What did Obama do for a living before he discovered whitening strips and Veneer for his teeth ?

He and his wife look more like commercials for toothpaste and whitening strips than future leaders of the country
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A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the Harvard Law Review, Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney before serving in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.
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