The year is 1967. John McCain is promoted to lieutenant commander in the Navy and deploys to Vietnam, where he's shot down by a North Vietnamese missile. What was Barack Obama up to? He was surprisingly close, at least geographically. That's the year the 8-year-old tike moved with his mother and stepfather to Indonesia. By 1987, Obama had moved to Chicago and met Reverend Wright, while McCain was a year into his first term in the US Senate, leading up to his work on issues like the bipartisan McCain-Feingold Act passing in 2001, the year Sasha Obama was born.
Want to see the candidate's lives line up side-by-side in a timeline of event that leads them to the present, where we find them both vying to be "all that they thought they could be?" The New York Times has an interactive feature that lets you click through each candidate's life, complete with pictures, video, and links to Times coverage. The timelines are current up through key events this year, and besides letting you compare the two, it's got some groovy pictures of Obama in his college years and a striking pic of McCain graduating from the Naval Academy.
How do you think their lives match up?
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I liked both timelines.
3 observations:
1. Damn, the Obama one was pretty Wright-heavy.
2. Obama looks about the same now as he did in college!
and
3. John McCain was a hottie when he was young, huh!
1the timelines are a good idea! i really loved barack's occidental picture and mccain's sweater in 1988.
2I love how it puts mc's class standing but not bo's. And yes, Mc was a hottie bo bottie in his youth.
3Obama's birthday is the day after mine! Go Leo's!
4hahaha Jude- I thought the same thing about McCain. Hopefully we see some more of his son Jack in the news
5This was really interesting. Thank you.
McCain was a cutie.
But what really hit me was how little experience Obama actually has.
I did a little research and found:
He's served 6 years in the Illinois State Senate and currently less than 4 years in the US Senate. And more than two of those years in the US Senate have been spent running for President.
Crazy.
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