Kenyans greet Obama.

PositionBarack Obama from Illinois - Brief article

If Senator Barack Obama ever wants to run for President--or become a rock star--he got excellent practice when he visited Kenya in August. Thousands of people lined the streets of Nairobi, Kenya's capital, just to get a glimpse of him. Obama, a freshman Democratic Senator from Illinois, was touring Africa to raise awareness of AIDS and to reconnect with his roots. Obama's father was a goat herder-turned-economist from western Kenya. And, although he never spent much time in...

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