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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Obama working toward a quarter-million donors
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by John McCormick Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama continues to rack up contributions from online and other donors, with his campaign saying ...
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Barack Obama Poll Numbers Not Going Up
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Recent fundraising numbers show good news for Barack Obama but his poll numbers show a completely different story. In Iowa, Obama was averaging 18% in Iowa ...
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Bill Richardson Leads Barack OBama Among Most Likely Iowa Voters
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John Edwards leads the pack with 31% then Hillary Clinton with 23% and Obama in fourth with 16%. This is one of a long line of very strong poll numbers for ...
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Barack Obama Launches Online Presence on Eons.com, Nation's ...
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Barack Obama's presence on Eons.com will leverage the power of social networks and user-generated content to connect with 50-plus Americans in a way that ...
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Barack Obama: Veterans' Affairs Bill Incorporates Obama Proposals ...
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June 27, 2007 -- WASHINGTON, DC - Several initiatives to improve veterans' health care proposed by Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) were today included in ...
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Young Voters Like Obama, Hillary: Poll
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... 18 percent "enthusiastic" about Barack Obama, and 17 percent feeling the same about Hillary Clinton, according to a new CBS/MTV/New York Times poll. ...
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In early May 2007, the U.S. Secret Service announced that Obama had been placed under their protection. He married in 1992 and has two daughters. " Reviewing Obama's career in the Illinois Senate, a February 2007 article in the Washington Post noted his work with both Democrats and Republicans in drafting bipartisan legislation on ethics and health care reform. " Three months into his Senate career, and again in 2007, Time magazine named Obama one of "the world's most influential people. He then returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents while attending Punahou School from 5th grade until his graduation in 1979. Addressing the Chicago Council on Global Affairs in November 2006, Obama called for a phased withdrawal of troops and an opening of diplomatic dialogue with Iraq's neighbors, Syria and Iran.

Among his major accomplishments as a state legislator, Obama's U.S. Senate web site lists: "creating programs like the state Earned Income Tax Credit"; "an expansion of early childhood education"; and "legislation requiring the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases. Its enthusiastic reception at the convention and widespread coverage by national media gave him instant celebrity status. The donations came from 104,000 individual donors, with US$6.9 million raised through the Internet from 50,000 of the donors.

His second book, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, was published in October 2006, three weeks before the 2006 midterm election.

He was overwhelmingly reelected to the Illinois Senate in 1998 and 2002, officially resigning in November 2004, following his election to the U.S. Senate. Barack Hussein Obama (born August 4, 1961) is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and a member of the Democratic Party.

In Chapter 6 of the book, titled "Faith," Obama writes that he "was not raised in a religious household. 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. " Speaking in November 2006 to members of Wake Up Wal-Mart, a union-backed campaign group, Obama said: "You gotta pay your workers enough that they can actually not only shop at Wal-Mart, but ultimately send their kids to college and save for retirement.