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Barack Obama was elected as the 44th President of the United States in 2008, and the first African-American President. He won re-election in 2012. He is married to Michelle Obama, a former lawyer, and has two daughters, Sasha and Malia.

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13 Jul, 2015

Grants clemency to drug offenders

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President Obama grants clemency to 46 men and women who have spent years and faced decades in prison for non-violent, drug offenses.

Their punishments didn’t fit the crime, and if they had been sentenced under today’s laws, almost all of them would have served their time. I believe…America is a nation of second chances. And I believe these folks deserve a second chance.