Obama Facts

Find out the most interesting facts about US president, Barack Obama. Learn and share, today!

• Barack Hussein Obama II was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4, 1961.

• His name means “one who is blessed” in Swahili.

• Obamawas the first African American to be elected president.
  

  Obama once said the three men he admired the most were Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Barack can speak Indonesian and some Spanish.

• A key achievement during the presidency of Barack Obama was the ending of the war in Iraq.

• Obama was awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize.

• Barack is the first U.S. president to endorse same-sex marriage.

• Obama has sponsored bills ranging from lobbying and electoral fraud, climate change, weapons control, nuclear terrorism, and better veterans care.

• Is the first U.S. president to address the U.K. Parliament.

• Obama was the first to raise the threat of avian flu on the Senate floor.

• Barack Obama is certainly a 21st century president, and has a YouTube Channel since 2006.

• Obama is left-handed – the sixth post-war president to be left-handed.

• Growing up, Obama collected Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics.

• Obama worked at Baskin-Robbins as a teenager and now dislikes ice cream.

• He has read every Harry Potter book with Malia, his eldest daughter.

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