Meet Barack Obama!

[apnu]

Obama creds:

After attending Columbia University, he came to Chicago, joined a church based group to help residents of poor south side neighborhood. He attended Harvard Law School, became the first African American President of the Harvard Law Review.

Came back to Chicago and practiced civil rights law. Representing victims of housing and employment discrimination, and worked on voting right legislation. He began teaching at University of Chicago Law School, and then ran for the state senat in his district wich included: Hyde Park and some of the poorest ghettos of the South Side. He has spent 7 years as a state senator.

In 1992, he lead a registration drive that put 150,000 new voters on the rolls. He led a campaign for death penalty reforms which resulted in legislation that required police to videotape all interrogations in capital cases. He recently co-sponsored legislation to curb racial profiling.

Source: The New Yorker May 31st 2004, starting on page 32

He has consistently taken on issues that directly affect his constituents and has always been forthright and straightforward. His legislation and activism reflect his beliefs. He doesn't just talk the talk, he walks the walk.

He has more "cred" that Dubya, who had nothing on his resume except a series of embarrassing failures as a businessman and a flukey win in Texas.

[peabody71]

1. How old is this guy?!

[wndycty]

3. 43

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[apnu]

4. He's 42, born in 1962

[apnu]

2. kick for Obama!

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