Barack Obama

DOB: August 4, 1961
Hometown: Honolulu, Hawaii
Current Job: U.S. Senator (Ill.)

Key Issues:

Strengthening America overseas

Plan to end the Iraq War

Creating an affordable health care system

Fighting poverty

Quote: "I believe that the single most important job of any President is to protect the American people. And I am equally convinced that doing that job effectively in the 21st century will require a new vision of American leadership and a new conception of our national security-- a vision that draws from the lessons of the past, but is not bound by outdated thinking."