i noticed you didn't actually defend obama against the accusation that he talks a good talk but there isn't any there there.

and is it really smearing obama to note that he lacks good solutions to problems? i mean, i've read his websites and all i can find are feel good fluff and bad ideas.

i noticed you didn't actually defend obama against the accusation that he talks a good talk but there isn't any there there.

I will in the coming weeks.

and is it really smearing obama to note that he lacks good solutions to problems? i mean, i've read his websites and all i can find are feel good fluff and bad ideas.

Don't worry I'll bury you in the details so much you'll be bored to death.

Dick Morris who was Bill Clinton's 'right hand' man, makes a good case that as far as being the 'solution' person Hillary's actual record has been very uninspiring.

larkin, until such time that anyone can actually list some of obama's accomplishments or qualifications, it is not a smear to question them.

i'm glad that you think you will be able to bore me to death with details. at some point in the future. when that day comes, i *may* just stop questioning his qualifications. depends on what is actually in that list.

until that day arrives, i will continue to say that obama doesn't have the juice to play in this game.

Here's a few:

- Community organizer in Chicago, worked to improve public housing with asbestos removal and other efforts, creating job programs, and programs to keep at-risk youth in school.
- Ran Project VOTE, a voter registration drive that saw registration jumped nearly 15 points between the 1992 primary and the general election.

- Worked as a civil rights attorney, winning cases against the state of Illinois for failing to implement a federal voter-registration law and wrongful termination of a whistle-blower who lost her job after exposing waste and corruption in a medical research project.

- Taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago, ranked #6 in USNews top law schools.

Illinois Senate:
- Passed legislation sharply restricting the gifts that Illinois politicians could accept from lobbyists
- Helped set up Illinois' "KidCare" program that provided health care to children in families that did not qualify for Medicaid.
- Passed bills requiring police interrogations to be videotaped and requiring police to study racial profiling in traffic stops, for both of which he managed to secure the endorsements of police groups who were initially opposed.
- Capital Punishment Reform Study Committee Act
- Illinois' first earned-income tax credit
- Illinois Temporary Assistance For Needy Families Program
- Bill requiring advance notice Of mass layoff and plant closings
- Whistle-Blower protection law
- Equal Pay Act
- Victims Economic Security And Safety Act
- Frequently secured bipartisan support for legislation while in the minority and majority (control switched parties during Obama's tenure)

US Senate:
- Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act
- Lugar-Obama Nuclear Non-proliferation and Conventional Weapons Threat Reduction Act
- Honest Leadership and Open Government Act
- Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act
- The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act (passed Senate, not House)

Noteworthy bills not yet passed or signed into law:
- Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention Act of 2007
- The Protection Against Excessive Executive Compensation Bill

Since being elected to the Senate Obama has written 890 bills and co-sponsored another 1096.

Anyway, I've got more but I have to go. You may not like some of these accomplishments, but they are accomplishments nonetheless.