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Barack Obama
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{{#tag:references|<ref name="birth-certificate">&#x7B;&#x7B;cite web &#x7C;date&#x3D;April 27, 2011&#x7C;title&#x3D;Certification of Live Birth: Barack Hussein Obama II, August 4, 1961, 7:24&nbsp;pm, Honolulu&#x7C;work&#x3D;Department of Health, State of Hawaii&#x7C;publisher&#x3D;The White House&#x7C;url&#x3D;http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/birth-certificate-long-form.pdf&#x7C;accessdate&#x3D;April 27, 2011&#x7D;&#x7D;</ref><ref name="Christian">&#x7B;&#x7B;cite web &#x7C;year&#x3D;2009&#x7C;title&#x3D;American President: Barack Obama&#x7C;location&#x3D;Charlottesville, VA&#x7C;publisher&#x3D;Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia&#x7C;url&#x3D;http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/obama&#x7C;accessdate&#x3D;January 23, 2009&#x7C;quote&#x3D;Religion: Christian&#x7D;&#x7D;
* &#x7B;&#x7B;cite web &#x7C;title&#x3D;The Truth about Barack's Faith&#x7C;publisher&#x3D;Obama for America&#x7C;url&#x3D;http://www.fightthesmears.com/file_download/2/baracksfaith.pdf&#x7C;accessdate&#x3D;April 8, 2011&#x7D;&#x7D;
* &#x7B;&#x7B;cite news &#x7C;author&#x3D;Miller, Lisa &#x7C;date&#x3D;July 18, 2008&#x7C;title&#x3D;Finding his faith&#x7C;work&#x3D;Newsweek&#x7C;url&#x3D;http://www.newsweek.com/id/145971&#x7C;accessdate&#x3D;February 4, 2010&#x7C;quote&#x3D; He is now a Christian, having been baptized in the early 1990s at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.&#x7D;&#x7D;
* &#x7B;&#x7B;cite news &#x7C;author&#x3D;Barakat, Matthew &#x7C; agency &#x3D; Associated Press &#x7C;date&#x3D;November 17, 2008&#x7C;title&#x3D; Obama's church choice likely to be scrutinized; D.C. churches have started extending invitations to Obama and his family&#x7C;publisher&#x3D;MSNBC&#x7C;url&#x3D; http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27775757&#x7C;accessdate&#x3D;January 20, 2009&#x7C;quote&#x3D;The United Church of Christ, the denomination from which Obama resigned when he left Wright's church, issued a written invitation to join a UCC denomination in Washington and resume his connections to the church.&#x7D;&#x7D;.
* &#x7B;&#x7B;cite web &#x7C;date&#x3D;January 20, 2009 &#x7C;title&#x3D;Barack Obama, long time UCC member, inaugurated forty-fourth U.S. President&#x7C;work&#x3D;News&#x7C;publisher&#x3D;United Church of Christ&#x7C;url&#x3D;http://www.ucc.org/news/obama-inauguration.html&#x7C;accessdate&#x3D;January 21, 2009&#x7C;quote&#x3D;Barack Obama, who spent more than 20 years as a UCC member, is the forty-fourth President of the United States.&#x7D;&#x7D;
* &#x7B;&#x7B;cite news &#x7C;author&#x3D;Sullivan, Amy&#x7C;date&#x3D;June 29, 2009&#x7C;title&#x3D;The Obama's find a church home—away from home&#x7C;work&#x3D;Time&#x7C;url&#x3D;http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1907610,00.html&#x7C;accessdate&#x3D;February 5, 2010&#x7C;quote&#x3D;instead of joining a congregation in Washington, D.C., he will follow in George W. Bush's footsteps and make his primary place of worship Evergreen Chapel, the nondenominational church at Camp David.&#x7D;&#x7D;.
* &#x7B;&#x7B;cite news &#x7C;author&#x3D;Kornblut, Anne E.&#x7C;date&#x3D;February 4, 2010&#x7C;title&#x3D;Obama's spirituality is largely private, but it's influential, advisers say&#x7C;newspaper&#x3D;The Washington Post&#x7C;page&#x3D;A6&#x7C;url&#x3D;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/03/AR2010020303619.html&#x7C;accessdate&#x3D;February 5, 2010&#x7C;quote&#x3D;Obama prays privately ... And when he takes his family to Camp David on the weekends, a Navy chaplain ministers to them, with the daughters attending a form of Sunday school there.&#x7D;&#x7D;</ref><ref name="Occidental">&#x7B;&#x7B;cite news&#x7C;author&#x3D;Gordon, Larry&#x7C;date&#x3D;January 29, 2007&#x7C;title&#x3D;Occidental recalls 'Barry' Obama&#x7C;newspaper&#x3D;Los Angeles Times&#x7C;page&#x3D;B1&#x7C;url&#x3D;http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jan/29/local/me-oxy29&#x7C;accessdate&#x3D;May 12, 2010&#x7D;&#x7D;
* &#x7B;&#x7B;cite news&#x7C;author&#x3D;Possley, Maurice&#x7C;date&#x3D;March 30, 2007&#x7C;title&#x3D;Activism blossomed in college&#x7C;newspaper&#x3D;Chicago Tribune&#x7C;page&#x3D;20&#x7C;url&#x3D;http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0703291042mar30-archive,0,1533921.story&#x7C;accessdate&#x3D;May 12, 2010&#x7D;&#x7D;
* &#x7B;&#x7B;cite news&#x7C;author&#x3D;Kovaleski, Serge F.&#x7C;date&#x3D;February 9, 2008&#x7C;title&#x3D;Old friends say drugs played bit part in Obama's young life&#x7C;newspaper&#x3D;The New York Times&#x7C;page&#x3D;A1&#x7C;url&#x3D;http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/09/us/politics/09obama.html?pagewanted&#x3D;all&#x7C;accessdate&#x3D;May 12, 2010&#x7D;&#x7D;
* &#x7B;&#x7B;cite news&#x7C;author&#x3D;Rohter, Larry&#x7C;date&#x3D;April 10, 2008 &#x7C;title&#x3D;Obama says real-life experience trumps rivals' foreign policy credits&#x7C;newspaper&#x3D;The New York Times&#x7C;page&#x3D;A18&#x7C;url&#x3D;http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/10/us/politics/10obama.html&#x7C;accessdate&#x3D;May 12, 2010&#x7D;&#x7D;
* &#x7B;&#x7B;cite news&#x7C;author&#x3D;Goldman, Adam; Tanner, Robert &#x7C; agency &#x3D; Associated Press &#x7C;date&#x3D;May 15, 2008&#x7C;title&#x3D;Old friends recall Obama's years in LA, NYC&#x7C;work&#x3D;USA Today &#x7C;url&#x3D;http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2008-05-15-3144401415_x.htm&#x7C;accessdate&#x3D;May 12, 2010&#x7D;&#x7D;
* &#x7B;&#x7B;cite news&#x7C;author&#x3D;Helman, Scott&#x7C;date&#x3D;August 25, 2008&#x7C;title&#x3D;Small college awakened future senator to service&#x7C;newspaper&#x3D;The Boston Globe&#x7C;page&#x3D;1A&#x7C;url&#x3D;http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/articles/2008/08/25/small_college_awakened_future_senator_to_service/?page&#x3D;full&#x7C;accessdate&#x3D;May 12, 2010&#x7D;&#x7D;
* &#x7B;&#x7B;cite news&#x7C;author&#x3D;Jackson, Brooks&#x7C;date&#x3D;June 5, 2009&#x7C;title&#x3D;More 'birther' nonsense: Obama's 1981 Pakistan trip&#x7C;publisher&#x3D;FactCheck.org&#x7C;url&#x3D;http://www.factcheck.org/2009/06/more-birther-nonsense-obamas-1981-pakistan-trip&#x7C;accessdate&#x3D;May 12, 2010&#x7D;&#x7D;
* &#x7B;&#x7B;cite book&#x7C;author&#x3D;Remnick, David&#x7C;year&#x3D;2010&#x7C;title&#x3D;[[The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama]]&#x7C;location&#x3D;New York &#x7C;publisher&#x3D;Alfred A. Knopf&#x7C;pages&#x3D;98–112&#x7C;isbn&#x3D;978-1-4000-4360-6&#x7D;&#x7D;
* Obama (1995, 2004), pp. 92–112.
* Mendell (2007), pp. 55–62.</ref><ref name="Juris Doctor">&#x7B;&#x7B;cite news&#x7C;author&#x3D;Adams, Richard&#x7C;date&#x3D;May 9, 2007&#x7C;title&#x3D;Barack Obama&#x7C;newspaper&#x3D;The Guardian&#x7C;location&#x3D;London&#x7C;url&#x3D;http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/may/09/barackobama.uselections20081&#x7C;accessdate&#x3D;October 26, 2008&#x7D;&#x7D;
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* &#x7B;&#x7B;cite journal&#x7C;author&#x3D;Zengerle, Jason&#x7C;date&#x3D;July 30, 2008&#x7C;title&#x3D;Con law; What the University of Chicago right thinks of Obama&#x7C;journal&#x3D;The New Republic&#x7C;volume&#x3D;239&#x7C;issue&#x3D;1&#x7C;pages&#x3D;7–8&#x7C;issn&#x3D;0028-6583&#x7C;url&#x3D;http://www.tnr.com/article/con-law?id&#x3D;86dd0277-c6ee-4e3c-83e9-0bb468c5c40d&p&#x3D;1&#x7C;accessdate&#x3D;January 30, 2010&#x7D;&#x7D;
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* &#x7B;&#x7B;cite news&#x7C;author&#x3D;Starr, Alexandra&#x7C;date&#x3D;September 21, 2008&#x7C;title&#x3D;Case study&#x7C;magazine&#x3D;The New York Times Magazine &#x7C;page&#x3D;76&#x7C;url&#x3D;http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/magazine/21obama-t.html?pagewanted&#x3D;all&#x7C;accessdate&#x3D;January 30, 2010&#x7D;&#x7D;
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* Obama (1995, 2004), pp. 438–439.
* Mendell (2007), pp. 104–106.</ref><ref name="Democratic primary">&#x7B;&#x7B;cite web&#x7C;url&#x3D;http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2000/ilh.htm &#x7C;title&#x3D;Federal Elections 2000: U.S. House Results&nbsp;– Illinois &#x7C;publisher&#x3D;[[Federal Election Commission]] &#x7C;accessdate&#x3D;April 24, 2008&#x7D;&#x7D;
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* &#x7B;&#x7B;Cite news&#x7C;author&#x3D;Tackett, Michael&#x7C;date&#x3D;October 3, 2002&#x7C;title&#x3D;Bush, House OK Iraq deal; Congress marches with Bush&#x7C;newspaper&#x3D;Chicago Tribune&#x7C;page&#x3D;1 &#x7C;url&#x3D;http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/203569641.html?dids&#x3D;203569641:203569641&FMT&#x3D;ABS&FMTS&#x3D;ABS:FT&#x7C;format&#x3D;paid archive&#x7C;accessdate&#x3D;February 3, 2008&#x7D;&#x7D;</ref><ref name="Federal Plaza">&#x7B;&#x7B;Cite news&#x7C;author&#x3D;Glauber, Bill&#x7C;date&#x3D;October 3, 2003&#x7C;title&#x3D;War protesters gentler, but passion still burns&#x7C;newspaper&#x3D;Chicago Tribune&#x7C;page&#x3D;1 &#x7C;url&#x3D;http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/203569621.html?dids&#x3D;203569621:203569621&FMT&#x3D;ABS&FMTS&#x3D;ABS:FT&#x7C;format&#x3D;paid archive&#x7C;accessdate&#x3D;February 3, 2008&#x7D;&#x7D;
* &#x7B;&#x7B;Cite news&#x7C;author&#x3D;Strausberg, Chinta&#x7C;date&#x3D;October 3, 2002&#x7C;title&#x3D;War with Iraq undermines U.N &#x7C;newspaper&#x3D;Chicago Defender&#x7C;page&#x3D;1&#x7C;url&#x3D;http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-220379051.html&#x7C;quote&#x3D;Photo caption: Left Photo: Sen. Barack Obama along with Rev. Jesse Jackson spoke to nearly 3,000 anti-war protestors (below) during a rally at Federal Plaza Wednesday.&#x7C;accessdate&#x3D;October 28, 2008&#x7D;&#x7D;
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* &#x7B;&#x7B;Cite news&#x7C;author&#x3D;Bryant, Greg; Vaughn, Jane B.&#x7C;date&#x3D;October 3, 2002&#x7C;title&#x3D;300 attend rally against Iraq war&#x7C;newspaper&#x3D;Daily Herald (Arlington Heights)&#x7C;page&#x3D;8&#x7C;format&#x3D;paid archive&#x7C;url&#x3D;http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product&#x3D;ADHB&p_theme&#x3D;adhb&p_action&#x3D;search&p_maxdocs&#x3D;200&p_text_search-0&#x3D;300%20AND%20attend%20AND%20rally%20AND%20against%20AND%20Iraq%20AND%20war&s_dispstring&#x3D;300%20attend%20rally%20against%20Iraq%20war%20AND%20date(10/3/2002%20to%2010/3/2002)&p_field_date-0&#x3D;YMD_date&p_params_date-0&#x3D;date:B,E&p_text_date-0&#x3D;10/3/2002%20to%2010/3/2002)&xcal_numdocs&#x3D;20&p_perpage&#x3D;10&p_sort&#x3D;YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights&#x3D;no&#x7C;accessdate&#x3D;October 28, 2008&#x7D;&#x7D;
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* &#x7B;&#x7B;Cite news&#x7C;author&#x3D;McCormick, John&#x7C;date&#x3D;October 3, 2007&#x7C;title&#x3D;Obama marks '02 war speech; Contender highlights his early opposition in effort to distinguish him from his rivals&#x7C;newspaper&#x3D;Chicago Tribune&#x7C;page&#x3D;7&#x7C;url&#x3D;http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/1351610621.html?dids&#x3D;1351610621:1351610621&FMT&#x3D;ABS&FMTS&#x3D;ABS:FT&#x7C;format&#x3D;paid archive&#x7C;quote&#x3D;The top strategist for Sen. Barack Obama has just 14 seconds of video of what is one of the most pivotal moments of the presidential candidate's political career. The video, obtained from a Chicago TV station, is of Obama's 2002 speech in opposition to the impending Iraq invasion.&#x7C;accessdate&#x3D;October 28, 2008&#x7D;&#x7D;
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* &#x7B;&#x7B;Cite news&#x7C;title&#x3D;Obama Slates Kenya for Fraud &#x7C;date&#x3D;August 28, 2006 &#x7C;url&#x3D;http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1989646,00.html &#x7C;archiveurl&#x3D;http://web.archive.org/web/20080605213213/http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1989646,00.html &#x7C;archivedate&#x3D;June 5, 2008 &#x7C;work&#x3D;News24.com &#x7C;accessdate&#x3D;April 27, 2008&#x7D;&#x7D;
* &#x7B;&#x7B;Cite news&#x7C;first&#x3D;Chris &#x7C;last&#x3D;Wamalwa &#x7C;title&#x3D;Envoy Hits at Obama Over Graft Remark &#x7C;date&#x3D;September 2, 2006 &#x7C;url&#x3D;http://www.eastandard.net/archives/cl/hm_news/news.php?articleid&#x3D;1143957666 &#x7C;archiveurl&#x3D;http://web.archive.org/web/20071010050740/http://www.eastandard.net/archives/cl/hm_news/news.php?articleid&#x3D;1143957666 &#x7C;archivedate&#x3D;October 10, 2007 &#x7C;work&#x3D;The Standard (Nairobi) &#x7C;accessdate&#x3D;April 27, 2008&#x7D;&#x7D;
* &#x7B;&#x7B;Cite news&#x7C;first&#x3D;Vincent &#x7C;last&#x3D;Moracha &#x7C;coauthors&#x3D;Mangoa Mosota &#x7C;title&#x3D;Leaders Support Obama on Graft Claims &#x7C;date&#x3D;September 4, 2006 &#x7C;url&#x3D;http://www.eastandard.net/archives/cl/hm_news/news.php?articleid&#x3D;1143957752 &#x7C;archiveurl&#x3D;http://web.archive.org/web/20071007115436/http://www.eastandard.net/archives/cl/hm_news/news.php?articleid&#x3D;1143957752 &#x7C;archivedate&#x3D;October 7, 2007 &#x7C;work&#x3D;The Standard (Nairobi) &#x7C;accessdate&#x3D;April 27, 2008&#x7D;&#x7D;</ref><ref name="allocation">&#x7B;&#x7B;Cite news&#x7C; url&#x3D;http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1738331,00.html &#x7C;title&#x3D;The Five Mistakes Clinton Made &#x7C;author&#x3D;Tumulty, Karen &#x7C;work&#x3D;Time &#x7C;date&#x3D;May 8, 2008 &#x7C;accessdate&#x3D;November 11, 2008&#x7D;&#x7D;
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<references group=""><ref name="birth-certificate">{{cite web |date=April 27, 2011|title=Certification of Live Birth: Barack Hussein Obama II, August 4, 1961, 7:24&nbsp;pm, Honolulu|work=Department of Health, State of Hawaii|publisher=The White House|url=http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/birth-certificate-long-form.pdf|accessdate=April 27, 2011}}</ref><ref name="Christian">{{cite web |year=2009|title=American President: Barack Obama|location=Charlottesville, VA|publisher=Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia|url=http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/obama|accessdate=January 23, 2009|quote=Religion: Christian}}
* {{cite web |title=The Truth about Barack's Faith|publisher=Obama for America|url=http://www.fightthesmears.com/file_download/2/baracksfaith.pdf|accessdate=April 8, 2011}}
* {{cite news |author=Miller, Lisa |date=July 18, 2008|title=Finding his faith|work=Newsweek|url=http://www.newsweek.com/id/145971|accessdate=February 4, 2010|quote= He is now a Christian, having been baptized in the early 1990s at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.}}
* {{cite news |author=Barakat, Matthew | agency = Associated Press |date=November 17, 2008|title= Obama's church choice likely to be scrutinized; D.C. churches have started extending invitations to Obama and his family|publisher=MSNBC|url= http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27775757|accessdate=January 20, 2009|quote=The United Church of Christ, the denomination from which Obama resigned when he left Wright's church, issued a written invitation to join a UCC denomination in Washington and resume his connections to the church.}}.
* {{cite web |date=January 20, 2009 |title=Barack Obama, long time UCC member, inaugurated forty-fourth U.S. President|work=News|publisher=United Church of Christ|url=http://www.ucc.org/news/obama-inauguration.html|accessdate=January 21, 2009|quote=Barack Obama, who spent more than 20 years as a UCC member, is the forty-fourth President of the United States.}}
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