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1) CNN and MSNBC are not "pushing" Harris. They are reporting the news because she just announced she was running.
2) Inaccurate and ignorant to refer to Obama as a "community organizer". Go do some research about what he did before he was president.
1. CNN and MSNBC are definitely getting that thrill up their legs.
2. He was a community organizer at one point as well as one of the most ill-prepared and inexperienced POTUS ever in terms of governing (and I voted for him twice).
1) BS. They are reporting the news. Historic because she is a black woman.
2) You are ignorant about Obama's background. That he was a community organizer is as important as the fact he likely finger painted in kindergarten. This was something the right kept referring to him as in order to diminish him. Shame you fell for it.
Summary of his education and experience:
* BA in Political Science with a focus on International Relations AND English from Columbia University.
* Worked as a financial researcher and writer after his BA
* 2 years after getting his BA, he worked as a "community organizer". So, he was 24 years old when he began that job.
* JD from Harvard Law School including stint as President of the Harvard Law Review.
* Taught CONSTITUTIONAL LAW at University of Chicago Law school FOR 12 YEARS.
* Director of Project Vote, a voter registration campaign.
* Joined Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development, where he was an associate for three years from 1993 to 1996, then of counsel from 1996 to 2004.
* Served on some boards of directors including one where he was the founding president and chairman.
* Illinois State Senator for 7 YEARS.
* US Senator for 4 YEARS. While a US Senator, he was on these committees: Foreign Relations, Environment and Public Works and Veterans' Affairs, Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
* While a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa.
His educational background and work as a lawyer including expertise in CONSTITUTIONAL LAW and then time as a State Senator and then US Senator greatly prepared him to be the President. To categorize him as a "community organizer" is bogus and crap.