Sunday, March 2, 2014

Some Interesting Facts About Barack Obama

By Barun Kumar


Barack Obama is the 44th and current president of United States who was born on 4th August 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Since is birth, Obama has studied, worked and held different offices that have boosted his career to being the current United States president. If looking to learn more about his life, below are some interesting facts about barack Obama you may need to know of.

Obama and his wife Michelle Robinson met at Chicago Law Firm of Sidley Austin where he was interning. Even though Michelle did not love Obama at the early days of their meeting, their day-to-day meeting led to a two-year courtship that finally led to a marriage. The two married in 1992 at the Trinity United Church of Christ. The ceremony was led by Reverend Wright the same reverend who baptized their two daughters Natasha and Malia.

After his mother divorced his biological father and married Lolo, they moved to Indonesia. While in Indonesia, Barack cherished eating chili peppers, dog and snake meat, roasted grasshopper meat, loved to play rice paddies, and rode water buffalo games. He also had an ape pet named Tata.

Obama is as well known to have loved playing basketball during his childhood. However, his desire to guarantee fitted into the group made him to start drinking, experimenting with cocaine and smoking bhang. Obama afterwards stopped taking drugs even though some stories state that he still smokes cigarette.

Other unknown facts about Barack Obama relates to his family background. For instance, his father is a Luo, one of the main tribes in Kenya. Though a hardworking student, his father was kicked out of school due to being disrupting and missing classes. He spent most of life as an atheist though he called himself a Muslim.

The participation in social networking, texting and his youthful appeal prepared him to acquire more support from different people. It was due to the time and the energy he spent browsing the internet that prepared him to win the presidential elections. Additionally, his ability to gather support online and offline is one of the major contributions for his win in the presidential race.

Before he became the president of United States, Obama had worked for different companies and in different places. One of the main companies he worked for was the Chicago Group of the Developing Communities Project that empowers people from poor backgrounds. Before working for this company, Barack had as well worked at Baskin-Robbins the work that made him to start hating ice cream.

You would find various little known facts about Barack Obama some of which have been indicated above. Most of these interesting facts about Barack Obama occurred at different moments for varied purposes. Each of these facts outlines the things that happened to him as a child and when he was already an adult. Some of these greatly tell that he grew up as any normal child would do in many parts of the world. His success of being the president of the United States greatly tell that everything is possible and that these leaders are ordinary people who engage in some of the things that many might consider backward or weird.




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