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, Dec. 5, 2008

Henry Kissinger
Team of Heavyweights
How Obama's bold national security choices could pay dividends.

E.J. Dionne Jr.
Obama's Manna
The call for stimulus presents an opportunity for Obama.

Eugene Robinson
Regret-Me-Not
Remember when George W. Bush couldn't think of any mistakes he had made? Unbelievably, he still can't.

Charles Krauthammer
Milestone in Baghdad
The ratification of military and strategic cooperation agreements between Iraq and the U.S. was a major accomplishment.

Michael Gerson
In Mumbai This Time
To assume the presidency is to assume a responsibility for the safety of the American people.

Kathleen Parker
Oogedy-boogedy in the Bloxicon
It isn't so much God causing the GOP problems; it's his fan club.

Dan Froomkin's White House Watch
You Mean We Can Talk Back?
The Obama transition team is actually soliciting public comments, reading them and responding to them.

Tom TOLES& Ann TELNAES