Just had to do some mental calculation myself, because I just sort of wondered how it added up. Not an ad for anyone here, but just once in a while I hear things over and over and then one day the head goes ...snap...and I wonder, "Is that true?"


Hillary Rodham Clinton: Born 1947, Wellesley College, Yale Law School, Joined Rose Law Firm in 1979, First Lady of Arkansas 1979 - 1981, and from 1983 - 1992 when she was active in many organizations dealing with the welfare of children and also on the board of various corporations among them Wal-Mart, First Lady of the United States from 1992 until being elected into the Senate in 2000.

Hillary Rodham Clinton years as an elected official: 8

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Barak Obama: Born 1961, Columbia University, Harvard Law School, President of Harvard Law Review, worked as community organizer and civil rights lawyer in Chicago, while teaching at University of Chicago Law School as senior lecturer specializing in constitutional law, represented the South Side of Chicago as Senator from 1996 - 2004, elected to US Senate in 2004.

Barak Obama years as an elected official: 12