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.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS McCain Campaign Calls; A Nonprofit Steps In For weeks, Republican presidential candidate John McCain had been hammered for supporting the Air Force's February decision to award a $40 billion contract for refueling tankers to Northrop Grumman and its European partner. Democrats, labor unions and others blamed the senator for a deal they say... (By Robert O'Harrow Jr., The Washington Post)
POLITICS Democrats Meet Today To Hash Out Fla., Mich. When Democratic Party leaders voted on Aug. 25, 2007, to sanction Florida Democrats for moving up the date of their presidential primary, no one anticipated that the decision would lead to a tense showdown that will help decide the outcome of the nomination battle between Sens. Barack Obama and... (By Dan Balz, The Washington Post)
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NATION Intelligence Official Sees Little Progress Before Bush Exits Previewing the world for the next U.S. president, a top U.S. intelligence official this week predicted that the Bush administration would make little progress before leaving office on top national security priorities including an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, political reconciliation in Iraq... (By Karen DeYoung, The Washington Post)
WORLD From Russia, A Cinematic Double Take On WWII Era VOISKOVITSY, Russia -- In the 1994 Russian film "Burnt by the Sun," the idyllic life of a family at their country home outside Moscow is smashed on a single day by Stalinism. Fans of the movie, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, are likely to be startled by a coming sequel. And not only... (By Peter Finn, The Washington Post)
For China's Local Officials, a New Test Often Dismissed as Remiss or Corrupt, Bureaucrats Now Find Themselves The Main Caretakers for Quake Victims (By Jill Drew, The Washington Post)
METRO Adoring Fans, Incognito Celebs Revel in Spelling's Super Bowl Without warning, one contestant came face to face last night with something that you don't want to encounter while you are appearing live on network television: prosopopoeia. It's a rhetorical device, and, despite the poise and ability he had shown through many grueling rounds, Sidharth Chand, 12,... (By Petula Dvorak and Jonathan Mummolo, The Washington Post)
BUSINESS More Step Up To Complain About FAA Kim Farrington says she was only doing her job as a Federal Aviation Administration inspector when she raised concerns about problems involving an airline's training program. But her bosses, who she thought were too cozy with the carrier, punished her for her warnings, she said. (By Del Quentin Wilber, The Washington Post)
TECHNOLOGY Scrutiny of Phone Fees May Broaden to TV, Internet A planned federal hearing on penalties that cellphone users pay for canceling their contracts early may be expanded to include a discussion on similar fees for ending cable and Internet services ahead of schedule, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said in an interview yesterday. (By Cecilia Kang, The Washington Post)
A Wii Bounce in Seniors' Steps Video Game Sports Tourney Helps Md. Competitors Stay Fit, Engaged (By Megan Greenwell and Katherine Shaver, The Washington Post)
SPORTS The Diplomat Who Touches All the Bases Officially, for the last 6 1/2 years, Ryozo Kato's title in Washington has been ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of Japan to the United States of America. (By Thomas Boswell, The Washington Post)
STYLE High Society In a city built on networking, there is one relationship in your 20s and 30s that is particularly important to cultivate, one contact that can help create the definitive summer experience of snatches of sun and weekends of nothingness that nevertheless feel smugly accomplished. (By Monica Hesse, The Washington Post)
NAMES & FACES While Garry Trudeau is on a 12-week hiatus from "Doonesbury," The Post is testing three new comics. The third is "The Knight Life." Please let us know how you like it. Visit http://comicsurvey.washpost.com; write Comics Feedback, 1150 15th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20071; e-mail comics@washpost.com; or call the Comics Hotline at 202-334-4775. (The Washington Post)
Worth a Closer Look Mary McCormack Sharpens 'Plain Sight' (By Tom Shales, The Washington Post)
Field of Schemes THOSE FAVORING the use of city money to help build a soccer stadium on the D.C. waterfront are irked that word about their plans leaked out. Publicity is seen as death to the project. What, though, does it say about the worth of this undertaking if the details must be hidden and if even its champ... (The Washington Post)
Web Cops To avoid more regulation, Internet service providers ought to disclose more. (The Washington Post)
Corruption Reality Check A report shows the limits of what World Bank reformers can do. (The Washington Post)
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"President Bush signs the "Coburn-Obama" Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006.
His opponent in the general election was expected to be Republican primary winner Jack Ryan.
"He was an early opponent of Bush administration policies on Iraq.
He is a member of the Senate committees on Foreign Relations; Health, Education, Labor and Pensions; Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs; and Veterans' Affairs; and the Congressional Black Caucus.
He entered Harvard Law School in 1988.
Hopefund gave US$374,000 to federal candidates in the 2006 election cycle, making it one of the top donors to federal candidates for the year.
Obama sponsored 152 bills and resolutions brought before the 109th Congress in 2005 and 2006, and cosponsored another 427.
Supporters and critics have likened Obama's popular image to a cultural Rorschach test, a neutral persona on which people can project their personal histories and aspirations.
Barack Hussein Obama (born August 4, 1961) is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and a member of the Democratic Party.
After describing his maternal grandfather's experiences as a World War II veteran and a beneficiary of the New Deal's FHA and G.I. Bill programs, Obama said: No, people don't expect government to solve all their problems.
Obama's candidacy was boosted by an advertising campaign featuring images of the late Chicago Mayor Harold Washington and the late U.S.
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, May 30, 2008
TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS Campaign Jousting Returns to Iraq War After a strong push from Sen. John McCain's allies, the war in Iraq has moved back to center stage in the presidential election, with McCain attacking Sen. Barack Obama for making up his mind about the war without visiting the war zone and Obama charging that McCain has yet to learn the lessons of... (By Jonathan Weisman, The Washington Post)
POLITICS Campaign Jousting Returns to Iraq War After a strong push from Sen. John McCain's allies, the war in Iraq has moved back to center stage in the presidential election, with McCain attacking Sen. Barack Obama for making up his mind about the war without visiting the war zone and Obama charging that McCain has yet to learn the lessons of... (By Jonathan Weisman, The Washington Post)
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NATION McClellan Says Book's Tone Evolved Scott McClellan says he did not set out to write a memoir that was sharply critical of the White House. Indeed, one publishing industry insider described his early concept as "a not-very-interesting, typical press secretary book." (By Dan Eggen and Linton Weeks, The Washington Post)
WORLD Food Prices Predicted to Ease Before Entering Steady Climb PARIS, May 29 -- The recent steep jump in global food prices should ease in the near term, according to a new report, but prices over the next decade are likely to remain high, spurred by the rising cost of oil, the declining dollar and increasing demand for biofuels. (By John Ward Anderson, The Washington Post)
METRO D.C. Official's Brother Pleads Guilty In Tax Scam A key figure in the D.C. tax scandal pleaded guilty yesterday to two felony charges, admitting that he funneled millions of dollars in illegal property tax refunds through his plumbing company and used the money in part to build an ocean-view home in the Virgin Islands, buy a Bentley and purchase... (By Sylvia Moreno, The Washington Post)
FBI Raids Home of Maryland State Senator Consulting Relationship With Shoppers Food Warehouse Comes Under Investigation (By Rosalind S. Helderman, John Wagner and Ovetta Wiggins, The Washington Post)
Fenty's Fitness for Office The Discipline That D.C. Mayor Brings to Cycling, Running Also Marks Politics, Some Say (By David Nakamura, The Washington Post)
BUSINESS Fluid Fortunes The headquarters of two leading asset management firms, Legg Mason and T. Rowe Price, stand a block apart on Baltimore's Inner Harbor, but more than a city street divides them. (By Tomoeh Murakami Tse, The Washington Post)
TECHNOLOGY Russian Firm Buys McLean's International Launch A Russian space hardware manufacturer is now the majority owner of International Launch Services, a McLean company formed 15 years ago to help market and manage commercial rocket launches for the Russian firm. (By Alejandro Lazo, The Washington Post)
SPORTS Speed, Stamina Make for a Smooth 'Drive' The horseracing world is atwitter over Casino Drive, the best bet to steal the final jewel of the Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes, away from Big Brown. (By Blaine Harden, The Washington Post)
Bryant Drives Lakers Into Finals Once-Dissatisfied Star Leads Rally from 17-Point Deficit to Dethrone Spurs : Lakers 100, Spurs 92 (By Michael Lee, The Washington Post)
STYLE A Little Bit of Pluck The Tweezerman saga is a classic American story of a guy with a dream rising from rags to riches, then coming to Washington to change the world, but the truly amazing part is that the whole thing -- the gourmet tweezer empire, the movie producing, the peace mission to Iraq, the run for president --... (By Peter Carlson, The Washington Post)
LIVE DISCUSSIONS Boswell on Baseball Washington Post sports columnist Thomas Boswell takes your questions about the Washington Nationals and the rest of Major League Baseball. (Thomas Boswell, washingtonpost.com)
The 'Lost' Hour The Season Finale (Jen Chaney and Liz Kelly, washingtonpost.com)
Let Them Eat Frogs "THE SEARCH for food begins just after dawn," the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday from a small, devastated village in Burma. "Each day, men, women and children fan out into paddies flooded by seawater, littered with corpses. Like prospectors working claims, they scoop up the muck in their bare... (The Washington Post)
A Big Problem Solved? A new study on childhood obesity is no reason to trim back efforts to slim down children. (The Washington Post)
Neal Potter A politician who personified the Montgomery County tradition of thoughtful, open governance (The Washington Post)
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"The announcement followed months of speculation on whether Obama would run in 2008.
He married in 1992 and has two daughters.
S. 2611 passed the Senate in May 2006, but failed to gain majority support in the U.S. House of Representatives.
We've got it all.
He was overwhelmingly reelected to the Illinois Senate in 1998 and 2002, officially resigning in November 2004, following his election to the U.S. Senate.
" The chapter details how Obama, in his twenties, while working with local churches as a community organizer, came to understand "the power of the African American religious tradition to spur social change.
Hillary Clinton (D-NY) who placed first with 28% of the responses.
And they want that choice.
He is among the Democratic Party's leading candidates for nomination in the 2008 U.S. presidential election.
In 2000, he made an unsuccessful Democratic primary run for the U.S. House of Representatives seat held by four-term incumbent candidate Bobby Rush.
Obama began podcasting from his U.S. Senate web site in late 2005.
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.
In early May 2007, the U.S. Secret Service announced that Obama had been placed under their protection.
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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He flew his wife and two daughters from Chicago to join him in a visit to his father's birthplace, a village near Kisumu in rural western Kenya.
He served in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004, launching his campaign for U.S. Senate in 2003.
The first such poll, taken in November 2006, ranked Obama in second place with 17% support among Democrats after Sen.
The donations came from 104,000 individual donors, with US$6.9 million raised through the Internet from 50,000 of the donors.
In the November 2004 general election, Obama received 70% of the vote to Keyes's 27%.
Since announcing his candidacy in February 2007, Obama has emphasized ending the Iraq War and implementing universal health care as campaign themes.
Obama's campaign reported raising US$25.8 million between January 1 and March 31 of 2007.
Obama left for his third official trip in August 2006, traveling to South Africa and Kenya, and making stops in Djibouti, Ethiopia and Chad.
" 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.
If elected, Obama would become the first non-white U.S. president.
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, May 29, 2008
TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS Ex-Colleagues Ask, 'What Happened?' Scott McClellan was the ultimate Bush loyalist. He went to work for George W. Bush when he was Texas governor in 1999, helped Bush gain the White House in 2000, and then came to Washington to defend the president for the next six years on such issues as the war in Iraq and Hurricane Katrina. (By Dan Eggen, The Washington Post)
POLITICS On Policy, Obama Breaks Little New Ground Already famous for his speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Barack Obama entered the Senate with more than the usual aspirations about the impact he could have. (By Perry Bacon Jr., The Washington Post)
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NATION Colonel Says Speaking Out Cost a Medal The former chief military prosecutor for terrorism trials at Guantanamo Bay thinks the Defense Department has punished him for testifying publicly that he faced political pressure to speed up the cases and to use evidence derived from torture. (By Josh White, The Washington Post)
WORLD 111 Nations, Minus the U.S., Agree to Cluster-Bomb Ban LONDON, May 28 -- More than 100 countries reached agreement Wednesday to ban cluster bombs, controversial weapons that human rights groups deplore but that the United States, which did not join the ban, calls an integral, legitimate part of its arsenal. (By Kevin Sullivan and Josh White, The Washington Post)
METRO Cardiac Response Lags in D.C. Only one in eight cardiac arrest patients transported by District ambulances make it to an emergency room with a pulse. Across the river in Arlington County and Alexandria, the rate is twice as high. (By Elissa Silverman, The Washington Post)
Not Safe Even at Home The bullet in the living-room wall. The sight of a daylight gunfight. Residents have plenty of evidence of the dangers in the District's Rosedale neighborhood. And the violence tends to increase in the summer. (By Sue Anne Pressley Montes, The Washington Post)
BUSINESS It's Wall Street, Without the Cash NEW YORK, May 28 -- What's truly odd about the demise of a Wall Street firm, it turns out, isn't the noise of the implosion but the quiet of the rubble. A post-calamity hush has settled over Bear Stearns's Manhattan headquarters. Traders who haven't left their desks for years take two-hour lunches.... (By David Segal, The Washington Post)
TECHNOLOGY U.S. Experts Bemoan Nation's Loss of Stature in the World of Science NEW YORK, May 28 -- Some of the nation's leading scientists, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's top science adviser, today sharply criticized the diminished role of science in the United States and the shortage of federal funding for research, even as science becomes increasingly... (By Keith B. Richburg, The Washington Post)
SPORTS Penguins Finally Find Offense at Home Sidney Crosby scores Pittsburgh's first two goals of the Stanley Cup finals and the Penguins beat the Red Wings, 3-2, to cut into Detroit's 2-1 series lead. (By IRA PODELL, AP)
Cycling's Drug Test After Years of Doping Controversies, the Tarnished Sport Knows It Has to Come Clean or Become Obsolete (By John Ward Anderson, The Washington Post)
STYLE 'City' Extends Its Chic Streak Girls, can we talk? When it comes to "Sex and the City," the breathlessly anticipated feature adaptation of the hit HBO show, the question isn't whether it's good. The question is whether it delivers the goods -- the goods being shoes, romance, ribald humor, shoes, sex, shoes, pithy observations ... (By Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post)
The Reliable Source (By Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts, The Washington Post)
It's Wall Street, Without the Cash With Only Memories to Trade, Bear Stearns Employees Awaiting Sale to JP Morgan (By David Segal, The Washington Post)
LIVE DISCUSSIONS 'Rita Rudner: Live from Las Vegas' Standup comic Rita Rudner takes your questions about her act, career and her new PBS special. (Rita Rudner, washingtonpost.com)
GI Twist "THERE ARE many issues that lend themselves to partisan posturing, but giving our veterans the chance to go to college should not be one of them." So pronounced the Democrats' likely presidential nominee, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, on the floor of the Senate last week. This was a lovely sentimen... (The Washington Post)
Flawed Victory The Supreme Court stretches the law to help victims of workplace retaliation. (The Washington Post)
Judicial Tampering Who pressured a panel to nominate a state senator's son for an Anne Arundel County court seat? (The Washington Post)
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We've got it all.
" Speaking before the National Press Club in April 2005, Obama defended the New Deal social welfare policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt, associating Republican proposals to establish private accounts for Social Security with Social Darwinism.
In 1985, Obama moved to Chicago to direct a non-profit project assisting local churches to organize job training programs.
Born to a Kenyan father and an American mother, Obama grew up in culturally diverse surroundings.
Obama began podcasting from his U.S. Senate web site in late 2005.
Obama's candidacy was boosted by an advertising campaign featuring images of the late Chicago Mayor Harold Washington and the late U.S.
Addressing the Chicago Council on Global Affairs in November 2006, Obama called for a phased withdrawal of troops and an opening of diplomatic dialogue with Iraq's neighbors, Syria and Iran.
The speech was Obama's introduction to most of America.
His second book, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, was published in October 2006, three weeks before the 2006 midterm election.
They know we can do better.
The book's last chapters describe his first visit to Kenya, a journey to connect with his Luo family and heritage.
He has responded to and personally participated in online discussions hosted on politically-oriented blog sites.
On the first day of the Democratic-controlled 110th Congress, in a column published in the Washington Post, Obama called for an end to "any and all practices that would lead a reasonable person to believe that a public servant has become indebted to a lobbyist.
His mother married Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian foreign student, with whom she had one daughter, Maya.
In early May 2007, the U.S. Secret Service announced that Obama had been placed under their protection.
Barack Hussein Obama (born August 4, 1961) is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and a member of the Democratic Party.
His opponent in the general election was expected to be Republican primary winner Jack Ryan.
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.
