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 * 1) Obama is Catholic
 * 2) Born at the Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, Hawaii
 * 3) Born August 4th, 1961
 * 4) Mixed ethnic, father from Kenya
 * 5) Parents divorced when he was 3
 * 6) Father moved back to Kenya
 * 7) Mother remarried to an Indonesian
 * 8) Father died in car accident in 1982
 * 9) After his mother got married, they moved from Hawaii to Indonesia in 1967
 * 10) In Indonesia, he went to Jakarta school from ages 6-10
 * 11) Returned to Hawaii and went to Punahou school until highs school graduation
 * 12) after graduation in 1979, he moved back to the mainland and enrolled in Occidental College in LA
 * 13) 2 years later, joined Columbia university in new york for political science and international relations
 * 14) 1983, Barack graduated with a B.A degree
 * 15) in late 1988, Obama attended Harvard Law school where he graduated with a J.D
 * 16) in 1991, he returned to Chicago
 * 17) became youngest elected president at 43 years old, 44th president
 * 18) in mid 1988, Obama traveled to Kenya where he spent 5 weeks visiting paternal relatives for the first time
 * 19) Visited Kenya again in August 2006
 * 20) Because of his age, it led to one of the highest voter turnouts by youth in 2008

http://www.barack-obama-bio.com/barack-obama-background.php "Barack Obama Background - Background Info on Barack Obama." //Barack Obama Bio - A Biography on Barack Obama//. Web. 13 Nov. 2011. [] Hi Meenwa - #dreamteam......spelled my name wrong -___- #Mr. Shuup http://obama-zone.com/biography/ "Barack Obama Biography | Obama Zone." //Barack Obama - President Of The USA | Obama Zone//. Web. 11 Nov. 2011. .
 * 1) Joined the Trinity United Church of Christ for about 20 years
 * 2) has two daughters, Malia and Natasha
 * 3) grandfather was Muslim
 * 4) father was an atheist
 * 5) mother was an antagonist
 * 6) Mother was from Kansas, Father from Kenya
 * 7) Married to Michelle Robinson Obama in 1992
 * 8) 1997-2004 was the Illinois State Senator
 * 9) 2005-2008 United states senator from Illinois
 * 10) 2008-now President
 * 11) worked as a lawyer
 * 12) part time lecturer
 * 13) taught constitutional law
 * 14) served as a board member at the woods fund of Chicago
 * 15) elected to the Illinois senate in 1996, 1998, and 2002
 * 16) in 1991 he was in charge of voting registration drive in Chicago
 * 17) also began writing a book of memoirs that was published in 1995
 * 18) wrote another book that was published in 2006
 * 19) he initiated the requirement of mandatory videotaping interrogations in cases of homicide
 * 20) participated in the Earned Income Tax Credit program meant for helping people in low income groups

http://www.biography.com/people/barack-obama-12782369 "Barack Obama Biography - Facts, Birthday, Life Story - Biography.com." //Famous Biographies & TV Shows - Biography.com//. Web. 11 Nov. 2011. .
 * 1) interested in immigration reforms and border security improvement
 * 2) became a cosponsor of the secure America and orderly immigration act
 * 3) favored the bill secure fence act
 * 4) with Tom Coburn, made the transparency act, for people to see the government expenditure on the USAspending.gov website
 * 5) introduced the Iraq War De-Escalation act of 2007
 * 6) advocated an end to the war in Iraq, universal health care, and increased energy independence
 * 7) raised 36.8 million dollars in his U.S campaign, the highest every by a demorcratic party
 * 8) broke world records by raising 58 million dollars
 * 9) has an IQ of 143
 * 10) won a grammy award in 2006 for best spoken word recording
 * 11) bought a 1.65 million dollar house with his wife in Chicago in 2005
 * 12) he doesnt like icecream, worked in baskin robins as a teenager
 * 13) he loves playing scrabble
 * 14) in his early years, tried marijuana and cocaine but considers it a mistake
 * 15) he smokes
 * 16) "i dont oppose all wars. what i am opposed to is a dumb war"
 * 17) "in the face of impossibel odds, people who love their country can change it"
 * 18) "there is not a liberable america and a conservetive america; there is a united states of america" (but there is a north and a south america hahahaha)
 * 19) "i inhaled. that was the point"
 * 20) reads harry potter to his oldest daughter when he is home

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-green/10-big-goals-for-obamas-f_b_156989.html "Mark Green: 10 Big Goals for Obama's First 1460 Days, as Proposed by Progressive Policy Leaders." //Breaking News and Opinion on The Huffington Post//. Web. 14 Nov. 2011. .
 * 1) will provide relief from the no child left behind act
 * 2) wants to reduce poverty by a 1/3 by 2016
 * 3) enhance democracy to stop special interest vetoes
 * 4) get economic growth rates back to at least 3% of the Kennedy and Clinton years
 * 5) move to a clean, green low-carbon economy
 * 6) reduce the costs and expand the coverage of healthcare
 * 7) elavate science over politics in federal decision- making
 * 8) educate children better for the global economy
 * 9) fight terrorism by working more cooperativly with allies
 * 10) reduce nuclear proliferation
 * 11) 6'2"
 * 12) wieghs 190-210 lbs
 * 13) beches 200lbs
 * 14) wears a size 13.5
 * 15) left handed
 * 16) he ate dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper
 * 17) favorite snacks are chocolate peanut protein bars
 * 18) owns a set of red boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali
 * 19) kept an ape in indonesia named tata
 * 20) favorite drink is black forest berry iced tea