By yardloo on
September 4th, 2008
Barack Hussein Obama II born August 4, 1961 is the nominee of the Democratic Party for the office of President of the United States in the 2008 general election. He is the first African American to be a major political party’s nominee for this office. Obama is currently the junior United States Senator from Illinois.
A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the Harvard Law Review, Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney before serving in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.
He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate in January 2003. After a primary victory in March 2004, Obama delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He was elected to the Senate in November 2004 with 70% of the vote.
Barack Obama Unseen Rare Photos
Motherly love: This 1960’s photo provided by the presidential campaign of Senator Barack Obama, D-Ill., shows Obama with his mother Ann Dunham. Dunham met Obama’s father, Barack Obama Sr. from Kenya, when both were students at the University of Hawaii at Manoa; they married in 1960.
Joy of life: This photo provided by the presidential campaign of Senator Barack Obama, D-Ill., shows the Democratic presidential hopeful, Obama, on the beach with grandfather on his mother’s side, Stanley Armour Dunham.
One to remember: This 1970’s photo provided by the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., shows the presidential hopeful, Obama, 9, right, with his mother Ann Dunham, center, his Indonesian step-father Lolo Soetoro, and his less than one-year-old sister Maya Soetoro in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Playful shot: This 1960’s photo provided by the presidential campaign of Senator Barack Obama, D-Ill., shows the Democratic presidential hopeful, Obama, with his baseball bat in Hawaii.
The players: In this 1977 file photo provided by the The Oahuan, yearbook of Punahou School, Barack Obama, second row center, is seen with is junior varsity basketball team in this 1977 yearbook class photo in Honolulu. Obama loved basketball and as a forward dubbed “Barry O’Bomber,” he favored a left-handed double pump shot. During his senior year, the varsity team captured the state championship.
With buddies: This 1972 photo provided by Na Opio, the yearbook of Punahou School, shows Barack Obama, in back row, third from left, posing with his 5th grade class at the Punahou Elementary School a prestigious private school in Honolulu that attracts the island’s wealthiest, and most accomplished students.
Dreams from his father: This undated photo released by Obama for America shows Barack Obama, 10, and his father, also named Barack Obama. Obama’s father left the family to study at Harvard when Barack was just two, returning only once. Obama wrote poignantly about this visit in his memoir, remembering the basketball his father gave him, the African records they danced to, the Dave Brubeck concert they attended. Obama, then 10, never saw his father again.
Source : NDTV
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Tags: Barack Obama, News Updates, US Elections 2008
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