Bio of Barak Obama

1961:

Barack Obama born in Honolulu, Hawaii

1967:

Moves to Indonesia with his mother Ann Dunham and step father, Lolo Soetoro.

1971:

Obama moves back to Hawaii to live with his grandmother and go to school.

1979:

Graduates high school. Attends Occidental College.

1981:

Transfers to Columbia University.

1983:

Graduates from Columbia University with a degree in Political Science, majoring in International relations. Obama then goes on to work for Business International Corporation.

1985:

Moves to Chicago to become a community organizer.

1988:

Starts at Harvard Law School.

1990:

Elected as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.

1991:

JD From Harvard Law School

1992:

Marries Michelle Robinson.

1993:

Obama becomes an attorney at Miner, Barnhill & Galland. Becomes a lecturer at The University of Chicago.

1995:

His first book, Dreams from My Father is published.

1996:

Elected to Illinois State Senate.

1998:

Reelected to Senate.

1999:

Daughter Malia Obama born,

2001:

Daughter Sasha Obama born.

2002:

Reelected to Senate.

2004:

Delivered the keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention. Elected to Senate after defeting Alan Keyes.

2006:

Barack Obama's second book, The Audacity of Hope is published.

2007:

Announces his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nominaiton.

2008:

Defeats Hillary Clinton to become the first Black man to represent the democrats for the presidency.


With the Elections getting closer and closer, the mud slinging, rumor mongering and back-biting seems to be approaching its peak. While the candidates have to face the brunt of these attacks, no one has it worse that Barack Obama. Ever since he announced his candidacy, he has been under intense scrutiny.

No matter what people have to say about him, it always seems to come back to one question: Is Barack Hussein Obama a Muslim? His first name is Arabic, his middle name also happens to be the last name of one of America’s biggest enemies in recent times and his last name is only an alphabet away from America’s other big enemy. To add to that, his father was a Muslim from Kenya.

Now that you have the background, lets deal with the facts.

- His father: His father was a practicing Muslim but later on in life he gave up the religion and declared himself atheist.
- His mother: His mother was a white Christian from Wichita, Kansas.
- United Church of Christ: He has been a member of the United Church of Christ for a number of years.
- His children: Both his daughters have been brought up as Christian.
- Education: He was educated in a regular school in Kenya. He DID NOT go to a Madrassa as CNN once reported. People seem to forget the apology and retraction that CNN issued.

Conservatives suggest that Obama is proving that he is a Muslim Manchurian Candidate by proposing that all American troops be withdrawn from Iraq. However, there are other candidates who suggest the same, including Republican hopeful, Ron Paul.

They can’t even justify his not being Christian based on other issues like Abortion and Stem Cell research because there are people from the Democrat as well as the Republican side who agree with him on some issue or the other.

It seems that people want to disqualify him so badly that they will cling to anything. However, there is NO proof to suggest that Obama is Muslim, so people should just let it go and move on.

Barack Obama's Family

Senator Barack Obama is the son of Barack Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham. His father was originally Kenyan, and he came to the University of Hawaii on a scholarship. There, he met Ann Dunham of Wichita, Kansas. They got married in February 1961 and Barack Obama Jr. was born in August 1961. Obama Sr. was married in Kenya and had 2 children before moving to the United States.

Obama Sr. was a Christian who converted to Islam. He then declared himself as atheist.


When Obama Sr. got a scholarship to Harvard in 1963, he decided to go alone and separated with Dunham. They got divorced later. Obama Sr. returned to Kenya a few years later. He remarried for a third time, although, he technically never divorced his first wife. Obama Sr. fathered a total of 8 children with 3 different wives. He died in a car accident in 1982.

Ann Dunham met Lolo Soetoro a few years later and they got married in 1967. She and her son Barack then moved to Indonesia for a few years. There, his step sister, Maya Kassandra was born in 1970. She now lives in Hawaii. automated testing She is a school teacher there.

Obama moved back to Hawaii in 1970 to go back to school. He lived there with his grandmother Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham. She still lives in Hawaii and is a practicing Buddhist.

Ann Dunham moved back to Hawaii in 1972. She lived there till 1995, when she died of Cancer.