Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. (born August 4 1961) is the junior United States Senator from Illinois, a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination in the 2008 U.S. presidential election, and author of two best-selling books. He is married to Michelle Obama, with whom he has two daughters. Born to a Kenyan father and a white American mother, he spent most of his childhood and adolescent years in Honolulu, Hawaii. At age six, he moved to Jakarta, Indonesia, where he lived with his mother and...