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Timeline: Barack Obama vs. Hillary Clinton

Let’s see if you can spot the similarities in the history of these two candidates. I have tried to list the major events in each of the democratic candidates lives and even though each of them sort of belong to a different era the “age based” chronology will hopefully make it a bit easier to compare the two.

Age Barack Obama Hillary Clinton
0-20 • Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961.
• The family moved to Indonesia in 1967.		 • Hillary Clinton was born, ironically, in Chicago, in 1947.
• At age 18 she enrolled in Wellesley College, as a political science major.
20-30 • Graduated from Columbia University in 1983, 21 years old.
• Moved back to Chicago from New York in 1985, to work as a community organizer with a church-based group.
• Elected president of the Harvard Law Review in 1990		 Delivered a controversial address as the first student to speak at commencement exercises for Wellesley College in 1969, age 22.
• Graduated from Yale Law School at age 26 in 1973.
• Married Bill Clinton and moved to Arkansas in 1975.
30-40 • Law degree from Harvard in 1991 at 30..
• Married Michelle in 1992.
• Obama was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996 at age 35		 • Listed as one of the one hundred most influential lawyers in America in 1988 and 1991.
40-50 • Elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004, age 43. • First Lady from 1993 - 2001.
50-60 • Elected to the United States Senate in 2000, age 53 and re-elected in 2006.

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    • This entry was posted by Depresident on Monday, February 4th, 2008 at 2:11 pm and is filed under Election. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

    3 Responses to “Timeline: Barack Obama vs. Hillary Clinton”

    1. Ann Says:
      February 5th, 2008 at 2:29 pm

      Obama was also elected president of the Harvard Law Review in 1990.

    2. Depresident Says:
      February 5th, 2008 at 3:03 pm

      Thanks Ann.. added it. This post was somewhat prematurely published so I’ll be adding to it for a while :)

    3. Shae Says:
      February 5th, 2008 at 8:51 pm

      The African-American vote has become a major focus during this national election with the presence of the first serious black contender, Barack Obama. Black voters are largely choosing between Obama and Hillary Clinton, wife of Bill Clinton, affectionately known as the “first black president.” Of those interviewed in Oakland, the vote leaned heavily on Barack Obama and no one voted Republican.

      Check out the UC Berkeley’s J-School Multimedia project (still updating) at http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/primary08/blackvote/

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