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- Obama Background (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
- Democratic Convention - Obama Speech Video (Dems2004.com)
Provides a video of Barack Obama addressing the the Democratic Convention. 7-04
- Democrat - Barack Obama Profile (Wikipedia.org)
Provides a biography. Visitors sometimes misspell as Barak. 03-07
- Obama and McCain Debate the Troop Surge (CBS News)
"Sen. John McCain supports President George Bush's planned troop surge in Iraq, while his fellow Senator, and likely opponent in the 2008 race for the White House, Barack Obama would rather see a 'surge in diplomacy.' " 01-07
- -02-23-07 Obama and Clinton Conflict (New York Times)
"After weeks of watching in frustration as Senator Barack Obama presented himself as a fresh face gliding above partisan politics, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has drawn Mr. Obama onto a muddy political field, engaging him in a back-and-forth that recalls the kind of Washington bickering Mr. Obama has decried." 02-07
- Democrat - Barack Obama (BarackObama.com)
Provides his official Web site. 03-07
- Democrat - Barack Obama News (MSNBC News
Provides news stories on Senator Barack Obama. 05-07
- 05-25-07 Clinton and Obama Vote Against Iraq Bill (MSNBC News)
"Courting the anti-war constituency, Democratic presidential rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama both voted against legislation that pays for the Iraq war but lacks a timeline for troop withdrawal." 05-07
- -07-01-07 Obama Reports Record Amount in Donations (CBS News)
"Sen. Barack Obama reported Sunday raising at least $32.5 million for his presidential campaign from April through June, a record for a Democratic candidate." 07-07
- Barack Obama: Energy Policy (BarackObama.com)
"Senator Obama has been a Senate leader in pushing for a comprehensive national energy policy and has introduced a number of bills to get us closer to the goal of energy independence. By putting aside partisan battles, he has found common ground on fuel economy standards, renewable fuels, and clean coal." 07-07
- Democrat - Barack Obama Gains Oprah's Endorsement (ABC News)
Helen Kennedy: "But the Queen of All Media's first-ever foray into political campaigning is going to be one for the history and political science books, testing the limits of celebrity endorsements and setting primary-season crowd records."
" 'She's going to electrify the campaign trail -- there's no question about it,' ABC's George Stephanopoulos said on 'Good Morning America' Thursday." 12-07
- Democrat - Barack Obama Gains Oprah's Endorsement (Time.com)
Winfrey's endorsement — and her announcement that she will appear with Obama at campaign events in Iowa, South Carolina, and New Hampshire on December 8 and 9 — helps bring the following four things to Obama: campaign cash, celebrity, excitement and big crowds."
"The four things that Obama has on his own in great abundance — without Winfrey's help — are campaign cash, celebrity, excitement and big crowds. "
"But a more important event for his chances of winning might actually be taking place on Tuesday of this week, when he appears in Portsmouth, New Hampshire with some of his top foreign policy advisers for a forum with local residents." 12-07
- -01-04-08 Obama's Historic Victory (Time.com)
"Barack Obama's first words after winning the Iowa caucus were intended for history and they were gorgeous: 'They said this day would never come.' Perhaps he was thinking small." 01-08
- -Editorial: Obama's Stunning Win in South Carolina (MSNBC News)
"There were two true stunners Saturday night: the size of Sen. Barack Obama’s margin of victory over Sen. Hillary Clinton — 28 percentage points — but just as significant this number: Total turnout for Democrats in their primary was greater than the turnout for the Republican primary in this state, which is one of the most loyally Republican in the nation." 01-08
- -01-27-08 Obama's Win Reshapes the Race (Time.com)
"There was only way to describe Barack Obama's victory over Hillary Clinton and John Edwards in South Carolina: It was a rout." 01-08
- -02-09-08 Obama Wins on "Super Saturday" (Time.com)
"Sen. Barack Obama swept the Louisiana primary and caucuses in Nebraska and Washington state Saturday night, slicing into Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's slender delegate lead in their historic race for the Democratic presidential nomination." 02-08
- -02-18-08 The Barack Momentum (Time.com)
"Obama's most convincing victory came in Virginia, a state itching to switch from red to blue in 2008. He swept most demographic groups there, including such alleged Clinton strongholds as white men and Latinos. The size of the Virginia victory can be attributed, in part, to the momentum Obama had gathered over the preceding weekend in caucus states like Nebraska and Maine. And his blowout victories in those places can be attributed to the fact that he is running a smarter, more rigorous campaign than Clinton is." 02-08
- -02-20-08 Obama Wins 9th Straight (Time.com)
"Notching his ninth straight win in roughly two weeks' time, Barack Obama forged another broad coalition of whites, blacks and political independents to cruise to a resounding victory over Hillary Clinton in Wisconsin on Tuesday. Obama's win, though widely predicted, was by a wider (double-digit) margin than many had expected and lends him an unusual and enviable momentum as the race turns now to Ohio and Texas on March 4." 02-08
- 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
- Barack Obama Biographical Articles (New York Times)
Provides articles on Barack Obama. 03-08
- -03-13-08 Obama Wins Clear Victory in Mississippi (PBS.org)
"Sen. Barack Obama scored a victory in the Mississippi primary Tuesday, nudging his delegate advantage over rival Sen. Hillary Clinton. With nearly a dozen primary contests remaining, political analysts weigh how the battle for delegates may be waged in Pennsylvania and beyond." 03-08
- -04-04-08 Poll: Responses to Obama Speech on Racism (CBS News)
"Sen. Barack Obama's speech on race this week, in which he discussed his relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright, his controversial longtime minister, has received largely positive reviews, according to a new CBS News poll."
"But the percentage of voters who think Obama would unite the country as president has dropped since late February." 04-08
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- -05-04-08 Obama and Clinton Battle Over Gas Tax Holiday (MSNBC News)
"In separate interviews on dueling Sunday morning political news shows, Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama sparred about the gas tax holiday proposal and foreign policy." 04-08
- -05-07-08 Obama Nears Finish Line (CNN News)
"Sen. Barack Obama took a major step Tuesday toward securing the Democratic presidential nomination. He not only scored a convincing victory in North Carolina, but he also made Hillary Clinton's path to the nomination even more difficult by finishing closely behind her in Indiana." 05-08
- -05-08-08 Obama Picks Up 9 Superdelegates (MSNBC.com)
"Barack Obama all but erased Hillary Clinton's once-imposing lead among national convention superdelegates on Friday and won fresh labor backing as elements of the Democratic Party began coalescing around the Illinois senator for the fall campaign." 05-08
- -05-26-08 Poll: Big Shift Toward Obama in California (U.S. News)
"A new poll released today in California finds political momentum shifting dramatically toward Barack Obama—and away from both Hillary Clinton and John McCain—in the nation's most populous state. According to a survey conducted over the past 10 days by the Public Policy Institute of California, 59 percent of likely voters here now have a 'favorable' impression of Democrat Obama, while a majority view both of the other candidates unfavorably. In a state whose Democratic primary Clinton won in February, 51 percent of voters now say they have an unfavorable opinion of her; 53 percent of voters feel the same way about Republican McCain."
"In California, at least, Latinos and low-income whites—two groups who strongly supported Clinton in the state's primary—have rallied behind their second choice in the months since February. 'These numbers are particularly telling in a state that Clinton won easily,' says Baldassare. 'For Democrats who supported Clinton, time has passed, and looking at the general election, up against McCain, they are coming together.' " 05-08
- 05-31-08 Obama Resigns from his Church (Time.com)
"Barack Obama has resigned his 20 year membership in the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago in the aftermath of inflammatory remarks by his longtime pastor the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and more recent fiery remarks at the church by another minister." 05-08
- -06-03-08 AP: Obama Has Clinched Democratic Nomination (MSNBC News)
"Barack Obama effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, the Associated Press reported, citing its tally of convention delegates. He would become the first black candidate ever to lead a major U.S. party into a fall campaign for the White House."
"The AP report, which cited two campaign sources, said the former first lady would stop short of formally suspending or ending her race in her speech in New York City, but that for all intents and purposes the campaign was over." 06-08
- -06-03-08 Clinton "Open" to Joining Obama (BBC News)
"Hillary Clinton has said she is 'open' to becoming Barack Obama's Democratic vice-presidential running mate, as the US primary elections draw to a close." 06-08
- 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
- -06-04-08 McCain Challenges Obama to Town Hall Debates (MSNBC News)
"After clinching the Democratic presidential nomination, Barack Obama on Wednesday went on the offensive against Republican opponent John McCain, who responded by inviting his rival to hold a series of town hall meetings with him across the country to debate issues." 06-08
- 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'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
- -06-04-08 Clinton Will Endorse Obama (MSNBC News)
"Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton will endorse Senator Barack Obama on Friday, bringing a close to her 17-month campaign for the White House, aides said. Her decision came after Democrats urged her on Wednesday to leave the race and allow the party to coalesce around Mr. Obama." 06-08
- -06-11-08 Editorial: Obama Hit With "Outrage" Game (Time.com)
"Politicians deploy righteous indignation like college students use credit cards—to excess and with abandon. For such seasoned performers, the emotion is easy to muster, and there are few upfront costs. Rail against powerful interests or the mendacity of your opponent on the stump, and the crowd goes nuts."
"But there are sometimes hidden costs in the fine print, interest payments not due for months, especially when the outrage is calculated for maximum political effect. And that outrage came back to haunt Barack Obama Wednesday when Jim Johnson, the man running his vice presidential search team, stepped down after the Wall Street Journal reported that he had received preferential deals on mortgages because he was friendly with an executive at Countrywide Financial, which has been tied to the subprime foreclosure crisis." 06-08
- -06-21-08 McCain Almost Even With Obama in Fund Raising (MSNBC News)
"John McCain raised almost as much money as Barack Obama in May, placing him virtually on the same financial footing as his Democratic rival — a level of parity that would have been unimaginable just a few months ago." 06-08
- 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
- -07-22-08 Obama Gains Boost From Trips (U.S. News)
"Barack Obama's unfolding foreign trip has been a public relations bonanza for him so far." 07-08
- -07-23-08 Editorial: Obama Reflects on Afghanistan (Time.com)
"If it's difficult to see much difference between Barack Obama's first trip abroad since capturing the Democratic nomination and a genuine state visit by a sitting President, well, that's sort of the point of the whole exercise. Obama has stopped in Afghanistan, Iraq, Jordan, Israel and plans to visit the Palestinian territories, before heading off to Germany, France and England. Not everyone has treated Obama like a Commander in Chief, but some did him one better: after Obama joined King Abdullah II for dinner at the palace in Amman, the Jordanian leader hopped into his Mercedes and drove Obama to the airport himself." 07-08
- 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
- -08-11-08 Valerie Jarrett, Barack Obama Advisor (Time.com)
"Jarrett has now known the Obamas for 17 years, and is one of their closest friends, Couric reports. Her title on the campaign is senior adviser - which means she often serves as Obama's surrogate at meetings and events he can't attend. After Michelle, Valerie Jarrett may be one of the people he trusts the most." 08-08
- -08-24-08 Obama Aims Convention at Blue-Collar Voters (ABC News)
"On the eve of the Democratic National Convention, Barack Obama said Sunday he hoped a week of political speechmaking would persuade reluctant middle-class voters to swing behind his bid for the White House, while Republicans sought to stir discontent among Hillary Rodham Clinton's supporters."
"Clinton was having none of it. Obama's rival in a bruising battle for the nomination was expected to release her delegates at midweek in a unity gesture." 08-08
- 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
- 08-28-08 Barack Obama's Speech to the Democratic Convention (MSNBC News)
Provides the text of Senator Barack Obam's speech to the Democratic National Convention. 08-08
- -08-28-08 Barack Obama's Acceptance Speech (Youtube.com)
Provides Barack Obama's speech to the Democratic National Convention. 08-08
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