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On the evening Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, he didn’t rush off to the loud celebrations.
Instead, he stayed inside a hotel room in Chicago playing Scrabble with his daughters — Malia Obama and Sasha Obama.
A simple moment.
But it revealed a great deal about the man who entered history that night.
While millions of Americans celebrated his victory, Obama wanted his daughters to remember the evening not as a political spectacle, but as time spent with family.
On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama took the oath of office as the 44th President of the United States, placing his hand on the same Bible used by Abraham Lincoln in 1861.
For the first time in American history, an African American became president.
But Obama’s story was never only about grand speeches and historic ceremonies.
During the campaign, he still made time to read Harry Potter to his daughters before bed.
As a child growing up between Hawaii and Indonesia, the future president loved comic books and superhero stories.
Even his political career began in an unconventional way: in 1996, he won his first seat in the Illinois Senate after a difficult legal battle over the signatures submitted by his opponents.
Then came the White House.
But even there, Obama refused to abandon simple habits.
He personally read letters from ordinary Americans and often replied to them himself — sometimes late at night. He believed a president should hear people directly, not only through statistics and reports.
Obama is left-handed — like only a handful of U.S. presidents before him.
He wore nearly identical dark suits and the same style of shoes every day so he wouldn’t waste energy on unnecessary decisions.
And he had one tradition he never broke: on Election Day, he always played basketball. The only election he had ever lost happened when he skipped it.
Michelle Obama once shared that even in the White House, her husband made his own bed every morning — a habit taught to him by his grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, whom he lovingly called “Toot.”
Even while living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, he never forgot who he had been before becoming president.
And perhaps that is why millions of people around the world saw in him not just a politician —
but a human being.
A man who, amid power, fame, and history-changing decisions, tried to preserve the things that mattered most:
family,
simplicity,
humanity,
and a connection to the people for whom all of it was meant to matter.
Voters should pick their representatives, not the other way around. Glad to get the chance to talk to some of the volunteers and organizers doing the hard work to make sure Prop 50 passes. This vote will have critical implications, not just for California, but for our entire country.
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I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.
5 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.
7 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
8 The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.
9 My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.
10 My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.