His successor President Barack Obama has expressed his desire to recognize the Armenian Genocide during the electoral campaigns, but after being elected, has not used the word genocide in his first annual April 24 speech in 2009.

In her opinion, President Barack Obama, who is the son of a Kenyan immigrant, although technically African-American, is not black.

* 1961 – Barack Obama, American politician, 44th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate

Standing behind Clinton is then-Senator Barack Obama.

Some worried that as an ex-president, he was too active on the trail, too negative to Clinton rival Barack Obama, and alienating his supporters at home and abroad.

Clinton with President Barack Obama and Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett in July 2010

In response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake, U. S. President Barack Obama announced that Clinton and George W. Bush would coordinate efforts to raise funds for Haiti's recovery.

At the 2012 Democratic National Convention, Clinton gave a widely praised speech nominating Barack Obama.

Barack Obama, the first black president of the United States, was throughout his campaign criticized as being either " too black " or " not black enough ".

" Is Barack Obama the first black President of the United States?

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper ( right ) and President of the United States | U. S. President Barack Obama ( left ) meet in Ottawa in February 2009

Many people around the world know the name and face of the current U. S. president Barack Obama.

At a forum at the university during the 2008 presidential election campaign, both John McCain and Barack Obama said that the university should consider reinstating ROTC on campus.

Other more recent political figures educated at Columbia include U. S President Barack Obama, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former chairman of the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank Alan Greenspan, U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder, and U. S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr .. Dwight D. Eisenhower served as the thirteenth president of Columbia University from 1948 to 1953.

Image: Official portrait of Barack Obama. jpg | Barack Obama, President of the United States and Nobel Laureate, Class of 1983, Columbia College

* Barack Obama has made the camp's Evergreen Chapel his primary place of worship, as George W. Bush had done before him.

On July 10, 2011, an F-15 Intercepted another small two-seat passenger plane flying near Camp David where President Barack Obama was in residence, totalling the number of interceptions over the July 9 weekend at 3 planes.

* Republican and conservative support for Barack Obama in 2008

In 2008 however Barack Obama became the first Democrat since 1964 to win Ormsby County / Carson City, defeating John McCain 49 % to 48 %, by 204 votes, a margin of under 1 %.

No symbol for Barack Obama has appeared in the strip ; the May 30, 2009 strip had Obama and an aide wondering what the reason for this might be ( off panel ).

Mickey Hart ( in background, playing drums ) and Bob Weir ( playing guitar ) performing at the Mid-Atlantic Inaugural Ball during the Inauguration of Barack Obama | presidential inauguration of Barack Obama, January 20, 2009.

Abraham Lincoln, William Howard Taft and Barack Obama were accused of being atheists during election campaigns, while others to hold the office used faith as a defining aspect of their campaigns and tenure.

Herzog also lent his voice to the animated television program The Boondocks in the third season premiere episode It's a Black President, Huey Freeman in which he played himself filming a documentary about the series ' cast of characters and their actions during the 2008 election of Barack Obama.

On 30 October 2008, Nature endorsed an American presidential candidate for the first time when it supported Barack Obama during his campaign in America's 2008 presidential election.

With the election of Barack Obama and Democratic gains in both houses of Congress, Pelosi became the first speaker since Tom Foley to hold the office during single-party Democratic leadership in Washington.

Sometimes, however, the Speaker will play a big role even when they belong to the same party as the President, such as when Speaker Nancy Pelosi played a role in continuing the push for health care reform during the presidency of fellow Democrat Barack Obama ; subsequently the Republicans targeted her in the 2010 midterm election.

Air Force One arrives at the base with President Barack Obama during a 2011 visit to Tucson.

Armstrong supported Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential election.

However, during the 2008 U. S. presidential election, 51 % of the voters from Sandusky County supported Democratic candidate Barack Obama.

These were not the first presidents to come to Elko County: William McKinley visited in 1901 ; Herbert Hoover made his final campaign broadcast as president from a railroad car in Elko in 1932 ; President Roosevelt spoke in Carlin in 1938 during his whistle stop tour ; and Barack Obama visited while campaigning in 2008.

Although Barack Obama got only 38. 45 % of Hamilton County's vote during the 2008 election, it is the highest percentage a Democrat presidential candidate has been able to get for this county since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936 ( who himself had also lost the county ).

In February 2009, just over a month after his inauguration, President Barack Obama invited serving members of the US Senate to a " fiscal responsibility " summit at the White House, during which Senators asked the President about his fiscal policies in an event which was compared to Prime Minister's Question.

Michael Collins and his fellow Apollo 11 crew members meet with President of the United States | President Barack Obama during the 40th anniversary celebrations of their flight

Barack Obama leased a North American Airlines plane for use during his successful 2008 United States Presidential Election campaign.

This aircraft was chartered to carry Sen. Barack Obama and members of his staff and press, during his Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008 | 2008 presidential bid.

Timothy Williams, tribal chairman for the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe, shakes hands with President Barack Obama during the 2011 Tribal Nations Conference in Washington, D. C. There were 5, 217 households out of which 29. 6 % had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59. 4 % were married couples living together, 9. 1 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 26. 2 % were non-families.

According to the Friday, August 12, 2011 online edition of the Peoria Journal Star by Deanna Bellandi of the Associated Press, President Barack Obama, who worked and lived in Chicago, Illinois, will visit Atkinson during a three-state bus tour of the Midwest focusing on jobs, the state of the economy, and the housing market in a campaign-style event.

* President Barack Obama mentioned Galesburg during his keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention and near the beginning of his 2010 State of the Union Address.

* Marine Sergeant Dakota Meyer-In September 2011, he received the Medal of Honor from President Barack Obama at age 23 ; he saved numerous American and Afghan troops during a Taliban ambush and is the third living recipient of the honor ( and first living Marine ) from the Iraq and Afghan wars

US President Barack Obama welcomes Ambassador Zhang Yesui of the People ’ s Republic of China to the White House on March 29, 2010, during the credentials ceremony for newly appointed ambassadors to Washington, D. C.

He supported Barack Obama in the 2008 US presidential election and The New York Times has described him as a political liberal.

After U. S. President Barack Obama announced the deployment of another 30, 000 soldiers in 2010 for a period of two years, Der Spiegel published images of the US soldiers who killed unarmed Afghan civilians.

Despite this, he sent a three-page letter to US President Barack Obama imploring him to " annul a wrong and mistaken action " and stop striking Libyan targets, repeatedly referring to him as " our son " and blaming the uprising on the terrorist group al Qaeda.

Ministers in Singapore are the highest paid politicians in the world, receiving a 60 % salary raise in 2007 and as a result Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's pay jumped to S $ 3. 1 million, five times the US $ 400, 000 earned by President Barack Obama.

According to the Washington Post, in December 2009, after US President Barack Obama announced he would deploy 30, 000 more U. S. soldiers, and that Washington wants others to follow suit, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reacted with the message that Turkey would not contribute additional troops to Afghanistan.

* February 8 – Stanley Armour Dunham, Grandfather of US President Barack Obama ( b. 1918 )

* November 24 – Barack Obama, Sr., Father of US President Barack Obama ( b. 1936 )

In January 2009, Adams attended the United States presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama as a guest of US Congressman Richard Neal.

UNHATE campaign featuring Chinese President Hu Jintao kissing US President Barack Obama.

US President Barack Obama's national security adviser, John Brennan, has phoned Saleh to offer US help in fighting al-Qaeda, the White House said.

The advertisement was criticized by several leading US conservatives, who claimed it implied that President Barack Obama deserved a second term.

During a state visit to India in November 2010, US president Barack Obama announced US support for India's bid for permanent membership to UN Security Council as well as India's entry to Nuclear Suppliers Group, Wassenaar Arrangement, Australia Group and Missile Technology Control Regime.

During a state visit to India in November 2010, US president Barack Obama announced US support for India's bid for permanent membership to UN Security Council as well as India's entry to Nuclear Suppliers Group, Wassenaar Arrangement, Australia Group and Missile Technology Control Regime.

Gabriela Montero at a Steinway grand piano at the Inauguration of Barack Obama | inauguration ceremony for US President Barack Obama on January 20, 2009

* American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, a US stimulus package passed at the beginning of Barack Obama's administration.

In January 2009 President Barack Obama restored US funding to UNFPA, saying in a public statement that he would " look forward to working with Congress to restore US financial support for the UN Population Fund.

Relations between US President Barack Obama and Karzai were not so great in the beginning but by 2012 they did improve significantly, especially after the death of Osama bin Laden and the assassination of Karzai's own brothers, Ahmed Wali Karzai.

The county has the distinction of having the highest percentage of Democratic votes for President in the 2004 election of any county in the US ( 85 %) and in 2008 with 88. 69 % of votes cast for Barack Obama.