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Personal Background   Most decisive moment: transition from high school to college. (Aug 2007) Traces ancestry to Jefferson Davis, President of Confederacy. (Feb 2007) Personal story is basis of political desire to unite. (Feb 2007) Greeted as hero on visit to ancestral Kenya. (Feb 2007) Father died in car crash before Barack got to know him. (Feb 2007) Born in Hawaii; lives on Chicago's South Side. (Nov 2006) Full name: Barack Hussein Obama; family calls him "Barry". (Oct 2006) First black president of the Harvard Law Review. (Jul 2004) Ryan quits Senate race amid sex scandal allegations. (Jun 2004) Mother attacked for playing with a black girlfriend. (Aug 1996) Poverty of political organizers was proof of their integrity. (Aug 1996)     on Immigration Comprehensive solution includes employers & borders. (Nov 2007) Undocumented workers come here to work, not to drive. (Nov 2007) Support granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. (Nov 2007) FactCheck: Lightning IS likelier than employer prosecution. (Nov 2007) Illegal immigrants' lack of ID is a public safety concern. (Oct 2007) Immigration system is broken for legal immigrants. (Sep 2007) Reform must include more border security, and border wall. (Sep 2007) Sanctuary cities show that feds are not enforcing law. (Sep 2007) Pathway to citizenship, but people have to earn it. (Aug 2007) Let's be a nation of laws AND a nation of immigrants. (Aug 2007) Do a better job patrolling the Canadian and Mexican borders. (Jun 2007) Give immigrants who are here a rigorous path to citizenship. (Jun 2007) Extend welfare and Medicaid to immigrants. (Jul 1998) Voted YES on comprehensive immigration reform. (Jun 2007) Voted NO on declaring English as the official language of the US government. (Jun 2007) Voted YES on building a fence along the Mexican border. (Sep 2006) Voted YES on establishing a Guest Worker program. (May 2006) Voted YES on allowing illegal aliens to participate in Social Security. (May 2006) Voted YES on giving Guest Workers a path to citizenship. (May 2006) Rated 8% by USBC, indicating an open-border stance. (Dec 2006)     on Faith Active in the Trinity faith community. (Aug 2007) Baptized as an adult in the Trinity United Church of Christ. (Oct 2006) Spent time in both Muslim and Catholic schools. (Aug 1996)     on Abortion Voted against banning partial birth abortion. (Oct 2007) Stem cells hold promise to cure 70 major diseases. (Aug 2007) Trust women to make own decisions on partial-birth abortion. (Apr 2007) Extend presumption of good faith to abortion protesters. (Oct 2006) Constitution is a living document; no strict constructionism. (Oct 2006) Pass the Stem Cell Research Bill. (Jun 2004) Protect a woman's right to choose. (May 2004) Supports Roe v. Wade. (Jul 1998) Voted YES on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines. (Apr 2007) Voted NO on notifying parents of minors who get out-of-state abortions. (Jul 2006) Voted YES on $100M to reduce teen pregnancy by education & contraceptives. (Mar 2005) Rated 0% by the NRLC, indicating a pro-choice stance. (Dec 2006)     on the Environment Reduce mercury and lead to protect community health. (Aug 2007) Protect the Great Lakes & our National Parks and Forests. (Aug 2007) Give Katrina contracts to locals, not to Halliburton. (Jun 2007) Three months working on minority students recycling. (Aug 1996) Voted YES on including oil & gas smokestacks in mercury regulations. (Sep 2005)   on Families & Children Restore dream of making children's lives better than parents. (Dec 2007) All kids should learn about sexual abuse. (Jul 2007) FactCheck: 'Sex Ed for Kindergarten' means 'age-appropriate'. (Jul 2007) Listening to evangelicals bridges major political fault line. (Oct 2006)     on Foreign Policy Obama Doctrine: ideology has overridden facts and reality. (Dec 2007) China is a competitor but not an enemy. (Dec 2007) Willing to meet with Fidel Castro, Kim Jung Il & Hugo Chavez. (Nov 2007) Invest in our relationship with Mexico. (Sep 2007) Strengthen NATO to face 21st-century threats. (Aug 2007) $50B annually to strengthen weak states at risk of collapse. (Aug 2007) No "strategic ambiguity" on foreign policy issues. (Aug 2007) My critics engineered our biggest foreign policy disaster. (Aug 2007) China is a competitor, but not an enemy. (Aug 2007) Meet with enemy leaders; it's a disgrace that we have not. (Jul 2007) No-fly zone in Darfur; but pay attention more in Africa. (Jun 2007) Europe & Japan are allies, but China is a competitor. (Apr 2007) Palestinian people suffer-but from not recognizing Israel. (Apr 2007) FactCheck: Palestinian suffering from stalled peace effort. (Apr 2007) Protested South African apartheid while at college. (Feb 2007) Focus on corruption to improve African development. (Oct 2006) Supports Israel's self-defense; but distrusted by Israelis. (Oct 2006) Visited Africa in 2006; encouraged HIV testing & research. (Oct 2006) Never has US had so much power & so little influence to lead. (Jul 2004) US policy should promote democracy and human rights. (Jul 2004)     on The Grid -- Hard-Core Liberal   source: OnTheIssues.org

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