wht do u kno bout barack obama?
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Early life\nBarack Obama was born at the Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu to Harvard-educated economist Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a native of Kenya, and S. Ann Dunham, of Wichita, Kansas. At the time of Obama's birth, both his parents were students at the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Barack initially followed his Muslim father's religion, but later became a Christian.\n\nOf his years in Hawaii, Obama has written, "The irony is that my decision to work in politics, and to pursue such a career in a big Mainland city, in some sense grows out of my Hawaiian upbringing, and the ideal that Hawaii still represents in my mind."\n\nWhen Obama was two years old, his parents divorced. His father eventually returned to Kenya, and he saw his son only once more before his death in 1982. Ann Obama married another East-West Center student from Indonesia. In his early childhood while growing up with his mother, Barack used the name 'Barry'. The family then moved to Jakarta, where Obama's half-sister Maya was born (Obama has other half-siblings from his father's other marriages). When Obama was ten he returned to Hawaii under the care of his grandparents, and later his mother, for the better educational opportunities. He was enrolled in the fifth grade at Punahou School, where he graduated with honors in 1979.\n\nCollege and career\nUpon finishing high school, Obama studied for two years at Occidental College, before transferring to Columbia University. There he majored in political science, with a specialization in international relations. Upon graduation, he worked for a year at newsletter publisher Business International (now part of The Economist Group), and then moved to Chicago, where he took up community organizing in the Altgeld Gardens housing project on the city's South Side. It was during his time spent here that Obama became a Christian and joined the Trinity United Church of Christ.\n\nHe left Chicago for three years to study law at Harvard University, where he was elected the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. He graduated magna cum laude. While working one summer at a corporate law firm in 1989, Obama met Michelle Robinson, then an associate attorney at the firm; he married her in 1992.\n\nAfter law school, he returned to serving as a community organizer in Chicago. Obama organized an aggressive voter registration effort that registered over 100,000 voters and aided in the election of President Bill Clinton and Senator Carol Moseley Braun, the first African-American woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate. Soon after, he joined a local civil rights law firm, and he became a lecturer of constitutional law at the University of Chicago.\n\nPolitics\nIllinois General Assembly\nIn 1996, Obama was elected to the Illinois State Senate from the south side neighborhood of Hyde Park, in Chicago. He served as chairman of the Public Health and Welfare Committee when the Democrats regained control of the chamber. The Chicago Tribune called him "one of the General Assembly's most impressive members."\n\nRegarded as a staunch liberal during his tenure in the legislature, he helped to author a state Earned Income Tax Credit that provided benefits to the working poor. He also worked for legislation that would cover residents who could not afford health insurance. Speaking up for leading gay and lesbian advocacy groups, he successfully helped pass bills to increase funding for AIDS prevention and care programs.\n\nIn 2000, he ran unsuccessfully in the Democratic primary for Illinois' 1st Congressional district against incumbent Representative Bobby Rush. Rush received 61% of the vote, while Obama received 30%. [1]\n\nAfter the loss, Obama rededicated his efforts to the state Senate. He authored one of the most progressive death penalty reform laws in the nation, under the guidance of former U.S. Senator Paul Simon. He also pushed through legislatio
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Get yourself a bible and a pulpit! Then win the Powerball (its 250 million today) and donate all of the money to the GOP. Then maybe you will get to meet him!\n\nJust Remember... Its not whatchya know... Its how much money you got!
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What are you doing here!? Get your ass into the White House man! You couldn't make better sense.
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let me know how you feel on key issues. you email me and if there any good i'll pass them along. rock out the white house good luck.
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just ask her about him
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I think that Obama is very smart, atractive and has caused enough of a stir to make him a viable candidate. He might have a tough time getting the nomination against Hillary Clinton due to her money raising ability.  I also like Joe Biden the senior senator from Deleware. He has a vast experience in foreign relations which is something we need at this time.
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Good guy with a spine (here that Libs?.......  He has a spine).  Something you may want to think about before choosing your next candidate.\n\nBush so aggravates Liberals, and that alone is worth some "brownie" points.
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I'm your prototypical white professional male.  And hell yes, Obama has my vote.  Seems to me he's the most levelheaded, articulate, and compassionate of the potential candidates.  I'm glad he's deciding to run.  Red, white, blue, purple, orange, it shouldn't matter.  He's got my vote.  Screw the idiots talking that Osama bullcrap.  Those are the same people who praise their leader for not finding the real Osama.
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I hope Barack Obama becomes president some day, and I'm pretty sure he will.  But he doesn't have enough experience to run in 2008.  By then he will only have had 4 years at the national level.  But I do hope he becomes president in 2012, 2016, 2020, or whenever.  He's still young, he has plenty of time.
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I thinkt hat you should try Barack Obama. He is a senator fro Illinois with a very intersting life story. He wrote about it in the book, Dreams From My Father.
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I hope to God that it's Barack Obama.
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I know nothing about him, so I would need to do some research on him.  His skin color is not relevant to me.  If I agreed with his views and he was qualified for the office that he might run for, I would consider voting for him.
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He's a Senator in my state and personally he's too much of a "finger in the wind ", fence rider.  He's for anything and stands for nothing.  He votes with the majority or opts out if it's too close.  He is personable.  He can talk you in circles and you may think it's wonderful, till you discover he's said nothing.  I am assuming you are African-American from your pic but do not assume that because he's black he has experienced the "black experience".  He's about as experienced with the pitfalls of the African-American community as I am.  Member of the skull and bones....same as Bush.  He's had his hands in not so legal aspects in this state.  Since he takes no definate stand on anything.......I don't like him.  I've written him and received many responses from him.  The more I know....the more I don't like him.  Great public presence does not = a good president.  Experience in the Illinois political system = experience in corruption not exactly "good" politics.  I personally don't like Hillary either.  She flip-flops.  He picks splinters out of his butt.\n\nBut.....I don't know HIM personally.  There are people I admire that do support him so my mind is open.  All I know is there is going to be great pressure on the first minority president whether it be black or female or anything else.....so they have to be pretty special people. It's a shame, I'm not saying it's right, but they would be breaking the mold for the future and have to be the absolute "right" person for the job.  Hillary has had her whole life and failures dragged through the public domain.  Not many even know who Obama is, let alone be under any real test.  It's gonna be a real wait and see.
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this question is sooooo over-asked but for two points, what the hey! \n\nI don't know the man personally but I disagree with many of his policies and his public persona does not make me want to get to know him any better. Can't wait till 2008 when the Democratic Party will take back the White House!
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Study USA History!\nEspecially hist of your Presidents!\nExcept for one odd, rest had / has been betraying the nation.
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Here is a lot of info on barack, i think the answer is no.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama.
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what are u talkin about?