Blog Assignment #18: Obama

Assignment #18:

       President Barack Obama as we all know has a very interesting family. First lets start from the roots. His father was a government economist in Kenya. He was the father of one daughter and at least four sons. The women of the house hold known as Ann Soetoro who was a teen mother who soon got her P.H.D. She was a dreamer, and made risky bets that only paid off some of the time, choices that her children had to live with. Today Obama is partly a product of what his mother was not. Whereas she swept her children off to unfamiliar lands and even lived apart from her son when he was a teenager, Obama has tried to ground his children in the Midwest.

 President Barack Obama has many responsibilities. He has to keep us safe and too me that is a big responsibility. That one thing that I think is very important is that everyone is counting on him to make a change and that’s a very hard job.   Not only that but people are threatening him all the time and that is something to really worry about because you never know what’s going to happen. Another big responsibility is he always has to make the people of the United States happy and do what’s best for the country.

                As we all know our president is very educated Following high school, Obama moved to Los Angeles in 1979, where he studied at Occidental College for two years. He then transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in political science with a specialization in international relations.  Obama lived off campus in a rented apartment at 142 West 109th St. He was a very smart man, and was serious about his education.  That’s why he now encourages young boys to stay and school, and look and see how far it gets them.

                He is very involved with his kids which I think everyone loves. According to  /moneywatch.bnet.com/  One of the biggest complaints of most parents is that they don’t spend enough time with their kids. Obama makes sure he schedules time with this family each day. Which I think is really nice because being the president you would think him wouldn’t have time for it. As a loving father he makes sure he has time.

                So as you can see even though he Is the president with big responsibilities he still is a normal person. Which I think more people need to realize. Also that he really cares about his family and will do anything for them. To him it’s so important he puts time aside just to be with them which I think is very sweet.  Finally, another thing I’ve learned is that he comes from a very interesting back-round.