Barack Obama
Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is currently President-elect of the United States.[5]
Malia, Michelle and Sasha on stage at the 2008 Democratic National Convention
Michelle Obama, née Robinson, the wife of Barack Obama, was born on January 17, 1964 in Chicago, Illinois. She is a lawyer and was a University of Chicago Hospital Vice-President. She will be First Lady of the United States.
Malia and Sasha Obama
Barack and Michelle Obama have two daughters, Malia Ann and Natasha. Malia (pronounced /məˈliːə/) was born in 1998 and Natasha (known as Sasha, /ˈsɑːʃə/) was born in 2001. Sasha will be the youngest resident of the White House since John F. Kennedy, Jr. arrived as an infant in 1961. They keep busy schedules, as the Associated Press reports: "soccer, dance and drama for Malia, gymnastics and tap for Sasha, piano and tennis for both."[6][7] They both gave an interview to the television series, Access Hollywood, which President-elect Obama regretted allowing.[8]
In his victory speech on the night of his election, President-elect Obama promised Sasha and Malia a puppy to take with them to the White House.[9] Selection of a dog was complicated by the fact that Malia is allergic to animal dander.[10] It was announced on November 21, 2008 that Sasha and Malia will be attending the private Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC, the same school as attended by Chelsea Clinton, Tricia Nixon Cox, and Archibald Roosevelt. They began classes there on January 5, 2009.[11] While in Chicago, both attended the private University of Chicago Laboratory School. Sidwell is also where the grandchildren of Joe Biden attend school.[12]
Marian Shields Robinson
Michelle Obama's mother (birthname Marian Shields, born July 1937), now widowed, married Michelle's father, Fraser Robinson in 1960.[13][14] Robinson formerly was a secretary at Spiegel catalog and a bank. While Michelle and Barack Obama were campaigning in 2008, Robinson tended the Obama's young children, and will continue to live nearby when the Obamas officially move into the White House in 2009; and were Robinson to elect to move into the executive mansion itself, she would be the first live-in grandmother there since Minnie Doud during the Eisenhower administration and Madge Wallace during the Truman administration.
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Right-to-left: Barack Obama and Maya Soetoro with their mother Ann Dunham and grandfather Stanley Dunham in Hawaii (early 1970s)
