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 Friday, Nov. 7, 2008

Charles Krauthammer
The Campaign Autopsy
He will be remembered as the most worthy presidential nominee ever to be denied the prize. What went wrong?

John Boehner
Republicans' Road Back
Rebuilding the GOP will mean fighting the left's out-of-step agenda and selling a better vision.

Kathleen Parker
Light in November
What Obama's election means to a white Southern conservative.

Michael Gerson
The Decency of George W. Bush
I will never be cynical about government -- or about President Bush.

Harold Meyerson
A Real Realignment
The future of American politics is more racially diverse, better educated, and more metropolitan.

Jennifer Donnelly
Vows That Can't Be Voted Down
No vote can pass judgment on my actual marriage.

Dan Froomkin's White House Watch
A Different Kind of White House
In selecting Rahm Emanuel to be his chief of staff, President-elect Barack Obama is telegraphing that he intends his White House to operate very differently from President Bush's.

Tom TOLES & Ann TELNAES