Barack Obama
Barack Obama
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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| Opinions Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008
Call Off the Pit Bull Palin has trained her moose-hunting sights on bigger trophies -- Barack Obama and the media. Building on Common Ground With Russia We are more aligned than at any point in recent history. We must not waste that opportunity. Globalizing The Crisis Response The G-7 and emerging nations need to work together to avert a steep decline in the world economy. Health Insurance For All Republicans should follow their own logic and make the ownership of private health insurance an entitlement. Who Is John McCain? McCain and Palin want to turn the campaign into a guilt-by-association knife fight. It's not going to work.
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