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To: igoramus08
There are no records, because he didnt do anything as a State Senator.

Every bill Obama passed as a state senator was passed his last year. During his seventh and final year in the state senate, Obama's stats soared. He sponsored a whopping 26 bills passed into law -- including many he now cites in his presidential campaign when attacked as inexperienced.

But, Obama did it by bill-jacking. Emil Jones, Jr., the Illinois Senate Majority Leader, appointed Obama sponsor of virtually every high-profile piece of legislation, angering many rank-and-file state legislators who had more seniority than Obama and had spent years championing the bills.

Jones had served in the Illinois Legislature for three decades. He represented a district on the Chicago South Side not far from Obama's. He became Obama's kingmaker.

Several months before Obama announced his U.S. Senate bid, Jones called his old friend Cliff Kelley, a former Chicago alderman who now hosts the city's most popular black call-in radio program.

I called Kelley last week and he recollected the private conversation as follows:

"He said, 'Cliff, I'm gonna make me a U.S. senator.'"

"Oh, you are? Who might that be?"

"Barack Obama."

The Obama File


41 posted on 09/14/2008 1:56:11 AM PDT by Beckwith ('Typical White Person')
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To: Beckwith

“...Jones had served in the Illinois Legislature for three decades. He represented a district on the Chicago South Side not far from Obama’s. He became Obama’s kingmaker...”

That reminds me...have you seen these images?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2070992/replies?c=36


45 posted on 09/14/2008 5:23:40 AM PDT by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM)
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