You are probably thinking of Jeremiah Wright, the Chicago minister who brought the president back to being an active Christian; Rev. Wright conducted the president's wedding to Michelle and also baptized their two daughters. While today he is known for being controversial, and has been demonized by some partisan media sources, in the Chicago newspapers of that time (late 1980s, early 1990s) he was not regarded as a particularly divisive person -- he was outspoken in favor of civil rights and wanted people to take pride in their community, but the media did not seem to see him in a negative light.
The president who came before Barack Obama was George W. Bush. President Bush was from the Republican Party, and he served two terms in office before Mr. Obama, a Democrat, was elected president in 2008.
Jedward performed for President Barack Obama when he came to Dublin.
Barack Obama was president of the Harvard Law Review journal before becoming president.
Obama was US Senator from Illinois when he was elected. He was born and spent most of his youth in Hawaii and went to college in LA, NY and Cambridge, Mass.
President Obama was born in the US.
Yes - George W. Bush was President before Obama.
Before he was president, Barack Obama made money working as a community organizer.
Mr. Obama spent several decades living and working in Chicago before he was president.
I have read somewhere that Obama's dream before becoming President was to be a bank manager.
Before President Obama, there was President George W. Bush. Before President Bush, there was President Bill Clinton.
No, he died before Obama was born.
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