E-mail a friendOctober 23, 2006
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama comments on testing the waters for a White House run and discusses his new book, The Audacity of Hope.
Sen. Barack Obama
Sen. Barack Obama
After months of speculation on whether he would run in '08, Illinois' junior senator Barack Obama announced his candidacy for the White House in February ‘07. He's proven to be a stellar fund-raiser and a popular candidate. The only African American in the U.S. Senate, Obama is a Harvard Law School grad—and the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review—a former civil rights lawyer and former state senator. His committee assignments include Foreign Relations, Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security.
