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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（adj.两党的）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（律师） 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.

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关于巴拉克奥巴马

      巴拉克•奥巴马，来自伊利诺伊州的第一任期的参议员，如果能够当选的话将成为第一位非洲裔美国总统。奥巴马从2004年起就在参议院供职，他曾向民主、共和两党提出议案，以让美国人民能够上网查询他们所纳的税是如何支出的。他还在退伍军人事物委员会任职，帮助监督对从伊拉克和阿富汗斯坦返回的士兵的照料情况。
      此前，奥巴马是芝加哥一个社会团体的组织者和民权律师，并担任了8年的伊利诺伊州参议员。
      奥巴马于1961年8月4日生于夏威夷，曾在包括印度尼西亚在内的许多地方生活过。他的母亲是美国堪萨斯州人，父亲是肯尼亚人。奥巴马曾就读于纽约哥伦比亚大学，并在位于马萨诸塞州的哈弗大学获得法学学位。他的妻子米歇尔•奥巴马也是一名律师，随后在芝加哥大学任职。他们生有两个小女儿。