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Article: The content of Obama's character.(Barack Obama )
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- The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 8, 2008
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Barack Hussein Obama. What is it about him that has captured the support of so many within the American Jewish community?
He's only been a senator for just over three years. For seven years before that he was a state legislator from Illinois. In the 2004 Illinois senate race he beat out a few lackluster Democratic opponents, then went into the general election against Republican commentator Alan Keyes, who jumped into the fray for the last 12 weeks after the previous scandal-ridden candidate dropped out. And so Barack Obama waltzed into the Senate with 70 percent of the vote.
So anyone in the Jewish community or, for that matter, anyone in America who ...