Barack Obama - A Great Leader

In Swahili, the name Barack signifies "one who is blessed." As the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama was the first person of African American descent to hold the position.On August 4, 1961, Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Ann, sometimes known as Stanley Ann Durham, was his mother. While enrolled in a University of Hawaii Russian language course, she had the opportunity to meet Barack Obama Sr., the president's father. His father was a black Kenyan, and his mother was a white American with primarily English blood. When Barack was a baby, his parents divorced in 1964. Obama did not have a relationship with his father when he was a child. At six years old, Barack relocated to Indonesia. 

Dunham wed Indonesian student Lolo Soetoro in 1965 when she was attending the University of Hawaii. Obama's half-sister, Maya Soetoro Ng, was born in 1970 in Jakarta, Indonesia, where the family relocated a year later. After a number of occurrences in Indonesia, Dunham became concerned for her son's safety and education. As a result, Obama was sent to Hawaii at the age of ten to live with his maternal grandparents. He attended Punahou School for grades 5 through 12, graduating with honours in 1979, and then relocated to Los Angeles to enrol at Occidental College. He moved to New York City's Columbia College, then known as Columbia University, in 1981, and majored in political science with an emphasis on international affairs. In 1983, he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree..

Chicago was Barack's new home after graduation. He was employed by the Developing Communities Project (DCP) as a community organiser from 1985 to 1988. A collection of churches established DCP in order to assist those who lost their jobs as a result of the closure of nearby steel factories. Barack developed a legal interest and was admitted to Harvard Law. He served as the Harvard Law Review's first African-American president. After completing law school, he returned to Chicago and practiced law, representing clients who had been the targets of housing and job discrimination. He contributed to voting rights legislation as well.

In 1989, while working as a summer associate at the Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin, Barack Obama got to know Michelle Robinson. After dating for a while, the couple was hitched in 1992. Malia and Natasha, their two daughters, are a blessing.

In 1992, he started working as a lecturer part-time at the University of Chicago Law School. In 1996, he was promoted to Senior Lecturer. In order to pursue his civil rights legal career, he joined the Miner, Barnhill & Galland company. From 1993 to 1996, he worked as an associate, and from 1996 to 2004, he was a counsel.

Leadership Quality:-

• In 1996, he entered politics and ran a victorious Democratic campaign for an Illinois State Senate seat. He was elected twice more, in 1998 and 2002.
• He made the decision to compete for the U.S. Senate in 2004 and emerged victorious in the March primary election with an unexpected landslide. On January 3, 2005, he was also sworn in as a senator.

• As a senator, he introduced the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 and cosponsored the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act. Additionally, he supported an amendment to the Defence Authorization Act that added protections for military discharges due to personality disorders, as well as the Iran Sanctions Enabling Act.

• On November 4, 2008, he emerged victorious against Republican John McCain in the US presidential contest. January 20, 2009, saw the swearing-in of Barack Obama.

• During the severe global recession of 2009, he signed the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to stimulate economic development. In a few of months, the number of new jobs generated skyrocketed, and the number of unemployment claims started to decline. A total of around 3.7 million new employment in the private sector were generated in a year.

• He gave directives to all government agencies in 2009 to reduce their environmental effects by 2020. Among the objectives planned to attain reduced environmental consequences over the next five years are a thirty percent decrease in fleet petrol use and a twenty-six percent increase in water efficiency.

• His main goal was to revive the American economy following the crisis. To that end, he signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (2010), which restored regulations to the financial industry following its downfall.

• He gave the go-ahead for the May 2011 operation, code-named Operation Neptune Spear, to raid Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The notorious terrorist who had so far escaped capture was killed as a result of the operation.

• His views on LGBT rights and same-sex marriages are likewise well known. On January 21, 2013, he made a plea for complete equality for LGBT people in his second inauguration speech.

• Two Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word Album have been given to him. He was honoured for "The Audacity of Hope" (2008) and the condensed audiobook versions of "Dreams from My Father" (2006).

• Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 "in recognition of his outstanding contributions to advancing global diplomacy and intercultural understanding."

• Obama was selected twice as Time magazine's Person of the Year: in 2008 and 2012.

Obama also urged politicians and residents of the United States to unite despite their differences and reaffirmed his commitment to a peaceful handover of power to President-elect Donald Trump. He responded, "Remember, democracy does not require uniformity." "Our forefathers fought and made concessions, and they expected the same from us. However, they understood that democracy does necessitate a fundamental feeling of unity—that is, the notion that despite our differences, we are all in this together and that we must rise or fall as a single unit.

January 19, 2017, Obama's last day in office.