What prior political an leadership experience does Barack Obama have that makes him qualified to be president?

Barack Obama has a Harvard Law Degree and was the first African American President of the Harvard Law Review. The president of the Harvard Law Review often goes on to become a clerk for a Federal Court of Appeals judge then for an associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Instead, he went back to Chicago to work on a voter registration drive that resulted in voter registration in Chicago's 19 predominantly black wards outnumbering those in the city's 19 predominantly white ethnic wards for the first time in Chicago's history. He then worked as an attorney and constitutional law teacher at the University of Chicago School of Law. Obama was an Illinois state senator from 1996 to 2004. He resigned from the state senate in 2004 when he was elected to the U.S. Senate where he has served one term. Many have made statements about Barack Obama lacking the necessary experience to be elected President of the United States; however, his level of experience going into this election is very similar to that of past presidents such as Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln is considered to be one of the greatest U.S. Presidents in history and his experience at the time of his election to office was strikingly similar to that of Barack Obama.

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