Obama ’09!
January 23, 2009
Barack Hussein Obama II (pronounced /bəˈrɑːk hʊˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the forty-fourth and current President of the United States. Obama was the junior United States Senator from Illinois from January 3, 2005, until his resignation on November 16, 2008, following his election to the presidency.
The first African American elected President, he was sworn in on January 20, 2009, in an inaugural ceremony at the U.S. Capitol.
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