• Mike Huckabee attended Hope High School, in Hope,
Arkansas

• In 1973, Huckabee attended Ouachita Baptist University
in Arkadelphia, Arkansas and graduated magna cum laude,
completing his four-year bachelor's degree in Religion in just
two-and-a-half years.
 
• Following his graduation, he enrolled at the
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas
for one academic year after which he had to drop out of seminary
in order to take up a job in Christian broadcasting.
 
• He worked for several years for televangelist James
Robinson and later served as a minister at Baptist churches in
Pine Bluff and Texarkana, Arkansas, and as President of two
Christian TV operations.
 
• Huckabee has two honorary doctoral degrees: the Doctor
of Humane Letters received from John Brown University in 1991 and
the Doctor of Laws from Ouachita Baptist University in 1992.
 
• This Pastor-turned-Politician is also an Honorary Member
of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
 
• While in college, Huckabee worked during the week as a
rock 'n roll DJ at the local Radio station in Hope and then spent
the weekends preaching at a Baptist Church.
 
• As a young man, Huckabee dreamed of a career in media or
public service. It was by accident that he became a pastor for 12
years.  Huckabee remembers, "In 1980, a church in Arkansas asked
me to come and speak for them, and I did. Then they asked me to
come back and speak again, and I did. And after about four
months, they said, why don't you just stay? And that's how I
became a pastor"
		

?• Obama attended Franciscus Assisi Roman Catholic Primary
School in Jakarta, Indonesia, from kindergarten  through the 3rd
grade.  He was registered on January 1, 1968, under the name
Barry Soetoro, an Indonesian citizen whose religion was listed as
Islam.

• Israella Pareira ?Iis? Darmawan, 63, Senator Obama's
kindergarten teacher, remembers him as an exceptionally tall and
curly haired child who quickly picked up the local language and
had sharp math skills. He wrote an essay titled, 'I Want To
Become President,' the teacher said."

• His third grade teacher: Fermina Katarina Sinaga "asked
her class to write an essay titled 'My dream: What I want to be
in the future.' Senator Obama wrote 'I want to be a President,'
she said."

• Obama also attended Sekolah Dasar Nasional Menteng No. 1
(Basuki school), in Jakarta, Indonesia, 4th grade and Punahou
School in Hawaii from the 5th grade to the 12th grade;

• Soon after high school, Barack Obama studied at
Occidental College, Los Angeles for two years but in 1981, he
transferred to Columbia University in New York City to major in
Political Science with specialization in International Relations.
The topic for his thesis was 'Soviet Nuclear Disarmament'.
 
• It was in 1983 that Obama graduated with a B.A from
Columbia and then he joined the Business International
Corporation and New York Public Interest Research Group.
 
• In 1988, Obama attended a three-year program at Harvard
Law School stating his point of view that a degree in law is the
best vehicle to facilitate better community organization and
activism.
 
• Based on his grades and a writing competition, Obama got
selected as the Editor of the Harvard Law Review by the end of
his first year at Harvard and was elected President of the Law
Review in the second year.
 
• Obama peers, who gave their votes to make him the first
black president of the Harvard Law Review, say that he was a
natural leader, an impressive student and a nice guy.
 
• During his law school years, Obama also worked as an
associate with Sidley & Austin and Hopkins & Sutter law firms.
 
• His enterprising nature urged him to take a national
training course on Alinsky methods of organizing.
 
• In 1991, Obama graduated from Harvard with a J.D. magna
cum laude and taught constitutional law at the University of
Chicago Law School for twelve years. The courses he taught
include equal protection areas of constitutional law, voting
rights, racism and law.

• When asked about his best and worst grades or subjects
in school, Obama replied, "graduated magna cum laude from Harvard
Law and a D in 8th grade French".