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• Wednesday, June 4, 2008 10:25 AM

  indigo218

  Indigo, there are far more than one accomplishments he has as a public servant.

  You could look up health care for children in Illinois (sound like the pet project of another politician who we like and respect?) there is an open government access data base he created so people could see how our tax money is being spent. There was an aid package he created that went to people in the Darfur region....There was a bill to force police to videotape all interrogations in the state of Illinois (important for a racially charged city like Chicago particularly)...and you know projects like health care for children, SCHIP, he helped to sponsor that, along with Clinton. He has worked with McCain on government lobbyist reform efforts and a bill to help climate change. All but the climate change are bills that have passed.

  Let's retire the idea that he has no accomplishments, as exciting and entertaining as that assertion has for the opposition (and I'm talking now about the Republicans, since he is the Democratic nominee) it isn't based on fact.

  And Clinton also has many accomplishments. But the idea that hers count and his don't--or McCain's count and Obama's don't--is a packet of lies that needs to go back to the warehouses of mark Penn and Rush Limbaugh's collective imaginations.

  Carry on.

  —doloresflower Read doloresflower's other letters
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