The "Experience" Issue: Obama v. Clinton

   I have always been a bit bemused by Senator Clinton's repeated claims of experience, especially when paired against the experience of Seantor Obama.  So, I thought I would check out their respective web sites, to tally the candidates' claims of experience.  Hillary's site is here; in this multi-page bio we learn that she grew up in "a middle class family in the middle of America," that she went to Wellesley and Yale Law.  OK; we already knew that.  Switch to Obama, whose site is here.   Barack, as we all know, was born in Hawaii to a Kenyan father and a white Kansas teenage mother.  He grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, raised during most of his later childhood by his white grandparents.  Obama went to Occidental and then Columbia.  After Columbia he worked for a consulting firm in New York before becoming a community organizer in Chicago, working with church groups to improve the lives of the most destitute in Chicago.  Then he went to Harvard Law and became the first African-American to be President of the Harvard Law Review.  Back to Hillary: After Yale she went to work for the Children's Defense Fund, then became a staff attorney on the House Judiciary Committee.  After Richard Nixon was drummed out of town, she "followed her heart and a man named Bill Clinton to Arkansas."   She ran a legal aid clinic, then switched to corporate law.  She remained active in various children's causes, the American Bar Association, and acted as Arkansas's "first lady" while husband Bill was Governor.  Meanwhile, Barack Obama went back to Chicago, practiced civil rights law and taught constitutional law part-time at the University of Chicago.  Obama served eight years in the Illinois state senate.  Hillary served eight years as the nation's First Lady while husband Bill occupied the Oval Office.  Yes, she tried to influence health care policy, but that ended disastrously.  She continued to advocate various children's causes, and wrote two books, It Takes a Village and Living History.  She has now served seven years as a US Senator from New York.  Obama has written two books, Dreams From My Father and The Audacity of Hope.  He has served three years as a US Senator from Illinois. 

     Where, I ask, is the disparity of experience in these accounts?