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Originally Posted by USANick7
your going to have to explain "multicultural" and "nondenominational"
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Multicultural, meaning exposure and understanding of multiple cultures.
Nondenominational, meaning not restricted to or associated with a religious denomination. I like my president to be generic in this area but still be religoius.
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Originally Posted by Razor
Ok, how about this? What are BHO's qualifications (in detail, rather than the generalities offered last time)?
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Would you mind doing the same for Palin?
qual·i·fi·ca·tion n.
The act of qualifying or the condition of being qualified.
A quality, ability, or accomplishment that makes a person suitable for a particular position or task.
A condition or circumstance that must be met or complied with: fulfilled the qualifications for registering to vote in the presidential election.
A restriction or modification: an offer with a number of qualifications.
He is multicultural
Multiracial
2 years at Occidental College
Graduated Columbia University with a degree in Political Science
Worked for Business International Corporation and NYPIRG
Worked as a community organizer with low-income residents in
Chicago’s Roseland community and the Altgeld Gardens public housing development on the city’s South Side.
Graduated Harvard law School
Elected the first African–American editor of the Harvard Law Review.
Obama graduated magna cum laude .
Practiced as a civil rights lawyer, joining the firm of Miner, Barnhill & Galland
He also taught at the University of Chicago Law School.
He helped organize voter registration drives during Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign
Obama published an autobiography in 1995
Campaigned and was elected to State Senate
Obama worked with both Democrats and Republicans in drafting legislation on ethics,
Expanded health care services and early childhood education programs for the poor.
He also created a state earned-income tax credit for the working poor.
And after a number of inmates on death row were found innocent, Obama worked with law enforcement officials to require the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases.
In 2000, Obama made an unsuccessful Democratic primary run for the U. S. House of Representatives seat held by four-term incumbent candidate Bobby Rush
Won reelection with 70% of the vote
Obama partnered with Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana on a bill that expanded efforts to destroy weapons of mass destruction in Eastern Europe and Russia.
Then with Republican Sen. Tom Corburn of Oklahoma, he created a website that tracks all federal spending.
Obama was also the first to raise the threat of avian flu on the Senate floor,
Spoke out for victims of Hurricane Katrina,
Pushed for alternative energy development and
Championed improved veterans´ benefits.
He also worked with Democrat Russ Feingold of Wisconsin to eliminate gifts of travel on corporate jets by lobbyists to members of Congress.
Just to name a few