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.

Diebold voting machines vulnerable to virus attack

Diebold Election Systems Inc. voting machines are not secure enough to guarantee a trustworthy election, and an attacker with access to a single machine could disrupt or change the outcome of an election using viruses, according to a review of Diebold's source code.

PC World Fri, 03 Aug 2007 03:19:07 EDT

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/03/AR2007080300177.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns
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The speech was Obama's introduction to most of America. Obama's own self-narrative reinforces what a May 2004 New Yorker magazine article described as his "everyman" image. "In 1988, while employed as a summer associate at the Chicago law firm of Sidley & Austin, Obama met Michelle Robinson, who also worked there. Following Obama's statement, opinion polling organizations added his name to surveyed lists of Democratic candidates. Obama's campaign reported raising US$25.8 million between January 1 and March 31 of 2007.

But I've got news for them too. The family moved to Jakarta in 1967, where Obama attended local schools from ages 6 to 10.

After the visits, Obama traveled to Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian territories. He served in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004, launching his campaign for U.S. Senate in 2003. Lugar and Obama inspected a Nunn-Lugar program-supported nuclear warhead destruction facility at Saratov, in southern European Russia. " Reviewer Michael Tomasky writes that it does not contain "boldly innovative policy prescriptions that will lead the Democrats out of their wilderness," but does show Obama's potential to "construct a new politics that is progressive but grounded in civic traditions that speak to a wider range of Americans. Obama said, "The time has come for universal health care in America Z...Z I am absolutely determined that by the end of the first term of the next president, we should have universal health care in this country. Asked to name a "hidden talent," Obama answered: "I'm a pretty good poker player. Obama took an active role in the Senate's drive for improved border security and immigration reform. In Chapter 6 of the book, titled "Faith," Obama writes that he "was not raised in a religious household.