# Barack Obama (@barack-obama)

Barack Obama (born 1961) is an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. senator and, from 2009 to 2017, the forty-fourth president of the United States. The first African American president, he entered office during a severe financial crisis and governed through polarized debates over health care, executive authority, race, immigration, and war.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Barack Obama's public record._

## Topics

- [The Affordable Care Act](/@barack-obama/affordable-care-act.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Crisis and Economic Recovery](/@barack-obama/crisis-and-recovery.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Foreign Policy and Executive Power](/@barack-obama/foreign-policy-and-executive-power.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://obamalibrary.archives.gov/obamas/president-barack-obama
- blog: https://www.obamalibrary.gov/timeline
- blog: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/healthreform
- blog: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/economy

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "barack-obama", "question": "…"}`.