Social Icons

Pages

Tuesday, March 4, 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 met his wife Michelle when he was interning in Chicago Law Firm of Sidley Austin. Initially Michelle hated Obama before they started dating and finally married after courting for two years. Their marriage was led by Reverend Wright at the Trinity United Church of Christ in 1992, the same Reverend who baptized Natasha and Malia, their daughters.

At his early age while living in Indonesia after his mother had divorced his father and married Lolo, Obama loved to play rode water buffalo and rice paddies besides eating snake meat, chili peppers, roasted grasshopper and dog meat. Obama had a monkey pet which he called Tata. Through his life in Indonesia he met and lived with people of different characters.

When he was in high school, Obama loved playing basketball despite the fact that he did not feel welcomed by his colleagues. In an effort to fight this seclusion and try to fit in this group, he started smoking weed, taking cocaine and drinking. However, he later stopped taking these drugs though he still continued smoking cigarette.

Some other unknown facts about Barack Obama explain the information about his family. One of these facts explains the background of his father who was a Kenyan from the luo tribe. It explains how he was a remarkable student before he was expelled from school due to the claim that he was rude and did not attend all the classes. His father though many people claim he was Muslim spent his life as an atheist.

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 become the US president Obama had worked in various places. For example, in 1985 he worked on the Chicago group referred to as developing towns project whose mission involved empowering poor people through grass root organization. He also worked at Baskin-Robbins, the job that made him to dislike ice cream even up to now.

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.




About the Author:



No comments:

Post a Comment