What is Obama's signature achievement?

[Findog]

This is ridiculous. How can you belittle these kinds of accomplishments? Being raised poor and going to Harvard is a HUUUUUUGE HUGE HUGE HUGE accomplishment. I'd be satisfied if that was my only accomplishment. I bet Obama accomplished more than your ass ever done. Are you running for president?

What is extremely ironic to me is that Obama has NONE of the negative stereotypes associated with blacks, it seems to me that he is the kind of black person that white people would approve of and like. And of course it was jarring to hear the party of extreme wealth and privilege deride a black man of humble origins who worked hard and got a good education as "elitist." So today's Republican party is anti-education. Education is fer them liburul gots.

[Gino]

Editor of the Harvard Law Review Elected president of the Law Review, a full-time volunteer position functioning as editor-in-chief and supervising the Law Review's staff of 80 editors. Obama directed Illinois's Project Vote from April to October 1992, a voter registration drive with a staff of 10 and 700 volunteers and which achieved its goal of registering 150,000 of 400,000 unregistered African-Americans in the state, and led to Crain's Chicago Business naming Obama to its 1993 list of "40 under Forty" powers to be.

Beginning in 1992, Obama taught cons utional law at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years, being first classified as a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996, and then as a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004. Also served the communities in Chicago in many organizations........More?

You want me to put "participated in a voter registration" to his list of signature achievements?

I dont think for one second that that is close to writing his two memoirs and his three speeches.

[KenMcCoy]

Well If you liked the last 8 years ,then vote for McBush....euh McCain....he voted with the president 94% of the time .

I'm hoping for 16 more years...McCain 8 yrs followed by Palin 8 yrs.

[101A]

This is ridiculous. How can you belittle these kinds of accomplishments? Being raised poor and going to Harvard is a HUUUUUUGE HUGE HUGE HUGE accomplishment. I'd be satisfied if that was my only accomplishment. I bet Obama accomplished more than your ass ever done. Are you running for president?

How many other people raised poor have Harvard Law degrees?

They ALL have the same signature accomplishment.

[101A]

Well If you liked the last 8 years ,then vote for McBush....euh McCain....he voted with the president 94% of the time .

Fail.

He voted with Bush 94% of the time in 1997. In 1991? 64%.

Obama? 60% the first year he was in.

[The Reckoning]

So today's Republican party is anti-education. Education is fer them liburul gots.

education should be a state matter. give the classroom back to the teachers.

[fyatuk]

Where do you get your facts?

In 1929 the top 1% held 44% of the nation's wealth; we are a far, far cry from that point.

How about this: in 1998, it was 38%

Look Here for more detailed analysis.

Income != wealth.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/29/business/29tax.html

In 2005, the top 1% received "their largerst share of national income since 1928"

"The top 1 percent received 21.8 percent of all reported income in 2005, up significantly from 19.8 percent the year before and more than double their share of income in 1980. The peak was in 1928, when the top 1 percent reported 23.9 percent of all income."

perhaps you should read posts more carefully.

[romad_20]

Obama directed Illinois's Project Vote from April to October 1992, a voter registration drive with a staff of 10 and 700 volunteers and which achieved its goal of registering 150,000 of 400,000 unregistered African-Americans in the state

Beginning in 1992, Obama taught cons utional law at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years, being first classified as a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996, and then as a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004.

I would put these on the list. These are real world things that actually have made a difference in people's lives, I don't think they can be trivialized. His political resume is thin, but isn't this about changing Washington, according to both sides?

[Gino]

How many other people raised poor have Harvard Law degrees?

They ALL have the same signature accomplishment.

Exactly.

And how many people were against the Iraq War?

Millions.

Yet we keep hearing how he showed what great "judgement" he had.

[obama the mesiah]

McCain all those years of expierience, he comments on the war he says he knows how to win it...he comments on the economy he says I can fix it. He's been there all these years and says that ? Why doesn't he fix these things now ?Is he saying you have to elect me president first?

[Findog]

education should be a state matter. give the classroom back to the teachers.

Exactly! No more No Child Left Behind.

I'll just settle for the GOP's rank and file voters no longer exercising seething resentment over somebody else furthering their education past high school.

[DarrinS]

He quit smoking.

[Gino]

McCain all those years of expierience, he comments on the war he says he knows how to win it...he comments on the economy he says I can fix it. He's been there all these years and says that ? Why doesn't he fix these things now ? Is he saying you have to elect me president first?

Surge? What Surge?

[Gino]

He quit smoking.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Obama:

1) Won nomination
2) Isn't Bush
3) Has Law degree
4) Quit Smoking
5) Signature bills include re-naming an office building and a bill to promote helping the republic of Congo (but not actually helping the Congo).



McCain:

1) Won nomination

2) Led the effort to normalize Relations with Vietnam

3) Pushed through the successful Iraq "Surge"

4) McCain-Feingold (Some people think it sucks....but its still a major accomplishment for him). Is there another Bill (McCain-Kennedy...McCain-Lieberman) that might be considered bigger?

5) Refused to leave a POW camp ealier than his peers when given the offer because of who his father was.

6) Commanded the largest squadron in the navy

[Findog]

The "surge" didn't work. The violence went down when we paid Iraqis off to stop attacking us. Also, it's a post-war wasteland, the violence is down because there's not as many people left to kill.

at people talking up the "surge."

[Creepn]

How many other people raised poor have Harvard Law degrees?

They ALL have the same signature accomplishment.

You make it sound like it's such a common and easy thing to do. And lets not say "ALL" if you are including poor whites. Poor whites have a ava lot easier than poor blacks.

Besides no matter what, Obama had to strive harder than McCain ever has to get to where they are at now.

[The Reckoning]

Exactly! No more No Child Left Behind.

i agree. why do you think our universities are so successful? the professor has complete control over the classroom. we need more educated teachers - not a stale doctrine of teaching kids over and over crap that means nothing past grade school

[KenMcCoy]

You make it sound like it's such a common and easy thing to do.

Besides no matter what, Obama had to strive harder than McCain ever has to get to where they are at now.

W graduated from Yale so I don't think it's actually that difficult if you can afford it (or find some type of scholarship to pay for it).

[Creepn]

W graduated from Yale so I don't think it's actually that difficult if you can afford it (or find some type of scholarship to pay for it).

Yeah, its not that difficult if you can afford it.

[KenMcCoy]

W also got his MBA from Harvard. So for all of the Bush haters...

I guess Obama = Bush

[Viva Las Espuelas]

at people talking up the "surge."

obamessiah did/is. he just didn't credit the surge 'cause he didn't want to look dumb after voting against it.

[SpursFanFirst]

Things are just great. The financial news coming from Wall Street is very good. And if you're having trouble paying your bills, you, you had it coming.

I don't believe anyone put it that way.

[Creepn]

W also got his MBA from Harvard. So for all of the Bush haters...

I guess Obama = Bush

Sorry I'd have to disagree there. Just because one graduated from the same school as the other doesn't mean that they are equally smart.

One of Bush's old teachers at Harvard:

"I don't remember all the students in detail unless I'm prompted by something," Tsurumi said in a telephone interview Wednesday. "But I always remember two types of students. One is the very excellent student, the type as a professor you feel honored to be working with. Someone with strong social values, compassion and intellect -- the very rare person you never forget. And then you remember students like George Bush, those who are totally the opposite."

http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feat...09/16/tsurumi/

[Anti.Hero]

The American Dream is dead. There is no way a black kid got into Harvard.

Obama is running on not being Bush. Findog eats it up.


I applaud you SpursFanFirst for not being a weakling and letting the government tell you the world is ending. You are already ahead of millions of Americans who still think Obama or any politician will save them.

Be proud of yourself for not seeing the word change, and stopping there without thinking anymore what that change actually means.

[Creepn]

The American Dream is dead. There is no way a black kid got into Harvard.

lol I wouldnt say that. But I would say that the American Dream is just a uva lot harder for some than others. Wouldnt you?