What has Obama accomplished?

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Something that seems to come up a lot this election is Obama and his accomplishments. I'm just curious.... anyone know what he has accomplished?
 


Besides his political career: (c/o wikipedia)
Obama directed Illinois Project Vote from April to October 1992, a voter registration drive with a staff of 10 and 700 volunteers that achieved its goal of registering 150,000 of 400,000 unregistered African Americans in the state, leading Crain's Chicago Business to name Obama to its 1993 list of "40 under Forty" powers to be.[22][23]

Obama taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years, as a Lecturer for four years (1992–1996), and as a Senior Lecturer for eight years (1996–2004).[24]

In 1993 Obama joined Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a 12-attorney law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development, where he was an associate for three years from 1993 to 1996, then of counsel from 1996 to 2004, with his law license becoming inactive in 2002.[12][25]

Obama was a founding member of the board of directors of Public Allies in 1992, resigning before his wife, Michelle, became the founding executive director of Public Allies Chicago in early 1993.[12][26] He served on the board of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago, which in 1985 had been the first foundation to fund Obama's DCP, from 1993–2002, and served on the board of directors of The Joyce Foundation from 1994–2002.[12] Obama served on the board of directors of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge from 1995–2002, as founding president and chairman of the board of directors from 1995–1999.[12] He also served on the board of directors of the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Center for Neighborhood Technology, and the Lugenia Burns Hope Center.[12]
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For his senate career, List of bills sponsored by Barack Obama in the United States Senate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .

Not too hard to find... I hear Wikipedia is starting to get some mainstream traffic these days :rolleyes:
 
He's a community organizer, followed by an un-inspiring few years in the state Senate, followed barely by any time in the US Senate.

Yawn.
 
He instructed some inner city kids what color to paint park benches followed by a quick brunch with his convicted terrorist friend and finally he met with his black panther pastor for some spiritual advice.
 
Compared to Bush's achievements, 9 times out of 10 with the support of McCain... not a lot.
 
I think a better question is: what kind of things did he achieve?

In my opinion there is no doubt he can achieve a lot, just look at what he is achieving right now! McCain can achieve all he wants, that doesn't make him better qualified.
 
But to be fair not as much legislatively as McCain. Having said that, the latter voted 90% with Bush so his "experience" doesn't mean much. President of Harvard Law Review. Why don't people get that? Folks need to ask some friends who went to HLS what that really means....
 
Restoring our image abroad too. You can walk down the street in Europe with an American lapel pin and not get fucking heckled....
 
Obama has accomplished nothing. He's not even remotely a notable Senator, and 5 years ago, you would have been hard pressed to find anyone who knew of him.

Everyone projects onto their politicians, what they want from them, what they want them to be. I can't stand Obama or McCain, but for crissakes people, Obama has done nothing, and all of the sweetness and light people think he will spread, is just projecting. No one really knows what he will do as President, he's already flip flopped so many times, I don't think people could even make educated guesses.

So the question of what has Obama accomplished, is for all intents and purposes, nothing. Biden, Palin and McCain all have more accomplishments than Obama. Bob Barr has more accomplishments than Obama. Ralph Nader has more accomplishments.

Obama has done nothing. And he's not going to restore any positive vibes overseas, because he is going to continue the same flawed foreign policy that McCain endorses and Bush has perpetuated. On Morning Joe the other day, the roundtable universally agreed that the Dems and GOP have the same foreign policy. That failed one that 70% of people reject.

Nice democracy when you have two choices and they are the same.
 
LazyHippy said:
Compared to Bush's achievements, 9 times out of 10 with the support of McCain... not a lot.
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I must state that I am not a huge Bush fan but he has achieved:

1) Provided great leadership and kept country afloat economically after World Trade Center bombing.

2) Created PEPFAR the largest international effort in history to fight a single disease (AIDS).

3) More than doubled development assistance to Africa and helped secure $34 billion in debt relief for 19 African countries. His foreign aid across the globe is three times what it was under Clinton.

4) Created the worlds largest marine reserve on a group of remote Hawaiian islands

5) George Bush has appointed more women and minorities to high-level post than any other president in history

6) Has enabled policy that has kept us from being attacked again by radical terrorist

7) More minorities own a house under his administration than any other in history

8) Has liberated a whole population from the grips of a bloody and murderous dictator

I could go on but I have some projects to tend to. You see hating Bush is a college/european fad. He has done as good or better than any president in modern times. I can't support him because he is too liberal for my taste but he isn't the son of satan as alot of kids and Eurofags would suggest.
 
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