description: This up-to-date and informative CD-ROM provides a unique collection of documents about the career of Senator Barack Obama from Illinois, who may seek the Democratic nomination for President in 2008. Barack Obama was born on August 4th, 1961, in Hawaii to Barack Obama, Sr. and Ann Dunham. Obama graduated from Columbia University in 1983, and moved to Chicago in 1985 to work for a church-based group seeking to improve living conditions in poor neighborhoods plagued with crime and high unemployment. In 1991, Obama graduated from Harvard Law School where he was the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review. Material includes speeches, policy statements, and news releases. Comprehensive sets of roll call votes in the U.S. Senate through the current 109th Congress are included, providing a record of the vote of the candidate on critical issues. These roll call vote tallies are the official records as compiled by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate, as recorded on the U.S. Senate database. In all, the disc has over 44,000 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Apple Macintosh systems. Reader software is included on the CD. Our CD-ROMs are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed or printed without untold hours of tedious searching and downloading. Vast archives of important public domain government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review no matter where you are. This book-on-a-disc makes a great reference work and educational tool for anyone interested in the 2008 Presidential election. As a bonus, this disc also includes a virtual federal reference bookshelf of 18 vital and interesting core federal documents with thousands of pages of extraordinary material: HISTORIC AND FOUNDING DOCUME
title: 2008 Democratic Presidential Candidates: Senator Barack Obama - Public Papers, Speeches, Policies, News
titlecomplete: 2008 Democratic Presidential Candidates: Senator Barack Obama - Public Papers, Speeches, Policies, News (CD-ROM)
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