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Politics, News & Issues > US Elections The case for Barack Obama's candidacy to the 2008 presidential election

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Barack Obama is not African-American in the traditional sense. He is half African and half white. His father was not a descendant of slaves. Obama did not see the ghettos of Chicago until he was in his twenties and an Ivy Leaguer. He graduated from Columbia in 1983, with a degree in political science. That must have been when he decided to be a politician. Why else would he leave a job as a financial consultant in New York City? He took a job working as a community organizer in a place he had never lived; a black community. Jeremiah Wright and the United Church of Christ was Obama's bridge...

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