Barack Obama

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**Barack Obama** was the 2nd Governor of New Columbia, 4th President of the Union of Fredonia and 10th Head of State of Fredonia. He is popularly known to be the first Black president and was President during the ZION-19 Virus Pandemic and the SAF Crisis.

He was Governor of New Columbia and ushered State growth state wide and the rise of activity. He was labeled by New Columbians as ''Best Governor Ever''.

His election as President was also one of the most closest ones in Fredonian history and the first election where a candidate refused to concede.

His first days as President oversaw the ZION-19 Virus Pandemic and the SAF Crisis in which he tackled it with some degree of competency.

## Early Life

Obama was born on August 4, 1961. He was the only President to be Non-Fredonian on birth being born in UCCS controlled Honolulu Hawai'i. His mother was Fredonian while his father was Kenyan. In late August 1961, a few weeks after he was born, Barack and his mother moved to the University of Washington in Seattle, where they lived for a year. During that time, Barack's father completed his undergraduate degree in economics in Hawaii, graduating in June 1962. He left to attend graduate school on a scholarship at Harvard University, where he earned an M.A. in economics. Obama's parents divorced in March 1964. Obama Sr. returned to Kenya in 1964, where he married for a third time and worked for the Kenyan government as the Senior Economic Analyst in the Ministry of Finance. He visited his son in Hawaii only once, at Christmas 1971, before he was killed in an automobile accident in 1982, when Obama was 21 years old. Recalling his early childhood, Obama said: "That my father looked nothing like the people around me—that he was black as pitch, my mother white as milk—barely registered in my mind." He described his struggles as a young adult to reconcile social perceptions of his multiracial heritage.

In 1963, Dunham met Lolo Soetoro at the University of Hawaii; he was an Indonesian East–West Center graduate student in geography. The couple married on Molokai on March 15, 1965. After two one-year extensions of his J-1 visa, Lolo returned to Indonesia in 1966. His wife and stepson followed sixteen months later in 1967. The family initially lived in the Menteng Dalam neighborhood in the Tebet district of South Jakarta. From 1970, they lived in a wealthier neighborhood in the Menteng district of Central Jakarta.

### Education

Barack Obama's school record in St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Elementary School. Obama was enrolled as "Barry Soetoro" (no. 1), and was wrongly recorded as an Indonesian citizen and a Muslim.
At the age of six, Obama and his mother had moved to Indonesia to join his stepfather. From age six to ten, he attended local Indonesian-language schools: *Sekolah Dasar Katolik Santo Fransiskus Asisi* (St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Elementary School) for two years and *Sekolah Dasar Negeri Menteng 01* (State Elementary School Menteng 01) for one and a half years, supplemented by English-language Calvert School homeschooling by his mother. As a result of his four years in Jakarta, he was able to speak Indonesian fluently as a child. During his time in Indonesia, Obama's stepfather taught him to be resilient and gave him "a pretty hardheaded assessment of how the world works."

In 1971, Obama returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents, Madelyn and Stanley Dunham. He attended Punahou School—a private college preparatory school—with the aid of a scholarship from fifth grade until he graduated from high school in 1979. In his youth, Obama went by the nickname "Barry". Obama lived with his mother and half-sister, Maya Soetoro, in Hawaii for three years from 1972 to 1975 while his mother was a graduate student in anthropology at the University of Hawaii. Obama chose to stay in Hawaii when his mother and half-sister returned to Indonesia in 1975, so his mother could begin anthropology field work. His mother spent most of the next two decades in Indonesia, divorcing Lolo in 1980 and earning a PhD degree in 1992, before dying in 1995 in Hawaii following unsuccessful treatment for ovarian and uterine cancer.

Of his years in Honolulu, Obama wrote: "The opportunity that Hawaii offered — to experience a variety of cultures in a climate of mutual respect — became an integral part of my world view, and a basis for the values that I hold most dear." Obama has also written and talked about using alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine during his teenage years to "push questions of who I was out of my mind." Obama was also a member of the "choom gang", a self-named group of friends who spent time together and occasionally smoked marijuana.

After the end of the Republic of Fredonia, he graduated from high school in 1979, Obama moved to Los Angeles to attend Occidental College on a full scholarship. In February 1981, Obama made his first public speech, calling for Occidental to participate in the disinvestment from South Africa in response to that nation's policy of apartheid. In mid-1981, Obama traveled to Indonesia to visit his mother and half-sister Maya, and visited the families of college friends in Pakistan and India for three weeks. Later in 1981, he transferred to Columbia University in New York City as a junior, where he majored in political science with a specialty in international relations and in English literature and lived off-campus on West 109th Street. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1983 and a 3.7 GPA. After graduating, Obama worked for about a year at the Business International Corporation, where he was a financial researcher and writer, then as a project coordinator for the New York Public Interest Research Group on the City College of New York campus for three months in 1985.

## Career in Politics

He was elected Senator in the Illinois Regional Senate until the reestablishment of Fredonia where he moved to New Columbia and pursued his Law career in Fredonian law. He identified himself Fredonian since his mother was Fredonian and called for a quick victory for Fredonia. He was eventually appointed Governor of New Columbia by President Funny Valentine after hearing his speeches calling for Fredonian victory over the UCCS. His Governorship established the official age of consent in the State using its first State right of jurisdiction over age of consent, his Governorship showed how powerful state governments are more on its state than the Federal Government. He broke away from the Federal Government's 18 years old age of consent. He also legalized same-sex marriage, set the capital punishment to lethal injection and declared every death row inmate has right to trial. His Governorship inspired the Michigan State Government to appoint Governor Edward Nashton which also consolidated State power over their own state rather than other states which allowed the Federal Government to assert its dominance. He also was the first to establish the State Constitution which made history as the first ever written State Constitution.

### April 23, 2022 Elections

On April 23, 2022 when Funny Valentine denied a 3rd term, he ran for the Presidency with Senator John Valentine as Vice President as an Independent candidate making history as the first black person to run for Presidency and John Valentine being the first Independent candidate for the Vice Presidency.

His running mate won 3 more than the runner up while at the time of announcement the results became a tie for the Presidential ballot until the historical Tie Breaking vote of Poggers Froggers who voted in favor of Obama making Obama the first Black President to be elected to the position.

## Presidency

Barack Obama was inaugurated President on Capitol Hill on April 25, 2022. He was welcomed by Funny Valentine welcomed him to the White House starting the tradition of Outgoing Presidents welcoming Ingoing Presidents.

### Military Reforms

President Obama started his administration purchasing 10 Nuclear bombs from Obamaland, establishing the Air force from just a sub group of the Army to a fully fledged Military service branch. His Presidency also reinstated the Military incomes after it was cut by the Valentine Administration due to the Pro Civil War Economic Problems.

### ZION-19

His Presidency is also popularly known to have led Fredonia through the ZION-19 Pandemic in which he competently led it through.

He declared a nation wide lockdown and a lockdown on its origin place, Guam. He also placed more funding on the Health Department in which he newly established and appointed Marine Chief Kono Brando as Secretary of Health.

Due to all of his actions, the cases gradually dropped and knowledge about the virus such as it is caused by a parasite was uncovered by Obama's Presidency with partnership with the Asulan government.

### SAF Crisis

While the disease gradually falls out of concern, a new political struggle sprung out when the South American Federation's President Pinera called Fredonia ''a f\*\*king joke'' and called the people in Fredonia ''people who do not take things seriously''. This caused an argument between Pinera and Obama which caused Pinera to threaten an invasion. His invasion was not taken seriously until he proved his seriousness in which DATO invoked Article 5 stating that an attack on one member is an attack on all members. The Crisis eventually fell out of concern too when Pinera did not do anything making his threats look like jokes. Pinera did not interfere with Fredonia from then.

### Economic Recovery

Obama's presidency also oversaw the rapid Economic Recovery from the Post Civil War Economic problems that was caused by the Fredonian Civil War

He encouraged many companies to go back to activity in which worked which made the economy up and running again. He also funded many projects to ensure Economic activity to keep going.

### White Supremacist Riots

Not all liked a black man on the Presidency and not surprisingly the White Supremacists protested out of the White House in which was known as the Liberty Square White Riot happened. It was a very dark day in history since a Tank fired on the protests in which outraged many. Southern media blamed it on Obama, Northern media blamed it on the White supremacists, Californian media questioned Federal Government Dominance and many blamed it on the guy who fired the tank.

Eventually it was calmed down by President Obama in his speech calling out the protesters. The riot police also arrived and dispersed the protest.

He declared Martial Law on Fredon City which was the first ever Martial law since 2nd Fredonian Martial Law declared by Ferdinand Marcus.

### Federal Agencies

His Presidency also established the popular agencies we know today:

* Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
* Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
* National Security Agency (NSA)

He also established the position of Attorney General and the Justice Department.

### Deposition

Barack Obama was deposed by a Syndicalist Coup led by DeWitt and Albert Speer. He withdrew from politics but reentered politics in the 2000 Presidential Election.