Barack Obama | Change We Can Believe In |: "Barack Obama Picks Up Support From Former Presidential Hopeful and Sen. Bill Bradley
The Associated Press | January 06, 2008
By Phillip Elliot
Bill Bradley, a former presidential hopeful and senator, on Sunday endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president.
'Barack Obama is building a broad new coalition that brings together Democrats, independents and Republicans by once again making idealism a central focus of our politics,' Bradley said in a statement released by Obama's campaign. 'Because of his enormous appeal to Americans of all ages and backgrounds, Obama is the candidate best positioned to win in November. ... His movement for change could create a new era of American politics - truly a new American story.'"
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Well what a night, Barack Hussien Obama, has achieved something that six months ago people said was impossible. The audacity of hope is now changing to the dream of hope, the hope for something new, and now the hope that change will ...
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Barack Obama Early Life And Career
Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. His parents met while both were attending the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Obama`s father was enrolled as a foreign student. When he was two years old his parents separated and later divorced. Obama`s father went to Harvard University to pursue Ph.D. studies, then returned to Kenya. His mother married Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian foreign student, and in 1967 the Obama`s family moved to Jakarta. Obama attended local schools in Jakarta from ages 6 to 10, where classes were taught in the Indonesian language, which he still speaks passably. Barack Obama then returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents while attending Punahou School from the fifth grade until his graduation in 1979. Obama's mother died of ovarian cancer a few months after the publication of his 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father.
In the memoir, Obama describes his experiences growing up in his mother's American middle class family. His knowledge about his African father, who returned once for a brief visit in 1971, came mainly through family stories and photographs. Of his early childhood, Obama writes: "That my father looked nothing like the people around me—that he was black as pitch, my mother white as milk—barely registered in my mind." The book describes his struggles as a young adult to reconcile social perceptions of his multiracial heritage. He wrote that he used alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine during his teenage years to "push questions of who I was out of my mind".
After high school, Obama moved to Los Angeles, where he studied at Occidental College for two years. He then transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in political science with a specialization in international relations. Obama received his B.A. degree in 1983, then worked at Business International Corporation and NYPIRG before moving to Chicago to take a job as a community organizer. As Director of the Developing Communities Project, he worked with low-income residents in Chicago's Roseland community and the Altgeld Gardens public housing development. He entered Harvard Law School in 1988. In 1990, The New York Times reported his election as the Harvard Law Review's "first black president in its 104-year history". He completed his J.D. degree magna cum laude in 1991. On returning to Chicago, Obama directed a voter registration drive. As an associate attorney with Miner, Barnhill & Galland from 1993 to 1996, he represented community organizers, discrimination claims, and voting rights cases. He was a lecturer of constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1993 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004.
In the memoir, Obama describes his experiences growing up in his mother's American middle class family. His knowledge about his African father, who returned once for a brief visit in 1971, came mainly through family stories and photographs. Of his early childhood, Obama writes: "That my father looked nothing like the people around me—that he was black as pitch, my mother white as milk—barely registered in my mind." The book describes his struggles as a young adult to reconcile social perceptions of his multiracial heritage. He wrote that he used alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine during his teenage years to "push questions of who I was out of my mind".
After high school, Obama moved to Los Angeles, where he studied at Occidental College for two years. He then transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in political science with a specialization in international relations. Obama received his B.A. degree in 1983, then worked at Business International Corporation and NYPIRG before moving to Chicago to take a job as a community organizer. As Director of the Developing Communities Project, he worked with low-income residents in Chicago's Roseland community and the Altgeld Gardens public housing development. He entered Harvard Law School in 1988. In 1990, The New York Times reported his election as the Harvard Law Review's "first black president in its 104-year history". He completed his J.D. degree magna cum laude in 1991. On returning to Chicago, Obama directed a voter registration drive. As an associate attorney with Miner, Barnhill & Galland from 1993 to 1996, he represented community organizers, discrimination claims, and voting rights cases. He was a lecturer of constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1993 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004.
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Valley tech lawyer on the road for Obama
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... but first he must help corral Angel, who orchestrated an escape as Roos worked to persuade the dog's owner to caucus for Democrat Barack Obama. ...
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Campaign Notebook: Clinton Weighs How Hard to Go After Obama
Bloomberg - USA
Hillary Clinton, a New York senator, is weighing how negative to go on Iowa victor Barack Obama. Her campaign aides count on former North Carolina Senator ...
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Obama fires opening salvo with Iowa win
Dispatch Online - South Africa
SIGN OF THINGS TO COME : Democrat presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama from Illinois waves to supporters with his wife Michelle and daughters Malia, ...
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Obama spurs talk on race
Baltimore Sun - United States
Barack Obama's victory in Iowa. (Sun photo by Jed Kirschbaum / January 4, 2008) By Tanika White | Sun reporter January 5, 2008 At the Harlem Blues ...
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Polls show surge of young voters, independents carried Obama ...
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
... young and the restless - Iowans craving change - helped carry Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Mike Huckabee to victory in Thursday's Iowa caucuses. ...
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Things I learned in '07: Iceland is a very soft country. Happiness is a short commute. Beware of clipless pedals! Dry martinis are deceptively difficult to make. Barack Obama still rules.Hi! My buddies would describe me as easy-going, smart, funny, ...
Barack Obama Presidental Candidate
Barack Obama is the Democrat Senator from Illinois, the fifth senator for all American history of the United States, and, so far, the only African American in the Senate. It is a clear candidate from the Democratic Party presidential election in 2008.Barack Obama voted against United States military involvement in Iraq, when that position has not yet considered such a popular and correct. He is a politician with excellent reputation.
Barack Obama is a person with an interesting biography, with nontrivial views, charming and open. He is a good speaker, strong and at the same time loyal leader. So, his decision to become a candidate in the election of the President of the United States of America is hardly surprising.
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