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.
Friday, November 30, 2007
TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS Iraqis' Quality of Life Marked By Slow Gains, Many Setbacks BAGHDAD, Nov. 29 -- This war-battered city, according to U.S. statistics, now receives an average of 11.9 hours of electricity a day, far more than earlier this year. But don't tell that to Ghaida al-Banna. (By Amit R. Paley and Karen DeYoung, The Washington Post)
The Candidate's 'Catch Me if You Can' Reporters Following Hillary Clinton on the Campaign Trail Are Covered in Dust (By Howard Kurtz, The Washington Post)
Strutting Toward Another World Contestants in Southern Sudan's First Beauty Pageant Grew Up Dodging War (By Stephanie McCrummen, The Washington Post)
POLITICS FBI's Gun Ban Listing Swells Since the Virginia Tech shootings last spring, the FBI has more than doubled the number of people nationwide who are prohibited from buying guns because of mental health problems, the Justice Department said yesterday. (By Dan Eggen, The Washington Post)
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NATION A Mixed Blessing for Aspiring Lawyers For months, Beirne Roose-Snyder has struggled with what she will do after graduating from Georgetown University Law Center. Should she accept the $145,000-a-year offer from a Chicago firm? Or should she gamble and look for a potentially more satisfying public interest job? She and her husband are... (By Ian Shapira, The Washington Post)
WORLD Globally, Deaths From Measles Drop Sharply Worldwide deaths from measles have fallen by two-thirds since 2000, the result of stepped-up immunization efforts and the distribution of vitamin A capsules in developing countries, a partnership of five health organizations said yesterday. (By David Brown, The Washington Post)
METRO Protest, Forums To Mark AIDS Day Vigils, curbside HIV screening, public forums with District teens and a demonstration across from the White House are planned for today and this weekend to mark World AIDS Day in the city with the worst rate of infection in the United States. (By Susan Levine, The Washington Post)
A Mixed Blessing for Aspiring Lawyers High Tuition and Debt Lure Graduates Toward High Pay, Away from Public Service Jobs (By Ian Shapira, The Washington Post)
BUSINESS Whose Music in Silver Spring? It wasn't too many years ago that even street musicians would refuse to perform in downtown Silver Spring. Now things are so hopping that you've got Live Nation, the country's biggest live music outfit, and Seth Hurwitz, owner of the District's 9:30 Club and operator of the Merriweather Post... (By Steven Pearlstein, The Washington Post)
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A Mixed Blessing for Aspiring Lawyers High Tuition and Debt Lure Graduates Toward High Pay, Away from Public Service Jobs (By Ian Shapira, The Washington Post)
TECHNOLOGY Publishers Seeking Web Controls The desire for greater control over how search engines index and display Web sites is driving an effort launched yesterday by leading news organizations and other publishers to revise a 13-year-old technology for restricting access. (By Anick Jesdanun, The Washington Post)
SPORTS Speculation and Secrecy Cloud Taylor Investigation Family and friends of Redskins safety Sean Taylor struggle Thursday with competing theories about the motives behind the attack but have few tangible clues. (By Amy Shipley and Peter Whoriskey, The Washington Post)
Cowboys Stay a Step Ahead of It All With Favre Sidelined, Dallas Improves to NFC-Best 11-1 : Cowboys 37, Packers 27 (By Mark Maske, The Washington Post)
STYLE End of the Roadhouse The exact whereabouts are like secret knowledge, passed around by people who grew up in places like Mount Rainier, or Bladensburg -- when they were hard-living blue-collar white-complexion neighborhoods just over the city line, before they got "art districts," brew pubs and Salvadoran restaurants... (By David Montgomery, The Washington Post)
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EDITORIALS The Newest Nativists THE CANDIDATES in the Republican debate Wednesday night made a great deal of sense about immigration -- when they were discussing measures they'd implemented as leaders forced to deal with reality. At least two of them turned to ugly nonsense as soon as they weren't defending their own records. (The Washington Post)
Sharing the Pain To bridge a budget gap in Montgomery, look to county workers' pay. (The Washington Post)
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The Rasmussen polling organization reported in May 2007 that 49% of Americans consider it "somewhat likely" or "very likely" that Obama will be elected.
In 2003, Obama began his run for the U.S. Senate open seat vacated by Peter Fitzgerald.
" In an October 2006 interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Obama highlighted the diversity of his extended family: "Michelle will tell you that when we get together for Christmas or Thanksgiving, it's like a little mini-United Nations," he said.
" But in an October 2006 article titled "Obama: Black Like Me," British columnist Gary Younge describes Obama as "a black man who does not scare white people.
Obama, who defines himself in The Audacity of Hope as "a Democrat, after all," has been criticized for his political actions by self-described progressive commentator David Sirota, and complimented for his "Can't we all just get along?" manner by conservative columnist George Will.
Obama encouraged "others in public life to do the same" to show "there is no shame in going for an HIV test.
Senator Paul Simon; the support of Simon's daughter; and political endorsements by the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times.
In January 2006, Obama joined a Congressional delegation for meetings with U.S. military in Kuwait and Iraq.
Barack Hussein Obama (born August 4, 1961) is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and a member of the Democratic Party.
Partnering first with Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN), and then with Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), Obama successfully introduced two initiatives bearing his name.
Obama has encouraged Democrats to reach out to evangelicals and other religious people, saying, "if we truly hope to speak to people where they’re at—to communicate our hopes and values in a way that’s relevant to their own—we cannot abandon the field of religious discourse.
And they want that choice.
"During his first year as a U.S. senator, in a move more typically taken after several years of holding high political office, Obama established a leadership political action committee, Hopefund, for channeling financial support to Democratic candidates.
It was an immediate bestseller and remains on the New York Times Best Seller List.
" He describes his mother, raised by non-religious parents, as detached from religion, yet "in many ways the most spiritually awakened person that I have ever known.
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.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS Foes Use Obama's Muslim Ties to Fuel Rumors About Him In his speeches and often on the Internet, the part of Sen. Barack Obama's biography that gets the most attention is not his race but his connections to the Muslim world. (By Perry Bacon Jr., The Washington Post)
POLITICS In Debate, Romney and Giuliani Clash on Immigration Issues ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Nov. 28 -- The Republican candidates for president engaged in a two-hour free-for-all Wednesday night, repeatedly confronting one another directly even as they fielded video questions submitted by Internet users in the most spirited debate of the 2008 presidential campaign. (By Michael D. Shear and Dan Balz, The Washington Post)
Negotiators Close In on Energy Measure Bill Raises Ethanol, Efficiency Targets; Fuel Credits for Auto Industry at Issue (By Steven Mufson, The Washington Post)
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NATION Municipal Bond Deals Squeezed By Credit Crisis The widening credit crunch is making it harder for cities and school systems to get money for buildings, ballparks and other vital projects from the $2.5 trillion market for municipal bonds, a sector of Wall Street that rarely sees trouble. (By David Cho, The Washington Post)
WORLD Moscow May Host Middle East Follow-Up Russia and the United States are tentatively planning a second Middle East peace conference, in Moscow in early 2008, with major parties hoping to begin a comprehensive peace effort that would include direct talks between Israel and Syria, according to U.S., Russian, Arab and European officials. (By Robin Wright and Michael Abramowitz, The Washington Post)
Musharraf to Take Oath as Civilian Leader Pakistani President Plans to Announce Timeline for Lifting Emergency Rule, Officials Say (By Pamela Constable, The Washington Post)
METRO Virginia GOP Gets Strict on Voting RICHMOND, Nov. 28 -- The loyalty pledge to the Republican Party that Virginia voters will be required to sign if they vote in the state's GOP presidential primary on Feb. 12 is another attempt by the party to police the open primary system. (By Tim Craig and Anita Kumar, The Washington Post)
BUSINESS Municipal Bond Deals Squeezed By Credit Crisis The widening credit crunch is making it harder for cities and school systems to get money for buildings, ballparks and other vital projects from the $2.5 trillion market for municipal bonds, a sector of Wall Street that rarely sees trouble. (By David Cho, The Washington Post)
Negotiators Close In on Energy Measure Bill Raises Ethanol, Efficiency Targets; Fuel Credits for Auto Industry at Issue (By Steven Mufson, The Washington Post)
TECHNOLOGY Brand Name to Brand X, Y and Z AOL has begun flooding the Web with dozens of new and updated products, many of which do not even bear its famous name, in an attempt to expand its network and reach people wherever they may be. (By Zachary A. Goldfarb, The Washington Post)
SPORTS Somber Redskins Stand Together Buoyed by an inspirational speech from Sean Taylor's father and a visit with some of their teammate's family members and girlfriend, the Redskins return to work.. (By Jason La Canfora and Jason Reid, The Washington Post)
STYLE Pearl's Unfaded Luster It was chilly outside and the trees were barren. But when the news came, it raced around the neighborhood like blown leaves. Earl "The Pearl" Monroe and his Baltimore Bullets were coming to Columbus, Ohio, to the Fairgrounds Coliseum. We didn't have an NBA team in Columbus, but the Cincinnati Royals... (By Wil Haygood, The Washington Post)
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Pulling Their Punch Lines While Political Races Heat Up, Writers' Strike Leaves Late-Night Humorists Speechless (By Paul Farhi, The Washington Post)
LIVE DISCUSSIONS Personal Tech: Holiday Guide 2007 The Washington Post's Rob Pegoraro discusses his recent reviews and answers your personal tech questions. (Rob Pegoraro, washingtonpost.com)
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EDITORIALS The General Retires PAKISTAN took an important step toward ending its political crisis when President Pervez Musharraf stepped down yesterday as commander of the army -- the position from which he staged his 1999 coup against a democratically elected government and from which he imposed de facto martial law this mon... (The Washington Post)
Cool Off, Mr. Lott The retiring senator should not race through the revolving door. (The Washington Post)
D.C. School Closings Mayor Fenty makes some hard but necessary calls. (The Washington Post)
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" An Italian translation was published in April 2007 with a preface by Walter Veltroni, Mayor of Rome, and a Spanish paperback edition was published in June 2007.
Through the first two quarters of fundraising, Obama's campaign has received donations from a grand total of about 258,000 contributors, the most of any 2008 candidate.
Speaking to an elderly Jewish audience during his 2004 campaign for U.S. Senate, Obama linked the linguistic roots of his East African first name Barack to the Hebrew word baruch, meaning "blessed.
In a June 2006 podcast, Obama expressed support for telecommunications legislation to protect network neutrality on the Internet, saying: "It is because the Internet is a neutral platform that I can put out this podcast and transmit it over the Internet without having to go through any corporate media middleman.
" The audio book edition earned Obama the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album.
"Obama has authored two bestselling books.
" Entered in fulfillment of a campaign promise, the bill proposed increasing the maximum amount of Pell Grant awards to help students from lower income families pay their college tuitions.
" 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.
" In an October 2006 interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Obama highlighted the diversity of his extended family: "Michelle will tell you that when we get together for Christmas or Thanksgiving, it's like a little mini-United Nations," he said.
Of his early childhood, Obama writes: "That my father looked nothing like the people around me—that he was black as pitch, my mother white as milk—barely registered in my mind.
In it he recalls his childhood in Honolulu and Jakarta, college years in Los Angeles and New York City, and his employment as a community organizer in Chicago in the 1980s.
In January 2006, Obama joined a Congressional delegation for meetings with U.S. military in Kuwait and Iraq.
In 1985, Obama moved to Chicago to direct a non-profit project assisting local churches to organize job training programs.
The first, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, was published after his graduation from law school and before entering politics.
The first, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, was published after his graduation from law school and before entering politics.
" During his first two and a half years in the Senate, Obama received Honorary Doctorates of Law from Knox College, University of Massachusetts Boston, Northwestern University, Xavier University of Louisiana, and Southern New Hampshire University.
Obama was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996 from the state's 13th District in the south-side Chicago neighborhood of Hyde Park.
Obama participated in 38 fundraising events in 2005, helping to pull in US$6.
The speech was Obama's introduction to most of America.
Agreeing with Obama's own assessment that "people project their hopes on him," Noonan attributed some of Obama's popularity to "a certain unknowability."
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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In March 2007, speaking before AIPAC, a pro-Israel lobby, he said that while the U.S. "should take no option, including military action, off the table, sustained and aggressive diplomacy combined with tough sanctions should be our primary means to prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons.
" The audio book edition earned Obama the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album.
" He completed his J.D. degree magna cum laude in 1991.
The bill did not progress beyond committee and was never voted on by the Senate.
We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
As an associate attorney with Miner, Barnhill & Galland from 1993 to 1996, he represented community organizers, discrimination claims, and voting rights cases.
" He completed his J.D. degree magna cum laude in 1991.
On the role of government in economic affairs, Obama has written: "we should be asking ourselves what mix of policies will lead to a dynamic free market and widespread economic security, entrepreneurial innovation and upward mobility Z...Z we should be guided by what works.
Ehrenstein says these films are popular because they offer U.S. audiences a comfort for "white guilt.
You want a fight, President Bush? Let's finish the fight with Bin Laden and al-Qaeda, through effective, coordinated intelligence, and a shutting down of the financial networks that support terrorism, and a homeland security program that involves more than color-coded warnings.
"I've got relatives who look like Bernie Mac, and I've got relatives who look like Margaret Thatcher.