George W. Bush only held elected office for six years before becoming president. He was elected governor of Texas in 1994 and won the presidency... in 2000. Obama is in his 11th year as an elected officeholder - eight years in the Illinois state senate, followed by three as a U.S. senator. Clinton is in her seventh year of elected office.

So the question has to be asked: Is the Clinton campaign struggling with their math, or hoping we all can't add?

If the Clinton camp is saying state experience doesn't matter, does that apply to Bush, who never served at the federal level prior to coming to the White House; President Jimmy Carter, who was governor of Georgia before residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue; and even her husband, Bill Clinton, who was governor and attorney general of Arkansas before being elected in 1992?

• Senator Obama graduated from Columbia University in 1983. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991 where he was the first African-American President of the Harvard Law Review.
  
  
• Before joining the U.S. Senate, Barack worked as a community organizer and a civil rights lawyer in private practice, and he taught Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago Law School.
  
  
• As a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Obama has fought to strengthen America's position in the world. Reaching across the aisle, Obama has tackled problems such as preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction and stopping the genocide in Darfur.