Posted on 01/31/2009 1:07:19 PM PST by AgThorn
Having some interesting bantering with an Obama supporter, who sent me this 'resume' of all that he has accomplished:
• Obama has served 12 yrs at the federal and state level (4 yrs US Sen + 8 yrs IL Sen) • Obama sponsored 823 bills and cast over 4000 votes in the IL Senate • Obama co-sponsored 15 bills that became federal law and co-sponsored 570 bills. These bills and laws are an impressive accomplishment spanning foreign policy, public health, openness and accountability in government, national security Of the 570 bills Senator Obama introduced into the Senate during the 109th and 110th Congress: 25 addressed Energy Efficiency and Climate Change 21 addressed Health Care 20 addressed Public Health 14 address Consumer Protection/Labor 13 addressed the Needs of Veterans and the Armed Forces 12 addressed Congressional Ethics and Accountability 10 addressed Foreign Policy 9 address Voting/Elections 11 addressed Education 6 addressed Hurrican Katrina 5 addressed the Environment 4 addressed Discrimination 4 addressed Homeland Security
I thought I would see what meat any of you had with all of the 'above accomplishments'. Admittedly, this is the first 'list' I have seen someone put together to make this man look quite accomplished. I do know that 3 of his 4 years in Washington were spent campaigning, so that is easily knocked off .. but the 'Illinois' years I was hoping for some feedback/comeback/real data from someone here ... or validation, if the list stands as is ... which I doubt.
Regards!
If you do a little more digging, you will find that the leader of the house or senate in Illinois put Obama’s name on all the bills that were in the legislature at the time. Many of the congressmen were really put out about this, because they had worked hard on the bill, only to have it handed to Obama, as he was the favorite son in the legislature. Maybe someone who knows more about this can shed some light on it, but as usual, he did nothing, but was there to take all the credit.
As far as I can tell, his only accomplishments were that he put a job center in the ghetto in Chicago, which is a pretty easy, non-controversial accomplishment, and he had some asbestos removed from some public housing.
Just because he signed his name to a stack of crappy legislation pushed in front of his nose by his ‘superiors’ doesn’t mean he did anything important. As for his other legislation that he takes credit for, it is no doubt that someone else floated those bills as well and just had him be the lead lackey. It shows how much he was controlled and told what to do.
I think the ONLY legislation he introduced in IL that actually passed was a special day of recognition for a Chicago Islamic Center.
No lie. Easy to check. I just don’t have time right now to do it again :)
Just because he signed his name to a stack of crappy legislation pushed in front of his nose by his ‘superiors’ doesn’t mean he did anything important. As for his other legislation that he takes credit for, it is no doubt that someone else floated those bills as well and just had him be the lead lackey. It shows how much he was controlled and told what to do.
4,000 votes, but how many of those were votes for “Present”.
Plus ALL of his Illinois State Senate records are conveniently “lost”, so we will never know the nuts and bolts of exactly how he legislated in Illinois.
That would be "Emil Jones"
References:
"Obama and Me" Dallas Morning Observer Feb 28, 2008
http://www.dallasobserver.com/2008-02-28/news/obama-and-me/
"Raising Obama" Vanity Fair March, 2008
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/03/obama200803
I do recall reading that Obama never really voted for or against anything while in the Illinois Senate. If I recall correctly, all he ever voted was “Present”. One wonders.
Personally, I don't believe Obama has done anything in his entire life. There has been a concerted effort to make it look like he has done work. But he is completely hollow.
The information you posted is from DailyKos. Correction as to Obama’s US Senate was only 2 years. He said he was not qualified to run for president when he was elected to the senate but he did a sharp about face.
One of the bills Obama introduced was a Muslim Holiday for Illinois. It didn’t pass. Many of Obamas votes are for welfare programs or government control.
My understanding is Obama only had 3 pieces of legislation pass. Two were in the Illinois senate and one US Senate. Some others he voted for and then took credit for them during his campaign. I think Obama got aid to Africa on one of his bills.
Obama said he passed temporary assistance for low income families and he was one of five sponsors. On a cut taxes for working families in Illinois he was only a cosponsor but he took credit for that also during his campaign. Obama claims health care for wounded troops was his but he was not even a cosponsor on H.R.4986.
During Obama’s campaign one of Obama’s team was on CNN. He was asked just what Obama had done in the Illinois senate and US senate to show he was capable of leading. That everyone said Obama had not passed one bill. Obama’s man said thats not true, he passed campaign reform bill that will stop lobbyists.
We see how well that worked with Obama and his 12 lobbyists on his team right now. Or the millions Obama has raked in from lobbyists.
A writer can write a 100 books, the only ones that count are the ones published. Obama took credit when he voted or signed onto a bill. Obama basically signed onto someone else’s homework.
As far as I know Obama was paid really well for Illinois senate and then bowing out 2 years into his US senate seat for doing nothing.
And Gore invented the internet.
Bulls**T. This loon can barely write his own name. Find me something he has actually written (and his “biographies” are most certainly not written by the loon).
Welcome to FR!
There are Illegal aliens that have more and better paperwork than Boama.
Barry Soetoro aka Barrack Obama
“Obama and Me” Dallas Morning Observer Feb 28, 2008
http://www.dallasobserver.com/2008-02-28/news/obama-and-me/
“...”He said, ‘Cliff, I’m gonna make me a U.S. senator.’”
“Oh, you are? Who might that be?”
“Barack Obama.”
Jones 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...
“Raising Obama” Vanity Fair March, 2008
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/03/obama200803
“...Now, with Jones elevated to the senate presidency, Obama was approaching him with a cold-eyed proposal.
“After I was elected president, in 2003, he came to see me, a couple months later,” Jones recalled, relishing the tale. “And he said to me, he said, ‘You’re the senate president now, and with that, you have a lot of pow-er.”
Jones stretched out the word, as if savoring the pleasure of it, and his voice became very quiet as he continued: “And I told Barack, ‘You think I got a lot of pow-er now?,’ and he said, ‘Yeah, you got a lot of pow-er.’ And I said, ‘What kind of pow-er do I have?’ He said, ‘You have the pow-er to make a United States sen-a-tor!” Jones let out a soft, smoky laugh. “I said to Barack, I said, ‘That sounds good!’ I said, ‘I haven’t even thought of that.’ I said, ‘Do you have someone in mind you think I could make?,’ and he said, ‘Yeah. Me.”
Think he could run a small convenience store? I don’t Perhaps we’re about to be screwed big time as Jr. gets some experience killing a once great Country.
Of course he couldn’t run a convenience store, he doesn’t believe in profits!
If I remember right, I read last year Obama took credit for the asbestos removal. It wasn’t Obama but some other person who did it
Thanks one and all! great replies ...
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