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.
Vice President Cheney is on a PR blitz.
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Obama's campaign reported raising US$25.8 million between January 1 and March 31 of 2007.
Obama later added three amendments to S. 2611, the "Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act," sponsored by Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA).
If elected, Obama would become the first non-white U.S. president.
Obama participated in 38 fundraising events in 2005, helping to pull in US$6.
They were married in 1992 and have two daughters, Malia, born in 1999, and Natasha ("Sasha"), born in 2001.
Partnering first with Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN), and then with Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), Obama successfully introduced two initiatives bearing his name.
S. 2611 passed the Senate in May 2006, but failed to gain majority support in the U.S. House of Representatives.
As an associate attorney with Miner, Barnhill & Galland from 1993 to 1996, he represented community organizers, discrimination claims, and voting rights cases.
In July 2005, Samantha Power, Pulitzer-winning author on human rights and genocide, joined Obama's team.
I'm opposed to dumb wars.
President Bush signs the "Coburn-Obama" Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006.
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.
On returning to Chicago, Obama directed a voter registration drive.
In her January 2007 Salon article asserting that Obama "isn't black," columnist Debra Dickerson writes: "lumping us all together Zwith ObamaZ erases the significance of slavery and continuing racism while giving the appearance of progress.
" 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.
The U.S. Senate Historical Office lists him as the fifth African American Senator in U.S. history and the only African American currently serving in the U.S. Senate.
Before announcing his presidential candidacy, he began a well-publicized effort to quit smoking.
Obama's candidacy was boosted by an advertising campaign featuring images of the late Chicago Mayor Harold Washington and the late U.S.
The speech was Obama's introduction to most of America.
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.
1 comments:
I think that Obama looks more attractive, definitely more intelligent and much more honest than mrs. Hillary Clinton. Threfore, I think that he has better chance to get nomination than she has. Of course, neo conservatives, to whom Mrs. Clinton belongs, in spite of her official claims, should consider her nomination, as more suitable to them. But, at any logical point of view, Mr. Obama has much better chance to get this nomination, and, quite frankly, it is for the best.
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