Obama married Michelle LaVaughn Robinson on October 3, 1992. Natasha was born on June 10, 2001. She goes by the name Sasha. On July 4, 1998, their first daughter, Malia Ann, was born. Before moving to Washington, DC, on January 5, 2009, Michelle and the Obamas’ two children, who were both born in Chicago, had lived there almost their whole lives. Two months had passed since Barack Obama had been elected president. The Obamas chose both Sasha, who was in second grade at the elementary school in Bethesda, Maryland, and Malia, who was in fifth grade at the middle school in Washington.
As a child, Barack Obama’s political beliefs were shaped by the values of his family.
He wrote in The Audacity of Hope, “My moral code is based on how I treat other people. It’s a call to put yourself in someone else’s shoes and see things from their point of view.” My mother taught me most of what I believe, like how to be kind. So, Obama is “outraged by policies that give the rich and powerful a free pass over regular Americans” and “insists that the government has a key role to play in making sure everyone has the same opportunities.” During his last year in office, Obama talked to a wide range of formal and informal advisers about life after he left office on January 20, 2017. Obama and his family have decided to stay in Washington, DC, at least until Sasha’s high school graduation in 2019. This choice was made public in March 2016. Malia Obama didn’t start college until May 2016, a year after she graduated from high school. In the fall of 2017, she plans to go to Harvard University. The Obamas rented a house in the wealthy Kalorama neighborhood in northwest Washington before they bought it..….See More