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| − | Barack Obama is a | + | Barack Obama is a Democratic Senator from Illinois, elected to the United States Senate in 2004 after serving as a state Senator. He is a candidate and Democratic front-runner for the 2008 United States Presidential election. He has been criticized as being politically inexperienced, although some of the greatest presidents in American history were criticized for the same reason. |
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Revision as of 20:41, March 19, 2007
Barack Obama is a Democratic Senator from Illinois, elected to the United States Senate in 2004 after serving as a state Senator. He is a candidate and Democratic front-runner for the 2008 United States Presidential election. He has been criticized as being politically inexperienced, although some of the greatest presidents in American history were criticized for the same reason.
Personal Life
Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961. His father was a Kenyan former farmer, and his mother a white US citizen from Kansas. His parents divorced when he was two, and Obama's mother remarried to an Indonesian man and relocated the family to Jakarta. From age ten he lived in Hawaii with his maternal grandparents. 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 constitutional law at the University of Chicago.