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Barack Obama is a liberal Democratic Senator from Illinois, elected to the United States Senate in 2004 after serving as a state Senator. He is a liberal candidate and Democratic front-runner for the 2008 United States Presidential election. Commentators have noted that he has many strikes against him in the eyes of the American people, and many for him as well. He is has been criticzed as being politically inexperienced, although he has retorted showing that some of the greatest presidents in American history were criticized for the same reason. He is of African descent, which may cause people to pre-judge him. Obama wrote [[The Audacity of Hope]], a national bestseller, published in late 2006.
== Personal Life ==
Obama was born in [[Hawaii]] on August 4, 1961. His father was a [[Kenya|Kenyan]] former farmer, and his mother a US citizen from [[Kansas]]. His parents divorced when he was two, and Obama's mother remarried to an [[Indonesia|Indonesian]] man and relocated the family to [[Jakarta]]. From age ten he lived in Hawaii with his maternal grandparents. Barack has admitted to using drugs in his past, when he was attempting to find himself. He was a user of [[cocaine]] and [[marjauana]]. He completed high school in 1979. Obama has a law degree from [[Harvard University]] and a BA from [[Columbia University]]. Until he entered politics in the 1990s, he was a senior lecturer in [[Constitution|constitutional]] law at the [[University of Chicago]].
