Barack Obama

Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to Barack Obama, Sr. (born in Nyanza Province, Kenya) and Ann Dunham (born in Wichita, Kansas). Barack Hussein Obama (born August 4, 1961) is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and a member of the Democratic Party.

Obama grew up in culturally diverse surroundings. He spent most of his childhood in the majority-minority U.S. state of Hawaii and lived for four years in Indonesia. Obama delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention while still an Illinois state legislator. Since announcing his candidacy in February 2007, Obama has emphasized ending the Iraq War and implementing universal health care as campaign themes.

As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, Obama co-sponsored the enactment of conventional weapons control and transparency legislation, and made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Obama's parents separated when he was two years old and later divorced. His father went to Harvard University to pursue Ph.D. studies, then returned to Kenya, where he died in an auto accident when the younger Obama was twenty-one years old.

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Barack Obama misses fire in his apartment building
Pravda - Moscow,Russia
A Capitol Hill house where US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has an apartment caught on fire Sunday, luckily the senator was out of town to ...
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Obama's faux pas: Missing the global whirl
Times of India - India
So outsourcing is back as a front and centre issue in the American election campaign, thanks to Barack Obama. Although his campaign managers have been quick ...
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Obama links absentee fathers to poverty
Buffalo News - NY, United States
By Mike Dorning - CHICAGO TRIBUNE SPARTANBURG, SC -- Two days before Father's Day, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama presented a plan Friday for ...
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