Washington Post – Clinton and Obama: Presidential parallels

By David Maraniss | March 23, 2012

“…They were born on August days 15 years apart, at opposite ends of the baby-boom generation, Bill Clinton in 1946 and Barack Obama in 1961. Both came into the world under circumstances that made it surpassingly unlikely either boy would grow up to be president of the United States. It is hard to imagine two places further from the centers of power than southwestern Arkansas or Hawaii. Neither state had produced a president before. But there was so much more working against them than geography….”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/clinton-and-obama-presidential-parallels/2012/03/22/gIQArSqQWS_story.html

 

 

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