what do barack obama do as a president?
Dreams from My Father
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 U.S. President Barack Obama quipped about his interest in an advance copy of the second series : " I wish things were that ruthlessly efficient ... It 's true . I was looking at Kevin Spacey thinking , ' this guy 's getting a lot of stuff done ' . " The evening before the season was posted , someone responsible for the @ BarackObama Twitter account ( which is run by Organizing for Action ) tweeted a request that no spoilers be posted online . Since the season debuted on Valentine 's Day , The New York Observer created themed cards in honor of the series with quotes such as " A great man once said everything is about sex . Except sex . Sex is about power " ( an Oscar Wilde quote Underwood had stated during season 1 ) . 

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 According to the Gallup Organization , Obama began his presidency with a 68 percent approval rating before gradually declining for the rest of the year , and eventually bottoming out at 41 percent in August 2010 , a trend similar to Ronald Reagan 's and Bill Clinton 's first years in office . He experienced a small poll bounce shortly after the death of Osama bin Laden on May 2 , 2011 . This bounce lasted until around June 2011 , when his approval numbers dropped back to where they were previously . His approval ratings rebounded around the same time as his reelection in 2012 , with polls showing an average job approval of 52 percent shortly after his second inauguration . Despite him dropping to 39 percent in his approval ratings in late @-@ 2013 due to the ACA roll @-@ out , he has climbed to 50 percent in late January 2015 according to Gallup . Polls show strong support for Obama in other countries , and before being elected President he met with prominent foreign figures including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair , Italy 's Democratic Party leader and Mayor of Rome Walter Veltroni , and French President Nicolas Sarkozy . 

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 After his inauguration , Obama announced to a joint session of Congress in February 2009 his intent to work with Congress to construct a plan for healthcare reform . By July , a series of bills were approved by committees within the House of Representatives . On the Senate side , from June to September , the Senate Finance Committee held a series of 31 meetings to develop a healthcare reform bill . This group — in particular , Democrats Max Baucus , Jeff Bingaman , and Kent Conrad , and Republicans Mike Enzi , Chuck Grassley , and Olympia Snowe — met for more than 60 hours , and the principles that they discussed , in conjunction with the other committees , became the foundation of the Senate 's healthcare reform bill . 

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 Subsequent to this election Obama was elected to the United States Senate in 2004 . He was then elected President of the United States in 2008 and re @-@ elected in 2012 . 

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 The President of the United States is tolerant of mutants , but fearful of the Brotherhood 's threats . While creating the role , the producers felt that a " different " president , like an African American or a woman , had become a cliché in itself and went for a traditional route with an elder caucasian man . Sommer was invited by Ratner following their collaboration in The Family Man . 
