On August 4, 1961 (62 years ago today), Barack Hussein Obama II was born, not in Kenya as some have claimed, but in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was the 44th President of the United States, and the first African American to hold the office. President Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the ( Read more... )

Next up in the race for the Republican Party is conservative radio talk show host Larry Elder of Califoria. His full name is Laurence Allen Elder and he was born on April 27, 1952. He is the host of the Larry Elder Show, a radio program based in California. The show began as a local program on Los Angeles radio station KABC in 1993 and ran until ( Read more... )

Unless you're a birther, you know that Barack Obama was born at Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii, the first President to have been born outside of the continental United States. His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was born in Wichita, Kansas, while his father, Barack Obama, Sr., was born in Kenya. Obama's parents met in ( Read more... )

George Walker Bush was born at Grace-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut, the first child of future President George Herbert Walker Bush and his wife, the former Barbara Pierce. Bush's grandfather was Prescott Bush, a U.S. Senator from Connecticut. As a child, his family moved to Texas and George W. Bush was raised in Midland and Houston, ( Read more... )

In 2008, during a presidential election debate, then Senator Barack Obama said "If we have Osama bin Laden in our sights and the Pakistani government is unable or unwilling to take him out, then I think that we have to act and we will take him out. We will kill bin Laden." He was ridiculed by his opponent Senator John McCain, who said "Senator ( Read more... )

Senator (and former Governor) Mitt Romney ran for President in 2012 as the Republican Candidate. He was a strong candidate who ran in a very polarized election in which his wealth was made an issue and his private remarks were made public and used against him. His middle-of-the-road moderate/slightly right views have made him out of step in a ( Read more... )

On Saturday August 25, 2018, Senator John Sidney McCain III died, following a battle with a very aggressive form of brain cancer. McCain was the last candidate to run for president on the ticket of a major party who was an authentic war hero and a prisoner of war. He had been the senior United States Senator from Arizona and was the Republican ( Read more... )

Over the years Republicans and Democrats alike have looked to congressional leaders to find their candidates for the presidency, especially in years where it looked like they were up against a strong incumbent. (Recent examples are John McCain, Barry Goldwater and John Kerry.) They have also looked for candidates who served in combat (such as Harry ( Read more... )

Four years ago today, on Saturday August 25, 2018, Senator John Sidney McCain III died, following a battle with a very aggressive form of brain cancer. McCain was the last candidate to run for president on the ticket of a major party who was an authentic war hero and a prisoner of war. He had been the senior United States Senator from Arizona and ( Read more... )

On August 4, 1961 (61 years ago today), Barack Hussein Obama II was born, not in Kenya as some have claimed, but in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was the 44th President of the United States, and the first African American to hold the office. President Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the ( Read more... )