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[[Image:Obama_interview.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"Mr. President, with an alien invasion upon us, the American people want to know: ''Where is {{w|Tom Jones (singer)|Tom Jones}}?"'']]

'''Barack "Barry"<ref name="joke">"OBAMAMANIA!" blog post by Sharkatron3000 on TheRealEffingDeal.com</ref> Obama''' was elected as the 44th [[President of the United States]] in a time of national and global peril. While [[George W. Bush|his predecessor]] was incumbent, a crisis had exploded with [[Megatron (Movie)|N.B.E. 01]]'s, the loss of the [[AllSpark]], and a swarm of [[Transformer|alien combatants]] waging a clandestine, highly unconventional war in hotspots across the [[Earth|world]].

When he was running for election, Obama had blown off a question about alien visitors with a joke.<ref name="joke" /> But as president, his fear that the [[Autobot]]s' presence attracted the [[Decepticon]]s led him to appoint a [[Theodore Galloway|National Security Advisor]] that was a constant thorn in the side of the [[NEST|joint human/Autobot military force]], which found itself increasingly hamstrung in direct proportion to the gravity of the Decepticon threat.

{{quote|...we aren’t sure Barry is so ready to tackle the real issues of EXTRATERRESTRIAL life, especially when it involves an INVASION FORCE!|[[Sharsky|Sharkatron3000]]|[[The Real Effing Deal|The Real Effing Deal.com]]}}

==Fiction==
===Movies===
====''Revenge of the Fallen'' film====
After coming to power, Obama [[Tales of the Fallen issue 2|retained]] <s>Admiral</s> General [[Morshower]] as the {{w|Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff}}. 

Even though [[NEST]] had successfully destroyed the Decepticon infiltrators in [[Shanghai]], [[China]], the new President of the United States was horrified by the destruction caused during the operation. President Obama sent Director [[Theodore Galloway]] to [[Diego Garcia]] to outline the White House's criticisms of NEST's operations and their alliance with the alien Autobots, in particular [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]'s open invitation for Autobot refugees to come to [[Earth]]. They feared that reason the Decepticons being on Earth was to seek vengeance upon the Autobots and their allies, and when General Morshower attempted to defend [[William Lennox|Major Lennox]] and his men's judgement by stating they were above reproach, Galloway stated that as far as the President was concerned, ''nobody'' was above reproach. He directly asked Optimus Prime that if the President felt that the United States' national security was better served by having the Autobots leave Earth, would they do so peacefully? Optimus Prime agreed, but bluntly told Galloway to pass along a message to the President: What if the Autobots leave, and the humans are ''wrong?''

Soon afterwards, Optimus Prime was killed in battle defending [[Sam Witwicky]], and [[The Fallen]] began his invasion of Earth. Among the casualties were [[Paris]], [[France]], and the aircraft carrier [[USS Theodore Roosevelt|USS ''Theodore Roosevelt'']]; Obama was flown to a secure bunker. Appalled with the loss of over seven thousand lives (including American sailors), the President ordered the deactivation of NEST and the immediate transportation of the Autobots back to Diego Garcia, deciding instead to focus on a coordinated US military strategy against the Decepticon threat. Galloway also revealed that while battle plans were being drawn up, Obama was exploring "every diplomatic solution" as well and handing over Sam Witwicky was being considered as well. 

Lennox would end up taking his NEST team on an unauthorised mission into [[Egypt|foreign territory without permission]] and also tricking Galloway into getting stranded in said country, but he's the hero and it worked out okay so as far as we know Obama let it slide. {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

====''Dark of the Moon'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Juan Carlos Gustems]] (Castilian Spanish dub)}}
[[File:DOTMObama Sam.JPG|left|thumb|150px|Sam's hand getting crushed in a smiling contest.]]
Following [[Sam Witwicky]]'s involvement in two events which saved the world from Decepticon actions, he was given a medal from President Barack Obama at the [[White House]]. Sam hoped the medal would have offered him more leverage into employment, but it did not, and at one specific job prospect he was turned away because the interviewer was not impressed, as the employees there were "mostly [[Republican]]". {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}}

===''The Real Effing Deal''===
[[Sharsky|Sharkatron3000]] posted a clip on [[The Real Effing Deal]] from an interview of Obama when he was still running for president.
{{quote|If you are elected and you learned that the government knew aliens had visited Earth, and the public didn't know...would you be sure the public found out?|KGAN 2 reporter}}
{{quote|It depends on what these aliens were like, and whether they were Democrats or Republicans.|Barack Obama}}

Sharkatron3000 took the interview as evidence that the President is completely unprepared for the prospect of alien visitors, because he treated the question as a joke.

Later, Leo Spitz cited the President's actions as a justification for his own video-blogging. {{storylink|The Real Effing Deal}}

===IDW movie comics===
[[Image:TalesoftheFallen5_BarackObama.jpg|thumb|250px|"Look, hurry up, I've got three more comics to cameo in before lunch. (Oh god, ''Youngblood''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s next isn't it?)"]]

When military forces failed to restrain a resurrected [[Ravage (ROTF)|Ravage]], [[NEST]] recommended an [[United States Air Force|air strike]] on Ravage's bolthole. Barack Obama was asked to authorize the air strike, and did. {{storylink|Tales of the Fallen issue 5|Tales of the Fallen #5}}

==Notes==
* While on the campaign trail, the real-life {{w|Barack Obama}} met [[Michael Bay]] by chance in an airport, and the two had a mutually-complimentary conversation. Inspired by this encounter, Bay made a late-stage decision to add Obama's name and image to a brief scene in ''Revenge of the Fallen''.<ref>[http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a160272/michael-bay-obama-likes-my-movies.html Michael Bay: 'Obama likes my movies'] at Digital Spy, and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfT7ZF_AUk8 Bay telling the story at a press conference.]</ref> It is unknown whether it occurred to Bay, or whether it was planned or not, that the movie's otherwise-unnamed President is essentially a villain (or perhaps a well-meaning bureaucrat) whose concerns almost doom Earth. Several critics winced over ''that'' one, assuming it was deliberate,<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1906689,00.html Time's review of "Revenge of the Fallen"]</ref><ref>[http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/screen/reviews/Transformers-Revenge-of-the-Fallen-49559047.html Philadelphia Weekly's review of ''Revenge of the Fallen'']</ref> while some conservative movie critics and bloggers <ref>[http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2009/06/24/Turnabout--Transformers-2-Takes-a-Shot-at-President-Obama Big Hollywood: Turnabout]</ref><ref>[http://residualforces.com/2009/06/29/transformers-revenge-of-the-fallen-obamas-first-dig/ Residual Forces blog review]</ref><ref>[http://propeshka.hubpages.com/hub/Transformers-2-Revenge-of-the-Fallen--A-Political-Message A blogger's specific focus on the politics]</ref> rejoiced over it. As the film's writers are Democratic Party supporters, this was probably meant to be a stock genre plot–[[Autobot High Council|the bureaucratic government]] [[Council of Autobot Elders|stopping Our Boys from]] [[Maximal High Council|saving the day from the Enemy]]–rather than a deliberate dig.
* In an [[Transformers (Titan Magazine)#Alternate universe|alternate timeline]] presented in the UK Titan comics, in which the Decepticons were victorious in the battle of [[Mission City]], Obama did not become the next President of the United States. Instead, when the previous President was killed, fictional Vice President [[Theodore Allen]] [[Transformers Comic issue 14|succeeded him]].
* The real-life Obama was the inspiration for much of [[Transcendent Technomorph|TransTech]] [[Optimus Prime (TransTech)|Optimus Prime]]'s [[bio]].

==References==
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==External links==
*{{w|Barack Obama}} at Wikipedia
*[http://www.barackobama.com Personal political website]

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