- Forty-fourth President (2009-2017)
- Birthday: August 4, 1961 (Friday)
- Birthplace: Honolulu, Hawaii
- Zodiac Sign: Leo
- Religion: Christian
- Party: Democrat
Barack Obama Offices Held
- US Senator from Illinois (2005-2008)
- Member of Illinois State Senate (1997-2004)
Barack Obama Nicknames
- No Drama Obama
- Berry
- Teleprompter-in-Chief
- The Imperial President
Barack Obama Pets
- Dogs (Bo and Sunny)
Barack Obama Personal Traits
- Height: 6 feet – 1 inches
Barack Obama Quotes
Yes we can!
You’re likeable enough Hillary. (to Hillary Clinton during a campaign debate)
Change has come to America.
The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.
If you’re looking for the safe choice, you shouldn’t be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.
What Washington needs is adult supervision.
I will cut taxes – cut taxes – for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
Why can’t I just eat my waffle?
I just miss – I miss being anonymous.
I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.
I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.
Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.
I think when you spread the wealth around it’s good for everybody.
I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.
Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can’t stop marching. Even when they’re turning the hoses on you, you can’t stop.
If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
These days, I look in the mirror and I have to admit, I’m not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be.
One of the things I think I can bring to the presidency is to make government and public service cool again.
Democracy works, but we’ve got to want it – not just during an election year, but all the days between.
Change is never easy, but always possible.
There must be a sustained effort to listen to each other; to learn from each other; to respect one another; and to seek common ground.
Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed up.
The character of nations is tested in war, but it is defined in peace.
The most challenging, most fulfilling, most important job I will have during my time on this earth is to be Sasha and Malia’s dad.
Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.
If you doubt America’s commitment – or mine – to see that justice is done, just ask Osama bin Laden.
Enduring security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war.
There is a humility that comes out of this office, because you feel that no matter how much you’ve done, there’s more work to do.
We ask for nothing more than the chance to blaze our own trail. And yet each of us is only here because of somebody, somewhere, helped us find our path.
Every day, the White House receives thousands of letters from Americans across the country. Every night, I read 10 of them. These letters are my chance to hear directly from the people I serve – and it’s one of my favorite parts of the day.
You can’t lose heart, or grow cynical if there are twists and turns on your journey. The cynics may be the loudest voices – but I promise you, they will accomplish the least.
We did not come to fear the future; we came her to shape it.
It’s important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.
Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
I am president, I am not king. I can’t do these things just by myself.
We only get one home. We only get one planet. There’s no plan B.
You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.
We’re part of a long-running story. We just try to get our paragraph right.
Where you start should not determine where you end up.
I think about all the struggle that a lot of people are going through around the country, and I say to myself, it’s such an honor to be in this job; I can’t afford to get tired.
The future rewards those who press on.
We don’t have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society.
As nations, and as people, we cannot choose the history that we inherit. But we can choose what lessons to draw from it, and use those lessons to chart our own futures.
Democracy grinds to a halt without a willingness to compromise, or when even basic facts are contested, or when we listen only to those who agree with us.
One voice can change a room. And if the voice can change a room, it can change a city. And if it can change a city, it can change a state. And if it can change a state, it can change a nation. And if it can change a nation, it can change the world.
You want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize it’s not just “My way or the highway.
What Washington needs is adult supervision.
Have principles and issues you are passionate about, and act; worry more about doing something than being something.
You can’t let your failures define you – you have to let your failures teach you.
Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it, and to work for it, and to fight for it.
Democracy isn’t a spectaror sport.
Don’t boo. Vote.
We are the change we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
Barack Obama Timeline – Family
- January 2, 1935 Lolo Mangunharjo (or Mangundikardjo) Soetoro (Step-Father) born in Bandung, West Java, Dutch East Indies.
- June 18, 1936 Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. (Father) born in Rachuonyo District, Kenya Colony (part of the British Empire).
- November 29, 1942 Stanley Ann Dunham (Mother) born in Wichita, Kansas.
- 1958 Malik Obama (Half-Brother) born to Father’s first wife Kezia Grace.
- 1960 Auma Obama (Half-Sister) born to Father’s first wife Kezia Grace.
- February 2, 1961 Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. (Father) marries Stanley Ann Dunham (Mother), his second wife.
- August 4, 1961 Barack Hussein Obama II born in Honolulu, Hawaii at Kapi’olani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital.
- 1964 Stanley Ann Dunham (Mother) divorces Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. (Father).
- January 17, 1964 Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (Wife) born in Chicago, Illinois.
- 1965 Mark Ndesandjo (Half-Brother) born to Father’s third wife Ruth Nidesand.
- March 15, 1965 Lolo Mangunharjo (or Mangundikardjo) Soetoro (Step-Father) marries Stanley Ann Dunham (Mother).
- 1968 David Ndesandjo (Half-Brother) born to Father’s third wife Ruth Nidesand.
- 1968 Abo “Samson” Obama (Half-Brother) born to Father’s first wife Kezia Grace.
- 1970 Bernard Obama (Half-Brother) born to Father’s first wife Kezia Grace.
- August 15, 1970 Mayo Kassandra Soetoro Ng (Half-Sister) born in Jakarta, Indonesia to Stanley Ann Dunham (Mother).
- November 6, 1980 Lolo Mangunharjo (or Mangundikardjo) Soetoro (Step-Father) and Stanley Ann Dunham (Mother) divorce.
- 1982 George Obama (Half-Brother) born to Father’s fourth wife Jael Otieno.
- November 24, 1982 Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. (Father) dies in Nairobi, Kenya.
- 1987 David Ndesandjo (Half-Brother) dies.
- October 3, 1992 Barack Hussein Obama II and Michelle LaVaughn Robinson (Wife) marry at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Illinois.
- November 7, 1995 Stanley Ann Dunham (Mother) dies in Honolulu, Hawaii.
- July 4, 1998 Malia Ann Obama (Daughter) born in Chicago, Illinois.
- June 10, 2001 Natasha “Sasha” Obama (Daughter) born in Chicago, Illinois.
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Barack Obama’s Competitiveness - "Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.” I Corinthians 9: 24 KJV The future President told him he really appreciated his competitiveness, but maybe when they played a team of locals, they could dial it back a little bit. He knew it was just a matter of time before his enemies would be taunting him because of his defeat and then he would have his life taken from him by them. Who can’t think of the word horse without thinking of basketball? 
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Barack Obama – Growing Up and Community Organizer - "Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.” Psalm 46:10 KJV Barry was a man with a very interesting background. Barry seemed to be searching for something and that something seemed to be an identity. Our Bible character, much like many of the other “religious” Bible characters before him, had to be reminded by God that a mind wasn’t the only thing that needed to be touched by “religion.” If your heart isn’t in the right place, all the rules in the world aren’t going to… 
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Barack Obama – Relationship with his Father - “And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.” Luke 24:51 KJV I looked around the room and saw all the historic pictures of this establishment over the years. I’m not sure which is harder: having someone close to you slip out of your life or having someone close to you slip out of your life, only to return and then slip out of your life again. 
Barack Obama – His Relationship with his Mother - “Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.” Deuteronomy 32:38 KJV As I turned to look at the sand I noticed what looked like hundreds of sand crabs. The poor sand crabs just stare up into the sky just hoping for someone to stand on the beach and help protect them so they can keep up with their busy lives.