Thursday, November 6, 2008
Family of Barack Obama
Family of Barack Obama
Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama.
Obama was known as "Barry" in his youth, but asked to be addressed with his given name during his college years.[169]
Obama met his wife, Michelle Robinson, in June 1989 when he was employed as a summer associate at the Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin.[170] Assigned for three months as Obama's adviser at the firm, Robinson joined him at group social functions, but declined his initial offers to date.[171] They began dating later that summer, became engaged in 1991, and were married on October 3, 1992.[172] The couple's first daughter, Malia Ann, was born in 1998,[173] followed by a second daughter, Natasha ("Sasha"), in 2001.[174]
Applying the proceeds of a book deal,[175] in 2005 the family moved from a Hyde Park, Chicago condominium to their current $1.6 million house in neighboring Kenwood.[176] The purchase of an adjacent lot and sale of part of it to Obama by the wife of developer and friend Tony Rezko attracted media attention because of Rezko's indictment and subsequent conviction on political corruption charges that were unrelated to Obama.[177][178]
In December 2007, Money magazine estimated the Obama family's net worth at $1.3 million.[179] Their 2007 tax return showed a household income of $4.2 million—up from about $1 million in 2006 and $1.6 million in 2005—mostly from sales of his books.[180]
Obama playing basketball with U.S. military in Djibouti in 2006.[181]
In a 2006 interview, Obama highlighted the diversity of his extended family. "Michelle will tell you that when we get together for Christmas or Thanksgiving, it's like a little mini-United Nations," he said. "I've got relatives who look like Bernie Mac, and I've got relatives who look like Margaret Thatcher."[182] Obama has seven half-siblings from his Kenyan father's family, six of them living, and a half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, the daughter of his mother and her Indonesian second husband.[183] Obama's mother was survived by her Kansas-born mother, Madelyn Dunham[184] until her death on November 2, 2008, just before the presidential election.[185] In Dreams from My Father, Obama ties his mother's family history to possible Native American ancestors and distant relatives of Jefferson Davis, president of the southern Confederacy during the American Civil War.[186]
Obama plays basketball, a sport he participated in as a member of his high school's varsity team.[187] Before announcing his presidential candidacy, he began a well-publicized effort to quit smoking.[188]
Obama is a Christian whose religious views have evolved in his adult life. In The Audacity of Hope, Obama writes that he "was not raised in a religious household." He describes his mother, raised by non-religious parents (whom Obama has specified elsewhere as "non-practicing Methodists and Baptists") to be detached from religion, yet "in many ways the most spiritually awakened person that I have ever known." He describes his father as "raised a Muslim", but a "confirmed atheist" by the time his parents met, and his stepfather as "a man who saw religion as not particularly useful." In the book, Obama explains how, through working with black churches as a community organizer while in his twenties, he came to understand "the power of the African-American religious tradition to spur social change."[189][190] He was baptized at Trinity United Church of Christ in 1988.[191][192]
Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama.
Obama was known as "Barry" in his youth, but asked to be addressed with his given name during his college years.[169]
Obama met his wife, Michelle Robinson, in June 1989 when he was employed as a summer associate at the Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin.[170] Assigned for three months as Obama's adviser at the firm, Robinson joined him at group social functions, but declined his initial offers to date.[171] They began dating later that summer, became engaged in 1991, and were married on October 3, 1992.[172] The couple's first daughter, Malia Ann, was born in 1998,[173] followed by a second daughter, Natasha ("Sasha"), in 2001.[174]
Applying the proceeds of a book deal,[175] in 2005 the family moved from a Hyde Park, Chicago condominium to their current $1.6 million house in neighboring Kenwood.[176] The purchase of an adjacent lot and sale of part of it to Obama by the wife of developer and friend Tony Rezko attracted media attention because of Rezko's indictment and subsequent conviction on political corruption charges that were unrelated to Obama.[177][178]
In December 2007, Money magazine estimated the Obama family's net worth at $1.3 million.[179] Their 2007 tax return showed a household income of $4.2 million—up from about $1 million in 2006 and $1.6 million in 2005—mostly from sales of his books.[180]
Obama playing basketball with U.S. military in Djibouti in 2006.[181]
In a 2006 interview, Obama highlighted the diversity of his extended family. "Michelle will tell you that when we get together for Christmas or Thanksgiving, it's like a little mini-United Nations," he said. "I've got relatives who look like Bernie Mac, and I've got relatives who look like Margaret Thatcher."[182] Obama has seven half-siblings from his Kenyan father's family, six of them living, and a half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, the daughter of his mother and her Indonesian second husband.[183] Obama's mother was survived by her Kansas-born mother, Madelyn Dunham[184] until her death on November 2, 2008, just before the presidential election.[185] In Dreams from My Father, Obama ties his mother's family history to possible Native American ancestors and distant relatives of Jefferson Davis, president of the southern Confederacy during the American Civil War.[186]
Obama plays basketball, a sport he participated in as a member of his high school's varsity team.[187] Before announcing his presidential candidacy, he began a well-publicized effort to quit smoking.[188]
Obama is a Christian whose religious views have evolved in his adult life. In The Audacity of Hope, Obama writes that he "was not raised in a religious household." He describes his mother, raised by non-religious parents (whom Obama has specified elsewhere as "non-practicing Methodists and Baptists") to be detached from religion, yet "in many ways the most spiritually awakened person that I have ever known." He describes his father as "raised a Muslim", but a "confirmed atheist" by the time his parents met, and his stepfather as "a man who saw religion as not particularly useful." In the book, Obama explains how, through working with black churches as a community organizer while in his twenties, he came to understand "the power of the African-American religious tradition to spur social change."[189][190] He was baptized at Trinity United Church of Christ in 1988.[191][192]
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