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| A comparison between the accomplishments of Barack Obama and Andrew Schlafly
While superficially there appear to be no two people more different than Barack Obama and Andrew Schlafly, they have led strangely parallel lives. They both attended Harvard Law School at the same time, and both graduated with honours. They both had aspirations for an academic career lecturing on law, before turning their respective attentions to a run for elected office. But somehow now, as of November 2008, one is President-elect of the United States, while the other is in a church basement teaching homeschooled students that Vikings having a settlement in North America is a myth created by liberals to denigrate Christians.
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[edit] Barack Hussein Obama II
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[edit] Andrew Layton Schlafly
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[edit] Early Life
- Father: Barack Hussein Obama
- Immigrant from Kenya
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- Father: John Fred Schlafly
- Came from a well-to-do St. Louis family.
- John Schlafly's father August Schlafly married Catharine Hubert whose father was a successful businessman, the source of the family's wealth
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- Mother: Phyllis Schlafly (née Phyllis McAlpin Stewart), conservative writer and activist
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[edit] Academic Record
- B.A., Columbia University, 1983
- J.D., Harvard, 1991, magna cum laude
- Lecturer of Law, University of Chicago, 1992-1996
- Senior Lecturer of Law, University of Chicago, 1996-2004
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- BSE (Electrical Engineering), Princeton, 1981
- J.D., Harvard, 1991, magna cum laude
- Adjunct Professor, Seton Hall Law School, 2 semesters
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- President of Harvard Law Review[1][2] Editor in Chief
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- Editor of Harvard Law Review[3][2]
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[edit] Work Career
- Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland
- A twelve-attorney law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development
- Associate 1993 to 1996
- Counsel 1996 to 2004
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- The AAPS is listed as a quack organization
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- Head of community organization initiative encompassing 8 parishes, 13 staff, and a budget of $400,000
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- Teacher of a couple dozen underachieving homeschoolers with the spurious claim of being "the world's largest pre-college class on American History"[4]
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[edit] Political Career
- Illinois State Senator (1997-2004)
- United States Senator (D-IL) (2005-2008)
- President-elect of the United States (As of November 2008)
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- Garnered 11% of the vote (5th place) in Virginia's Congressional District 11 Republican primary (1992)[5]
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[edit] Written work
- Author of three well-received books which have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list:
- Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. Three Rivers Press. 1995.[6]
- The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream. Crown Publishing Group. 2006.
- Barack Obama in His Own Words. Public Affairs. 2007.
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- Contributor and head administrator of an online far-right ultraconservative fundamentalist Christian blog masquerading as an encyclopedia.
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[edit] Awards
- Two Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word Album
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- First runner-up in Rationalwiki's "Biggest Idiot at Conservapedia" Contest[7]
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[edit] Miscellanea
- Received over 65 million votes in the 2008 Presidential election
- 200,000 people came to see him on a visit to Berlin
- Crain's Chicago Business named Obama on its "40 under Forty" powers to be in 1993.
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- Received 1426 Points in Contest 4![8]
- Several of his students and their parents came to see him talk at the first Conservapedia Gala
- PZ Myers named Schlafly a "blinkered pudyanker"[9]
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[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ A full-time volunteer position functioning as editor-in-chief and supervising the Law Review's staff of eighty editors.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Photo of Harvard Law Review Board Obama, center of photo holding the mace of office. Schlafly, second row from top, second in from the left.
- ↑ Yes that is right, Obama was Andy's supervisor!
- ↑ Without any evidence besides the fact that he couldn't imagine a larger one, Schlafly called his American History course "The world's largest pre-college class on American History", claiming it had 48 students. While this is certainly a large class, it is by no means unprecedented in public schools or elsewhere. Furthermore, by the time the class was actually underway, it appeared to be down to 24 students, decidedly average. As smaller class sizes are generally deemed preferable to larger ones, this small size may seem like an actual advantage to the students. Schlafly does not agree
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ He started writing this book at Harvard, and it eventually grew into an autobiography.
- ↑ The winner was Ed Poor...[2]
- ↑ [3]
- ↑ [4]
