About Barack Obama

Quick Facts (from Bio.com)

• Born: August 4, 1961 (Hawaii)
• Lives in: Chicago, Illinois
• Zodiac Sign: Leo

• Height: 6′ 1″ (1.87m)
• Family: Married wife Michelle in 1992, 2 daughters Malia and Sasha
• Parents: Barack Obama, Sr. (from Kenya) and Ann Dunham (from Kansas)
• Religion: United Church of Christ
• Drives a: Ford Escape hybrid, Chrysler 300C
• Education:
  – Graduated: Columbia University (1983) - Major: Political Science
  – Law Degree from Harvard (1991) - Major: J.D. - Magna Cum Laude
  – Attended: Occidental College
• Career:
  –U.S. President - inaugurated January 20, 2009
–U.S. Senator from Illinois, 2005-2008  

Thor's Facts

1. He ran against a woman for the democratic candidacy.
2. Barack Obama wanted  to win his Senate seat.
3. His wife, Michelle, worked for the University of Chicago.
4. When Barack Obama went to see the White House in Washington, DC, Michelle and her baby stayed at home.
5.  In the 1960s only 30 percent of women with young children had full time jobs, which was less than the 1990s when about 70 percent of mothers with young children worked full time.
6. When Barack Obama was a child in first and third grade he wrote down that he was going to be President when he grew up.
7. Michelle and Barack Obama both went to the same law school.
8. Barack Obama went on a trip to visit his half-brothers and half-sisters, which he had a lot of .
9. In 1982 (one year before Barack graduated from college) his father died in a car accident, he was only 46 years old.
10. When he was in high school, he read about civil rights leaders and Malcolm X (his real last name is Little, but he turned it to X because he thought it was his slavery name).