Barack Obama:
Honors graduate, Columbia
President, Harvard Law Review
Senior Lecturer in Constitutional Law, University of Chicago
Savvy community organizer in some of Chicago's worst areas
Illinois State Senator
United States Senator from Illinois
President of the United States
Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Father of two intelligent, well adjusted girls
Sarah Palin:
Runner-up beauty contestant
Dropped out of at least five colleges
Academic record uncertain
Mayor of a town of 900
Tried to ban books at town library
Governor of least populous state; resigned after one-half of one term amid ethics investigations
Took advantage of Federal monies
Husband member of secession movement
Losing Vice Presidential candidate; partly responsible for sinking campaign
Failed mother of dysfunctional and sometimes-criminal children