Washington Post - As I recall, Dr. King wasn't hanging out in Manhattan, Dr. King wasn't hanging out in Beverly Hills," Obama, D-Ill., told a King remembrance service in an economically depressed south Chicago suburb. Introducing Obama, the Rev. Jesse Jackson told a Miami Herald - WASHINGTON - Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, pressing for a phased withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq starting in four to six months, said Sunday that President Bush's announced deployment of 21,500 additional U.S. troops amounts to a policy of "stay ChristianNewsWire - WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 / Christian Newswire / -- Rev. Rob Schenck, President of the National Clergy Council and head of its affiliate, Faith and Action, a Washington, DC-based Christian outreach to policy-makers on Capitol Hill has updated and re

Democratic senator Barack Obama has taken the first step toward a presidential bid in 2008. Obama filed papers Tuesday to begin campaign fundraising. The Illinois senator said , "America is hungry for a different kind of politic"..Democratic Party Senator Barack Obama has taken the first steps towards running for the United States presidency in 2008.In an announcement weighted with history and moment, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who less than three years ago was serving in the Illinois Senate, declared today his intention to run for president. Sen. Barack Obama files papers Tuesday to explore a run for the White House.

In that light, Obama calls on fellow Democrats "to communicate our hopes and ... And last, Obama explains that Democrats can reach out to Christians without fear ...Like me, Obama was an author -- he had recently published an autobiography, ... much of the evening speaking to Obama and his wife, Michelle, yet another ...Barack Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961 to an American mother and a Kenyan father. ... Obama represented the South Side of Chicago in the Illinois State ...A name with Hussein and Obama all in the same sentence. ... Obama became the Democrats' Oprah, adored because he was a cocaine user, because ...What is it about Barack Obama? ... Morris "leaving the country" if Clinton-Obama ticket wins ... Early 'Maybe' From Obama Jolts '08 Field ...... discretion, and it appears the next example of this will be Barack Obama. ... Senator Obama has scared the Clinton cabal. ...

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Sen. Barack Obama announced Tuesday that he was taking the first step toward a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008 by filing papers to form a presidential exploratory committee. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) officially became a prospective presidential candidate Tuesday morning, forming a federal exploratory committee and slating Feb. 10 for the next step in his highly public 2008 decision-making process.Barack Obama, the young Democratic senator tipped to become the first black American to occupy the White House, has revealed that he is to take the first formal step towards a presidential campaign....WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senator Barack Obama is taking the first step toward a possible run for the White House, which could ultimately make him the first black American president.

An article by Michael Tomasky from The New York Review of Books, November 30, 2006 The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama