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...that, as Malik says, "it's beyond comprehension." The Jor'Obama have gone from barefoot subsistence farmers to the U.S. presidency in two generations. Many still live the life of their grandfather, growing maize, millet and sweet potatoes and tending cows, chickens, goats and ducks. As the first-born son of the first-born son, Malik is the clan head, and at night the men build a fire outside his hut, drink moonshine and talk...
...better I got to know the Obamas, the more astonished I became at the unlikeliness of Barack's ascension. This is the story of a grandfather whose stubborn will found a match in the austerity of Islam and drove his son to seek a scholarship abroad, which in turn led the young man to Hawaii, where he met and married Ann, a Christian, and had a son--who, at 47, will become the first black President of the U.S. There are so many unlikelihoods in his story that an Obama victory seemed like a fairy tale. As Election Day approached...
Obama, the son of a Kenyan father and a white mother from Kansas, will be the nation’s first black president. A graduate of Harvard Law School, the first-term Illinois senator’s win capped off a meteoric rise in which he ascended from the Illinois State Senate to the White House in less than five years...
Meanwhile, back on Facebook, Steve Fox of San Francisco updated his status to tell friends that he let his 11-year-old son mark the ballot in the voting booth. "I think it left him feeling a lot more invested in the political process," Fox said. "He told me after we were done that he wished he were 18 so he could vote on his own." All day, the social-networking site's news feed twittered with users either complaining about the long lines or marveling at how quickly they got in and out. Many encouraged friends to vote, reminding...
...three-term governor of New Hampshire who served as George H.W. Bush's White House chief of staff for two years before he was forced to resign in disgrace amid charges that he misused government aircraft for personal trips. The family name was restored in 2002 when his son, John E. Sununu, became New Hampshire's junior senator after knocking off incumbent Senator Bob Smith in the GOP primary and then defeating popular former Governor Jeanne Shaheen in the general election. The younger Sununu, just 38 years old at the time, was widely viewed as an intelligent, sharp politician...