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On the flight to South Carolina to read the eulogy for murdered pastor Rev Clementa Pinckney in June , Obama told his wife and senior adviser Valerie Jarrett that he might sing. He told them: "I don't know whether I am going to do it but I just wanted to warn you two that I might sing. But both said to him he should see how he felt once he was in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, where white supremacist Dylann Roof had shot nine people dead.

On 23 March , Obama signed the Affordable Care Act to give millions of low paid families access to low-cost health care. It came into force in and since then the number of people without health care insurance has fallen by 16 million. Unfortunately, as the vice president later explained, he was looking directly at a reporter who could lip read and it was then picked up on the microphone.

Biden cautioned years later: "A piece of advice about that BFD stuff: assume every microphone is on. Obama has often been criticised for failing to tackle race relations but the image was described by the New York Times as showing how the President was such a "potent symbol" for black Americans.

The two men had been to the funeral of former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, the plane was waiting to go, and Clinton was taking his time. Eventually after much shaking of head and clapping to get his attention number 42 appeared with a sort of shruggy, huggy gesture of apology for number There can be few more awkward moments than sitting next to your parents at the basketball while they grab a cheeky snog.

So spare a thought for poor Malia Obama, who found herself in precisely this situation when her father took a break from campaigning in July to watch a game. The Obamas were, of course, caught on kiss cam as they watched an exhibition game between the American Olympic team and Brazil.

It has been suggested he might even run a team after he leaves office and he once said: "I've fantasised about being able to put together a team and how much fun that would be. There was a time, in , when Obama was dogged by claims from the star of the television show The Apprentice that he wasn't born in the US. Well, we are going through changes that, in previous times, might take generations, and are now being telescoped into a matter of a decade.

The fact that I can fly from Washington to here in a few hours, and as soon as I land, suddenly I have complete access to, on this little device [mobile phone], everyone and everything around the world. It makes them feel uncertain about the world around them. Some of it has to do with identity and culture. And they want to either put up either genuine laws or metaphorical laws to preserve what they think they had.

Nationalism, nativism, xenophobia, anti-immigrant [sentiment] — those are dangerous traits. Now… in addition to this general issue of destabilisation of our politics, I am also worried about the destabilisation of our environment. Climate change is not something off in the future. It is demonstrably happening right now, and we are seeing the impacts right now. And some of the most beautiful places on this planet, the places that we most want to visit and spend time with and share with our children and grandchildren, are at risk by these changes.

Weather patterns can make certain parts of the world prohibited to live in or visit if we continue at this pace. And then, and this is where the two issues that I just mentioned converge, climate change is going to contribute to migration patterns and refugees and draughts and famines — all of which will have an impact on the surge of people who are looking to survive. Not for long.

So, we have to be concerned about climate change — even if we feel as if we live in wealthy countries that can somehow adapt and manage — because there are large chunks of the world with hundreds of millions or billions of people who are not going to be able to manage. That will fundamentally alter our global economy. The good news is that there are things we [can] do to make a difference. The bad news is right now our politics is not designed to tackle those things as quickly as we should.

Where do we go from here? Globalisation is fairly unstoppable, so how does this work itself out? President Obama's years of public service are based around his unwavering belief in the ability to unite people around a politics of purpose.

In the Illinois State Senate, he passed the first major ethics reform in 25 years, cut taxes for working families, and expanded health care for children and their parents. As a United States Senator, he reached across the aisle to pass groundbreaking lobbying reform, lock up the world's most dangerous weapons, and bring transparency to government by putting federal spending online.

He was elected the 44th President of the United States on November 4, , and sworn in on January 20, After being re-elected in , President Obama is currently serving his second and final term, which will end in January See photos from the President's second inauguration here.

President Obama and his wife, Michelle, are the proud parents of two daughters, Malia and Sasha.