The Making of Barrack Obama

Right-to-left: Barack Obama and half-sister Maya Soetoro, with their mother Ann Dunham and grandfather Stanley Dunham, in Hawaii (early 1970s)


President Obama remembering his old good days

Many people in the world do not know that Barack Hussein Obama (47), a 44th President of United State of America, who at one point seen like an enigma and the other like a messiah and not just a political leader, was once a basket ball player and a person who went through typical teenage trauma when searching for his identity.

Barack Obama, the US president with multinational origins, abandoned by his black father at his early childhood, lived in Indonesia and Hawaii, was in a high school basketball team. He loved playing basketball as a kid, and he was nicknamed Barry. (more details)

‘Barry’ a grand son of a paternal- british cook and a maternal- oil rigs worker during great depression; a son of a Kenyan father who grew in a small village in Kenya herding goats; (more details) enjoyed spending time on the beach, fishing and bodysurfing.

‘Barry,’ who was raised by a struggling single mother and maternal grandparents could probably see his early stage of life as miserable and a source of handicap; but to him it was a strength. He was smart and charismatic. He took that life challenge as a source of a new beginning, he went to school, score high grades and become a graduate from Columbia University with a degree in political science.
When Barrack was once asked, “What would you say is the most painful and character-building experience of your life that puts you in a position to make important decisions of life and death…?” He once answered;

“I would say the fact that I grew up without a father in the home. What that meant was that I had to learn very early on to figure out what was important and what wasn’t, and exercise my own judgment and in some ways to raise myself. My mother was wonderful and was a foundation of love for me, but as a young man growing up, I didn’t have a lot of role models and I made a lot of mistakes, but I learned to figure out that there are certain values that were important to me that I had to be true to.

“Nobody was going to force me to be honest. Nobody was going to force me to work hard. Nobody was going to force me to have drive and ambition. Nobody was going to force me to have empathy for other people. But if I really thought those values were important, I had to live them out.” (more details)

President Barack Obama real liked to play basket ball, and he still does the same whenever he can. “Even when he was campaigning for president, he took time out every day to shoot hoops with his friends.” (more details)

Every successful person is also a fail. Barack Obama indeed failed in his life. He was raised by struggling parents, missed paternal care, lost both of his parents and grand parents and moreover passed through some racial challenges but all the same he never relinquished. He studied so hard, finished high school and went to Occidental College in Los Angeles. After two years he transferred to Columbia University where he got his degree in Political Science.

In the making, Barack Obama grew as a man of the people, he was active in students’ campaign in law school, he worked to help poor people in his city Illinois, where he also taught law and was a civil rights attorney. (more details)

In such a making, Barack Obama was able to block race barriers; he gained the interconnectedness and managed to organize and bring different people together and won their support. This took him into Politics, won a Senate seat in 2004 and elected the President of United States of America in 2008.