Academy awarding-winning actor George Clooney (L) prepares to speak alongside Senator Barack Obama (R)(D-IL) at a Washington news conference, April 27, 2006 about the Darfur region of Sudan. [Clooney and his father, journalist Nick Clooney], have just returned from a week-long trip to southern Sudan and eastern Chad where they met with dozens of individuals affected by the crisis and documented the brutal and worsening conflict in Sudan's Darfur region.