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"My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world.
I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it."
I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/14/politics/main2567770.shtmlMost classmates and teachers recall an easygoing, slightly chunky young man, with the same infectious smile he sports today. Yet many say they have trouble reconciling their nearly 30-year-old memories with Obama's more recent descriptions of himself as a brooding and sometimes angry adolescent, grappling with his mixed race and the void left by a father who gave him his black skin but little else.
The attention on Obama's time at Punahou — a country club campus with nine tennis courts, an Olympic-size pool and an endowment of $180 million — represents the next important challenge for a celebrity politician who leapt onto the national stage with a few swift strides.
Obama's presidential prospects have been fueled in large part by an arresting life story: The son of a Kenyan goatherder,