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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Hillary's Portfolio
Wall Street Journal - USA
Bill and Hillary Clinton disclosed last week that they have sold all of their stock holdings -- worth tens of millions -- and put that money in the bank. ...
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Clinton vs Obama: Outsourcing a delicate issue
Times Now.tv - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
Be it Hillary Clinton or the other Presidential front runner and rival Democrat, Barack Obama, it has become important to woo the Indian voters. ...
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Clinton's greatest risk
Christian Science Monitor - Boston,MA,USA
Hillary Clinton could jeopardize her front-runner status by playing it too safe on tough issues. By Ronald Brownstein Detroit - After watching New York Sen. ...
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Poll: Voters Don't Want Hillary
NewsMax.com - West Palm Beach,FL,USA
"With a candidate as well-known as Hillary Clinton, that's going to cause some problems." Conversations with a dozen Times/Bloomberg poll respondents, ...
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Hillary Backs Sen. Robert Byrd's Iraq Withdrawal
NewsMax.com - West Palm Beach,FL,USA
Hillary Clinton is asking her fellow senators to sign on to her and Sen. Robert Byrd's plan for an Iraq war vote do-over. In a letter to all 98 other ...
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Matthews: "Do Americans want to return to the Hillary model of ...
Media Matters for America - Washington,DC,USA
Unlike Kay and Carlson, Fineman identified himself as "a voter in The Matthews Meter" and added that the choice between Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush "was ...
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