barack obama

     

Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. (pronounce /bəˈrɑːk hʊˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2008 presidential election. He is the first African American to be the presumptive presidential nominee of any major American political party.

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  • He's the only president since 1900 whose last name contains more vowels than consonants
  • He's the only African American currently serving in the U.S. Senate
  • "Dreams From My Father"
  • Secretary of Health & Human Services Kathleen Sebelius
  • Born in Honolulu August 4, 1961, he was given the same Swahili name as his father; it means "blessed by God"
  • "If there's one thing that has unified Democrats and Republicans, it's that we all hated the bank bailout"
  • North Carolina,2008
  • This senator was the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review
  • Now an Illinois senator, he gave the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention
  • Illinois made this self-described "skinny kid with a funny name" the fifth black senator ever elected
  • In "Dreams from My Father" this senator told "a story of race and inheritance"
  • In the Senate, Mark Kirk replaced Roland Burris, who had replaced this man

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