gbaji wrote:
By what measurement is he more qualified than Palin?
Let's start with education and go from there, mmmkay? I'm just gonna go ahead and quote wikipedia here because the information is pretty common knowledge at this point.
Palin Quote:
She attended Hawaii Pacific University in the fall of 1982 and North Idaho College in the spring and fall of 1983.[22] (In June 2008, the Alumni Association of North Idaho College gave her its Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award).[23] In 1984, after winning the Miss Wasilla pageant,[24][25] she finished third in the Miss Alaska pageant,[26] [27] receiving the Miss Congeniality award and a college scholarship.[19]
She attended the University of Idaho in the fall of 1984 and spring of 1985, and attended Matanuska-Susitna College in the fall of 1985. She returned to the University of Idaho in the spring of 1986, receiving her bachelor's degree in communications with an emphasis in journalism from there in 1987.[5][22][28][29]
After graduating, she worked as a sportscaster[30] for KTUU-TV and KTVA-TV in Anchorage,[31] and as a sports reporter for the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman,[32][33] fulfilling an early ambition.[34]
Palin changed schools 5 times before finally getting a bachelors degree in... journalism? Prior to winning a local mayoral election, her only real employment history is that of a sportscaster for a local TV station? Awesome.
Obama Quote:
Following high school, Obama moved to Los Angeles in 1979 to attend Occidental College.[24] After two years he transferred in 1981 to Columbia University in New York City, where he majored in political science with a specialization in international relations[25] and graduated with a B.A. in 1983. He worked for a year at the Business International Corporation,[26][27] then at the New York Public Interest Research Group.[28][29]
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In late 1988, Obama entered Harvard Law School. He was selected as an editor of the Harvard Law Review at the end of his first year,[35] and president of the journal in his second year.[36] During his summers, he returned to Chicago, where he worked as a summer associate at the law firms of Sidley Austin in 1989 and Hopkins & Sutter in 1990.[37] After graduating with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) magna *** laude[38] from Harvard in 1991, he returned to Chicago.[35] Obama's election as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review gained national media attention[36] and led to a publishing contract and advance for a book about race relations,[39] which evolved into a personal memoir. The manuscript was published in mid-1995 as Dreams from My Father.[39]
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In 1991, Obama accepted a two-year position as Visiting Law and Government Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School to work on his first book.[40] He then served as a professor at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years; as a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996, and as a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004 teaching constitutional law.[41]
So, Obama attended a junior college for two years, then transferred to Columbia University where he graduated with a B.A.,
majoring in political science and specializing in international relations. Not content to stop there, he attended Harvard Law School 5 years later, was elected president of the Harvard Law Review in only his second year, and graduated with a doctorate in professional law. He went on to serve as a university law professor for 12 years. During that time, he served as a state senator for 8 years before becoming a U.S. senator and serving that position for 3 years before promptly handing McCain his *** on a silver platter.
Yeah, they're "equally" qualified, Gbaji. Keep telling yourself that.
