Barack Obama

Change. That was the word crossing everyone’s mind throughout the entire democratic campaign during the election of 2008. Whether Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama was picked as the Democratic presidential candidate, things would be changing. If Obama was elected then the United States of America would elect their first African American president. On the other hand, if Hillary Clinton was elected, the first female would be elected as President of the United States. Although there were countless amounts of controversy that Obama had to deal with, he pulled through giving the United States the change it needed.

Barack Hussein Obama II was born on August 4, 1961 in the city of Honolul, Hawaii. His father, also Barack Obama, was from Kenyan descent whereas his mother, Ann Dunham grew up in Kansas. Shortly after meeting in college, Obama’s parents married each other and the birth of Obama was not far behind. In 1964, when Obama was just two years old, his parents divorced each other and Obama left with his mother to

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stay with her parents. During this time, Obama’s father had received his Masters degree from Harvard and moved back to Kenya where he remarried. His dad gave Obama two half-sisters and five half-sisters while he was in Kenya. Unfortunately, Obama’s father died due to a road accident during the year of 1982. From the time Obama’s father left and when he died, he visited Obama only one time in Hawaii. While staying with Obama’s grandparents in Manoa, his mother married a student from Indonesia named Lolo Soetoro. In 1967, they moved to Jakarta, Indonesia because a new power in Indonesia called all citizens back to their homelands. During their time there, Obama gained another half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng. Until the fourth grade, Obama attended