In last night's debate

[Control-Z]

Hillary named some amazing and specific projects that she has been involved with. I was impressed.

Obama is running an ad in California that says he decided not to "cash in" after Law School (so he could help clean up the streets or help his community. I don't remember exactly.) But makes it pretty clear that he turned down a high paying job to do volunteer work. There was a DU member who posted last week about the millions he gave up to do community service. I was really impressed with that too. But I've look all over the internet and the best I can find is that he turned down full time teaching to take a position in a law firm.

Can someone help me with this? Give me more specifics about his volunteer work? How much money he actually lost? I would appreciate it. A man who puts others before himself is one in a million.


I'm trying to really take a look at our two remaining candidates.

Thanks,

an Edwards supporter.

[REDFISHBLUEFISH]

1. They are both filthy rich.

I support Hillary, but these guys claims to poverty is slightly BS.

Obama just like the Clintons seemsto be one of the top 1%.

[Control-Z]

2. Well, it is easier to find information about Hillary.

I thought the Obama supporters would be jumping to provide links.

I don't think either of them have a clue about what poverty really is.

[John Q. Citizen]

3. Here

Google 'Obama biography'There's 10 pages of stuff.

I have no idea about the wealth of his family. He worked for NYpirg and he did organizing in the Black Ghetto in Chicago. Before I would venture whether he has an idea of what poverty is or isn't, I'd at least find out more. He sounds like he came from a middle-upper middle class background His father was well educated.His mother seems to be educated also. I imagine for the years he was in Jakarta thatb he saw real third world poverty close up.

I started as a Kucinich supporter, was leaning towards Edwards until he vanished from the race, and now I'm supporting Obama because I can't vote for war and I'm not into 2 families running the show for 20 years.

http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=12782369&page=1

http://www.barackobamaismyhomeboy.com/biography

[cali]

5. He did not come from a middle upper background

He grew up in a modestly middle class environment in HI and attended Punahao on scholarship. And went through Columbia and Harvard dependent on Financial Aid and scholarships. In Hawaii he lived in a decidedly working class neighborhood.

[John Q. Citizen]

10. Thanks for the info. I guessed at middle upper middle on what

i could find in the links. But it was pure guess work.

I do know the PIRGs don't pay much but they do good workaround social justice issues.

[cali]

4. do some fucking research, fishy

The Obamas are worth approx 1 or 2 million and the Clintons are worth 35+ million. If they'd release their tax returns like Obama we'd know a bit more.

[bellasgrams]

9. Hillary didn't come from money, she earned it.

[TexasObserver]

6. Harvard Law Review Editor is a blank check.

Anyone who graduates with his law school credentials is heavily recruited by the top firms in the world, paying top dollar. As a black man with those credentials, he could have cashed in hugely. He would have been on the fast track to partnership, and wealth beyond reason.

Don't let anyone kid you on this point. He chose the path of service at great personal economic cost to himself and his family.

[Control-Z]

7. No ones's

trying to kid me, I don't think. I just wanted more information about his service projects and the jobs he has passed up.

[TexasObserver]

8. That was merely a figure of speech.

nothing more