Barack Obama

Barack Obama
Species:	Human
Job:	President of the United States
Affiliated with:	United States government
Place of origin:	Earth
First mentioned in:	Autonomy [+]Loading...["Autonomy (novel)"]
First appearance:	The End of Time [+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"]
Appearances:	HOMEVID: Ex-President [+]Loading...["Ex-President (home video)"] TV: The Legend of Ruby Sunday [+]Loading...["The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)"]
Main actor:	Roger Haynes
Main voice actor:	Barack Obama

Barack Obama was the President of the United States in the early part of the 21st century, (COMIC: Ghosts of the Northern Line ^[+]Loading...["Ghosts of the Northern Line (comic story)"]; TV: The End of Time ^[+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"]) beginning in 2009. He held the honour of being the first black man to serve as president. (TV: Rosa ^[+]Loading...["Rosa (TV story)"])

Biography

Barack Obama became president in the time frame when Felix Mather originally held the role. This was the work of Faction Paradox, who performed a ritual in the Oval Office which rewrote history to make it so Obama was president instead. There were still some citizens who remembered Mather as being president, however. (HOMEVID: Ex-President ^[+]Loading...["Ex-President (home video)"])

Obama was inaugurated as president on 20 January in 2009, the first African-American in the position. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary ^[+]Loading...["Time Traveller's Diary (novel)"])

President Obama gives a statement regarding his plan for the financial crisis. (TV: The End of Time (part 1) ^[+]Loading...{"part":"1","1":"The End of Time (TV story)"})

In September, when the 456 came to Earth, Britain took control over the matter. In response, General Austin Pierce led an American delegation to Downing Street on behalf of the President, and was asked to convey his "absolute fury" to the British Prime Minister, Brian Green. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Three ^[+]Loading...["Children of Earth: Day Three (TV story)"])

Obama runs his hands over his face, overcome with the wave produced by the Immortality Gate. (TV: The End of Time (part 1) ^[+]Loading...{"part":"1","1":"The End of Time (TV story)"})

He was resident in the White House on 25 December, at the time the Saxon Master became every human on Earth. During a globally-publicised press conference in which the president was to announce his plan to reverse an economic downturn, the Master walked through the Immortality Gate and turned Obama, and everyone else on the planet, into a member of the so-called "Master Race". After the substitution had taken place, the Master which had formerly been Obama gleefully announced that he had "deleted" the financial solution. (TV: The End of Time (part 1) ^[+]Loading...{"part":"1","1":"The End of Time (TV story)"})

In a video call with the real Master, alongside several other Masters, the Master which had formerly been Obama informed him that as President, he could transfer all the United Nations protocols to him immediately, putting the Master in charge of all the Earth's defences. When Rassilon reversed the Master's transfer of genetic code, President Obama returned to normal along with the rest of the human race. (TV: The End of Time (part 2) ^[+]Loading...{"part":"2","1":"The End of Time (TV story)"})

On 22 March 2011, a couple of days following Miracle Day, Alan, a CIA agent, was writing part of a briefing for the President. (TV: Rendition ^[+]Loading...["Rendition (TV story)"])

Whilst at Congress, the President received a report from the HHS Secretary. He then announced that the new system of categorisation was compulsory. Later that day, the Miracle Rally was held in Los Angeles and the President was to speak live from the Oval Office following an introduction by the Vice President at 4PM, an hour and a half following Oswald Danes. (TV: The Categories of Life ^[+]Loading...["The Categories of Life (TV story)"])

In 2012, the President conveyed his personal best wishes for Henry van Statten's birthday. Van Statten, however, wanted the president replaced, noting that he was ten points down, and firing his assistant when he disagreed. Though he offered Diana Goddard a choice of party for the next President, Van Statten was soon usurped by Goddard following the Metaltron incident. (TV: Dalek ^[+]Loading...["Dalek (TV story)"], PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac ^[+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"146-148","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"}, Dalek ^[+]Loading...["Dalek (novelisation)"]) Obama remained as President. (PROSE: Buccaneer ^[+]Loading...["Buccaneer (novel)"])

A portrait photograph of Obama. (TV: The Legend of Ruby Sunday ^[+]Loading...["The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)"])

Obama Boulevard existed in Hyperville by 2013. (PROSE: Autonomy ^[+]Loading...["Autonomy (novel)"])

In August 2016, President Obama condemned Donald Trump as an unsuitable candidate for president. (PROSE: Buccaneer ^[+]Loading...["Buccaneer (novel)"]) Ultimately, Obama had been succeeded as president by Trump by 2017. (TV: The Pyramid at the End of the World ^[+]Loading...["The Pyramid at the End of the World (TV story)"], Arachnids in the UK ^[+]Loading...["Arachnids in the UK (TV story)"])

A framed photograph of Obama was present in the bedroom of Cherry Sunday in 2024. (TV: The Legend of Ruby Sunday ^[+]Loading...["The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)"])

Obama was resurrected in the City of the Saved. Krisztina-Judit Németh guessed that he may have been at a masked ball held by Allisheer St Marx. (PROSE: Unification Theory ^[+]Loading...["Unification Theory (short story)"])

Behind the scenes

• Barack Obama was played in The End of Time ^[+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"] by Roger Haynes, an uncredited stand-in whose face was obscured from camera view. (REF: Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia ^[+]Loading...{"ed":"2011","1":"Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)"}, TCH 62) Haynes's back was to the camera and archive audio of the real Obama's voice was heard as the character began his speech. In the Doctor Who Confidential episode Lords and Masters, Haynes's face was briefly seen during a break after shaking his head around for the transformation of Obama into the Master.
  • A photograph of the real Obama is seen in The Legend of Ruby Sunday ^[+]Loading...["The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)"], in which his 2012 official presidential portrait is among the framed photographs in the Sundays' home.
• Barack Obama was the first sitting real-life American president to be depicted in a televised Doctor Who story. Obama's relationship to his fictional predecessor, President Arthur Winters is considerably unclear. It's not known whether Winters, who was killed by the Saxon Master in The Sound of Drums ^[+]Loading...["The Sound of Drums (TV story)"], was Obama's immediate predecessor — in which case Obama would have been Winters' Vice President, or whether he simply won the 2008 general election, and took over from an interim, "caretaker" president. Both eventualities are possible, given the vagueness of the scripts involved. In the real world, the then Vice President was Dick Cheney.
• In the episode Dalek ^[+]Loading...["Dalek (TV story)"], set in 2012, Diana Goddard mentions she thinks the next President will be Democrat. Barack Obama, who was a Democrat, would receive a second term that year. This therefore proves her prediction technically correct, if the same president in another term is taken to be the "next president", though generally this is not how the procession is considered. The next person to hold the office would be Donald Trump, a Republican, which by this definition would make Goddard's prediction incorrect.

Depictions in other media

• O-T Fagbenle portrayed Obama in the Showtime series The First Lady.
• He was voiced by Frank Welker in Robot Chicken, and by Chris Cox in Jeff and Some Aliens.