The Lehigh Valley for Barack Obama aims to bring together anyone in the area who feels strongly about this candidate. We are open to anyone who feels Sen. Obama has a special quality that causes them to stand alongside him as he works to become President of the United States in 2008.
Morning Star Open House Saturday, September 15th from 4pm-8pm Everyone invited to attend! The Lehigh Valley for Barack Obama meets at Morning Star Center

Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to Barack Obama, Sr. of Nyangoma-Kogelo, Kenya, and Ann Dunham of Wichita, Kansas. In his 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father, he 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.� When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced and his father returned to Kenya. His mother then married an Indonesian foreign student, moving to Jakarta with Obama when he was six years old. Four years later, Obama returned to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents.
After high school, Obama studied for two years at Occidental College, before transferring to Columbia College at Columbia University. There he majored in political science, with a specialization in international relations. Upon graduation in 1983, Obama worked for one year at Business International Corporation before moving to Chicago and taking a job with a non-profit organization helping local churches organize job training programs for residents of poor neighborhoods.
Obama then left Chicago for three years to study at Harvard Law School where he was elected president of the Harvard Law Review and obtained his Jurist Doctor degree, magna cum laude in 1991. Upon returning to Chicago, Obama supported a voter registration drive, worked for civil rights firm Miner, Barnhill and Galland, and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School.
In 1996, Obama was elected to the Illinois State Senate from the 13th District in the south side neighborhood of Hyde Park, in Chicago. In January 2003, Democrats regained control of the chamber, and Sen. Obama was named chairman of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee.
Midway through his campaign for U.S. Senator, Obama delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts. �When we send our young men and women into harm�s way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they�re going, to care for their families while their gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return, and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world.� �There is not a Black America and White America and Latino America and Asian America � there�s the United States of America.� Barack Obama was sworn in as a U.S. Senator on January 4, 2005. From Barack Obama at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

From The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts On Reclaiming the American Dream
In a country as diverse as ours, there will always be passionate arguments about how our democracy works. But our democracy might work a bit better if we recognized that all of us possess values that are worthy of respect: if liberals at least acknowledged that the recreational hunter feels the same way about his gun as they feel about their library books, and if the conservatives recognized that most women feel as protective of their right to reproductive freedom as evangelicals do of their right to worship.
I find myself returning again and again to my mother�s simple principal � �How would that make you feel?� � as a guidepost for my politics. It�s not a question we ask ourselves enough, I think; as a country, we seem to be suffering from an empathy deficit.

1st quater, 2007 The Numbers: * $25+ million raised nationwide * 100,000 donors * $23.5mm+ is eligible for use in the primary * No lobbyist dollars, no PAC dollars accepted or included � $6.9mm raised over the Internet from over 50,000 donors nationwide � 90%+ in increments of $100 or less � 60% in increments of $25 or less

TIME magazine named Obama one of �the world�s most influential people,� listing him among twenty �Leaders and Revolutionaries� for his high-profile entrance to federal politics and his popularity within the Democratic Party. An October 2005 article in the British journal New Statesman listed Obama as one of �10 people who could change the world.� Obama is among the first national politicians to actively engage the public through new Internet communications tools. In late 2005, he began pod casting from his U.S. Senate official web site.

Obama holds honorary doctorates of Law from: Knox College (2005) University of Massachusetts Boston (2006) Northwestern University (2006) Xavier University of Louisiana (2006)

�Why is Bush acting like he trying to get Osama? Why don�t we impeach him and elect Obama?� - Common from the remix of �Why� by Jadakiss
�Barack� means: �Blessed� in Swahili.

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