"Obama, the only African American now in the U.S. Senate"
he is not! he is a mulatto Kenyan!.his history is not African American. if he were a republican the MSM would make sure that everyone knew his history and would not let the reps call him black!
" he is a mulatto Kenyan"
with a Muslim background.
Barack Obama was born at the Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii to Harvard University-educated economist Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a native of Kenya, and S. Ann Dunham, of Wichita, Kansas. Obama writes in Dreams from My Father that one of his mother's Kentucky ancestors "was rumored to have been a second cousin of Jefferson Davis". This statement, itself neither proven nor disproven by genealogical investigation, has been incorrectly interpreted as Ms. Dunham being a descendant of the Confederate president[1]; she is also said to be part Cherokee [2].
At the time of Obama's birth, both his parents were students at the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Barack means "blessed" in Swahili.
Of his years in Hawaii, Obama has written, "The irony is that my decision to work in politics, and to pursue such a career in a big Mainland city, in some sense grows out of my Hawaiian upbringing, and the ideal that Hawaii still represents in my mind."
When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced. His father eventually returned to Kenya, and he saw his son only once more before his death in 1982. Ann Obama married another East-West Center student from Indonesia. In his early childhood while growing up with his mother, Barack used the name 'Barry'. The family then moved to Jakarta, where Obama's half-sister Maya was born (Obama has other half-siblings from his father's other marriages). When Obama was ten he returned to Hawaii under the care of his grandparents, and later his mother, for the better educational opportunities
It was during his time spent here that Obama became a Christian and joined the Trinity United Church of Christ.
Although as a top graduate of Harvard Law, Obama could have taken his pick of high-paying law firm jobs, he returned to serving as a community organizer in Chicago. Obama organized an aggressive voter registration effort that registered over 100,000 voters and aided in the election of President Bill Clinton and Senator Carol Moseley Braun. Soon after, he joined a local civil rights law firm, and he became a lecturer of constitutional law at the University of Chicago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama