Chicago based newspaper The Redeye recently compared Barack Obama and Sarah Palin’s career’s since Palin supporters have argued that she is more experienced then Obama. Read the timeline for yourselves....
1979
— Obama a backbencher on high school basketball team that wins state championship
1982
— Palin captain on high school basketball team that wins state championship
1983
— Obama graduates from Columbia University. Works for a business research company, then becomes community organizer in poor section of Chicago.
1984
— Palin wins “Miss Wasilla” pageant and places second in statewide beauty contest.
1987
— Palin graduates from University of Idaho, works in television sports and family fishing business.
1988
— Obama enters Harvard Law School.
1990
— Obama becomes first black editor of prestigious Harvard Law Review.
1992
— Obama runs Project Vote!, which registers 150,000 new voters in Chicago, then begins teaching law at University of Chicago.
— Palin wins city council seat in Wasilla, an Alaska town of about 5,500.
1993
— Obama joins law firm specializing in civil rights cases.
1995
— Obama publishes “Dreams from My Father,” a well-reviewed memoir about growing up in America with an absent African father.
1996
— Obama elected a state senator.
— Palin elected mayor of Wasilla.
2000
— Obama defeated in effort to unseat U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush.
2002
— Obama speaks out against invading Iraq.
— Palin loses Republican primary for Alaska lieutenant governor
2003
— In biggest year of his legislative career, Obama passes legislation requiring police to record interrogations in murder cases, collect data on race of drivers they pull over.
— Palin appointed to Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.
2004
— Obama delivers keynote address at Democratic convention, elected to U.S. Senate.
— Palin investigates conduct of a commission member, who ultimately resigns. She later files ethics complaint against state’s Republican attorney general, who also resigns.
2006
— Obama publishes “The Audacity of Hope,” a book detailing his views on national affairs. Works with Senate Republicans to limit nuclear proliferation and shed light on wasteful government spending.
— Palin elected first female governor of Alaska.
2007
— Obama launches presidential campaign.
— Palin overhauls state ethics laws, pushes to build a natural gas pipeline despite opposition from oil industry.
2008
— Obama wins marathon Democratic primary against Hillary Rodham Clinton and raises record amounts of money
— Alaska legislators probe whether Palin improperly pressured officials to fire her sister’s ex-husband, a state trooper.
