Blog Assignment #18: Obama

    Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961. He is the 44th president. He is also the current president. He is the first African American to hold the office. He previously severed as a Senator from Illinois,f
rom January 2005 until he resigned after his election to the presidency in November 2008. native of Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.
   Obama served three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. Several events brought him to national attention during the campaign, including his victory in the March 2004 Democratic primary and his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He won election to the U.S. Senate in November 2004. His presidential campaign began in February 2007, and after a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won his party's nomination. In the 2008 general election, he defeated Republican nominee John McCain and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009.
       Obama was born August 4, 1961, at Kapi'olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii. His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was born in Wichita, Kansas, of mostly English, but also some German, descent. His father, Barack Obama, Sr., was a Luo from Nyang’oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya. Obama is the first President to have been born in Hawaii. Obama's parents met in 1960 in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, where his father was a foreign student on scholarship. The couple married on February 2, 1961, but separated when Obama Sr. went to Harvard University on scholarship, and divorced in 1964.Obama Sr. remarried and returned to Kenya, visiting Barack in Hawaii only once, in 1971. He died in an automobile accident in 1982.
   Obama has two children named, Malia Anne (their first) who, was born in 1998 and followed by, a second daughter, Natasha in 2001. They call Natasha "Sasha". His wife's name is Michelle Obama. Obama is  6′ 1″.  Obama's parents separated when he was two years old.
    Obama also struggled with the absence of his father, who he saw only once more after his parents divorced, in a brief 1971 visit. His father had left paradise. They couldn't describe what it might have been like had he stayed.Obama, Sr. eventually lost his legs in an automobile accident, also losing his job as a result. In 1982, he died in yet another car accident while traveling in Nairobi. Obama, Jr. was 22 years old when he received the news of his father's passing.