Barack Obama Biography

Early Life

Barack Hussein Obama II was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4, 1961. His mother, Ann Dunham, Wichita, Kansas, a military base, was born during World War II. Pearl Harbor, the Japanese attack on Stanley Dunham's father enlisted in the military after General George Patton's army and marched across Europe. Dunham's mother Madelyn, bomber to rally the line. After the war, the couple studied on G.I. Bill, bought a house through the Federal Housing Program, and, after several moves end up in Hawaii.

Obama's father, Barack Obama Sr., was born in Nyanza Province of Kenya's Luo ethnic. Grew up herding goats in Africa and Obama Sr., Kenya finally left him a scholarship that allowed to pursue her dream of going to college and earned Hawaii. While studying at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Obama, Ann Dunham, a senior fellow students, and they got married on February 2, 1961. Barack was born six months later.

As a child, Obama did not have a relationship with her father. When his son was still a child, Obama Sr. moved to Massachusetts to pursue a PhD from Harvard University and Obama's father arrived officially, until the end of March 1964, several months later and divorced with two sons when they were separated. Shortly after Obama Sr. returned to Kenya.

In 1965, Dunham Lolo Soetoro an Indonesian student at the University of Hawaii and married. A year later, in Jakarta, Indonesia the family where Obama's half-sister, Maya Soetoro Ng, was born in Indonesia in 1970, the event left her son's safety and education so scared Dunham, Obama was 10 years old when he moved back to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparent’s category. His mother and half-sister, joined them later.

Education

While living with her grandparents, Obama was admitted to the esteemed Punahou Academy, he excelled in basketball and academic honors graduate school in 1979 as one of only three black students, Obama became conscious of racism, and it is meant to be African- Americans. Later, he described how he and his sense of self and struggling to reconcile social perceptions of his multiracial heritage, he wrote "Sears, Roebuck Christmas catalog and I Santa was a white man, there is no one like me. I went into the bathroom and with all my senses and limbs seemingly intact, standing in front of the mirror, looking, as I always looked up and wondered if something was wrong with me."

Obama's father, who he only saw once more after his parents divorced, struggling with the absence of the senior Obama visited Hawaii for a short time in 1971. "[My father] has left paradise, and nothing I have my mother or grandparents that unit, to counteract the fact that the question. Ten years later, in 1981, tragedy, a senior Obama when he struck a serious car accident, lost his legs. Confined to a wheelchair, he lost his job. When traveling in Nairobi in 1982, Obama Sr. was involved in another car accident. This time, however, the accident was fatal. Senior Obama on November 24, 1982, died at the age of 21, when Obama. "At the time of his death, my father remained a myth to me," "A man is both more and less. Obama later wrote",

After high school, Obama attended Occidental College for two years, Los Angeles. He then transferred to Columbia University in New York City, graduating with a degree in Political Science in 1983. After working in the business sector for two years, Obama moved to Chicago in 1985, the Roseland and the Altgeld Gardens communities for low-income residents worked as a community organizer on the South Side of the poor.

Law Career

It is during this time that Obama, who he said, "are not raised in a religious family," Trinity United Church of Christ had time to join. He also visited relatives in Kenya, and his biological father and grandfather went to the grave of an emotional journey. "A long time I sat between the two graves and wept,"

Returning to Kenya with a sense of renewal, the next year, Obama entered Harvard Law School in 1988, he was a summer associate and Michelle Robinson, a young lawyer determined to be as an adviser to Obama joined the Chicago law firm Sidley Austin. After a long time, the couple began dating. In February 1990, Obama, the first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review was elected. She graduated cum laude in 1991 from Harvard large.

After law school, Obama returned to Chicago, Miner, Barnhill & Galland firm to comply with as a civil rights lawyer. The constitutional law at the University of Chicago law school part-time as a lecturer in 1992 and early 2004 and then taught as a professor, and Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign helped organize voter registration drives. October 3, 1992, he and Michelle were married. Kenwood Chicago's south side, they moved a few years later, welcomed two daughters, Malia (born 1998) and abroad (born 2001).

Entry Into Illinois Politics

A story of race and inheritance, as Toni Morrison, in 1995, received high praise from literary figures and the Chinese, Swedish and Hebrew languages, including more than 25 have been printed: Obama an autobiography, Dreams from My Father. In 2004, the book had a second printing and is adapted for a children's version. Dreams audiobook version, narrated by Obama, in 2006 for a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album.

For a seat in the Illinois State Senate, Obama's advocacy work led him to run. He ran as a Democrat in 1996, the year of his election as a state senator, Obama worked with both Democrats and Republicans ethics law draft, as well as health care and early childhood education programs for the poor. The poor state earned-income tax credit for working a creation. As chairman of the Illinois Senate Health and Human Services Committee, Obama worked with law enforcement officials were found to be innocent after a number of death-row inmates videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases.

In 2000, Obama, a four-term incumbent Bobby Rush by a candidate for the US House of Representatives held an unsuccessful Democratic primary run for the seat. Undeterred, in 2002 he created a campaign committee, and in 2004 the United States Senate to run for a seat with the help of political consultant David Axelrod began fundraising for Obama's Senate began assessing his chances for victory.

In 2001, after the 9/11 attacks, President George W. Bush, Obama's push to go to war in Iraq was a primary opponent. Obama was a state senator when he was still in Chicago's Federal Plaza in October 2002 during a meeting of the approval of a resolution spoke out against the use of force against Iraq was " I'm opposed to dumb wars, I'm not opposed to all wars. " he said. "Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other armchair, I cynical attempt by the opposition to have been, weekend warriors in this administration's own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the cost and the carrying casualty shove into trouble." Despite his protests, the war in Iraq began in 2003.

U.S. Senate Career

Obama's poll numbers have been encouraged to open U.S. Senate by Republican Peter Fitzgerald decided to run for the vacant seat. 52 per cent of the vote in the Democratic primary in 2004, multimillionaire businessman Blair Hull and Illinois Comptroller Daniel Hynes defeated. This summer, the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston in support of John Kerry, was invited to deliver lectures.

After the convention, Obama returned to Illinois to the US Senate bid. His opponent in the Republican primary winner Jack Ryan in the general election, was supposed to be a wealthy former investment banker. However, Ryan's ex-wife, actress Jeri Ryan refuted by published allegations of sexual deviancy withdrew from the race in June 2004.

In August 2004, to replace Ryan a diplomat and former presidential candidate Alan Keyesaccepted the Republican nomination. Three televised debates, Obama and Keyes abortion, gun control, stem cell research, school vouchers and tax cuts expressed views on the defendant. November 2004 general election, Obama and Keyes '27 per cent to 70 per cent, the biggest in the history of Illinois won the election. Obama's victory is only the third African-American in the US Senate since Reconstruction elected.

January 3, 2005, on oath, Obama and Eastern Europe is a bill that expanded efforts to destroy weapons of mass destruction in Russia on working jointly with Republican Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana. Then, Oklahoma Republican Senator Tom Coburn, he created a website to track all federal spending. Obama said for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, will push for the development of alternative energy and improving veterans' benefits sustained.

His second book, Hope Audacity: Thoughts on reclaiming the American Dream, was published in October 2006, the future of jobs in America, many of whom became his eventual presidential election campaign talking points to discuss Obama's views. Shortly after the release of his book, Amazon.com and The New York Times best-seller list in both the 1 Number hit.

2008 Presidential Election

In February 2007, he announced his candidacy for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination  and Obama made headlines. He is a former first lady and then with the US have been locked in a tight battle. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York. June 3, 2008, during the primaries, Obama pledged delegates after winning a considerable number of potential candidates in the Democratic Party, and Clinton for the duration of his campaign, Obama delivered his full support. November 4, 2008, on Barack Obama, Republican presidential candidate John McCain, defeated by 45.7 percent to 52.9 percent, the United States and the first African-American to hold office as the 44th president to win the election. His running mate, Delaware Senator Joe Biden, was elected vice president. Obama's inauguration on January 20, 2009 took place on.

When Obama took office, he was a global economic recession, the ongoing foreign wars and international favorability ratings for the United States inherited the lowest ever. The financial sector reform, alternative energy and reinventing an ambitious agenda to promote education and health care-all while bringing down the national debt. Because of the nation's economic well-being was intertwined, he believes must be taken all at once. Obama said in his inauguration speech short, "Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are may serious faces. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America: They will be met".

First 100 Days

Inauguration day and on April 29, 2009, the Obama administration did not take action in many fronts. Equal pay for children's health insurance, Obama is seeking to expand and provide legal protection for women Congress coaxed. A $ 787 billion stimulus bill was passed to promote short-term economic growth. Housing and credit markets have been put on life support, a market-based US bank, with plans to buy toxic assets. The auto industry has been making loans, and new regulations have been proposed for Wall Street. Obama working families, small businesses and cut taxes for first-time home buyers. Chairman relax restrictions on stem cell research and to move ahead with plans for a $ 3.5 trillion budget.

American foreign policy in its first 100 days in office, President Obama promised a complete overhaul. He stretched out his hand in Europe, China and Russia to improve relations with Iran, Venezuela and Cuba to open a dialogue with. The coalition called for a global economic stimulus package to support. Committed an additional 21,000 troops to Afghanistan and Iraq, almost all from the United States in August 2010 set a date for withdrawal. More dramatic events, he was attacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia and prepare the nation for a swine flu outbreak. Signed an executive order prohibiting the excessive interrogation techniques, and within one year (until the end of a deadline will be met), the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ordered the closure. For his efforts, Obama Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009.

2010 State of the Union

January 27, 2010, President Obama delivered the first State of the Union speech. During his speech, Obama addressed the challenges of the economy, the banks a fee for the cost of the proposed fiscal year following the government's announcement of a possible stationary and a law capping campaign finance costs also spoke against the Supreme Court's reversal. He re-thinking politicians to stop making positive changes and challenges. He criticized the Republicans for their refusal to support any of the laws and punished Democrats for not pushing hard enough to get the law passed. He stressed that, despite obstacles, the current domestic difficulties, he was determined to help the American citizens. "We do not quit. I do not quit," he said. " To carry forward the dream, Seize this moment to start anew, and let us strengthen our union once more."

Challenges and Successes

The second part of the first term as president, facing a number of obstacles as well as some of Obama's victory. Congressional Republicans and the Tea Party movement is popular despite opposition from Obama's health care reform plan in March 2010, the Affordable Care Act, signed into law new legislation known as denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions is prohibited under the age of 26, his parents plan to allow citizens, certain citizens and expand insurance coverage and access to care for millions of Americans medicine free health screenings provided for under insured. Affordable Care Act, which opponents have dubbed for "Obamacare," asserted that it is added to the cost of the new budget is overblown, in violation of the Constitution, with its requirement for individuals to obtain insurance and health care is a "government takeover" amounted to

Economic front. In the 2010 mid-term elections the Republicans gained control of the US House of Representatives, pulled out of the talks, the government defaulted on its obligations and controlled government spending in an effort to prevent the signing of the 2011 Budget Control Act. The Revenue Act is a bipartisan committee to solve the problem than to talk, but the group failed to reach any agreement on how to resolve the issue.

Also in 2011, Obama "do not ask, do not tell," the openly gay soldiers serving in the Armed Forces of the United States, which is attached to the rule of the military policy was signed. In March 2011 US-NATO air strikes in Libya to support rebels fighting against the dictatorMuammar al-Gaddafi forces to participate in the authorization, and in May he was the notorious al-Qaeda in Pakistan, a secret operation that killed bin Laden leader Osama green light given by a team of US Navy SEALs.

Obama in June 2012 achieved a legal victory in the Supreme Court of the United States, the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate, which required citizens to purchase health insurance or pay a tax upheld. In a 5-4 decision, the court has decided to sign with the provisions of the health care law in taxation powers granted to Congress under the Constitution fell. The two co-vote majority Obama Sonia Sotomayor (2009 guaranteed in) and Elena Kagan (2010 guaranteed in) was appointed by the Justice.

2012 Re-Election

In 2008, he has a second term for President Obama during his campaign focused on grass-roots initiatives. Celebrities such as Sarah Jessica Parker and Anna Wintour hosting fund-raising events aided by the presidential campaign.

Obama in June 2012, stated that a campaign event in Maryland. "We started to end. And we'll remind the world why it is right that the United States of America is the greatest nation on earth."

Obama's Republican rival in the 2012 election, and Romney's vice presidential running mate Mitt Romney, US Representative Paul Ryan face. November 6, 2012, about five million more votes than Obama, Romney received more than 60 percent of the Electoral College and the president won a second four-year term.

About a month after President Barack Obama's re-election, one of its most tragic school shootings  the nation endured, when 20 children and six adults NEWTOWN, Connecticut, Sandy Hook Elementary School, was shot to death on December 14, 2012. Two days after the attacks on Obama for victims of NEWTOWN in a historic speech interfaith vigil strict gun-control measures in the implementation of the discipline alluding to discuss the need for changes to school safety. "This will be tragic end," Obama said. "In the coming weeks, I will, efforts aimed at preventing more tragedies like this, parents and educators-in, I will use whatever power this office of my fellow citizens-to law enforcement, mental-health professional because of the pair holds what choice do we have? We can not accept these events as routine. do we really say that we are powerless in the face of such carnage, that the politics are too hard to prepare? "

Obama on January 1, 2013, effort to avoid the looming fiscal cliff crisis (the Senate voted in favor of the bill earlier that day) a major legislative victory on the Republican-controlled House of Representatives achieved when a bipartisan agreement to approve tax increases and spending cuts in an. According to the agreement, the bill is very rich-man couples earning more than $ 450,000 per year and more than $ 400,000 to reduce the federal deficit by raising taxes on the income side of the promise of the president's re-election as a productive first step. In late 2012, before the passage of the bill, Republicans and Democrats on spending cuts and tax increases in the tense negotiations became a bitter political fight until Vice President Joe Biden and Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell conducted an agreement with the hammer. Obama promised to sign the bill law.

Second Term

Barack Obama officially on January 21, 2013 to start his second term, the United States, Chief Justice John Roberts administered the oath of office. The inauguration of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day was held, and civil-rights activist Myrlie Evers- Williams, Medgar Evers was widowed invocation.James Taylor, Beyonce Knowles and Kelly Clarkson sang the occasion, and "one day" the poet Richard Blanco read his poem.

Obama, in his inaugural speech on climate change, health care and marriage equality issues such as race action. "We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect. We must act, knowing that today's victories will be only partial, and it is those four years and 40 years and 400 years to stand here then that will be up to advance the timeless spirit Philadelphia is an additional once said to us, "Obama told the crowd gathered in front of the us Capitol building.

Obama held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, one of the inauguration balls, including two officers, were present. The couple danced to the Al Green classic "Let's stick together," by Jennifer Hudson sung. Alicia Keys and Jamie Foxx performed also.

After opening a lot more difficult for Obama to lead the nation through some challenges, obviously, April 15, 2013, the Boston Marathon terrorist bomb, which killed three people and injured more than 200. Three days after the bombings at a memorial service in Boston, said he injured "with you in your land. We will be with you, as you all stand up and walk and, yes, to learn to drive again. I have no doubt. You will run again. "You've shown us, in Boston, in the face of evil, Americans would do better. In the face of cruelty, we would like compassion."

The same month, President Barack Obama for his efforts in Congress to curb gun-control measures. He of all gun purchases and a ban on the sale of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, calling for universal background checks on law upheld. When the bill was blocked and withdrawn, Obama Say "For Washington it’s a pretty shameful day."

By June, the Obama CNN / oarasi International surveys have suffered a significant drop in his approval ratings. Conservative political Benghazi, Libya, Libya Christopher Stevens and three others Obama in a diplomatic rank of ambassador terrorist killings and allegations of a cover-up seeking tax-exempt status of the organization in the wake of the Internal Revenue Service charges only 45 percent approval rating to its lowest rating in more than 18 months has declined.

Analysts also attributed the rating of the United States National Security Agency surveillance program, new revelations about the extent of the slide. Obama's visit to Germany in June that the NSA telephone wiretapping and monitoring of emails reside. "We are German citizens or American citizens or rifling through email are not French citizens or anyone else," he said. "Privacy is strictly limited intervention." The program had helped stop the threat of 50, Obama said that.

Africa, former President George W. Bush when he joined the al-Qaeda attacks on American targets in early July to commemorate the 15th anniversary in 2013, President Obama made history, US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. The first event is an act of terrorism on foreign soil in remembrance of this meeting two US presidents.

At the end of the outrage that Obama is African-American teen Trayvon Martin killing a Florida jury acquitted George Zimmerman just spoke out about the decision. "Trayvon Martin was shot first. Obama explained that in this particular case is a state matter, but how the federal government could address some of the issues highlighted by the national legislative and discussion.

International Challenges

Obama himself is a global crisis in late August and September 2013, when it was discovered that plagued the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad's use of chemical weapons against civilians has been included. While saying that 400 people, including children, of the chemical have been killed in the attack, Obama's actions in Syria and the region is a serious national security threat to the United States is called ", and as a result, Assad and Syria needs to be held accountable."

the international community and President of the Congress at large to persuade Syria to take action, however, the majority on Capitol Hill oppose military involvement there. Obama said that if al-Assad, the stipulations made by Russia to give up its chemical weapons agreed with a proposal to be considered, then a direct strike against the nation could have been avoided by the September 10, 2013 announcement of an alternative solution. Al-Assad acknowledged the possession of chemical weapons, and eventually took the Russian proposal.

At the end of the month with Iran, Obama has taken diplomatic steps. The phone, which is more than 30 years between the leaders of the two countries marked the first direct communication with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said. Obama's groundbreaking move is a sign of thawing relations between the United States and Iran, as can be seen by many. "We have two of our ongoing effort to reach an agreement on Iran's nuclear talks," a press conference expressed his optimism that a deal to end the country's willingness to lift the ban imposed on Iran in exchange for Obama's report on its nuclear development program could be reached.

 Obama With his family- Photo

Domestic Policies and Problems

Obama himself struggling on the domestic front in October 2013 in a dispute over the federal budget and the federal government, Republicans defund or derail the Affordable Care Act is a 16-day hunger strike made available. An agreement has been reached after the strike ended, Obama expressed his disappointment over the situation, and expressed his desire for political reform in his weekly address to use :. "To change the way business is done in Washington now that the crisis and the uncertainty of the cloud has lifted, we do what the majority of Americans in order for us to focus on the economy does not grow, create good jobs, strengthen the middle class, the foundation for broad-based prosperity established, and the need to get our fiscal house in the long haul. "

Affordable Care Act HealthCare.gov, the website is meant to allow users to purchase health insurance after the failed launch in October continued to come under fire. Additional technical support is keyed to the website, which was plagued with glitches to work on for the week. Some Americans their existing insurance policies health care law, Obama's repeated assurances that the loss, despite such cancellations do not happen to have been responsible. According to the Chicago Tribune, the insurance companies and the Obama emphasized his law-caused changes in coverage. "Remember, before the Affordable Care Act, the bad-apple gain assurance that you care, minor pre-existing conditions or use up your premium Jack, or to restrict immigration bill every single year you had free rein," he said.

Mounting pressure from Obama himself apologized to change health care. In an interview with NBC News, he who lost their insurance plans, said: "I am sorry that they got themselves in this situation on the basis of assurances from me that they can not get out." Obama pledged to find a remedy to this problem, saying, "We all think of themselves as a consequence of this a strong position to deal with it are going to do what we can."

Managing Foreign Crises

Obama's foreign relations in the fall of 2013 brought additional challenges. In October 2013, German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed her cell phone to call the NSA was listening. "Spying among friends is not acceptable," Merkel told a conference of European leaders. Obama on the eve of the debate, in November 2013. The CBS News poll, only 37 percent of Americans approve of the job he was doing as president, his approval rating drop to a new low, while 57 percent saw its unauthorized handling.

Echoes of the Cold War, civil unrest and protests in the capital Kiev, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in February, returned after the fall of the government led by the pro-Russian forces in 2014. The Russian troops crossed into Ukraine and annexation of Crimea support. Obama is considered by the US government in response to individual and business to be involved in the crisis in Ukraine, the target of protesters or Crimean ordered sanctions. "We have the best day in 2014 when the boundaries can be redrawn over the heads of non-democratic leaders," Obama said. The President said the sanctions adopted in close coordination with European allies and the United States sent "in response to Russia's actions are based on a combination of our flexibility going forward."

In addition to the ongoing difficulties in Ukraine, tensions between Israelis and Palestinians in violence in the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2014. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of Central American children in the US-Mexico border have been detained since the beginning of making the dangerous crossing alone. Many Republicans have called for the deportation of the illegal immigrants quickly, while others considered the situation a humanitarian crisis. Another misery came from the president of the legislative branch. House Speaker John Boehner Care Act in connection with some of his actions for overstepping his executive powers in an effort to turn the case against Obama.

In August 2014, Obama, a self-proclaimed Islamic State, known as ISIS or ISIL, in which large swathes of Iraq and Syria had captured and beheaded foreign hostages carried out high-profile attacks directed against the aircraft. The next month, the United States, ISIS targets in Syria led his first attack, although the army has pledged to keep out of the conflict. Several Arab countries joined in air strikes against extremist Islamic militant group. "The only language understood by killers like this is not the language of force," Obama said in a speech to the United Nations. "The United States of America will work with a broad coalition to dismantle this network of death."

Presidency After 2014 Elections

November, Obama had to cope with the new challenges in front of the house. Election Day and made an impressive showing in the Republican majority in the Senate, meaning Obama Republicans control both houses of Congress for the final two years of his term will have to contend with.

Obama for the first time in more than 50 years to establish diplomatic relations with Cuba in December by moving his presidential powers flexed. American Alan Gross in Cuba policy changes and three spies in exchange for anonymity, came after an American intelligence agent. In a speech at the White House, Obama dramatic shift in Cuba policy, "the American and Cuban people and create more opportunities for starting a new chapter in American nations." Will be explained

Obama announced plans to renew diplomatic relations with Cuba, "travel, trade and Cuba and increase the flow of information from." However, the long-standing US economic embargo on Cuba in force and can be removed only with the approval of Congress. Leading Republicans in Congress, including Obama surge Boehner, McConnell and Senator Marco Rubio of Florida spoke out against all of Obama's new Cuba policy may not be able to agree on this policy shift.

In his 2015 State of the Union address, President Obama declared that the nation was liberated from the clutches of recession. "America, for all that we have endured, all the known particles and hard work to come back ... in the shadow of the crisis has passed," he said. The free community college programs, and middle-class tax breaks for ways to improve the nation went on to share his vision.

With Democrats than Republicans in both the House and the Senate, Obama's opposition to any existing policy to prevent tinkering threatened to use his executive powers. "We took away their health insurance, or the new rules on Wall Street unraveling, or immigration refighting the last war when we've got a broken system by just can not put at risk the safety of the family," he said. "A bill to my desk and tried to do any of these things attained any good if I will veto it."

Not long after Obama's State of the Union Address on his visit to India to meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. According to various news reports, Obama and Modi's "breakthrough of understanding" was reached regarding India's nuclear efforts. Obama's speech in New Delhi, the Indian people, saying that "we are finally fully our civil nuclear agreement, which the Indians and cleaner, non-carbon energy to help in the fight against climate change will mean more reliable electricity can move towards implementation." This agreement will open the doors of the energy industry to invest in the United States.

Supreme Court Victories 

The Supreme Court of the United States in the summer of 2015 brought two major wins for the Obama administration. Tax subsidies are part of the president's health care Court upheld the Affordable Care Act. Without this tax credit, the purchase of insurance for millions of Americans may be too expensive.

On June 26, the US Supreme Court ruling that marriage equality was a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in several states before the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn the 5-4 decision to create a reality. By reversing this decision before the Supreme Court allowed same-sex marriage across the country. President Obama, who in May 2012 was elected the first president to voice their support for same-sex marriage, confirming that "the Constitution guarantees equality for marriage praised the court. In so doing, they have reiterated that all Americans are entitled to equal protection of the law. All people will be treated equally , regardless of whether they are or who they love those. "

In his speech, Obama said, the court's decision "came out of those who stood for decades, no matter what the parents, parents who love their children talked about the courage of millions of people is a result of countless small tasks. Those folks were willing to endure bullying and taunt, and strong ... and slowly began to realize that an entire country in love with love. "

The landmark decision on the same day as President Obama's Reverend Clementa Pinckney, nine African-Americans at the Emanuel AME Bible study meetings at the funeral of a young white man killed by an incident grappled with racial violence Charleston, South Carolina in the Church. Pinckney said in his condolence message, Obama's former pastor of the church, "the idea that the claims embodied in our Christian faith not only in words and deeds." he says,

Nuclear Deal With Iran

In July 2015, Obama declared that, after lengthy negotiations, the United States and five other world powers over its nuclear program had reached an agreement with Iran. Inspectors to ensure the entry of the nuclear program and Iran's agreement to limit nuclear weapons and the need for a low-level enriched uranium will be allowed to keep its pledge will be. In exchange, the United States and its allies have imposed sanctions on Iran's oil and transportation and access to frozen bank accounts in the country will be able to ramp up sales.

Congress began its efforts to lobby the administration to approve such an agreement, Obama returned to his father's homeland Kenya has first trip as president. Three dozen relatives, some of whom he met for the first time in addition to having dinner with a packed arena, Obama proudly proclaimed, "I am the first American president to come to Kenya, and of course I m proud to be the first Kenyan-American to be president of the United States."

Clean Power Plan

In August 2015, the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan, a major climate change carbon pollution from power plants burn coal in the United States to limit greenhouse gas emissions, for the first time announced a plan to reduce the national standards. President Obama's plan "the single most important step in the fight against global climate change America." Say

2030 2005 planning levels in the existing power plant carbon dioxide emissions 32 percent cut of renewable energy sources like wind and solar power, including the use of aggressive calls for the Environmental Protection Agency regulations. Under the regulations, the state will be allowed to create their own plans to reduce emissions by 2018 and 2016 and the final version is submitted by the initial plan.

Critics quickly Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican majority leader, who urged them not to comply with regulations, including the United States, sent a letter to the governor that the plan voiced loud opposition. The United States and private companies, for their economic livelihood depends on coal production, also is expected to legally challenge the plan.

Despite the negative response from the sector to address climate change, President Obama remains steadfast in its bold move. "We've heard the same stale arguments before," he said in a speech from the White House. "Each time they were wrong."

He added: "We are the first generation to do something about climate change and the last generation that it's going to feel the impact of that."

2015 Paris Climate Conference

In November 2015, Obama in Paris, France at the international COP21 summit as an early player showed his commitment to environmental issues. Addressing delegates from nearly 200 countries gathered in Obama's second-largest climate polluter and do something about it recognized the US position as the nation's main responsibility. As a result, the Paris agreement requires all participating nations to allocate resources to research and development of alternative energy sources in the coming centuries to try to limit global warming and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. President Obama "standing structure in the world will not solve the climate crisis," and promised that the United States praised the agreement for the establishment by 2030 of more than 25 per cent of its emissions would be cut.

Gun Control

The United States, the president entering his final year in early January 2016, Obama announced a new series of executive orders relating to gun control for a press conference. Citing examples such as the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School as president shed tears as he called on Congress to work with him for the gun lobby to make the country safer. His action, which members of both the Republican and Democratic parties, as well as strong opposition from the NRA as gun advocacy groups met with, more thorough background checks for gun buyers, rigorous government supervision and enforcement of gun laws, gun ownership and gun safety information, such as the implementation of good will sharing of mental health issues related to technology investments. A 2015 Gallup poll, most Americans favor gun sold some strict rules.

Final State of the Union

In his last major speech as president of what may be one that, on January 12, 2016, a Barack Obama delivers his final State of the Union address. Deviation from the typical format policy, Obama's message to the American people, was centered around the theme of optimism, adversity, asking them about the future of security or fear that the way to build a nation "does not get a clear -eyed" and "generous. Mocking" rhetoric, more earnings indicates "between the Quraish doubt," which he identified as the Republican presidential hopefuls for the thinly disguised do not refrain from taking Jabs' "and that his failure as president has not been able to do more to bridge the gap. But Obama, his brokers to take advantage of the Affordable Care Act accomplishments, Iran and Cuba, among them, such as gay marriage and the legalization of deep economic recovery, citing diplomatic progress.