Barack Obama
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Biography
Full Name: Barack Hussein Obama Jr.Party: DemocraticPolitical Office: U.S. Senator from Illinois, elected 2004; member, Illinois State Senate 1997-2004Business/Professional Experience: Attorney, law firm of Miner Barnhill & Galland (Chicago, IL), 1993-2004Date of Birth: August 4, 1961Place of Birth: HonoluluEducation: B.A. Columbia University 1983; J.D. Harvard Law, 1991Spouse: married Michelle Robinson, 1992Children: daughters Malia, born 1999, and Natasha, born 2001 Religion: United Church of ChristHome: Chicago
Books
By Barack Obama: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream [2006]; Dreams from my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance [1995]
About: Hopes and Dreams: The Story of Barack Obama, by Steve Dougherty [2007]
The Caucus: Posts on Barack Obama
New York Times and NBC News Video of Barack Obama
Vice-Presidential Running Mate: Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Times Topics: Democratic National Convention The Debates
Highlights From the Archives
Obama Chooses Biden as Running Mate
By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JEFF ZELENY
Word of Senator Barack Obama’s decision leaked out hours after he had informed Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana and Gov. Tim Kaine of Virginia that they had not been chosen.August 24, 2008U.S.News
For Convention, Obama’s Image Is All-American
By JEFF ZELENY and JIM RUTENBERG
Democrats face a number of imperatives at their convention, none trickier than making more voters comfortable with Barack Obama’s background.August 18, 2008U.S.News
Obama, in Shift, Says He’ll Reject Public Financing
By MICHAEL LUO and JEFF ZELENY
Barack Obama’s decision to break a pledge to use public money will likely transform presidential campaigns, raising doubts about the future of public financing.June 20, 2008U.S.News
Man in the News
Barack Obama: Calm in the Swirl of History
By MICHAEL POWELL
Mr. Obama is a protean figure who inspires devotion in his supporters but remains inscrutable to critics.June 4, 2008U.S.News
A Strained Wright-Obama Bond Finally Snaps
By MICHAEL POWELL and JODI KANTOR
Senator Barack Obama’s falling out with his former pastor was long and painful, say friends and aides.May 1, 2008U.S.News
Obama Urges U.S. to Grapple With Race Issue
By JEFF ZELENY
Barack Obama confronted the divisions between black and white as he sought to dispel the furor over his pastor’s words.March 19, 2008U.S.News
If Elected...
Closing Income Gap Tops Obama’s Agenda for Economic Change
By DAVID LEONHARDT
Senator Barack Obama said Friday that the top priority of the next president should be to create a more lasting and equitable prosperity than achieved by either President Bush or even Bill Clinton.February 2, 2008U.S.Series
Kennedy Chooses Obama, Spurning Plea by Clintons
By JEFF ZELENY and CARL HULSE
Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s endorsement pits members of the nation’s most prominent Democratic families against each other. January 28, 2008U.S.News
In the Magazine
Is (His) Biography (Our) Destiny?
By JAMES TRAUB
Barack Obama says his experience gives him a guide to making a “post-post-9/11” foreign policy. Whether Americans will relinquish their fear is another question.November 4, 2007MagazineNews
If Elected ...
Obama Envisions New Iran Approach
By MICHAEL R. GORDON and JEFF ZELENY
In an interview, Senator Barack Obama said that forging a new relationship with Iran would be part of his effort to stabilize Iraq.November 2, 2007U.S.Series
Obama Promises a Forceful Stand Against Clinton
By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JEFF ZELENY
Senator Barack Obama said he would start confronting Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton more forcefully, in response to concerns about his lack of assertiveness.October 28, 2007U.S.News
2 Years After Big Speech, a Lower Key for Obama
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
The senator is not presenting himself, stylistically at least, the way he did when he gripped Democrats in 2004.April 8, 2007U.S.News
National Desk
As Quickly as Overnight, a Democratic Star Is Born
By MONICA DAVEY
In his quest for the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate, Barack Obama was, by many measures, supposed to lose. March 18, 2004U.S.News
ARTICLES ABOUT BARACK OBAMA
Newest First Oldest First
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Witnesses to Dr. King’s Dream See a New Hope
By MICHAEL POWELL
At least five veterans of the March on Washington in 1963 traveled to Denver as Democratic delegates.August 28, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist
Obama’s From Main St., Ain’t He?
By ROGER COHEN
Is Barack Obama more beer than Chardonnay? Is he a Dunkin’ Donuts or Starbucks guy? Is he one of us despite having what his wife Michelle called “that funny name?”August 28, 2008
Op-Ed Contributor
Johnson’s Dream, Obama’s Speech
By ROBERT A. CARO
Barack Obama’s speech and in a way his whole candidacy might not have been possible had President Lyndon Johnson’s address to Congress in 1965 not been given.August 28, 2008
Obama Wins Nomination; Biden and Bill Clinton Rally Party
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
A unanimous vote made Senator Barack Obama the first African-American to become a major party nominee for president.August 28, 2008
Man in the News
For a New Political Age, a Self-Made Man
By JODI KANTOR
Even before he entered public life, Barack Obama began honing his political, mental and emotional skills.August 28, 2008
Democrats Work to Minimize Stadium Setting’s Political Risks
By JIM RUTENBERG and JEFF ZELENY
As they prepare for a nomination address in an outdoor football stadium, aides to Barack Obama are feeling pressure to bring a lofty candidacy to ground level.August 28, 2008
Editorial
Mr. Obama’s Moment
Barack Obama needs to be clear about what he stands for, and about why in such dire times Americans should trust him and his party with their futures.August 28, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist
The Torch Passes. Really.
By GAIL COLLINS
The Clintons did everything they were supposed to do and in politics, like so much of life, feelings are irrelevant to everyone except the persons doing the feeling.August 28, 2008
Obama Campaign Wages Fight Against Conservative Group’s Ads
By JIM RUTENBERG
Senator Obama’s campaign is waging a forceful campaign against a new conservative group running ads linking him to the 1960s radical William Ayers Jr.August 28, 2008
Man in the News
A Consistent Yet Elusive Nominee
By JODI KANTOR
Even after thousands of campaign events, many Americans say they do not feel they know Senator Barack Obama.August 28, 2008
Decades Later, John Kennedy’s ‘New Frontier’ Speech Echoes
By PATRICK HEALY
John F. Kennedy’s 1960 speech is widely regarded as having reassured voters who were wary because he was a young Catholic and hardly a legislative lion in the Senate.August 28, 2008
The Speeches They Write Often Go Unspoken
By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ and JEREMY W. PETERS
Some convention speakers are grumbling that Barack Obama’s team that vets their speeches has been especially aggressive.August 28, 2008
Clinton Delivers Emphatic Plea for Unity
By PATRICK HEALY
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton deferred her own dreams on Tuesday and made a soaring appeal for Democrats to support Senator Barack Obama.August 27, 2008
Some Clinton Fund-Raisers Are Still Simmering
By MICHAEL LUO and GRIFF PALMER
With some top Clinton fund-raisers still unwilling to work for Senator Barack Obama, the campaign is having trouble keeping up with its ambitious goals.August 27, 2008
The Long Run
Once a Convention Outsider, Obama Navigated a Path to the Marquee
By JEFF ZELENY
Barack Obama’s evolution as a politician can be seen as a narrative centered on his party’s conventions.August 27, 2008
The TV Watch
One First Is Celebrated. What About the Second?
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
Amid the hoopla for the first female also-ran, Democrats are soft-pedaling Senator Barack Obama’s breakthrough.August 27, 2008
Casey, an Abortion Opponent, Praises Obama
By JOHN M. BRODER
Sixteen years after his father opposed Bill Clinton’s candidacy, Senator Bob Casey Jr. of Pennsylvania said Barack Obama could bring together supporters and opponents of abortion rights.August 27, 2008
Op-Ed Contributor
The Myth of Biden v. Bork
By JEFFREY ROSEN
Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s efforts to protect Judge Robert Bork’s and Judge Clarence Thomas’s privacy demonstrate that, although he was present at the creation of the post-Bork era, he did not cause it.August 27, 2008
Some Clinton Fund-Raisers Are Still Simmering
By MICHAEL LUO and GRIFF PALMER
With some top Clinton fund-raisers still unwilling to work for Senator Barack Obama, the campaign is having trouble keeping up with its ambitious goals.August 27, 2008
Clinton Rallies Her Troops to Fight for Obama
By PATRICK HEALY
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton made a soaring appeal to support Senator Barack Obama.August 27, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist
High Anxiety in the Mile High City
By MAUREEN DOWD
I’ve never actually seen a convention where the energy was so absorbed by people who had lost the nomination, rather than the one who had won.August 27, 2008
Officials See No ‘Credible Threat’ to Obama in Racist Rants
By KIRK JOHNSON and ERIC LICHTBLAU
An apparently half-baked plot to assassinate Barack Obama has highlighted the question of exactly what and whom to fear.August 27, 2008
News Analysis
For Obama, a Challenge to Clarify His Message
By JACKIE CALMES
The drama of the convention makes it harder for Barack Obama to connect with the economic anxiety of voters.August 27, 2008
Editorial
So Far Over the Line
This year’s presidential campaign has already been marked by far too much negative advertising, with coded racial images and sophomoric insults.August 27, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist
A Biblical Seven Years
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
As snapshots go, the one China presented through the Olympics was enormously powerful and it’s one that Americans need to reflect upon this election season.August 27, 2008
Stalwarts for Clinton, in Search of Catharsis
By JACKIE CALMES
What Hillary Rodham Clinton says to promote her onetime rival will tell a lot about Democrats’ ability to unite for victory in November.August 26, 2008
Michelle Obama, Reluctant No More
By JODI KANTOR
Michelle Obama is at the center of what may be the most closely managed spousal rollout in history.August 26, 2008
A Possible Plot Against Obama
By PATRICK HEALY
Authorities said that at least four people were under arrest on firearms and drug charges in connection with a possible plot to kill Senator Barack Obama.August 26, 2008
OP-Ed Columnist
The Dog That Isn’t Barking
By BOB HERBERT
The race issue in Barack Obama’s campaign can come up in peculiar and jolting ways.August 26, 2008
NYC
Lobbying for All but New York
By CLYDE HABERMAN
Come fall, don’t expect to hear much from the presidential candidates about what they would do to solve problems specific to this or any other American city.August 26, 2008
David McNew/Getty Images
Biography
Full Name: Barack Hussein Obama Jr.Party: DemocraticPolitical Office: U.S. Senator from Illinois, elected 2004; member, Illinois State Senate 1997-2004Business/Professional Experience: Attorney, law firm of Miner Barnhill & Galland (Chicago, IL), 1993-2004Date of Birth: August 4, 1961Place of Birth: HonoluluEducation: B.A. Columbia University 1983; J.D. Harvard Law, 1991Spouse: married Michelle Robinson, 1992Children: daughters Malia, born 1999, and Natasha, born 2001 Religion: United Church of ChristHome: Chicago
Books
By Barack Obama: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream [2006]; Dreams from my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance [1995]
About: Hopes and Dreams: The Story of Barack Obama, by Steve Dougherty [2007]
The Caucus: Posts on Barack Obama
New York Times and NBC News Video of Barack Obama
Vice-Presidential Running Mate: Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Times Topics: Democratic National Convention The Debates
Highlights From the Archives
Obama Chooses Biden as Running Mate
By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JEFF ZELENY
Word of Senator Barack Obama’s decision leaked out hours after he had informed Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana and Gov. Tim Kaine of Virginia that they had not been chosen.August 24, 2008U.S.News
For Convention, Obama’s Image Is All-American
By JEFF ZELENY and JIM RUTENBERG
Democrats face a number of imperatives at their convention, none trickier than making more voters comfortable with Barack Obama’s background.August 18, 2008U.S.News
Obama, in Shift, Says He’ll Reject Public Financing
By MICHAEL LUO and JEFF ZELENY
Barack Obama’s decision to break a pledge to use public money will likely transform presidential campaigns, raising doubts about the future of public financing.June 20, 2008U.S.News
Man in the News
Barack Obama: Calm in the Swirl of History
By MICHAEL POWELL
Mr. Obama is a protean figure who inspires devotion in his supporters but remains inscrutable to critics.June 4, 2008U.S.News
A Strained Wright-Obama Bond Finally Snaps
By MICHAEL POWELL and JODI KANTOR
Senator Barack Obama’s falling out with his former pastor was long and painful, say friends and aides.May 1, 2008U.S.News
Obama Urges U.S. to Grapple With Race Issue
By JEFF ZELENY
Barack Obama confronted the divisions between black and white as he sought to dispel the furor over his pastor’s words.March 19, 2008U.S.News
If Elected...
Closing Income Gap Tops Obama’s Agenda for Economic Change
By DAVID LEONHARDT
Senator Barack Obama said Friday that the top priority of the next president should be to create a more lasting and equitable prosperity than achieved by either President Bush or even Bill Clinton.February 2, 2008U.S.Series
Kennedy Chooses Obama, Spurning Plea by Clintons
By JEFF ZELENY and CARL HULSE
Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s endorsement pits members of the nation’s most prominent Democratic families against each other. January 28, 2008U.S.News
In the Magazine
Is (His) Biography (Our) Destiny?
By JAMES TRAUB
Barack Obama says his experience gives him a guide to making a “post-post-9/11” foreign policy. Whether Americans will relinquish their fear is another question.November 4, 2007MagazineNews
If Elected ...
Obama Envisions New Iran Approach
By MICHAEL R. GORDON and JEFF ZELENY
In an interview, Senator Barack Obama said that forging a new relationship with Iran would be part of his effort to stabilize Iraq.November 2, 2007U.S.Series
Obama Promises a Forceful Stand Against Clinton
By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JEFF ZELENY
Senator Barack Obama said he would start confronting Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton more forcefully, in response to concerns about his lack of assertiveness.October 28, 2007U.S.News
2 Years After Big Speech, a Lower Key for Obama
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
The senator is not presenting himself, stylistically at least, the way he did when he gripped Democrats in 2004.April 8, 2007U.S.News
National Desk
As Quickly as Overnight, a Democratic Star Is Born
By MONICA DAVEY
In his quest for the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate, Barack Obama was, by many measures, supposed to lose. March 18, 2004U.S.News
ARTICLES ABOUT BARACK OBAMA
Newest First Oldest First
Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next >>
Witnesses to Dr. King’s Dream See a New Hope
By MICHAEL POWELL
At least five veterans of the March on Washington in 1963 traveled to Denver as Democratic delegates.August 28, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist
Obama’s From Main St., Ain’t He?
By ROGER COHEN
Is Barack Obama more beer than Chardonnay? Is he a Dunkin’ Donuts or Starbucks guy? Is he one of us despite having what his wife Michelle called “that funny name?”August 28, 2008
Op-Ed Contributor
Johnson’s Dream, Obama’s Speech
By ROBERT A. CARO
Barack Obama’s speech and in a way his whole candidacy might not have been possible had President Lyndon Johnson’s address to Congress in 1965 not been given.August 28, 2008
Obama Wins Nomination; Biden and Bill Clinton Rally Party
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
A unanimous vote made Senator Barack Obama the first African-American to become a major party nominee for president.August 28, 2008
Man in the News
For a New Political Age, a Self-Made Man
By JODI KANTOR
Even before he entered public life, Barack Obama began honing his political, mental and emotional skills.August 28, 2008
Democrats Work to Minimize Stadium Setting’s Political Risks
By JIM RUTENBERG and JEFF ZELENY
As they prepare for a nomination address in an outdoor football stadium, aides to Barack Obama are feeling pressure to bring a lofty candidacy to ground level.August 28, 2008
Editorial
Mr. Obama’s Moment
Barack Obama needs to be clear about what he stands for, and about why in such dire times Americans should trust him and his party with their futures.August 28, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist
The Torch Passes. Really.
By GAIL COLLINS
The Clintons did everything they were supposed to do and in politics, like so much of life, feelings are irrelevant to everyone except the persons doing the feeling.August 28, 2008
Obama Campaign Wages Fight Against Conservative Group’s Ads
By JIM RUTENBERG
Senator Obama’s campaign is waging a forceful campaign against a new conservative group running ads linking him to the 1960s radical William Ayers Jr.August 28, 2008
Man in the News
A Consistent Yet Elusive Nominee
By JODI KANTOR
Even after thousands of campaign events, many Americans say they do not feel they know Senator Barack Obama.August 28, 2008
Decades Later, John Kennedy’s ‘New Frontier’ Speech Echoes
By PATRICK HEALY
John F. Kennedy’s 1960 speech is widely regarded as having reassured voters who were wary because he was a young Catholic and hardly a legislative lion in the Senate.August 28, 2008
The Speeches They Write Often Go Unspoken
By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ and JEREMY W. PETERS
Some convention speakers are grumbling that Barack Obama’s team that vets their speeches has been especially aggressive.August 28, 2008
Clinton Delivers Emphatic Plea for Unity
By PATRICK HEALY
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton deferred her own dreams on Tuesday and made a soaring appeal for Democrats to support Senator Barack Obama.August 27, 2008
Some Clinton Fund-Raisers Are Still Simmering
By MICHAEL LUO and GRIFF PALMER
With some top Clinton fund-raisers still unwilling to work for Senator Barack Obama, the campaign is having trouble keeping up with its ambitious goals.August 27, 2008
The Long Run
Once a Convention Outsider, Obama Navigated a Path to the Marquee
By JEFF ZELENY
Barack Obama’s evolution as a politician can be seen as a narrative centered on his party’s conventions.August 27, 2008
The TV Watch
One First Is Celebrated. What About the Second?
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
Amid the hoopla for the first female also-ran, Democrats are soft-pedaling Senator Barack Obama’s breakthrough.August 27, 2008
Casey, an Abortion Opponent, Praises Obama
By JOHN M. BRODER
Sixteen years after his father opposed Bill Clinton’s candidacy, Senator Bob Casey Jr. of Pennsylvania said Barack Obama could bring together supporters and opponents of abortion rights.August 27, 2008
Op-Ed Contributor
The Myth of Biden v. Bork
By JEFFREY ROSEN
Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s efforts to protect Judge Robert Bork’s and Judge Clarence Thomas’s privacy demonstrate that, although he was present at the creation of the post-Bork era, he did not cause it.August 27, 2008
Some Clinton Fund-Raisers Are Still Simmering
By MICHAEL LUO and GRIFF PALMER
With some top Clinton fund-raisers still unwilling to work for Senator Barack Obama, the campaign is having trouble keeping up with its ambitious goals.August 27, 2008
Clinton Rallies Her Troops to Fight for Obama
By PATRICK HEALY
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton made a soaring appeal to support Senator Barack Obama.August 27, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist
High Anxiety in the Mile High City
By MAUREEN DOWD
I’ve never actually seen a convention where the energy was so absorbed by people who had lost the nomination, rather than the one who had won.August 27, 2008
Officials See No ‘Credible Threat’ to Obama in Racist Rants
By KIRK JOHNSON and ERIC LICHTBLAU
An apparently half-baked plot to assassinate Barack Obama has highlighted the question of exactly what and whom to fear.August 27, 2008
News Analysis
For Obama, a Challenge to Clarify His Message
By JACKIE CALMES
The drama of the convention makes it harder for Barack Obama to connect with the economic anxiety of voters.August 27, 2008
Editorial
So Far Over the Line
This year’s presidential campaign has already been marked by far too much negative advertising, with coded racial images and sophomoric insults.August 27, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist
A Biblical Seven Years
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
As snapshots go, the one China presented through the Olympics was enormously powerful and it’s one that Americans need to reflect upon this election season.August 27, 2008
Stalwarts for Clinton, in Search of Catharsis
By JACKIE CALMES
What Hillary Rodham Clinton says to promote her onetime rival will tell a lot about Democrats’ ability to unite for victory in November.August 26, 2008
Michelle Obama, Reluctant No More
By JODI KANTOR
Michelle Obama is at the center of what may be the most closely managed spousal rollout in history.August 26, 2008
A Possible Plot Against Obama
By PATRICK HEALY
Authorities said that at least four people were under arrest on firearms and drug charges in connection with a possible plot to kill Senator Barack Obama.August 26, 2008
OP-Ed Columnist
The Dog That Isn’t Barking
By BOB HERBERT
The race issue in Barack Obama’s campaign can come up in peculiar and jolting ways.August 26, 2008
NYC
Lobbying for All but New York
By CLYDE HABERMAN
Come fall, don’t expect to hear much from the presidential candidates about what they would do to solve problems specific to this or any other American city.August 26, 2008
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