Senator Hillary Clinton has spent much of her adult life in politics. At age 16 Hillary Rodham campaigned for Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater and was president of the Wellesley College Chapter of the College Republicans. In the late 60's she changed her point of view and became a Democrat. She went on to graduate from Yale Law School. She joined the presidential impeachment inquiry staff advising the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives during the Watergate Scandal. She married Bill Clinton and eventually became Arkansas' First Lady, but she continued to practice law with the Rose Law Firm. In 1988 and 1991 the National Law Journal named Clinton one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America. In 1993 she became the nation's first lady and was in charge of the failed Clinton health care plan. In 2000 she was elected to the United States Senate from New York defeating Rick Lazzio 55.27% to 43.01% and won reelection in a 2006 landslide. She voted for the Iraq War, but currently stands for a major change of course. Clinton currently serves on the Senate Committee on Armed Services.

Hillary Clinton official web site

Senator Barrack Obama has come from nowhere to establish himself as a legitimate Democratic candidate for president. His story includes a African father who was born in Kenya and was a goat herder and a Caucasian mother born in the heartland, Wichita, Kansas. Both parents were highly educated as is Obama who graduated from Harvard Law School. Before coming back to America, Obama lived in Jakarta, Indonesia where he attended Basuki school in Jakarta from ages 6 to 10, where classes were taught in the Indonesian language. His father died in a car crash when Obama was 21, and his mother died of cancer in 1995. Obama gained national recognition for becoming the first African American to be elected president of the Harvard Law Review. He was sprung into the United States political eye when hey gave the key note speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention. Obama said, "The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats. But I've got news for them too. We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around in our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and yes, we got some gay friends in the Red States. There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America".

Barack Obama official web site

The governor has a great resume with both state governing and world political experience. He brokered an agreement between President al-Bashir and leaders of several rebel factions in the Darfur region in Sudan to a 60-day cease-fire, though it never became materialized. Richardson has been nominated four times for the Nobel Peace Prize. He was selected by President Bill Clinton to be Ambassador to the United Nations and then the Secretary of Energy. His tenure at Energy was tainted by the Wen Ho Lee nuclear espionage scandal. Richardson is the only Hispanic Governor in the United States. As governor he passed a broad personal income tax cut. He also cut $230 million in bureaucratic waste and invested in new opportunities for New Mexico's children. He is a long shot in Iowa, but is probably looking for a vice-presidential nomination.

Bill Richardson official web site