Reply #42: Right wing talking point?

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BA in political science (with a specialization in international
relations) from Columbia University.

JD Graduate of Harvard Law School (Juris Doctor degree, magna cum
laude).

President of the Harvard Law Review (the first ever African
American).


Experience:

Civil rights attorney (turned down a prestigious judicial clerkship1)

Constitutional law professor.

Community organizer.

State Senator.

Chairman of the Illinois State Senate Health and Human Services
Committee.

US Senator.

Member of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Environment and
Public Works Committee, and Veterans ' Affairs Committee.

Author.

Husband and father of two daughters.

Board member of the Joyce Foundation, the Woods Fund of Chicago, and
the Chicago Annenberg Challenge.


Honors:

Grammy award winner (Spoken Word category).

Honored by the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (for
narration of one of his books).

Honorary doctor of laws degree from the University of Massachusetts
Boston (for among other things, "advancing and protecting the
interests of the less fortunate"2)


Seems rather experienced to me...