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Obama Will Be One of The Greatest (and Most Loved) American Presidents

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Obama Will Be One of The Greatest (and Most Loved) American Presidents
Frank Schaeffer
Posted October 8, 2008 | 02:45 PM (EST)
The Huffington Post

Great presidents are made great by horrible circumstances combined with character, temperament and intelligence. Like firemen, cops, doctors or soldiers, presidents need a crisis to shine.

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Candidates Educational Backgrounds

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

With America facing historic debt, multiple war fronts, stumbling health care, a weakened dollar, all-time high prison population, skyrocketing federal spending, mortgage crises, bank foreclosures, etc., this is an unusually critical election year.

Let’s look at the educational background of the two presidential candidates and see what they bring to the job.

Barack Obama
* Occidental College – Two years
* Columbia University – B.A. Political Science, with a specialization in International Relations
* Harvard – Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude; Law Review
Joe Biden
* University of Delaware – B.A. History and B.A. in Political Science.
* Syracuse University College of Law – Juris Doctor (J.D.)
John McCain
* United States Naval Academy – B.A. History Class, graduated #894 out of a class of 899
Sarah Palin
* Hawaii Pacific University – 1 sem
* North Idaho College – 2 sem – General Studies
* University of Idaho – 2 sem – Journalism
* Matanuska-Susitna College – 1 sem
* University of Idaho – 3 sem – B.A. Communications-Journalism