Out of curiosity what was the resume of the previous secretary of labor?

 

Former long time state employee, as part of that Director of Wage and Hour with the Labor Cabinet for several years. Retired and spent several years with Labor Relations before coming back as Secretary of Labor in May of 2013.

Just so we are all on the same page...the Sec of Labor is NOT an elected position.

Nor does two years as a junior Senator with a community organizing career history. Just sayin............

 

I didn't even vote for Obama in either of his presidential elections, but I feel like it is my mission to dispute this talking point that has been repeated ad nauseum for the past decade or so.

 

I'm not even saying that he had a great resume to be Commander in Chief, but Obama worked as a community organizer for a few years in a major US city after graduating college prior to attending law school. Do you know what most traditional law students do before law school? Generally they work an entry level position somewhere or they bartend or they do menial labor or they do nothing until school starts.

 

He went to Harvard Law School, one of the at most, 3 best law schools in the nation which is a huge achievement in itself to get accepted. He graduated magnacum laude and was editor of the Harvard Law Review, the first black student to ever hold that role. Editor of a law review is generally held by the top student at that school, and this is Harvard. He left there and taught law at the University of Chicago - probably a top 10-15 law school. Law school professorships at any school are some of the most sought after positions for those with law degrees. After teaching for over a decade Obama was a state senator and private attorney for almost the same amount of time. This led up to his short-lived position as a US Senator. A little more than a junior Senator with a community organizing career history.

 

Of course Obama jumped into the national consciousness after giving a speech and he rode that momentum to a Democratic nomination and eight year presidency. Surely a longer career in national politics may have been preferred, but contrary to a shamefully widely held belief this wasn't a guy that got lucky in becoming a Senator then slipped and fell into the presidency. Just sayin............

I didn't even vote for Obama in either of his presidential elections, but I feel like it is my mission to dispute this talking point that has been repeated ad nauseum for the past decade or so.

 

I'm not even saying that he had a great resume to be Commander in Chief, but Obama worked as a community organizer for a few years in a major US city after graduating college prior to attending law school. Do you know what most traditional law students do before law school? Generally they work an entry level position somewhere or they bartend or they do menial labor or they do nothing until school starts.

 

He went to Harvard Law School, one of the at most, 3 best law schools in the nation which is a huge achievement in itself to get accepted. He graduated magnacum laude and was editor of the Harvard Law Review, the first black student to ever hold that role. Editor of a law review is generally held by the top student at that school, and this is Harvard. He left there and taught law at the University of Chicago - probably a top 10-15 law school. Law school professorships at any school are some of the most sought after positions for those with law degrees. After teaching for over a decade Obama was a state senator and private attorney for almost the same amount of time. This led up to his short-lived position as a US Senator. A little more than a junior Senator with a community organizing career history.

 

Of course Obama jumped into the national consciousness after giving a speech and he rode that momentum to a Democratic nomination and eight year presidency. Surely a longer career in national politics may have been preferred, but contrary to a shamefully widely held belief this wasn't a guy that got lucky in becoming a Senator then slipped and fell into the presidency. Just sayin............

 

Golly gee, all that education and he still doesn't understand or give two ***** about the Constitution.

 

Just sayin.............

Can he be worse than Ritchie?

Can he be worse than Ritchie?

It depends who you ask. Ritchie's friends who got all the cool stuff might disagree.

I didn't even vote for Obama in either of his presidential elections, but I feel like it is my mission to dispute this talking point that has been repeated ad nauseum for the past decade or so.

 

I'm not even saying that he had a great resume to be Commander in Chief, but Obama worked as a community organizer for a few years in a major US city after graduating college prior to attending law school. Do you know what most traditional law students do before law school? Generally they work an entry level position somewhere or they bartend or they do menial labor or they do nothing until school starts.

 

He went to Harvard Law School, one of the at most, 3 best law schools in the nation which is a huge achievement in itself to get accepted. He graduated magnacum laude and was editor of the Harvard Law Review, the first black student to ever hold that role. Editor of a law review is generally held by the top student at that school, and this is Harvard. He left there and taught law at the University of Chicago - probably a top 10-15 law school. Law school professorships at any school are some of the most sought after positions for those with law degrees. After teaching for over a decade Obama was a state senator and private attorney for almost the same amount of time. This led up to his short-lived position as a US Senator. A little more than a junior Senator with a community organizing career history.

 

Of course Obama jumped into the national consciousness after giving a speech and he rode that momentum to a Democratic nomination and eight year presidency. Surely a longer career in national politics may have been preferred, but contrary to a shamefully widely held belief this wasn't a guy that got lucky in becoming a Senator then slipped and fell into the presidency. Just sayin............

 

So what I hear you saying is that he never has had a real job...which confirms what we already knew.

 

I would agree with you this "wasn't a guy that got lucky in becoming a Senator then slipped and fell into the presidency.", it's much more organized than that.

 

He clearly has been the chosen one from his party for the role he has played...

So what I hear you saying is that he never has had a real job...which confirms what we already knew.

 

I would agree with you this "wasn't a guy that got lucky in becoming a Senator then slipped and fell into the presidency.", it's much more organized than that.

 

He clearly has been the chosen one from his party for the role he has played...

 

I mean surely if you add up community organizer, private attorney, professor, state senator, US Senator and serving on various boards, there has to be a real job in there somewhere. The guy spent his entire career studying, teaching and working in law and politics to land an ultimate job in law and politics. Obama the president is worthy of all sorts of criticism, Obama the resume suffers from lazy rhetoric that has been repeated enough that it just must be the truth.

I mean surely if you add up community organizer, private attorney, professor, state senator, US Senator and serving on various boards, there has to be a real job in there somewhere. The guy spent his entire career studying, teaching and working in law and politics to land an ultimate job in law and politics. Obama the president is worthy of all sorts of criticism, Obama the resume suffers from lazy rhetoric that has been repeated enough that it just must be the truth.

 

Maybe it's just with a resume as strong as you tout he has, he would have learned something along the way.