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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Former presidential candidate Gary Hart describes the book as Obama's "thesis submission" for the U.S. presidency: "It presents a man of relative youth yet maturity, a wise observer of the human condition, a figure who possesses perseverance and writing skills that have flashes of grandeur. In his preface to the 2004 revised edition, Obama explains that he had hoped the story of his family "might speak in some way to the fissures of race that have characterized the American experience, as well as the fluid state of identity—the leaps through time, the collision of cultures—that mark our modern life. An October 2005 article in the British journal New Statesman listed Obama as one of "10 people who could change the world. A long-time resident of Maryland, Keyes established legal residency in Illinois with the nomination.

Obama's own self-narrative reinforces what a May 2004 New Yorker magazine article described as his "everyman" image. In the November 2004 general election, Obama received 70% of the vote to Keyes's 27%.

In the same week, Zogby International reported that Obama leads all prospective Republican opponents in polling for the 2008 general election. But they sense, deep in their bones, that with just a slight change in priorities, we can make sure that every child in America has a decent shot at life, and that the doors of opportunity remain open to all. There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and patriots who supported the war in Iraq. Obama encouraged "others in public life to do the same" to show "there is no shame in going for an HIV test. In the same week, Zogby International reported that Obama leads all prospective Republican opponents in polling for the 2008 general election. President Bush signs the "Coburn-Obama" Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006. " Expressing a similar view, New York Daily News columnist Stanley Crouch wrote: "When black Americans refer to Obama as 'one of us,' I do not know what they are talking about.

His parents met while both were attending the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was enrolled as a foreign student.