The Brainy Governor of New York Can’t Name Any Obama Accomplishments
By SusanUnPC on October 16, 2008 at 10:00 PM in Barack Obama, Qualifications
Can anyone provide a list of substantive accomplishments that Barack Obama can claim, besides winning office and going to college? The one executive job Obama had — when Bill Ayers hired him to chair the $50 million Chicago Annenberg Challenge — meant that he had to carry out Bill Ayers’ radical school reform initiatives, at which he was a miserable failure since the entire project was a failure.
Then there’s the one chairmanship that Obama was given in the U.S. Senate, as subchair of the European Affairs Subcommittee of the Foreign Relations Committee, which represents another Obama failure. Actually, Obama should be charged with “dereliction of duty” because he never held a single hearing (even though the committee oversees NATO operations, including the war in Afghanistan that Obama is fond of bringing up) nor did he ever travel through Europe or to NATO headquarters. In a primary debate, Obama confessed that he had been too busy “running for President” to take care of the important committee’s oversight of essential national security and foreign relations matters. (It is also worth noting that, had Obama done his job on that committee, he would have learned key information and built vital international relationships to help him become a better president.)
Now there’s this:
From the transcript:
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews: “We’ve watched John McCain over the years do things like Patients’ Bill of Rights, the McCain-Feingold reform bill. A number of cases where he has been able to reach across the aisle and get things done, even with Kennedy and Edwards and people like that, Feingold, people like that on the Democratic side. Can you give me a case where Barack Obama has reached across the aisle and cut a deal and gotten something done for the country? One example.”
Governor David Paterson: “Well, Senator Obama has been there two years and I can’t cite an example right now. But I know that did he collaborate with one of Republican senators on one of the issues. I just can’t name it off the top — ”
Matthews: “But the problem is you’re basing his success on a lack of achievement aren’t you? You’re saying he’s going to succeed and you can’t name a success.” …






















