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About
this candidate - Extract of the official campaign site :
Barack Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4th, 1961. His father, Barack
Obama Sr., was born and raised in a small village in Kenya, where he grew
up herding goats with his own father, who was a domestic servant to the
British. Barack's mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in small-town 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 allowed him to leave
Kenya and pursue his dreams in America.
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