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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today's papers Not Even One By Jesse Stanchak
Posted Sunday, March 29, 2009, at 6:24 AM ET The Washington Post leads with government officials saying not a single major terrorist plot was thwarted using information obtained by waterboarding suspected terrorist mastermind Abu Zubaida. The national edition of the New York Times leads with a look at the challenges waiting for President Barack Obama during his trip to the G-20 summit in London. The Los Angeles Times leads with public health officials saying the decline in vaccination rates among California school children may put the state at risk for an epidemic. CIA officials initially believed Zubaida was an al Qaeda ringleader and that information he divulged after being waterboarded would prove crucial to preventing terrorist attacks. Both assumptions were wrong. Zubaida wasn't even an official member of al Qaeda. While he did possess some very useful information about al Qaeda's membership, most of it was obtained before he was waterboarded. The leads he provided later were almost all dead ends that wasted agents' valuable time and resources. The paper says that Zubaida may now prove to be a thorny legal issue for the White House. If he's brought to trial in the U.S. after being waterboarded, he could very well be set free and establish a dangerous precedent for other Guantanamo detainees. The administration is examining the possibility of transferring his custody to another country instead. To continue reading, click here. Jesse Stanchak is a writer living in Washington, D.C.
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In the November 2004 general election, Obama received 70% of the vote to Keyes's 27%.
They were married in 1992 and have two daughters, Malia, born in 1999, and Natasha ("Sasha"), born in 2001.
Obama was sworn in as a Senator on January 4, 2005.
His mother married Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian foreign student, with whom she had one daughter, Maya.
We coach Little League in the Blue States and yes, we got some gay friends in the Red States.
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.
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 a public gesture aimed to encourage more Kenyans to undergo voluntary HIV testing, Obama and his wife took HIV tests at a Kenyan clinic.
S. 2611 passed the Senate in May 2006, but failed to gain majority support in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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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today's papers Return Of The Benchmarks By Barron YoungSmith
Posted Saturday, March 28, 2009, at 7:22 AM ET The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times lead with Barack Obama announcing his new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Hoping to clarify and narrow our goals, Obama said that the U.S. objective in the region is to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat Al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and to prevent their return to either country in the future." Invoking the 9/11 attacks, Obama proposed a major push to expand Afghan security forces, improve the responsiveness of the Kabul government, reduce corruption, fight drug trafficking, and combat the Taliban. (He'll also boost Pakistan's counter-terror capacity and encourage detente with India.) Obama says he'll judge progress based on benchmarks related to those goals, revising the strategy as needed. The Wall Street Journal tops its world-wide newsbox with mass flooding in Fargo, North Dakota. To continue reading, click here. Barron YoungSmith is a reporter-researcher at The New Republic.
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Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to Barack Obama, Sr. (born in Nyanza Province, Kenya) and Ann Dunham (born in Wichita, Kansas).
In the same week, Zogby International reported that Obama leads all prospective Republican opponents in polling for the 2008 general election.
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.
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.
ABC News 7 (Chicago) reported Obama telling the students that "the U.S. will never recognize winning Hamas candidates unless the group renounces its fundamental mission to eliminate Israel," and that he had conveyed the same message in his meeting with Palestinian authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
Describing his working life in Illinois, and symbolically linking his presidential campaign to Abraham Lincoln's 1858 House Divided speech, Obama said: "That is why, in the shadow of the Old State Capitol, where Lincoln once called on a house divided to stand together, where common hopes and common dreams still live, I stand before you today to announce my candidacy for President of the United States of America.
"Obama's rapid rise from Illinois state legislator to U.S.
The U.S. Senate Historical Office lists him as the fifth African American Senator in U.S. history and the only African American currently serving in the U.S. Senate.
He entered Harvard Law School in 1988.
" 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.
Obama encouraged "others in public life to do the same" to show "there is no shame in going for an HIV test.
He hired former Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle's ex-chief of staff for the same position, and Karen Kornbluh, an economist who was deputy chief of staff to former Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin, as his policy adviser.
"I've never been a heavy smoker," Obama told the Chicago Tribune.
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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today's papers Sebelius Tapped as HHS Secretary By Justin Peters
Posted Sunday, March 1, 2009, at 4:35 AM ET The Washington Post leads with news that Kathleen Sebelius, the Democratic governor of Kansas, has been nominated as Secretary of Health and Human Services. The New York Times leads a story about how Barack Obama's election has rekindled hopes that the U.S. will soon take a major leadership role in global efforts to combat climate change. The Los Angeles Times leads a report on financial improprieties in the California governor's office; its top national story is a news feature on a veteran undercover CIA operative currently being tried for war crimes committed during the Balkan wars. Noting that her nomination comes days before a crucial White House summit on health reform, the Post blandly outlines Sebelius' resume and her gubernatorial experience with health care issues. The NYT analyzes the political implications of the pick, noting the governor's bipartisan credentials and devoting much space to her pro-choice background, which, for some reason, the paper seems to think may end up derailing her confirmation. The article cites the spectre of looming Catholic opposition to Sebelius' nomination, but neglects to mention that the Senate's Catholic bloc is by no means ideologically consistent on abortion issues. To continue reading, click here. Justin Peters is a writer in New York, and the editor of Polite.
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S. 2611 passed the Senate in May 2006, but failed to gain majority support in the U.S. House of Representatives.
His knowledge about his absent Luo father came mainly through family stories and photographs.
He spent most of his childhood in the majority-minority U.S. state of Hawaii and lived for four years in Indonesia.
President Bush signs the "Coburn-Obama" Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006.
" 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.
Since announcing his candidacy in February 2007, Obama has emphasized ending the Iraq War and implementing universal health care as campaign themes.
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.
In the memoir, Obama describes his experiences growing up in his mother's American middle class family.
He has responded to and personally participated in online discussions hosted on politically-oriented blog sites.