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{{quote| ''Yes We Can''.}}
Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States of America, succeeding [[George W. Bush]]. Born in Honolulu to a white American mother and a Kenyan father, he spent his childhood in Indonesia and Hawaii before attending Harvard Law School and eventually settling in Chicago, where he worked as a community organizer and a college professor before being elected to the state Senate in 1996, and from there to the U.S. Senate in 2004.
He's relatively young ([[Older Than They Look|47 on taking office, and is currently 50]]), [[The Smart Guy|quite intelligent]], physically attractive, in a [[Happily Married|visibly loving relationship]] with his equally attractive wife, and is often seen publicly with his school-age children in non-political contexts. He is also the first American president to be mixed-race (the son of a White mother and a Black father), and is cited as proof that the [[Civil Rights Movement]] has paid off.
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* [[Do Not Call Me Paul]]: Inverted. Growing up he'd been known by the nickname "Barry" (as had his father, Barack Sr.), but in college he decided he preferred to be addressed by his given name.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]:
** No, a black president who was very positively portrayed was not responsible for helping Obama win the election. The people of ''[[
** Rewatch the final presidential election on ''[[The West Wing]]'' and note how eerie the similarities are to the 2008 election. Pure coincidence, you say? The writers based the character of Matt Santos on then state-senator Barack Hussein Obama. Also, Josh Lyman became Santos' chief of staff in this story, and Lyman is known to be heavily based on Rahm Emanuel, a Clinton-era staffer... who went on to become Barack Obama's first chief of staff.
** The late 90's manga ''EAGLE: The Making of an Asian-American President'' details a year 2000 presidential election where an Asian-American senator gets elected as POTUS. Change the ethnicity of the main character, and interesting similarities appear: He starts out as a dark horse candidate who quickly eclipses his rivals who had gone into the primaries assuming their victory, one of the senator's early main obstacles is an expy of Hilary Clinton, his VP pick is an established Washington insider (an expy of Al Gore rather than Joe Biden, but the reasoning behind the picks are similar) and his Republican opponent is an elderly military hero whose supporters are very hostile to the idea of a non-white president, who they fear would be in the pocket of foreign powers.
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** [[The Chick]]: Joe Biden, the vice president.
* [[Friend to All Children]]: When he and Michelle were doing a meet and greet outside the White House there was a family with a crying baby, she continued wailing while Michelle held her, but as soon as she was handed to the President she stopped.
* [[Full
* [[Grammy Award]]: Two. Best Spoken Word Album, for the audiobooks of ''Dreams from My Father'' (2006) and ''The Audacity of Hope'' (2008).
* [[Happily Married]]: Barack and Michelle, sometimes bordering on [[Sickeningly Sweethearts]].
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** [[Jimmy Carter|The right says his presidency is a mess, the left says he inherited a mess]].
** [[Bill Clinton|The unpopularity of George Bush results in a Democratic politician in his mid-forties winning the presidency by a healthy margin, the president spends his first two years in a long battle over healthcare, loses popularity, and at the midterms the House of Representatives in the biggest Republican win in decades. New Majority Leadership in the House announces they will obstruct the president's agenda and launch countless subpoenas against the White House]].
** [[John F Kennedy|A torch is passed to the first President from his generation and the first from a large ethnic group, who is notable for lofty rhetoric, boundless optimism, an ability to inspire, and a tendency to make really damn good speeches, who selects as his running mate a long-tenured Senator from the older generation]]. The parallel, one really friggin' hopes, [[Who Shot JFK?|stops there]].
** [[Warren G Harding|He follows a two term president who left office with low popularity due to an unpopular war and and a recession, promising to fix things. He is noted for his appearance, and his vice president is a politician noted for his stability. After winning the election handily, his cabinet is quickly mired in controversies, and his detractors accuse him of incompetence and being the puppet of those around him.]] Again, let's hope the parallel stops there.
* [[Hopemongering]]: He used the word as a way to characterize how his detractors might respond to his message.
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* In the 20th chapter of ''[[Sora no Otoshimono]]'', Obama cameos during the global emergency of... a zoo animal breakout.
* In the [[Tournament Arc]] of ''[[Gamble Fish]]'', Obama gets a cameo in the form of King Omaha, introduced as the hero who will turn the tide of depression in the US. Complete with the "Yes we can" catchphrase. He also nets a few moments of [[Heroic Resolve]].
* In ''[[Tiger and Bunny (Anime)|Tiger and Bunny]]'', the mayor of Sternbild and his wife bear more than passing physical resemblances to Barack and Michelle Obama, although said mayor has [[Goo
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* President Obama has proven to be quite popular with comic book writers, having made appearances in ''[[Savage Dragon]]'', ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'' (the latter of which is a special treat, as Mr. Obama has confessed to being a lifelong Spidey fan) and ''[[Thunderbolts]]''.
* In the [[Marvel Universe]], President Obama won the electoral vote, but in a three-way race, a plurality in the popular vote went to [[Stephen Colbert]].
* Though his face was not seen, it was implied that he was the one who elected Norman Osborn as King of Everything at the end of ''[[Secret Invasion]]'' via the shade of the President's hand that presented osborn. It was later retconned that Obama's [[George W. Bush|predecessor]] was the one who held the [[Idiot Ball]] during that particular decision. Later, Obama pardoned [[Captain America]] for his crimes during ''[[Civil War]]'' and authorized Osborn's takedown.
* President Obama's comic book ubiquity continues to rise as there is at least one entire comic book series about ''himself'' but there's even one specifically about his wife. Seeing those comics on the shelves at the local comic shop is rather surreal. There's even a comic book about his ''dog''.
* He is also at the center of the next ''[[Army of Darkness]]'' comic arc, entitled "Ash Saves Obama".
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* ''[[Series/Royal Canadian Air Farce|Royal Canadian Air Farce]]'' has Alan Park playing Obama. Unlike Armisen, he has absolutely nothing in common with Obama (this is common with both him and Roger Abbott's George W Bush). They don't even try to get the voices down.
* Sketch-comedy show ''[[Little Britain USA]]'' was filmed prior to the November 2008 elections, but twice featured a serious and competent black president playing straight man to the flamboyant and bumbling Prime Minister of England.
* Appears in the first part of the ''[[
* The two younger kids in the Britcom ''[[Outnumbered]]'' have mentioned him a few times; Ben believes that in his spare time, Obama drives a London bus ("he's the leader of the free world, he can do anything he likes"), while 7-year-old Karen is upset that he hasn't answered any of her letters and likes to add him into her drawings, usually doing something suitably awesome like riding a dragon.
* As had been pointed out, ''[[Twenty Four]]'' did a plot of the first black man being elected president. This is commonly credited for Obama's election.
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== Puppet Shows ==
* French satirical show ''[[Les Guignols De L Info]]'' has a puppet for Barack Obama. He is portrayed in a much less caustic manner than [[The Ditz|former president]] [[George W. Bush]] was. The sketches tend to mock Obama's [[Marty Stu]] portrayal in the media, as well as his perceived [[Wide-Eyed Idealist|wide-eyed idealism]], often pairing him up with [[Mickey Mouse]]. He also sometimes played the [[Straight Man]] to President Sarkozy's antics, though more recently, he's been turned into a [[Jive Turkey]] and [[Soul Brotha]].
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