Barack Obama knows his background is about as unconventional as
Illinois voters will probably ever see in a Senate candidate. He
was born in Hawaii, the son of a Kenyan economist and a white
mother from Kansas, and spent four years of his childhood in
Indonesia. His last name rhymes with Osama. So he begins every
campaign speech with the question on the audience's mind: "How
does a skinny guy with a funny name win an election? [more]
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