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Papers Big Donors Support Obama (MSNBC News) "Sen. Barack Obama credits his presidential campaign with creating a 'parallel public financing system' built on a wave of modest donations from homemakers and high school teachers. Small givers, he said at a fundraiser this week, 'will have as much access and influence over the course and direction of our campaign that has traditionally been reserved for the wealthy and the powerful.' " "But those with wealth and power also have played a critical role in creating Obama's record-breaking fundraising machine, and their generosity has earned them a prominent voice in shaping his campaign. Seventy-nine 'bundlers,' five of them billionaires, have tapped their personal networks to raise at least $200,000 each. They have helped the campaign recruit more than 27,000 donors to write checks for $2,300, the maximum allowed. Donors who have given more than $200 account for about half of Obama's total haul, which stands at nearly $240 million." 04-08 Cultural Differences in Views of Obama (Time.com) "After years of growing political polarization, much of the divide in American politics is partisan. But Americans’ perceptions of the fall presidential election between Mr. Obama, Democrat of Illinois, and Senator John McCain , Republican of Arizona, also underlined the racial discord that the poll found. More than 80 percent of black voters said they had a favorable opinion of Mr. Obama; about 30 percent of white voters said they had a favorable opinion of him." 07-08 Democrat - Barack Obama Biographical Articles (New York Times) Provides articles on Barack Obama. 03-08 Democratic Convention - Meteoric Rise of Keynote Speaker (MSNBC News) "Barack Obama says he'll use his convention speech to counter Republican accusations that the Democratic Party stands for big government and big spending." 7-04 Democratic Convention - More on Obama (CNN News) "Barack Obama, the son of a Kenyan father and a white mother from Kansas, born in Hawaii, raised in Chicago, was an little-known Illinois state Senator as recently as late last year." "Now, he's the state's Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, the subject of major features in The New Yorker and The New Republic magazines, the odds-on favorite to win the seat being vacated by Republican Peter Fitzgerald -- and he's getting the Democratic convention's glamour slot, giving the keynote address in the heart of prime time." 7-04 Fact Check on Obama (Time.com) "A new McCain ad calls Obama a celebrity (true) who says he'll raise taxes on electricity (false)." 07-08 Michelle Obama Speaks to the Convention (Youtube.com) Provides Michelle Obama's speech to the Democratic National Convention. 08-08 Michelle Obama's Fashion Home Run (CBS News) "The would-be first lady's fashion flair is already grabbing attention -- she's being closely watched as a possible budding fashion icon -- and most observers the outfit she selected for the big event clicked." 08-08 Obama Makes History (Christian Science Monitor) "He's first African-American to head presidential ticket of a major party, winning Democrats' long war of attrition." 06-08 Obama Strongly Denounces Former Pastor (MSNBC News) "Democrat Barack Obama said Tuesday he was outraged by the latest assertion by his former pastor that criticism of his fiery sermons is an attack on the black church." 04-08 Obama Tied to Lobbyists too (USA Today) "Barack Obama often boasts he is 'the only candidate who isn't taking a dime from Washington lobbyists,' yet his fundraising team includes 38 members of law firms that were paid $138 million last year to lobby the federal government, records show." "Lobbyists have long played key fundraising and policymaking roles for candidates, and lobbyists are raising money for both Hillary Rodham Clinton and John McCain." 04-08 Obama Wins Historic Victory (Time.com) "Praising Clinton and attacking McCain. This is what the near term will be about for Barack Obama." "First, Clinton. Obama made little reference to the historic nature of his victory as the first African-American to win a major party nomination on Tuesday night, but he gave a passionate homage to his vanquished rival, noting the barriers she broke as a candidate and her critical advocacy for universal health care." 06-08 Obama's Biography and His Mother (Time.com) "Each of us lives a life of contradictory truths. We are not one thing or another. Barack Obama's mother was at least a dozen things. S. Ann Soetoro was a teen mother who later got a Ph.D. in anthropology; a white woman from the Midwest who was more comfortable in Indonesia; a natural-born mother obsessed with her work; a romantic pragmatist, if such a thing is possible." "Ann's most lasting professional legacy was to help build the microfinance program in Indonesia, which she did from 1988 to '92—before the practice of granting tiny loans to credit-poor entrepreneurs was an established success story. Her anthropological research into how real people worked helped inform the policies set by the Bank Rakyat Indonesia, says Patten, an economist who worked there. 'I would say her work had a lot to do with the success of the program,' he says. Today Indonesia's microfinance program is No. 1 in the world in terms of savers, with 31 million members, according to Microfinance Information eXchange Inc., a microfinance-tracking outfit." 04-08 Obama's Grandmother (Time.com) "Several thousand miles and a world away, Barack Obama is campaigning to change American politics. But in the tiny farmstead where his father used to herd goats, his Kenyan relatives are praying for anything but more political upheaval." "The Obamas live about an hour's drive — first on potholed asphalt roads then on a rutted dirt track into the village of Kogelo — from the city of Kisumu, the center of opposition support, standing on the shores of Lake Victoria. The population here is Luo, arch-rivals of President Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe. Angry mobs torched shops, bars and garages belonging to Kikuyu businessmen and forced their families to board buses for their tribal homelands in Central Kenya. In spite of the apparent political breakthrough in the capital Nairobi, the anger remains even if the mobs have been called off for now." 03-08 Obama's Victory Speech (ABC News) Provides the full text of Barack Obama's victory speech after becoming the first African-American to lead the presidential ticket of a major political party. 06-08

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