Not exactly, Avatar. In fact, not even close.
FYI:
Selection of editors for Harvard Law Review
Using a competitive process that takes into account first-year grades, an editing exercise, and a written commentary on a court decision, The Harvard Law Review selects between 41 and 43 editors annually from the second-year Law School class, which numbers 560.
Two editors from each of first-year class's seven sections (fourteen in all) are selected half by their first year grades and half by their scores on the writing competition. Another twenty are selected solely on their scores on the writing competition. The other seven to nine are selected by a discretionary committee, either to fulfill the review's race-based affirmative action program, to select students who just missed the cut by either of the other two processes, or by some other criteria as the committee sees fit.
Obama has made money. Can you name one thing Obama has done to improve his community? Heck, Obama had to have money to go to Harvard to begin with.
I think the following vita might be illuminating.
Following high school, Barack Obama moved to
Los Angeles, where he studied at
Occidental College for two years.
[8] He then transferred to
Columbia University in
New York City, where he majored in
political science with a specialization in
international relations.
[9] Obama graduated with a
B.A. from Columbia in 1983, then worked for a year at the
Business International Corporation[10] and then at the
New York Public Interest Research Group.
[11][12]
After four years in New York City,
Obama moved to Chicago to work as a community organizer for three years from June 1985 to May 1988 as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Greater Roseland (Roseland, West Pullman, and Riverdale) on Chicago's far South Side.[11][13] During his three years as the DCP's director, its staff grew from 1 to 13 and its annual budget grew from $70,000 to $400,000, with accomplishments including helping set up a job training program, a college preparatory tutoring program, and a tenants' rights organization in
Altgeld Gardens.
[14] Obama also worked as a consultant and instructor for the Gamaliel Foundation, a community organizing institute.[15] In mid-1988, he traveled for the first time to Europe for three weeks then Kenya for five weeks where he met many of his
Kenyan relatives for the first time.
[16]
Obama entered
Harvard Law School in late 1988 and at the end of his first year was
selected as an editor of the Harvard Law Review based on his grades and a writing competition.
[17] In his second year he was
elected president of the Law Review, a full-time volunteer position functioning as editor-in-chief and supervising the law review's staff of 80 editors.[18] Obama's election in February 1990 as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review was widely reported and followed by several long, detailed profiles.
[18] He
graduated with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) magna cum laude from Harvard in 1991 and returned to Chicago where he had worked as a summer associate at the law firms of
Sidley & Austin in 1989 and Hopkins & Sutter in 1990.
[17][19]
The publicity from his election as the first black president of the
Harvard Law Review led to a contract and advance to write a book about race relations.
[20] In an effort to recruit him to their faculty, the
University of Chicago Law School provided Obama with a fellowship and an office to work on his book.
[20] He originally planned to finish the book in one year, but it took much longer as the book evolved into a personal memoir. In order to work without interruptions, Obama and his wife,
Michelle, traveled to
Bali where he wrote for several months. The manuscript was finally published as
Dreams from My Father in mid-1995.
[20]
Obama directed Illinois Project Vote from April to October 1992, a voter registration drive with a staff of 10 and 700 volunteers that achieved its goal of registering 150,000 of 400,000 unregistered African Americans in the state, leading Crain's Chicago Business to name Obama to its 1993 list of "40 under Forty" powers to be.[21][22]
Obama taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years, as a Lecturer for four years (1992–1996), and as a Senior Lecturer for eight years (1996–2004).[23]
In 1993
Obama joined Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a 12-attorney law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development, where he was an associate for three years from 1993 to 1996, then of counsel from 1996 to 2004, with his law license becoming inactive in 2002.[11][24]
Obama was a
founding member of the board of directors of Public Allies in 1992, resigning before his wife, Michelle, became the founding executive director of Public Allies Chicago in early 1993.
[11][25] He served on the board of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago, which in 1985 had been the first foundation to fund Obama's DCP, from 1993–2002, and
served on the board of directors of The Joyce Foundation from 1994–2002.[11] Obama
served on the board of directors of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge from 1995–2002, as founding president and chairman of the board of directors from 1995–1999.
[11] He also
served on the board of directors of the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Center for Neighborhood Technology, and the Lugenia Burns Hope Center.[11]
