Letters to the Editor
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To Raymonda1...
5 Obama accomplishments (courtesy of Bob Geiger on the Huffington Report):
1) The Lugar-Obama legislation, which helped decrease the threat of old nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons in the former Soviet Union.
2)Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 which Obama co-authored and that led to USAspending.gov, which keeps Americans better informed on government spending.
3)The Dignified Treatment of Wounded Warriors Act, which passed in July of 2007 and addressed the hideous treatment received by Veterans under the Bush administration, began its legislative life as the Dignity for Wounded Warriors Act, introduced by Obama earlier in the year.
4)He sponsored a bill in the IL Senate that would nearly ban all gifts from lobbyists, and that banned the personal use of campaign money (in a state with a KNOWN history of political corruption, I'd call that a major accomplishment). It passed, BTW.
5)He sponsored an IL Senate bill that would provide job skills training to IL recipients of federal aid below the poverty level. It passed, BTW.
This is not to mention the, oh, 821 other IL Senate bills that he sponsored during his tenure in the state senate....some of which passed, some of which didn't. Sure, he has only a few accomplishments in the U.S. Senate (the 3 biggest ones that passed are listed above)...but then again, he's only been a U.S. Senator for 3 years, 2 of which were under a Republican majority.
So, don't go throwing around this who-has-the-most-experience bullshit just to prove that the Clintons are better due to their numerous years in office...besides, I'd rather have a candidate with good JUDGEMENT than with good experience...and Hillary's judgement on many things (particularly on the war) has been severely lacking...