Hawaii. When Barry's father arrived, what he saw was a thin and tall man with a pair of spectacles. That wasn't what he expected, what he was expecting was a man with a heroic and handsome man. Barry didn't really get along with his father because every time Barry wants to watch television, his father would tell him to go do something useful. When he heard that his father wanted to give a speech about Kenya at Barry's class, Barry was shocked and worried about how will his classmate think about his father. But what happened that day was ONIXPECTED.
Get it???Everyone liked his father's speech, and someone told Barry that his father was cool. Since that day, Barry started to fell proud of his father. Sometime, Barry's father will teach him some African dance. And sometime they will sit together and read books. But one day, his father went back to Kenya and Barry didn't know that. Maybe he was sleeping?
Years pass, now Barry is on a basketball team. And everyone gave him a nickname.
Barack O'Bomber.
His mom and his sister came back from Jakarta and she was no longer married to Lolo. But not for long, his mom went back to Jakarta again for a PhD in anthropology study. In June 1979, Barry graduated from Punahou school.
After that, Barry went to study at Occidental College. A college at California.
Barry was very smart, but he never push himself to be the top student. He always talk about politics with his friend. He likes to read American history. Especially history about black history.
Barry also invited speakers to come talk about South Africa. Barry also decided talk about it too. When he started to talk, he realised that everyone was listening to him. And he like it. 2 years later, Barry was transferred to a new university named Columbia University.
For summer job, Barry work at a construction site. Sometimes, his mother and sister would come for a visit. Years pass, a letter from Barry's father arrived. Barry's father invited Barry to come to Kenya for a visit. Barry promised to his father that he will go to Kenya when he is graduated. But, one year before Barry graduate, his father passed away. But Barry never give up on his study, he take things more seriously than before. After graduating at Columbia University. Barry moved to Illinois, Chicago and he work as a community organizer. His job was to was to work directly with poor people to fix problems. That job made Barry want to help people even more. And he thought, how can he help people. And he made a conclusion, he can help people with law, so he went to sign up to study at Austin Hall, Harvard. But before school starts, he wanted to go to a place, a place that he wanted to go for a long time......KENYA.
When he arrived Kenya, he suitcase was lost. It wasn't a good start. But when the bag handler heard that Barry's surname was Obama, he/she was surprise, because in Kenya, Barack Obama Sir is a very famous doctor. Barack Obama come from a small village called Kogelo.
Barry and his grandmother
He lived in his half sister named Auma's house. Everybody in the village welcome him and Barry felt like home. Barack Obama Sir had 4 wives so Barry has a lot of relatives there. They even had a party just for Barry. He also met his grandmother. His grandmother told Barry his father's story. Barry's grandmother describe Barack Obama Sir as a smart, restless and eager man. Barry went to his father and grandfather's grave. He kneeled and prayed, and cried he was sad. Very sad.
After a few days in Kenya Barry went back to study. He was one of the top student at Austin Hall.
Instead of making condition himself, he liked to listen to others opinion. One year had already pass, during the holiday, he went to Chicago because he was hired to a big law firm. On his first day, a young and beautiful lady named Michelle showed Barry around the office. Barry liked her because she was smart and has a striking look. After Barry graduated, he went back to Chicago to meet Michelle. Barry was also elected president of the Harvard Law Review. It is a magazine with articles on important question of law. He wrote a book in 1995 and named it.....
In 1991, Barry and Michelle married at Chicago.
NOT BAD..
He also took a job at a law firm and also taught at University of Chicago Law School. While Barry is still living happily with his family, something terrible happened, really terrible, Ann passed away. Barry's mother passed away because of cancer, and Barry wasn't there for her. This was the biggest regret of Barry's life. But he didn't give up on his dream of helping people. 1995, Barry won the election and became the government of Illinois. So Barry has to spent part of the week at Springfield, the capital of Illinois and also the home of the Simpsons.
In 1998, Barry had his first baby girl. He named her Malia.
This made Barry felt even more guilty whenever he left home for work. Barry also found his work fascinating, because different part of Illinois has different problem. Barry really enjoyed the give and take of working in the Senate.
In 2001, Malia became a big sister because Michelle just give birth to a new baby girl named Natasha.
They settled their life as working parents of young child. Michelle work as a staff at the University of Chicago's hospitals. She was in charge of setting up health clinics for the poor.But Barry still remains at Illinois Senate.
By the following year, something happened to America on September. If you already realised what happened then yes it is. 911. Kabooooooooooooooom. Terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Centre in New York City and the Pentagon building In Washington, D.C.
The terrorists belonged to a Muslim group called Al Qaeda and the leader was Osama Bin Laden.
This made Barry started thinking about running for a higher office. In 2004, Barry wanted to win his Senate seat badly. Very badly. He spent 2 years to plan his campaign. By the summer of 2004, Barry was chosen to make an important speech called the Kenyote speech. He talked about himself and his dream for America. His speech was by millions of people and overnight he became famous.
That November Barry won the election in Illinois. 2 years later, Barry announced he was going to run for president. The next election would be on November 4, 2008. But there was one problem, he had only been serving U.S.A for 2 years and nobody had an idea who he was. someone thought his name was Barack Yo-MaMa, Someone thought it was Barack Alabama.
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