The two-thousand eight Democratic Presidential candidate goes by the name of Barack Obama, the current Senator from Illinois. Barack Hussein Obama Jr. was born Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father, Barack Obama, Sr., was born of Luo ethnicity in Nyanza Province, Kenya. He grew up herding goats with his own father, who was a domestic servant to the British. Although reared among Muslims, Obama, Sr., became an atheist at some point. Barack's mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in grew up in Wichita, Kansas. Her father worked on oil rigs during the Depression, and then signed up for World War II after Pearl Harbor, where he marched across Europe in Patton's army. Her mother went to work on a bomber assembly line, and after the war, they studied on the G.I. Bill, bought a house through the Federal Housing Program, and moved west to Hawaii. It was there, at the University of Hawaii, where Barack's parents met. His mother was a student there, and his father had won a scholarship that......

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Title: 2008 Election
Approximate Word Count: 2038
Approximate Pages: 9 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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