childhood of US president

By Jacqueline Wana
“And I could play basketball with a consuming passion that would always exceed my limited talent”
These were the words which said by Barack Obama who is now the President of USA and husband of a single wife,Michelle Robinson Obama as well as to be a father of two daughters.
That words which found from his autobiography-“Dreams from my Father” elaborate how President Obama began playing as a child where as he had a Dr J on his bedroom wall
Of his early childhood, Obama recalled, "That my father looked nothing like the people around me—that he was black as pitch, my mother white as milk—barely registered in my mind."[14]

He described his struggles as a young adult to reconcile social perceptions of his multiracial heritage.[15] Reflecting later on his formative years in Honolulu, Obama wrote: "The opportunity that Hawaii offered—to experience a variety of cultures in a climate of mutual respect—became an integral part of my world view, and a basis for the values that I hold most dear."[16]

Obama has also written and talked about using alcohol, marijuana and cocaine during his teenage years to "push questions of who I was out of my mind."[17] At the 2008 Civil Forum on the Presidency in 2008, Obama identified his high-school drug use as his "greatest moral failure."[18]