Barack Obama's Life And Accomplishments

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek” Barack Obama was a leader and inspiration to many, he had may accomplishment and failures but he always got back on his feet.He helped a lot of people in his lifetime and will continue to in later years.

Obama was born in honolulu, Hawaii on August 4, 1961. His mother divorced his father at a young age and quickly remarried Lolo Soetoro in 1965. As a child obama did not have a relationship with his father. When obama was just a child Obama Sr. relocated to harvard university in massachusetts, that was when his parents separated officially.He often thought that there was something wrong with him because

He was one of the three african-american students who attended the academy so he became conscious of racism. After high school, obama went to Occidental college in los angeles for two years and transferred to Columbia university in NYC and graduated there. In 1988 obama attended Harvard law school, that same year Obama joined the Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin as a summer associate and it was there he met Michelle Robinson, a young lawyer who was assigned to be his adviser. Soon after they started dating. In February 1990 obama became the first african-american editor of the harvard law Review.He graduated from harvard in 1991. After law school he headed to chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer. He also taught constitutional law part-time at the University of Chicago Law School between 1992 and

On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama defeated Republican presidential nominee, John McCain, 52.9 percent to 45.7 percent, to win election as the 44th president of the United State and the first African-American to be president of the united states. Delaware Senator Joe Biden, became vice president. Obama's inauguration took place on January 20, 2009.Obama signed his health care reform plan, known as the Affordable Care Act, into law in March 2010. The new law prohibited the denial of coverage based on pre-existing conditions, allowed citizens under 26 years old to be insured under parental plans, provided for free health screenings for certain citizens and expanded insurance coverage and access to medical care to millions of Americans. Obama signed a repeal of the military policy known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," which prevented openly gay troops from serving in the U.S. Armed