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First of all, Obama cares about the environment. He signed the Paris Climate Accord. America experienced a scandal-free eight years of peace, economic growth, and global respect under President Barack Obama, unlike what is being demonstrated by Donald Trump. Obama was able to maintain respect for integrity. The Trump presidency has been tainted by lies, greed, ethical transgressions, and criminal charges. Also, Trump has refused to divest his business holdings and relishes using his presidency to enhance them. Obama was a good president because as the leader of the free world, he understood the United States could only work as a whole if everyone has the same opportunities in healthcare, education, and employment.

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To some degree, yes. The fact that Obama was the first black president allowed him to create a milestone of hope for future generations to come. The three words that changed everything during his time in office were: Black Lives Matter. These words were said when Obama gave an important speech on race. Obama made it clear that he was a post-racial president for everyone, not just the blacks. It was because of Obama’s policies that there was more equality than before he came along. With his signature health care law and his efforts concerning access to college, he had improved the overall condition of the country.

The life lessons to be learned from Barack Obama is to listen to others and accept their cultural differences. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples” something that other US presidents have not, and perhaps will not achieve.

Obama stated that he did not intend to be actively involved in politics after his presidency ended. He gives highly paid lectures but funds many works for the poor, for people of colour and for boys with little opportunity. He wanted to work for “systematic discrimination being ratified in some fashion,” and to remove obstacles to voting, and efforts to silence the press. There is much more he does.

Barack Obama and his wife have both written top selling memoirs. It is not just the fascination with his origins and biracial identity that has captured the reading market, but his grasp of international politics and his vision for a potential future. The first book, Dreams of My Father, has been followed by The Audacity of Hope. These books will ensure his important place in history.

The reason that Obama's quotes have resonance is that mostly they appeal for their sincerity, as opposed to 'telling' sentences written by a political speech writer. Here is one, Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. Another is, If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress. Simple, and ideas that any person can adopt.

It is not just the citizens of the USA who love Obama but people throughout the world. We long for pure and unblemished heroes to be in power, not the over-privileged, self-seeking figures who often get there. Obama is a gifted orator but his messages are simple and easy to follow, moreover his way of life with his loving nuclear family and modest beginnings endear him to the majority. His charisma does help, of course!

In 2009 Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for bringing together, or attempts to bring together, people with differing aims and outlooks. He took several actions connected with promoting peace where conflict reigned: banning excessive interrogation techniques; attempted to close the military detention at Guantánamo Bay, proposed a “fresh start” to strained relations with Russia; and reached out to the Muslim world on a trip to Cairo.

It is the ability to make the complex sound simple, the sincerity of delivery, the charisma of appearance that all go together to make a good oratory and these qualities Obama certainly shows. He is not afraid to talk of humble beginnings in his birth family or of struggles to achieve. He displays a genuine wish to improve the lot of poor people and for those in power to act fairly and humanely.

Barack Obama gained his first degree in Political Science. A little later he undertook a law degree at Harvard and while there, became the first African American to be editor of the prestigious law journal, Harvard Law Review.

Personally, I do admire Barack Obama and although not American, I felt like cheering when he came to be President of the U.S. For me, he conducts himself in a way that anyone could admire and his family life represents purity and stability, unlike many celebrity figures whose greed and excessive lifestyles are sickening.