President Obama Arrives On Friday

Mr & Mrs Obama US President, Barack Obama was born in August, 4 1961 in Hawaii to Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr. When Mr Obama was a toddler, his father got a chance to study at Harvard but there was no money for the family to go with him.

After completing his education, he later returned to Kenya alone, where he worked as a government economist, and the couple divorced.

When Mr Obama was six, his mother married an Indonesian man and the family moved to Jakarta.

Although his father and step-father were both Muslim, Mr Obama is a Christian and attended secular and Catholic schools during the four years he lived in Indonesia, which is a largely Muslim country.

He then moved back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents and attend school. Mr Obama went on to study political science at Columbia University in New York, and then moved to Chicago where he spent three years as a community organiser.

In 1988 he left to attend Harvard Law School, where he became the first African-American President of the Harvard Law Review.

After Harvard, Mr Obama returned to Chicago to practise civil rights law, representing victims of housing and employment discrimination. He served in the Illinois state senate from 1996 to 2004.

He is married to a lawyer, Michelle, and they have two young daughters, Malia and Sasha. On November 4, 2008, 47-year-old Barack Obama was elected to be the 44th President of the United States, after a hard-fought two-year presidential campaign. He was sworn in as President on January 20, 2009.

Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate on November 2, 2004, after serving seven years as an Illinois state senator. He's the author of two best-selling books;Dreams from My Father:

A story of Race and Inheritance, published in 1995 and Th Audacity of Hope published in 2006.

Michelle Obama

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964) is the wife of President Obama and is the first African-American First Lady of the United States. Michelle Robinson was born and grew up on the South Side of Chicago and graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law School.

After completing her formal education, she returned to Chicago and accepted a position with the law firm Sidley Austin, where she met President Obama.

They married in 1992 and she also moved into pulic service—first at Chicago City Hall and then as the head of a non-profit organisation that encouraged youngsters to work on social issues.

Through the long election season she retained her part-time job as a community relations executive at a Chicago hospital.

She supported him throughout his career. 'You want to know how Barack prepares for a debate? He hangs out with me, and he's ready,' she said.

She worked as part of the staff of Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, and for the University of Chicago Medical Center. Throughout 2007 and 2008, she helped campaign for her husband's presidential bid and delivered a keynote address at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

She is the mother of two daughters, Malia and Sasha, and is the sister of Craig Robinson, men's basketball coach at Oregon State University.

Malia Obama and Sasha Obama

Malia Ann is the older daughter of President Obama and his wife Michelle. She was born on July 4, 1998, and Natasha (known as Sasha) was born on June 7, 2001. Sasha is the youngest child to reside in the White House since John F. Kennedy, Jr, arrived as an infant in 1961. Sasha is also the first White House resident born in the 21st century.

Before his inauguration, President Obama published an open letter to his daughters in Parade magazine, describing what he wants for them and every child in America—And it stated thus: 'to grow up in a world with no limits on your dreams and no achievements beyond your reach, and to grow into compassionate, committed women who will help build that world.'

While living in Chicago, they kept busy schedules, as the Associated Press reports: 'soccer, dance and drama for Malia, gymnastics and tap for Sasha”. They both, however, played piano and tennis.

When they lived in Chicago, both attended the private University of Chicago Laboratory School. Presently, they attend a private school at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. Malia is in fifth grade while Shasha is in the second grade.