Barack Obama, a first-term senator from Illinois, would be the first African-American president of the United States if elected. Serving in the Senate since 2004, Obama introduced bipartisan legislation what allows Americans to learn online how their tax dollars are spent. He also serves on the Veterans' Affairs Committee, which helps oversee the care of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Previously, Obama worked as a community organizer and civil rights attorney in Chicago, and served for eight years in the Illinois State Senate.

Obama was born August 4,1961, in Hawaii and has lived in many places, including Indonesia. His mother was from Kansas and his father from Kenya. Obama attended Columbia University in New York and earned a law degree at Harvard University in Massachusetts. He and his wife, Michelle Obama, who also worked as a lawyer and later for the University of Chicago, have two young daughters.

巴拉克·奧巴馬，1961年8月4日生于夏威夷，父親Barack Obama, Sr.是來自肯尼亞的黑人，母親Ann Dunham是堪薩斯州的白人。1983年畢業于哥倫比亞大學，1985年到芝加哥參加社會工作。1991年畢業于哈佛法學院，是第一個擔任《哈佛法學評論》主編的非洲裔美國人。

1995年出版回憶錄《我父親的夢想》（Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance）。2004年，奧巴馬在民主黨全國代表大會上發表題為"無畏的希望"（The Audacity of Hope）的政策演講而引人注目。

巴拉克·奧巴馬1996年當選伊利諾伊州參議員，并連任三屆。2005年當選美國參議員。

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