Has Barack Obama Accomplished Anything in the Senate »
Posted By RedRiverJ 11 months, 2 weeks ago in NewsHas Barack Obama Accomplished Anything in the Senate. Video from Chris Matthews on CNN, the entire clip. You watch, you decide.
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NoSpinDave11 months, 2 weeks ago
"Has Barack Obama Accomplished Anything in the Senate?"
Actually YES!!!
He apparently managed to snow a bunch of head in the sand liberals that he is actually something new and different!
I can just see him and his wife laughing behind closed doors at how gullible the liberal base is. What a PERFECT group of morons to play like a fiddle to get elected to the most powerful position in the world.
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mark-stevens11 months, 2 weeks ago
A jerk question!! has any any one at Washington done anything worth while?? The country is on the verge of failing. Ask any elected official "have you done anything worth while?"
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mark-stevens11 months, 2 weeks ago
The country is in the toilet and everyone "KNOWS" what is going to fix it or not fix the U.S. Since we are the goverment, we all better start looking in the mirror and ask " who I voted for, have they made the country better?"
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mesodude11 months, 2 weeks ago
Speaking of puzzling questions, RedRiverJ, could you kindly explain how you got to where you're now posting attack stories about Obama from where you were mere months ago? Here, for ex:
RedRiverJ on McCain: "McCain's state of Arizona is suffering desperately yet McCain along with Ted Kennedy wrote an amnesty bill last summer for illegal immigrants. You can also give credit to fellow senator from Arizona John Kyl. If I lived in Arizona I'd make it my lifes mission to make sure both these yahoo's never got elected again in my state. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYoioZJYBCE This is worse than global warming I'd think."
--In the quote above you basically say McCain is destroying the US. You also really don't think he should be running a state (much less the entire country). Any thoughts on the gigantic leap in your trust in and respect for John McCain? It's very odd, don't you think? ;-(
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mesodude11 months, 2 weeks ago
RedRiverJ says McCain totally sucks below. Why no comparison of McCain's accomplishments? We want to hear about McCain Feingold and McCain Kennedy, RedRiverJ. Don't disappoint us. ;-(
RedRiverj on McCain:
"Very good article on the RHINO (republican in name only) John McCain. No mention of his abysmal, traitorous stance on amnesty for illegals in the summer of 2007. I hope when the American Citizens go into the voting booth flash backs of McCain, Obama, Clinton, John Kyle, Lindsey Graham will flash in their heads come election time. Here is a link to tell you EXACTLY how McCain votes."
-Wow a RINO and a "TRAITOR" RedRiverJ? But wasn't that you gushing over him yesterday on AG's shilljob POW story? You want a "traitor" to run your country? Wow...This pretty much sums up the con mentality. Party before country 100%. ;-(
http://news.propeller.com/story/2007/12/31/flas...
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Locky1211 months, 2 weeks ago
Heck NO!
All he did as a member of house was vote "present" a bunch of times.
The only thing he wrote about was his favorite subject-- himself.
It's laughable that libs are saying McCain isn't fit to be president just because he was shot down and was a POW.
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ADAGUY11 months, 2 weeks ago
"libs are saying McCain isn't fit to be president just because he was shot down and was a POW."
Who said this?
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NoWayMan11 months, 2 weeks ago
whats laughable is that you brought up senate votes since the senator who missed the most votes in the last year was, yep you guessed it, John McCain, who missed 60% of the votes.
the senator who missed the second-most votes was Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) who was absent for several months following a brain hemorrhage.
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Formidable11 months, 2 weeks ago
If I'm reading it correctly, he sponsored 8 resolutions, 57 bills, and 59 amendments in this session. (I'm talking sponsored, not co-sponsored.) Despite Democratic control of the Senate, only two of his resolutions and exactly *zero* of his bills even made it to the floor - most never got out of committee. The two were pretty significant.
S.CON.RES.46 : A concurrent resolution supporting the goals and ideals of Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Month.
S.RES.133 : A resolution celebrating the life of Bishop Gilbert Earl Patterson.
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HOUSEMD11 months, 2 weeks ago
Formidable you should have done the interview, you are more informed than Senator Kirk Watson.
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injest11 months, 2 weeks ago
"he sponsored 8 resolutions, 57 bills, and 59 amendments in this session. (I'm talking sponsored, not co-sponsored.)"
Formidable
And did "HE" "ACTUALLY" write these resolutions, bills and amendments?
Or were they just given to his office and he puts his name on them?
Since that's been his MO for awhile (helps explain why doesn't know what he wrote/answered questions to, say gun control)
It also helps explane why he vote present on soooooooo many bills.
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injest11 months, 2 weeks ago
"The two were pretty significant"
neither of those have gone beyond committee so actually there is none nada zippo that have go anywhere.
Significant? Please, ya mean significant like
July
Hemochromatosis Screening Awareness Month
International Group B Strep Awareness Month
June
Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Month
National Aphasia Awareness Month
National Scleroderma Awareness Month
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SonOfTheMask11 months, 2 weeks ago
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SonOfTheMask11 months, 2 weeks ago
Some quick tidbits off the initial page:
Barack Obama has missed 270 votes (43.7%) during the current Congress.
Barack Obama has voted with a majority of his Democratic colleagues 96.0% of the time during the current Congress. This percentage does not include votes in which Obama did not vote.
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SonOfTheMask11 months, 2 weeks ago
This is also a source of info on voting records and positions:
http://www.votesmart.org/voting_category.php?ca...
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injest11 months, 2 weeks ago
"This is also a source of info on voting records and positions:
http://www.votesmart.org/voting_category.php?ca...
Hum this is odd, I though his NV (no vote) would be on days he was out of DC campaigning and thus couldn't be "there" to actually vote. Turns out that not true!
Dang!
12/13/2007 S Amdt 3695 Y Rejected â;; Senate (56 - 43) 98 total
12/13/2007 S Amdt 3810 NV Rejected â;; Senate (48 - 47) 95 total
05/22/2008 HR 2419 NV Passed â;; Senate (82 - 13)
05/22/2008S Amdt 4818 NV Adopted â;; Senate (70 - 26)
05/22/2008S Amdt 4803 Y Adopted â;; Senate (75 - 22)
Hum just part of the fist page.
Good thing Obama's job as a Senator doesn't require him to, like, vote on stuff.
Isn't his campaign slogan "Judgment to Lead?"
Doesn't a NV (no vote) kinda sorta say he couldn't make up his mind? And isn't that a LACK of Judgment?
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bubba211 months, 2 weeks ago
Just to keep some perspective here --
McCain has been TOTALLY ABSENT from the Senate since April 8.
McCain has missed 387 votes (compared to Obama's 270).
McCain has voted 231 times (compared to Obama's 348).
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/110...
McCain missed the vote on FISA.
McCain missed the vote on the economic stimulus package.
McCain has missed at least 7 votes on bills involving Iraq, including the bill in April for more funding for the troops.
McCain attended NONE of his committee's six hearings on Afghanistan over the last two years.
McCain skipped General David Petraeus's Iraq briefing in April.
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SonOfTheMask11 months, 2 weeks ago
Compare GovTrack between the two:
Obama:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=4...
"Statistic: Barack Obama missed 268 of 1240 votes (22%) since Jan 6, 2005 (Exceedingly Poor relative to peers)."
McCain:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=3...
"Statistic: John McCain missed 691 of 4057 votes (17%) since Feb 4, 1993 (Exceedingly Poor relative to peers)"
So, in 3.5 years Obama has missed 268 or 270 votes compared to McCain missing 691 in 15 years. I guess that is roughly comparable if we assume McCain's missed votes come from this presidential campaign and from 2000's presidential campaign.
Of course, McCain has 12-13 years of other service as a Senator, 4 years as a Representative, and 20 years as a veteran. Obama has 1.5 maybe 2 years as a Senator when he hasn't been campaigning for president and missing votes and 8 years as a Illinois politician.
There's some additional perspective.
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injest11 months, 2 weeks ago
Bubba
"Just to keep some perspective here --
McCain has been TOTALLY ABSENT from the Senate since April 8"
Uhm Bubba we all understand that if McCain or Obama are ABSENT, like in NOT there, they may not be voting on things THAT day.
That has ABSOLUTLY NOTHING TO DO with Obama's NV, NO VOTE!
Hint Bubba, he WAS in the senate on the days he made his NV! Dates are listed! When he has Y votes N votes and NV votes all on the same day WE CAN CONCLUDE HE WAS in the Senate THAT day!
And yes that is true on MANY days
Clear!
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inplacenews11 months, 2 weeks ago
Keep on talking, Neocons, you are making him famous.
Besides, even if you are not liberal and you do not like McCain, how could you ever really elect someone who has changed party affiliation so many times, left a wife for a younge woman after she waited for him for five years, or that was a possible running-mate for John Kerry? Give me a break.
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Endoscopy11 months, 2 weeks ago
Comparing what each man stands for. They are miles apart. For me it is voting for the lessor of two evils.
Obama has thrown so many people under the buss that it is riding quite high. Those associations say a lot about him. His voting record makes him the most liberal Senator bar none.
McCain votes usually with the conservative agenda. He angers Republicans some with the times he goes against them. He is a real war hero and served with distinction in the Navy. He retired a Captain at a point he was offered Rear Admiral. After that he has served as a Congressman and Senator from Arizona.
The experience and voting record force me to choose McCain.
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Rrddbb11 months, 2 weeks ago
Obamajama is nothing but a used car salesman from the burbs in CHIcago selling his junk to people that are fools.
ANYONE that takes his circus act seriously should'nt be allowed to vote much less breed.
We ALL heard his racist witch of a wife proclaim HER
adulation of her country.
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HannibalBarca11 months, 2 weeks ago
And whose puppet are you.
Seems like your White House does listen to him; Obama says talk to Iran then attack if it don't work. Who is the H talking to? Iran
Obama says, 16 months to get US troops out of Iraq, for 7 years shrub said no to this, now a timetable horizon.
What a sorry mixed up state of affairs is happening in Wonderland, only there is no 10 foot Alice to ask, but lots of mushrooms being eaten at 3 o'clock in the WH
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nikkibabe11 months, 2 weeks ago
It is not about what he has accomplished BUT about what he can accomplish. BIG DIFFERENCE.
The present idiot in WH is an example!
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Georgia5011 months, 2 weeks ago
There's even a mathmatical forumula that illustrates the combined senate accomplishments of John Kerry and Barack Obama:
0 plus 0 equals 0
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Georgia5011 months, 2 weeks ago
There's even a mathematical forumula that illustrates the combined senate accomplishments of John Kerry and Barack Obama:
0 plus 0 equals 0
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Georgia5011 months, 2 weeks ago
There's even a mathematical forumula that illustrates the combined senate accomplishments of John Kerry and Barack Obama:
0 plus 0 equals 0
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Georgia5011 months, 2 weeks ago
I wish the folks at propeller would fix this. Is avoiding a duplicate post or enabling deletion of a post all that difficult?
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cloud1511 months, 2 weeks ago
Why is it that any and every thread on this site turns into a bash Bush and Iraq thread?
Personally I think its because some people find that easier than actually addressing the story.
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Klarissa11 months, 2 weeks ago
I will be voting for someone to be president for the next four years,
I don't want and inexperienced president who tells the world what he is going to do, and then has to change his mind when he finds out that wasn't a good idea.
Wise presidents have state departments with people speaking the language of the people they are dealing with. They lay the ground work, come to agreements on what they can agree on, and set up and agenda at levels lower than the president to discuss the disagreements.
The president's power is greatly diminished when he preaches to the crowd, and makes statements that later have to be amended.
Obama is more interested in personal glory than what is best for us.
If he were wise, he would have said that he would continue the negotiations in progress and push for an early solution.
But he is a glory hound.
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bubba211 months, 2 weeks ago
Obama has MORE political experience that Bush EVER had.
Bush was a governor for 6 years. Before that he couldn't hold down a job in the private sector. He best 'success' was "manager" of the Texas Rangers, but he was only a figurehead anyway and didn't really manage anything. He DID make millions from the sale of the team, after he and the other "management" convinced the taxpayers to foot the bill for a new stadium.
Obama had 10-12 years of state political experience before being in the U.S. Senate for the last 3.5 years.
So, the "experience" argument is bogus and erroneous.
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Georgia5011 months, 2 weeks ago
You forget that Bush managed to leave Georgie Soros in the dust vis-a-vis oil company investment.
Oh...my bad. YOU thought Soros' bitter-sour grapes was all about ideology. Well, then. Now you know. Soros is nothing but a SOROS LOSER !!!!
I tear me up.
Stewy: Oh stuff it, Georgia. You act like Bush taking advantage of little Georgie SOROS LOSER is on par with Michele Obama taking advantage of poor blacks at the hospital on whose board she sits. You know very well it's perfectly alright to overcharge blacks whose healthcare bills are paid by taxpayers! Where did you think the Obamas learned firsthand exactly how broken the healthcare system is?
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Klarissa11 months, 2 weeks ago
please, 143 days active in the senate
Obama's work record:
After law school, Obama worked for church-based community action groups and tenants' rights organizations in poor Chicago neighborhoods.
Obama also says he passed up "Wall Street jobs" to "go to Chicago instead, helping neighborhoods devastated when steel plants closed." Howard Kurtz at the Washington Post points out that "Obama may have turned down Wall Street jobs after graduating from Columbia University in 1983, but he spent a year working for Business International Corp. in New York before becoming a community organizer in Chicago." But Obama's work at Business International Corporation, despite the fancy name, was by no means an investment banking job.
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