When he campaigned for president, Barack Obama electrified voters more than anyone could have anticipated. This helped him win both the 2008 and 2012 elections, with a majority of voters appreciating the strength and serenity this president brought to the highest office of the land....
Malia Obama has been something of an enigma in recent years. When her father Barack Obama was President of the United States, he did his best to shield Malia and her younger sister Sasha from the paparazzi. Now that the Obamas are out of the...
It’s something of a misnomer that spending time in the White House instantly makes a president rich. For example, Barack Obama only earned $400,00 per year as his presidential salary. Things were even worse for Michelle Obama: as First Lady of the United States, she...
It’s always hard growing up as the child of a famous person. And it can be particularly difficult to be the child of an American president. After all, other kids might have movie celebrities or rock stars as their dads, but only so many people...
Sasha and Malia Obama are some of the most unconventional public figures in national history. On one hand, the girls are the children of Barack Obama, and we watched them grow up together when Barack was president, effectively making him the most powerful man in...
For the most part, Michelle Obama is known for being someone who is friendly and easy to get along with. She doesn’t seem to have too many enemies, political or otherwise, because of her general philosophy of taking the higher road. But there is one...
Unfortunately, American politics became little more than sports to voters long ago. In this way, we root for our different “teams,” or political parties, and certain political narratives begin to take shape. And one of the biggest narratives is that Barack Obama was a very...
One of the reasons, so many people find the Obamas captivating is because they are a power couple in every way. While it’s true that Barack Obama accomplished much as president, he has been open about how he couldn’t do any of this without the...
As we have touched on before, Barack and Michelle Obama managed to avoid much of the scandal, controversy, and general embarrassment that later plagued Donald and Melania Trump after they moved into the White House. And their major secret to looking so good? Simple: they...
For the most part, we all remember the Barack Obama presidency for its dignity and grace. Now that we live in an era where politics is nonstop mudslinging and culture wars, it’s fun to remember a time when the biggest negative headlines with Obama’s name...
