If You were The Boss... which team would you hire?

With America facing historic debt, multiple war fronts, stumbling health care, a weakened dollar, all-time high prison population, skyrocketing Federal spending, mortgage crises, bank foreclosures, etc. etc., this is an unusually critical election year.

Let's look at the educational background of the candidates and see what they bring to the job:

Obama:
Occidental College - Two years.
Columbia University - B.A. political science with a specialization in international

Tuesday September 16th 2008

The influence of Barack Obama on American politics has been immense, but his social impact may be even greater. Brian Egeston is the editor-in-chief of Barbershop Digest, a monthly magazine published solely for the consumption

By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer 31 minutes ago

NEW YORK - The economic crisis and raw politics threatened to derail the first presidential debate as John McCain challenged Barack Obama to delay the Friday forum and join forces to help Washington fix the financial mess. Obama rebuffed his GOP rival, saying the next president needs to "deal with more than one thing at once."

Obama hammers McCain over Social Security

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