In late 1977, President Jimmy Carter . . . appointed her to the board of directors of the Legal Services Corporation, and she served in that capacity from 1978 through the end of 1981. For much of that time she served as the chair of that board, the first woman to do so. During her time as chair, funding for the Corporation was expanded from $90 million to $300 million, and she successfully battled against President Ronald Reagan's initial attempts to reduce the funding and change the nature of the organization.

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As First Lady of Arkansas, Hillary Clinton chaired the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee from 1982 to 1992, where she sought to bring about reform in the state's court-sanctioned public education system. One of the most important initiatives of the entire Clinton governorship, she fought a prolonged but ultimately successful battle against the Arkansas Education Association to put mandatory teacher testing as well as state standards for curriculum and classroom size in place. She introduced Arkansas' Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youth in 1985, a program that helps parents work with their children in preschool preparedness and literacy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton#Early_Arkansas_years

Meanwhile, Obama was doing nothing to battle the evil Reagan's impact on our country in 1981, 82, 83, and 84, mostly cuz he didn't graduate from college till 1983, but also because he was doing quiet corporate work for the first two years he was out of Columbia. Finally, for three years, from 1985 to 1988, he did good work as a community organizer in Chicago fighting for the Altgeld public housing project.

But the heroic contrast Obama constructs between him and Hillary simply isn't there. In fact she was doing a lot of good, and specifically and successfully fighting Reagan over a very important institution, the Legal Services Corp, while Obama was still doing school work.

I'm important, and everyone else is too. G.K. Chesterton