What HAS Obama done?

Power Line blog has a great post today talking about the accomplishments and speeches of B.O. and how he mentions that John McCain refuses to acknowledge B.O.’s accomplishments. Which made me think… what HAS this man done? I mean, really? He’s gotten his law degree and he worked as a community organizer… hmmm… what else… he was a member of the IL Senate, where he did procure some valuable earmarks for people like Father Pfleger. Then of course he got elected to the US Senate and IMMEDIATELY began running for President. Other than that, I have some text of him arguing on the floor of the IL Senate that a baby isn’t really a baby unless it is full term and intentionally delivered; he did do that and claim that if a late term abortion is botched and the baby is born alive, that nothing should be done to keep it alive.

I thought Power Line wrote a great speech that McCain could use to point out all of B.O.’s accomplishments.

Senator Obama, I honor your work in the private sector for a year or two after you graduated from college, and I honor your work for three years as a community organizer in Chicago. I understand that as a community organizer you pressured
city authorities to remove asbestos from the Altgeld Gardens apartments in 1986
with at least partial success. When the on-site manager of the apartments didn't take action, you nudged the residents into confronting city housing officials in two angry public meetings downtown. These generated "a victory of sorts," you said later, as workers soon began sealing the asbestos in the buildings, even if the project gradually ran out of steam and money and even if some tenants still have asbestos in their homes, according to current resident Linda Randle, who worked with you in the '86 anti-asbestos campaign.

When you chose to quit organizing the South Side of Chicago after three years, your good deeds did not stop. You rendered valiant service by attending Harvard Law School and winning your first election as the president of the Harvard Law Review.
Your service to the Harvard Law Review did not bring an end to your remarkable benefactions. You returned to Chicago, where you won election to the Ilinois state legislature before the triumph that brought you to the Senate for the past three-and-a-half years. We all know your accomplishments in the Senate. And last, but far from least, I honor your authorship of Dreams From My Father, a memoir that has spent many weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. You, sir, have served our country with uncommon distinction.

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