--- title: President Barack Obama at Harvard Law Review in 1990: TIME's Take description: He did, and was elected President exactly six years ago, on Nov. 4, 2008 canonical: https://time.com/3546415/obama-1990-harvard-law-review/ author: Lily Rothman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-04T12:00:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:07:14.520Z article:section: History og:title: President Barack Obama at Harvard Law Review in 1990: TIME's Take og:description: He did, and was elected President exactly six years ago, on Nov. 4, 2008 og:url: https://time.com/3546415/obama-1990-harvard-law-review/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Barack Obama at Harvard Law Review in 1990: TIME's Take twitter:description: He did, and was elected President exactly six years ago, on Nov. 4, 2008 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # 'Eventually ... 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription.  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Nov 4, 2014 12:00 PM UTC  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Nov 4, 2014 12:00 PM UTC The word “Obama” has now appeared in print in the pages of TIME about 3,500 times, and that’s only since 1990. That comes out to an average pace of nearly three mentions per issue, but it’s actually a vast underestimate of how regularly Barack Obama—who was elected President of the United States six years ago, on Nov. 4, 2008—has appeared in TIME during his presidency. An average drawn from more recent years would be much higher, since it took about 14 years for him to get another mention after his very first four-sentence blurb in the Feb. 19, 1990, issue. But, though that story was short, it managed to pack in more than its fair share of prescience:  From the Feb. 19, 1990, issue of TIME The rest is history (or, in this case, current events). Stay tuned to TIME.com today for complete 2014 Election Day coverage. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3546415/obama-1990-harvard-law-review/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3546415/obama-1990-harvard-law-review/"},"headline":"'Eventually ... 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