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"President Barack Obama." //The White House//. Web. 11 Nov. 2011. [].
 * 1) His father was from Kenya
 * 2) His mother was from Kansas
 * 3) He was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii
 * 4) Obama was raised with help from his grandparents
 * 5) His grandfather was part of Patton's army
 * 6) His grandmother was middle class management at a bank
 * 7) Barack worked his way through college through scholarships and loans
 * 8) After graduating college he moved to Chicago
 * 9) He then went on to attend law school
 * 10) He was the first African-American to be the president of Harvard Law Review
 * 11) After graduation, he returned to Chicago to help lead a voter registration drive, teach constitutional law at the University of Chicago, and remain active in his community
 * 12) He devotes his public service under the idea that people unite under the politics of a purpose
 * 13) In the Illinois Senate he passed the first major ethics reform in 25 years
 * 14) He cut taxes for working families and improved family healthcare
 * 15) He was elected the 44th President on November 4, 2008
 * 16) He was sworn in January 20, 2009
 * 17) He is the father of two girls Malia, 13 and Sasha, 10
 * 18) In the United States Senate he passed a ground breaking lobbying reform
 * 19) He passed bills to lock up nuclear weapons
 * 20) He also put government spending online for public

"Barack Obama Biography - Facts, Birthday, Life Story - Biography.com." //Famous Biographies & TV Shows - Biography.com//. Web. 11 Nov. 2011. [].
 * 1) Obama was a civil rights lawyer before persuing politics
 * 2) His grandfather enlisted in the army after the attack on Pearl Harbor
 * 3) His father was also named Barack Obama
 * 4) Obama Sr. grew up herding goats until he earned a scholarship to leave Kenya
 * 5) He went to the University of Hawaii where he met Ann Dunham
 * 6) They married on February 2, 1961
 * 7) His parents separated when he was 2
 * 8) They later divorced
 * 9) After the divorce Obama Sr. then attended Harvard for Ph.D. studies
 * 10) He returned to Kenya in 1965
 * 11) In 1966 Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, a student from Indonesia
 * 12) A year later they moved to Jakarta, Indonesia
 * 13) There Barack's half sister, Maya Soetoro Ng, was born
 * 14) Several events in Indonesia left Dunham afraid for her son's education and safety
 * 15) She sent him to live with his maternal grandparents in Hawaii when he was 10
 * 16) His mother and sister later joined him
 * 17) When living with his grandparents he attended the prestigious Punahou Academy
 * 18) There he excelled at basketball and academics
 * 19) He graduated in 1979 with academic honors
 * 20) He was one of three African-Americans attending the school and became aware of racism there

//Barack Obama Biography//. Web. 13 Nov. 2011. .
 * 1) As a child he was often called Barry
 * 2) In his father's other marriage, Barack has 2 half sisters and 5 half brothers
 * 3) They all were in Kenya
 * 4) His father became Finance Minister of Kenya
 * 5) Obama Sr. was killed in a car accident in 1982
 * 6) Barack only met his father once, in 1971, since the diovorce of his parents
 * 7) After high school he attended Occiental College in Los Angeles for 2 years
 * 8) He then went to Columbia College in New York
 * 9) He spent 4 years working at Business International Corporation and New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG)
 * 10) He then moved to Chicago
 * 11) There he worked as a Community organizer by Developing Communities Project, a church based community organization
 * 12) The church needed him to help collaborate with churches on the south side
 * 13) There he helped gain rights for blacks against city government
 * 14) He believed law was a medium for communicating activism and community organization
 * 15) In 1989 he worked at Sidney and Austin Law firm where he met his future wife
 * 16) When he graduated from Harvard in 1991 he became a civil rights lawyer, instead of being paid higher, to help society
 * 17) His work at Harvard gave him an offer from University of Chicago to write a book on racial relations
 * 18) In mid 1995 his book was publicized
 * 19) A few months after it was publicized, his mother Ann died of cancer
 * 20) He won a Grammy from the audio version of the book

"Barack Obama Biography - Life, Family, Children, Parents, Story, History, Wife, School, Mother, Young." //Encyclopedia of World Biography//. Web. 13 Nov. 2011. .
 * 1) Barack Obama became the 5th black U.S. senator in 2005
 * 2) He was the third since the end of Reconstruction after the Civil War
 * 3) Obama decided to run for Senate when Republican Peter G. Fitzgerald announced he would retire
 * 4) He beat out 6 other democratic opponents with 53% of the vote
 * 5) In his 2004 Senate race, he faced a formidable Republican opponent Jack Ryan
 * 6) Due to personal issues Ryan dropped out of the race
 * 7) The Republican Party then brought in Alan Keyes to run against Obama
 * 8) Keyes was a strong black conservative who had ran for president twice
 * 9) He worried many voters by his strong views against homosexuality
 * 10) Obama however was winning polls in every voter demographic
 * 11) Obama's campaign promised to keep Illinois factory jobs in the country
 * 12) Obama was put in the national spotlight when John Kerry asked him to read his keynote address
 * 13) His speech, which he wrote himself, was called "The Audacity of Hope"
 * 14) It was a large success and was expertly spoken by Obama
 * 15) In the speech, he supported Kerry's views and said the nation needed unity from it's diverse groups not division
 * 16) Obama later won his run for Senate with a 70 percent vote
 * 17) The first major piece of legislation he introduced came two months later with the Higher Education Opportunity through Pell Grant Expansion Act of 2005 (HOPE Act)
 * 18) Its goal was to increase the amount of money federal government could provide for college students with financial need
 * 19) Michelle Obama worked as a hospital executive during her husbands election into Senate
 * 20) Instead of moving to Washington as a Senate member Obama and his family remained in Chicago