Who Was Barack Obama A Hero Or Hero?

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Most people that live in the US know who Barack Obama is. However, many of them don’t know about some of the things that he did that makes him a hero. Obama was born in August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was born into a family of poverty. Obama’s father, Barack Obama Sr., obtained a Harvard scholarship, and he left the family to go to college, leaving his wife and son. His wife remarried later to a man named Lolo Soetoro, and she and Obama moved to Indonesia to be with her new husband. While Obama lived in Indonesia, he experienced what it was like to be poor. This was one of the things that motivated him to become a better person. Unlike other presidents who came from wealthy families, Obama came from poverty. After some time, Barack

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