Obama family goes Unplugged on Access Hollywood! (pt 1 of 4)
The Obamas – Barack, Michelle Obama, Malia Obama and Sasha Obama sit down for their first family interview together in Butte, Montana. They talk about family, love and politics.
Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. born August 4, 1961 is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 U.S. presidential election.
Born to a Kenyan father and an American mother, he spent most of his early life in Honolulu, Hawaii. From ages six to ten, he lived in Jakarta with his mother and Indonesian stepfather. A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, Obama worked as a community organizer, university lecturer, and civil rights lawyer before running for public office and serving in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. After an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he announced his campaign for U.S. Senate in 2003.
The following year, while still an Illinois state legislator, Obama delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in November 2004 with 70% of the vote. As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, he co-sponsored bipartisan legislation for controlling conventional weapons and for promoting greater public accountability in the use of federal funds. He also made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. In the current 110th Congress, he has sponsored legislation on lobbying and electoral fraud, climate change, nuclear terrorism, and care for returned U.S. military personnel.
Since announcing his presidential campaign in February 2007, Obama has emphasized ending the Iraq War, increasing energy independence, and providing universal health care as his top three priorities. He married in 1992 and has two daughters. He has written two bestselling books: a memoir of his youth titled Dreams from My Father, and The Audacity of Hope, a personal commentary on U.S. politics.
Personal life
Obama met his future wife, Michelle Robinson, in 1988 when he was employed as a summer associate at the Chicago law firm of Sidley & Austin. Assigned for three months as Obama’s advisor at the firm, Robinson joined him at group social functions, but declined his initial offers to date. They began dating later that summer, became engaged in 1991, and were married in October 1992. The couple’s first daughter, Malia Ann, was born in 1998, followed by a second daughter, Natasha (”Sasha”), in 2001. Applying the proceeds of a $2 million book deal, the family paid off debts in 2005 and moved from a Hyde Park, Chicago condominium to their current $1.6-million house in neighboring Kenwood. The house purchase and subsequent acquisition of an adjoining strip of land drew media scrutiny in November 2006 because of financial links with controversial Illinois businessman Tony Rezko. In December 2007, Money magazine estimated the Obama family’s net worth at $1.3 million. Obama plays basketball, a sport he participated in as a member of his high school’s varsity team. He is left-handed. Before announcing his presidential candidacy, he began a well-publicized effort to quit smoking. “I’ve never been a heavy smoker,” Obama told the Chicago Tribune. “I’ve quit periodically over the last several years. I’ve got an ironclad demand from my wife that in the stresses of the campaign I do not succumb. I’ve been chewing Nicorette strenuously.” Replying to an Associated Press survey of 2008 presidential candidates’ personal tastes, he specified “architect” as his alternate career choice and “chili” as his favorite meal to cook. Asked to name a “hidden talent,” Obama answered: “I’m a pretty good poker player.”
A theme of Obama’s 2004 Democratic National Convention keynote address, and the title of his 2006 book, The Audacity of Hope, was inspired by his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. In Chapter 6 of the book, titled “Faith,” Obama writes that he “was not raised in a religious household.” He describes his mother, raised by non-religious parents, as detached from religion, yet “in many ways the most spiritually awakened person that I have ever known.” He describes his Kenyan father as “raised a Muslim,” but a “confirmed atheist” by the time his parents met, and his Indonesian stepfather as “a man who saw religion as not particularly useful.” The chapter details how Obama, in his twenties, while working with local churches as a community organizer, came to understand “the power of the African American religious tradition to spur social change”:
He joined Trinity United Church of Christ in 1988. A megachurch with 10,000 members, Trinity is the largest congregation in the United Church of Christ.
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December 26th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
i just hope, that …
i just hope, that although the obama family may be perfect in terms of love and things like that…
that when/if the media find one scrap of measly meat of the obama family NOT being perfect they wont go insanely over board about it and make a huge big deal.
after all every family has problems at one time or another and obama just does his job (and is insanely good) so yeah… im just worried that everyone will have too high of expectation which is just impossible to fulfill.
December 26th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
I just got done …
I just got done driving by the White House and it didn’t surprise me to see this:
1) 10 broken down cars on the front lawn
2) Garden overflowing with Watermelons
3) Motorcade had 3 Black Escalade ESV’s with 26in Chrome Rims
4) 15 of his family members sitting on chairs in front of the white house playing cards and shooting dice
5) Flavored blunt wrappers on the sidewalk
6) A pen full of chickens
December 26th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
WHAT IN DA WORLD …
WHAT IN DA WORLD DID YOU SAY
December 26th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Looks like POOP SOUP
Looks like POOP SOUP
December 26th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
$600 fürs Zocken!! …
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December 26th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
I just read …
I just read everything I can and things have been going great for me financially.. personally is another story but whatever.. check out this free newsletter for example.. authoropen . com
December 26th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
REAL TALK LET RAIsE …
REAL TALK LET RAIsE OUR bEAUTIFUL bLACK fISTS IN dA AIR!
December 26th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
ObAmA is GoD …
ObAmA is GoD aLL U WhYtE CrAcKeRS HAHA
December 26th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
I like Shasha’s …
I like Shasha’s compliment ” no offend” that was nice.
December 26th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
What an inspriation.
What an inspriation.
December 26th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
the obama family is …
the obama family is perfect
December 26th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
LOL!! It’s true, …
LOL!! It’s true, and that’s the funny (and sad) thing. Thank goodness Obama won. I don’t even want to think what would have happened if McCain won and then died in office and we ended up with President Palin. *shivers*
December 26th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
malia is so smart.. …
malia is so smart….for her age…and u can tell obama was a lil embarrased when they put him on blast bout his shoes n belt
December 26th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
very awkward …
very awkward interview…….
December 26th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Nice work. keep it …
Nice work. keep it up. mean time come for social media marketing for esteembpo**com GNKDHK
December 26th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
It’s nice that …
It’s nice that being so much in the limelight they seem to be easy going, unstressed, and even outgoing family
December 26th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Sasha was able to …
Sasha was able to name more magazines she reads than Sarah Palin.
December 26th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
When you speak as …
When you speak as well as Barack for sure.
Plus you don’t want the kids to say wrong things, and end up damaging your election.
Everyone’s got skeletons in their closet.
December 26th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
What happened to …
What happened to conservative media post-911?
Iraq war turned out to be just peachy huh?
So democrats supported slavery hundreds of years ago and so for the rest of time, you’re going to hold that against them? Times change, people change.
People support Democrats because it’s the best we’ve got right now. There are no alternatives. The Republicans have no clue how to be an opposition party. No new ideas and just rant.
December 26th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
yay! lets see.. …
yay! lets see.. liberal media all media especially youtube censoring stuff… (radio is not liberal but varies so it doesn’t suck chode) seriously pay attention to how firggin liberal the media is. it me the off how they support democrats (who supported slavery at one time) . i’m outa steam for now….
December 26th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Barack and Michelle …
Barack and Michelle Obama later regreted allowing Sasha and Malia to be included in the interview because they didn’t want to put them in the spotlight. You could see at 3:16 how Barack pulled Sasha’s arm down when she hit her blah blah limit. Barack wasn’t so into it, so you could see that he was kind of embarrassed and that he would later regret.
“You always leave your bag on my shoes!” ~ Sasha is so halarious!
December 26th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
just more fake …
just more fake bullshit for you sheep. this man and his family are shit. all of you obama supporters