List of topics related to Barack Obama

1 Presidency
2 2008 campaign
3 Career
4 Notable family members
5 Books
- 5.1 By Barack Obama
- 5.2 About Barack Obama
6 Named after Barack Obama
7 Miscellaneous

Presidency

Main article: Presidency of Barack Obama

2008 campaign

Main article: Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008

Career

Notable family members

Main article: Family of Barack Obama

Immediate family

Michelle Obama Obama's wife
Marian Shields Robinson Michelle Obama's mother
Bo (dog) First Family's pet

Extended family

Ann Dunham Obama's mother
Barack Obama, Sr. Obama's father
Lolo Soetoro Indonesian stepfather
Madelyn Dunham Maternal grandmother
Maya Soetoro-Ng Obama's half-sister
Stanley Armour Dunham Obama's maternal grandfather
Zeituni Onyango Obama's half aunt
Charles T. Payne Obama's great uncle who served in WWII

Michelle Obama's extended family

Craig Robinson (basketball coach) Michelle Obama's older brother
Capers C. Funnye Jr. Michelle Obama's first cousin once removed

Books

By Barack Obama

About Barack Obama

The Speech: Race and Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union" - collection of writings regarding Obama's speech "A More Perfect Union"
Barack Obama - Der schwarze Kennedy ("Barack Obama - The Black Kennedy") - German biography in support of Obama's presidential run
The Obama Nation - controversial book arguing against Obama's presidential run
The Case Against Barack Obama - book arguing against Obama's presidential run, focusing on his policies
A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win - a 2007 book by Shelby Steele which focuses on Obama's ethnic identity

Named after Barack Obama

List of places named after Barack Obama
Barack Obama Academy Middle School named after Barack Obama
Caloplaca obamae, a lichen named after Barack Obama
Obama Day Kenyan holiday celebration

Miscellaneous

Barack Obama "Hope" poster
Barack Obama "Joker" poster
Obama logo
Barack Obama (comic character)
"Spidey Meets the President!"
Barack the Barbarian
2008 Barack Obama assassination scare
"There's No One as Irish as Barack O'Bama" - folk song
Yes We Can Video supporting Obama
Nyang’oma Kogelo
Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories

Barack Obama

August 4, 1961

Life and politics	Early life and career Illinois Senate elections Illinois Senate career Illinois-1st elections, 2000 2004 Democratic National Convention U.S. Senate election in Illinois, 2004 U.S. Senate career 2008 presidential primary campaign Obama–Biden 2008 Electoral history Political positions (Economic, Social, Energy, Foreign/Administration foreign policy) Nobel Peace Prize 2012 presidential re-election campaign West Wing Week

Presidency	Transition Inauguration Timeline: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Judiciary (Supreme Court candidates) Foreign policy (Obama Doctrine) First 100 days Health care reform Presidential trips (2009, 2010, 2011) People pardoned Death of Osama bin Laden

Books	Dreams from My Father The Audacity of Hope Of Thee I Sing

Speeches	"The Audacity of Hope" (2004) "A More Perfect Union" (2008) "Change Has Come to America" (2008) "A New Birth of Freedom" (2009) Joint session of Congress (February 2009) "A New Beginning" (2009) Joint session of Congress (health care reform) (September 2009) State of the Union address: 2010, 2011, 2012 Barack Obama Tucson memorial speech (2011) Joint session of Congress (jobs) (2011)

Family	Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (spouse) Stanley Ann Dunham (mother) Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. (father) Lolo Soetoro (step-father) Maya Soetoro-Ng (half-sister) Stanley Armour Dunham (grandfather) Madelyn Payne Dunham (grandmother) Marian Shields Robinson (mother-in-law) Craig Robinson (brother-in-law) Bo (family dog)

Public image

News and political events	Oprah Winfrey's endorsement Citizenship conspiracy theories (litigation · legislation) Religion conspiracy theories Bill Ayers controversy Jeremiah Wright controversy Republican and conservative support (2008) Barack Obama assassination threats 2008 assassination scare in Denver 2008 assassination scare in Tennessee Inauguration invitations Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial Citizen's Briefing Book Tea Party protests New Energy for America Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Gates-Crowley Rose Garden meeting Resignation of Shirley Sherrod

Books about	Self-authored (Dreams from My Father · The Audacity of Hope) Obama: From Promise to Power Barack Obama – Der schwarze Kennedy The Case Against Barack Obama The Obama Nation Culture of Corruption Catastrophe Barack and Michelle The Speech The Obama Story Game Change

Music	Obama Girl ("I Got a Crush... on Obama") "Barack the Magic Negro" will.i.am ("Yes We Can" · "We Are the Ones") "There's No One as Irish as Barack O'Bama" "Sí Se Puede Cambiar" "My President" "Deadheads for Obama" "Air and Simple Gifts" Change Is Now Hope! – Das Obama Musical

Other media	Artists for Obama "Hope" poster "Joker" poster The Situation Room (photograph) Obama logo In comics

Miscellaneous	Places named after Obama Obama Day (Kenya)

Book Category Portal

Obama Administration personnel

Cabinet and cabinet-level

Office	Name	Term	Office	Name	Term
Secretary of State	Hillary Clinton	2009–	Secretary of Treasury	Timothy Geithner	2009–
Secretary of Defense	Leon Panetta	2011–	Attorney General	Eric Holder	2009–
Secretary of the Interior	Ken Salazar	2009–	Secretary of Agriculture	Tom Vilsack	2009–
Secretary of Commerce	Gary Locke	2009–2011	Secretary of Labor	Hilda Solis	2009–
Secretary of Health and Human Services	Kathleen Sebelius	2009–	Secretary of Education Secretary of Transportation	Arne Duncan Ray LaHood	2009– 2009–
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	Shaun Donovan	2009–	Secretary of Veterans Affairs	Eric Shinseki	2009–
Secretary of Energy	Steven Chu	2009–	Secretary of Homeland Security	Janet Napolitano	2009–

Vice President	Joe Biden	2009–	White House Chief of Staff	William M. Daley	2011–
Director of the Office of Management and Budget	Jacob Lew	2010	Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency	Lisa Jackson	2009–
Ambassador to the United Nations Trade Representative	Susan Rice Ron Kirk	2009– 2009–	Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers	Austan Goolsbee	2010–

Below solid line: Granted Cabinet rank although not automatically part of the Cabinet. See also: Confirmations of Barack Obama's Cabinet

Executive Office of the President

Office	Name	Term	Office	Name	Term
White House Chief of Staff White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy	Rahm Emanuel Pete Rouse William M. Daley Mona Sutphen Nancy-Ann DeParle	2009–2010 2010-2011 2011- 2009-2011 2011-	National Security Advisor Deputy National Security Advisor	Jim Jones Tom Donilon Thomas E. Donilon Denis McDonough	2009–2010 2010- 2009–2010 2010-
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations Senior Advisor to the President Deputy Senior Advisor to the President Counselor to the President	Jim Messina Alyssa Mastromonaco David Axelrod David Plouffe Stephanie Cutter Pete Rouse	2009–2011 2011- 2009–2011 2011- 2011- 2009-	Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications	Douglas Lute^† Ben Rhodes	2009– 2009–
Senior Advisor to the President and Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement	Valerie Jarrett	2009–	Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security	John O. Brennan	2009–
Director of Public Engagement	Christina Tchen Jon Carson	2009–2011 2011--	Deputy National Security Advisor and NSC Chief of Staff	Denis McDonough Brooke Anderson	2009-2010 2011-
Director of Intergovernmental Affairs	Cecilia Muñoz	2009–	White House Communications Director	Daniel Pfeiffer	2009-
Director, National Economic Council	Lawrence Summers Gene Sperling	2009–2010 2011-	Deputy White House Communications Director White House Press Secretary	Jennifer Psaki Robert Gibbs Jay Carney	2009– 2009–2011 2011-
Deputy Director, National Economic Council	Diana Farrell	2009–	Deputy Press Secretary	Bill Burton	2009–
Deputy Director, National Economic Council Deputy Director, National Economic Council	Jason Furman Brian Deese	2009– 2011-	Director of Special Projects	Stephanie Cutter	2010-2011
Chair of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board	Paul Volcker	2009–	Director of Speechwriting	Jon Favreau	2009–
Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors	Christina Romer Austan Goolsbee	2009–2010 2010-	White House Counsel Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs	Robert Bauer Kathryn Ruemmler Phil Schiliro Rob Nabors	2009–2011 2011- 2009–2011 2011-
Member of the Council of Economic Advisors	Katharine Abraham	2011-	Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs	Lisa Konwinski	2009–
Member of the Council of Economic Advisors	Cecilia Rouse	2009–	Executive Clerk	George T. Saunders^†	2009–
Director, Office of Management and Budget	Peter Orszag Jacob Lew	2009–2010 2010–	Director, Office of Political Affairs Chief Technology Officer	Patrick Gaspard Aneesh Chopra	2009–2011 2009–
Chief Performance Officer and Deputy Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget	Jeffrey Zients	2009–	Chief Information Officer Director, Office of Presidential Personnel	Steven VanRoekel Nancy Hogan	2011– 2010–
Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget	Jeffrey Liebman Heather Higginbottom*	2010–2010 2011-	Director of Scheduling and Advance Director, White House Military Office	Alyssa Mastromonaco Danielle Crutchfield George D. Mulligan, Jr.	2009–2011 2011- 2009–
United States Trade Representative	Ron Kirk	2009–	Cabinet Secretary	Chris Lu	2009–
Director, Domestic Policy Council	Melody Barnes	2009–	Deputy Cabinet Secretary	Liz Sears Smith	2009–
Deputy Director, Domestic Policy Council	Heather Higginbottom Mark Zuckerman	2009–2011 2011-	Staff Secretary	Lisa Brown	2009–
Director, Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships	Joshua DuBois	2009–	Director, Office of Management and Administration	Bradley Kiley	2009–
Director, Office of Health Reform	Nancy DeParle	2009–2011	Director, Oval Office Operations	Micaela Fernandez	2009–
Deputy Director, Office of Health Reform	Jeanne Lambrew	2009–	Personal Aide to the President	Reggie Love	2009–
Director, Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy	Carol Browner	2009–2011	Personal Secretary to the President	Katie Johnson Anita Decker	2009–2011 2011-
Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change	Heather Zichal	2009–	Special Projects Coordinator and Confidential Assistant to the President	Eugene Kang	2009–
Director, Council on Environmental Quality Director, Office of National AIDS Policy	Nancy Sutley Jeffrey Crowley	2009– 2009–	Chief of Staff to the First Lady	Jackie Norris Susan Sher Christina Tchen	2009 2009–2010 2011-
Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy	Gil Kerlikowske	2009–	White House Social Secretary	Desirée Rogers Julianna Smoot Jeremy Bernard	2009–2010 2010–2011 2011–
Director, Office of Urban Affairs Policy	Adolfo Carrión, Jr.	2009–	Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy	John Holdren	2009–

^*Senate-confirmation pending. ^†Remained from previous administration (s).

Office of the Vice President

Position	Appointee	Position	Appointee
Chief of Staff to the Vice President	Bruce Reed	Chief of Staff to the Second Lady	Catherine Russell
Counsel to the Vice President	Cynthia Hogan	Director of Administration for the Office of the Vice President	Moises Vela
Counselor to the Vice President	Mike Donilon	Domestic Policy Adviser to the Vice President	Terrell McSweeny
Assistant to the Vice President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Liaison	Evan Ryan	Chief Economist and Economic Policy Adviser to the Vice President	Jared Bernstein
Assistant to the Vice President and Director of Communications	Jay Carney	Press Secretary to the Vice President	Elizabeth Alexander
Deputy Chief of Staff to the Vice President	Alan Hoffman	Deputy Press Secretary to the Vice President	Annie Tomasini
Deputy National Security Adviser to the Vice President	Brian McKeon	Director of Legislative Affairs	Sudafi Henry
Residence Manager and Social Secretary for the Vice President and Second Lady	Carlos Elizondo	Director of Communications for the Second Lady	Courtney O’Donnell
National Security Adviser to the Vice President	Tony Blinken

Current members of the Cabinet of the United States

Obama · Biden

Bryson · Chu · Clinton · Daley^c · Donovan · Duncan · Geithner · Holder · Jackson^c · Kirk^c · Krueger^c · LaHood · Lew^c · Napolitano · Panetta Rice^c · Salazar · Sebelius · Solis · Shinseki · Vilsack

^c - cabinet-level; ^a - acting

United States presidential election, 2008

Democratic Party

Democratic candidates

VP nominee: Joe Biden
(positions)

Republican Party

Republican candidates

Nominee: John McCain
(campaign
positions)

VP nominee: Sarah Palin
(positions)

Draft movements

Democratic Party:
Al Gore
Mark Warner (movement)

Republican Party:
Newt Gingrich
Condoleezza Rice (movement)

Independent:
Michael Bloomberg (movement)

Third party and independent candidates

Constitution Party: Convention	Nominee: Chuck Baldwin (campaign) VP nominee: Darrell Castle Candidates: Daniel Imperato Alan Keyes (campaign)

Green Party: Convention	Nominee: Cynthia McKinney (campaign positions) VP nominee: Rosa Clemente Candidates: Elaine Brown Jesse Johnson Kent Mesplay Kat Swift

Libertarian Party: Convention	Nominee: Bob Barr (campaign positions) VP nominee: Wayne Allyn Root Candidates: Mike Gravel (campaign) Daniel Imperato Michael Jingozian Steve Kubby Wayne Allyn Root Mary Ruwart Doug Stanhope

American Party	Nominee: Diane Beall Templin

America's Independent Party	Nominee: Alan Keyes (campaign) VP nominee: Brian Rohrbough

Boston Tea Party	Nominee: Charles Jay

New American Independent Party	Nominee: Frank McEnulty

Peace and Freedom Party	Nominee: Ralph Nader (campaign) VP nominee: Matt Gonzalez Candidates: Gloria LaRiva Cynthia McKinney (campaign) Brian Moore (campaign)

Prohibition Party	Nominee: Gene Amondson

Reform Party	Nominee: Ted Weill VP nominee: Frank McEnulty

Socialism and Liberation Party	Nominee: Gloria La Riva VP nominee: Eugene Puryear

Socialist Party	Nominee: Brian Moore (campaign) VP nominee: Stewart Alexander Candidates: Eric Chester

Socialist Workers Party	Nominee: Róger Calero Alternate nominee: James Harris VP nominee: Alyson Kennedy

Independent / Other	Earl Dodge Bradford Lyttle Frank Moore Joe Schriner Jonathon Sharkey

Other 2008 elections:
House
Senate
Gubernatorial

Presidents of the United States

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G8 Leaders

Harper Sarkozy Merkel Monti Noda Medvedev Cameron Obama Rompuy Barroso

Cabinet of President Barack Obama (since 2009)

Cabinet

Secretary of State	Hillary Clinton (2009–present)

Secretary of the Treasury	Timothy Geithner (2009–present)

Secretary of Defense	Robert Gates (2009–2011) · Leon Panetta (2011–present)

Attorney General	Eric Holder (2009–present)

Secretary of the Interior	Ken Salazar (2009–present)

Secretary of Agriculture	Tom Vilsack (2009–present)

Secretary of Commerce	Gary Locke (2009–2011) · John Bryson (2011–present)

Secretary of Labor	Hilda Solis (2009–present)

Secretary of Health and Human Services	Kathleen Sebelius (2009–present)

Secretary of Education	Arne Duncan (2009–present)

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	Shaun Donovan (2009–present)

Secretary of Transportation	Ray LaHood (2009–present)

Secretary of Energy	Steven Chu (2009–present)

Secretary of Veterans Affairs	Eric Shinseki (2009–present)

Secretary of Homeland Security	Michael Chertoff (2009) · Janet Napolitano (2009–present)

Cabinet-level

Vice President	Joe Biden (2009–present)

White House Chief of Staff	Rahm Emanuel (2009–2010) · William Daley (2011–present)

Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency	Lisa Jackson (2009–present)

Director of the Office of Management and Budget	Peter Orszag (2009–2010) · Jacob Lew (2010–present)

Trade Representative	Ron Kirk (2009–present)

Ambassador to the United Nations	Susan Rice (2009–present)

Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers	Christina Romer (2009–2010) · Austan Goolsbee (2010–2011) · Alan Krueger (2011–present)

Director of the Central Intelligence Agency	Leon Panetta (2009–2011) · David Petraeus (2011–present)

See also: Confirmations of Barack Obama's Cabinet

Offices and distinctions

Illinois Senate
Preceded by Alice Palmer	Illinois State Senator from the 13th district 1997–2004	Succeeded by Kwame Raoul
Party political offices
Preceded by Carol Moseley Braun	Democratic nominee for Senator from Illinois (Class 3) 2004	Succeeded by Alexi Giannoulias
Preceded by Harold Ford	Keynote Speaker of the Democratic National Convention 2004	Succeeded by Mark Warner
Preceded by John Kerry	Democratic nominee for President of the United States 2008	Most recent
United States Senate
Preceded by Peter Fitzgerald	United States Senator (Class 3) from Illinois 2005–2008 Served alongside: Dick Durbin	Succeeded by Roland Burris
Preceded by George Allen	Chairperson of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on European Affairs 2007–2008	Succeeded by Jeanne Shaheen
Political offices
Preceded by George W. Bush	President of the United States 2009–present	Incumbent
Awards and achievements
Preceded by Martti Ahtisaari	Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2009	Succeeded by Liu Xiaobo
United States order of precedence
First	Order of Precedence of the United States as President of the United States	Succeeded by Joe Biden as Vice President of the United States