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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Re: Barack Obama -- for Randy
"Emma" Randy, this is what I read in the Telegraph about Barack Obama. Some of what he says certainly echoes what I read in the media here about your right-wing denominations, and it's what we were discussing in another thread... Funny thing, I just finished watching Hannity and Colmes discuss this very thing. ...
alt.messianic - Jun 27, 03:26am by Emma - 10 message - 4 author

Re: Ann Coulter Slams Barack Obama After Democrat Attacks ...
ZNUYBV auto294...@hushmail.com said: [quoted text muted] Score Coulter 1 and Obama 0 in this exchange. Obama's speech got far more coverage than Coulter's babbling. Of course. Barack is the Magic Negro. We already know that Republican racists like you, Limbaugh ...
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OT: Savage repeated debunked falsehood that Obama attended ...
Barack Obama (D-IL) was "indoctrinated" by a "Muslim madrassa in Indonesia." As Media Matters for America has documented, this falsehood -- which the website InsightMag.com first reported, attributing the rumor to "sources close to [a] background check" allegedly "conducted by researchers connected to" Sen. ...
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Re: Faith, Politics and Obama
... I had heard Kerry deliver. Barack Obama delivered a speech on faith and politics at the "50th anniversary convention [1] of his own denomination, the United Church of Christ" on Saturday at the at the Hartford Civic Center. Obama said, "the religious right ...
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... the pastor of Sen. Barack Obama's church, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, "has a ... & Colmes, discussing Sen. Barack Obama's (D-IL) June 23 speech on religion in politics, co-host Sean Hannity claimed that the head of Obama's church, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, "has a ...
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Finally, he spoke for national unity: The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats. In a public gesture aimed to encourage more Kenyans to undergo voluntary HIV testing, Obama and his wife took HIV tests at a Kenyan clinic. "Obama has authored two bestselling books. The New York Times described Obama as "the prize catch of the midterm campaign" because of his campaigning for fellow Democratic Party members running for election in the 2006 midterm elections. A long-time resident of Maryland, Keyes established legal residency in Illinois with the nomination.

The donations came from 104,000 individual donors, with US$6.9 million raised through the Internet from 50,000 of the donors. " He describes his mother, raised by non-religious parents, as detached from religion, yet "in many ways the most spiritually awakened person that I have ever known. You want a fight, President Bush? Let's finish the fight with Bin Laden and al-Qaeda, through effective, coordinated intelligence, and a shutting down of the financial networks that support terrorism, and a homeland security program that involves more than color-coded warnings. " The chapter details how Obama, in his twenties, while working with local churches as a community organizer, came to understand "the power of the African American religious tradition to spur social change. The bill did not progress beyond committee and was never voted on by the Senate.

Speculation intensified in October 2006 when Obama first said he had "thought about the possibility" of running for president, departing from earlier statements that he intended to serve out his six-year Senate term through 2010.

However, Ryan withdrew from the race in June 2004, following public disclosure of child custody divorce records containing sexual allegations by Ryan's ex-wife, actress Jeri Ryan. Ehrenstein says these films are popular because they offer U.S. audiences a comfort for "white guilt.

Before announcing his presidential candidacy, he began a well-publicized effort to quit smoking.

President Bush signs the "Coburn-Obama" Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006. The book's last chapters describe his first visit to Kenya, a journey to connect with his Luo family and heritage.