Posted on 08/06/2011 10:04:22 AM PDT by therightliveswithus
Barack Obama served in the Illinois State Senate from 1997-2004 before being elected to the United States Senate that year. President Obama has characterized his tenure in the body as a time of building consensus between the two parties and pushing through important legislation.
Upon a look of the actual transcripts of his Senate tenure, there is a different picture. While he does address some issues, such as lead poisoning, rent control, and municipal issues, many of these are not earth-shattering or reducing regulation or taxes.
You can find some of his transcripts per year simply by looking at the Illinois legislative record. Let's take a look at some examples from his first year on the job in 1997.
Obama is a blunt dumb tool of our Marxist enemies.
No teleprompters allowed in the Illinois State Senate..
Drugs, stupidity, or apathy? Any or all of the above, most likely.
thanks for posting this.
...one of my favorites, was him talking about posting things on bulletin boards in community colleges.
it was obvious, he wasn’t the brilliant lawyer the MSM claims.
the stuff i read, was absolutely comical.
Analyzing Perry's transcripts, Bachamnn's husband, and Romney's fund raising.
The same crack watchdogs who dug up all that info about Obama’s illegal foreign contributors. Oh wait, no they didn’t.
Zero Qualifications, Zero level of honesty, Zero ideas in common with ideas that made this country great. Zero.
I thought all these transcripts were declared top-secret until 2016 or so. /s
(Well, the press is treating them like they were.)
No teleprompters on the Illinois Senate floor, apparently.
And “Where is the media?” WThey are where they’ve been since ‘08: up his @ss, sucking hard.
him talking about posting things on bulletin boards in community colleges? Have a link?
This is the speech pattern of someone who has just smoked the latest really good stuff off the boat from Colombia.
It’s the speech pattern of someone who’s mentally weak because he’s been carried through life by his handlers and through affirmative action programs that wouldn’t let this failure fail.
“let me be clear...”
“I’m going to have a laser-like focus on...”
Stupid Alinskyite Marxists will never improve anything in the long term. They’ll always divide and destroy.
He’s got to go next election, if not sooner.
...That reminds me of Cheech & Chong, “Let’s make a dope deal”...
This creature is the first nonentity ever elected with a totally manufactured persona. He was placed in office by the conjunction of media mogul creativity with a weird spasm by the electorate.
Inching closer to Barry’s 1999 travel records....Gurnee????
Right where they needed to be.
Investigating the status of Joe the plumber Wurzelbacher's trade license.
The first nonentity elected as President? He is the Mystery Guest in the White House.
Plus the fact that any educator should recognize that he suffers from dyscalculia. On the floor of the Illinois Senate he asks, “...is that a huge number? Is that a modest number?” Wake up people!!!!!! He has no number sense. He was an LD, affirmative-action student. That’s why his school records are sealed. And we expected him to work on a budget??????
him talking about posting things on bulletin boards in community colleges? Have a link?
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didn’t think i could find one. i read it 3 years ago,
and haven’t seen it since.
(along with Obama being in the Socialist “New Party”,
and lots of other things the MSM were keeping quiet.)
SatinDoll probably knows 100 times more than me about him.
but i was able to find some links, that has part of what i read back then:
“This is undoctored and direct from the record”, the most comnplete record:
and a much longer article here:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/21/080721fa_fact_lizza?currentPage=all
Obama’s relations with some of his black colleagues from Chicago were dreadful from the beginning. On March 13, 1997, Obama introduced one of his first pieces of legislation, a modest bill to make a directory of community-college graduates available to local employers. There was a response from Rickey Hendon, a state senator from the West Side of Chicago who had been close to Alice Palmer. After Obama explained his bill, Hendon, who has dabbled in film and television work, earning him the nickname Hollywood, rose to ask a question, and the following exchange occurred:
HENDON: Senator, could you correctly pronounce your name for me? I’m having a little trouble with it.
OBAMA: Obama.
HENDON: Is that Irish?
OBAMA: It will be when I run countywide.
HENDON: That was a good joke, but this bill’s still going to die. This directory, would that have those 1-800 sex line numbers in this directory?
OBAMA: I apologize. I wasn’t paying Senator Hendon any attention.
HENDON: Well, clearly, as poorly as this legislation is drafted, you didn’t pay it much attention either. My question was: Are the 1-800 sex line numbers going to be in this directory?
OBAMA: Not—not—basically this idea comes out of the South Side community colleges. I don’t know what you’re doing on the West Side community colleges. But we probably won’t be including that in our directory for the students.
HENDON: . . . Let me just say this, and to the bill: I seem to remember a very lovely Senator by the name of Palmer—much easier to pronounce than Obama—and she always had cookies and nice things to say, and you don’t have anything to give us around your desk. How do you expect to get votes? And—and you don’t even wear nice perfume like Senator Palmer did. . . . I’m missing Senator Palmer because of these weak replacements with these tired bills that makes absolutely no sense. I . . . I definitely urge a No vote. Whatever your name is.
Although the exchange was part of a longstanding tradition of hazing new legislators, the tensions between Hendon and Obama were real. On another occasion, Obama voted—a parliamentary error, Obama says—to block funding for a child-welfare facility in Hendon’s district. Hendon rose and criticized Obama for the vote. The two men became embroiled in a yelling match on the Senate floor that looked as if it might become physical; they were separated by Courtney Nottage, then the chief of staff for Emil Jones. Nottage led Obama off the floor to a room that legislators used to make telephone calls.
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/21/080721fa_fact_lizza#ixzz1UHdHZJFj
nothing earthshaking, but it has much more info in it,
that gives a much different picture, than the “brilliant constitutional law professor” etc, that the MSM implies.
Behind the wall they built around Obama.
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