President+Obama

Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. His mother Stanley Ann Dunham and father Barack Obama, Sr met in 1960 and got married in 1961. However in 1964, they got a divorce. Obama's mother re-married a man named Lolo who was attending college in Hawaii. A military leader by the name of Suharto came to power in 1967 in Lolo's home country. Suharto recalled all Indonesian students studying abroad so the family had to move to Jakarta. When Obama turned ten, he moved back to Honolulu with his maternal grandparents. His mother returned to Honolulu but dies in 1994 from ovarian cancer. Obama went to three different colleges: Occidental College, Columbia University, and Harvard Law School. Obama stated that he was running for office on February 10, 2007 and assumed office on January 20, 2009. On April 4, 2011 he announced that he was running for office again. According to intrade.com, there is a 62.5% chance that Obama will be re-elected in 2012. This has gone up 6.6% since mid-December when this site had started.