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Article: Backgrounder: U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- August 28, 2008
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Backgrounder: U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama
DENVER, the United States, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- After 19 months of
campaigning, U.S. Illinois Senator Barack Obama officially became
the Democratic presidential nominee on Thursday night as the
national convention ended in Denver, Colorado.
Obama was born on Aug. 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father, a
student from Kenya, and his mother, a white woman from Kansas, knew
each other when studying in the Hawaii University.
Because his father chose to return to his homeland after
graduation, Obama was raised up by his single mother. At the age of
10, he went to Indonesia with his mother and step-father, and spent
four years ...