whos the better president.

these are statistics that are for the most part political and not personal achievements or faults. I will add daily. 

Who is more Experienced???

 

 

-Barack Hussein Obama was born Aug. 4, 1961

-Obama studied at Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years. He then transferred to Columbia University in New York, graduating in 1983 with a degree in political science.

-Obama graduated from Columbia University in 1983.

- Obama entered Harvard Law School in 1988. In February 1990, he was elected the first African–American editor of the Harvard Law Review. Obama graduated magna cum laude in 1991.

-In 2000, Obama made an unsuccessful Democratic primary run for the U. S. House of Representatives seat held by four-term incumbent candidate Bobby Rush.

-The war with Iraq began in 2003 and Obama decided to run for the U.S. Senate open seat vacated by Republican Peter Fitzgerald.

-In the November  2004 Democratic primary, he won 52 percent of the vote, defeating multimillionaire businessman Blair Hull and Illinois Comptroller Daniel Hynes.

-In February 2007, Obama made headlines when he announced his candidacy for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination

 

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-John Sidney McCain III was born on August 29, 1936

 - attended Episcopal high School, a private preparatory boarding school in Alexandria, Virginia, graduating in 1954.

- , McCain graduated  from the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1958. He also graduated from flight school in 1960.

- On October 26, 1967, during his 23rd air mission, McCain´s plane was shot down. He broke both arms and one leg during the ensuing crash.

- McCain eventually spent five and a half years in various prison camps, three and a half of those in solitary confinement, and was repeatedly beaten and tortured.

 -He was finally released, along with other American POWs, on March 14, 1973, less than two months after the Vietnam cease fire went into effect. McCain earned the Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross.

-After nine months of rehabilitation McCain returned to flying for his country.

- His introduction to politics came in 1976, when he was assigned as the Navy´s liaison to the U.S. Senate

- McCain was first elected to political office on November 2, 1982, easily winning a seat in the House of Representatives.

- He was re-elected in 1984.

- In 1986, after the retirement of the longtime Arizona senator and prominent Republican Barry Goldwater, McCain won election to the U.S. Senate.

- McCain weathered the scandal and won re-election to the Senate three times, each time with a solid majority.

- During the year 2000 presidential nomination, McCain won most of the new England states, Michigan, Arizona. In early March he won New York and California, his large electoral deficit forced him to “suspend” his campaign indefinitely. On May 9, after holding out for two months, McCain formally endorsed Bush.

- in the spring of 2001, when the Senate debated and eventually passed, by a vote of 59-41, a broad overhaul of the campaign finance system. The bill was the fruit of McCain's six-year effort, with Democratic Senator Russell D. Feingold of Wisconsin to reform the system

- McCain officially entered the 2008 presidential race on April 25, 2007.