I want to look at this in comparison to Hillary Clinton’s “experience”, which is primarily due to nepotism. Meaning, her experience come mostly from jobs her husband gave her. There is no way she would have moved to a state for a few months (NY) and win a U.S. Senate seat if her name was not Clinton. She also never had a strong competitor. In her first race Rudy Giuliani did not run against her because he was diagnosed with cancer. The second race was also unknown. No Democrat ever contested her candidacy in a primary in NY in either election.
Hell, Bill Clinton was not that great a politician. I remember that people raised some of the same questions about Bill Clinton in 1992 that they raise against Obama now. I believe so. Remember, Bill Clinton the “man from Hope [,Arkansas]“. He sound a lot like an idealist to me and was accused of it by George Bush. He only won in 1992, because of Ross Perot taking votes from George Bush. The economy being good in the 1990’s was not due to Clinton and as he was going out of office we were experiencing recession, I remember, some seem not to. People also forget that 8 years of nonstop Clinton Scandals gave the Democrats 8 years of George W Bush and 6 years of a Republican Congress. Bill Clinton polarized the nation. The nation was not like that during George Bush’s father and Reagan’s administrations, although Reagan was not widely liked among Democrats.
Senator Clinton, who has served only one full term (6yrs.), and another year campaigning, has managed to author and pass into law, (20) twenty pieces of legislation in her first six years including the following:
1. Establish the Kate Mullany National Historic Site.
2. Support the goals and ideals of Better Hearing and Speech Month.
3. Recognize the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
4. Name courthouse after Thurgood Marshall.
5. Name courthouse after James L. Watson.
6. Name post office after Jonn A. O’Shea.
7. Designate Aug. 7, 2003, as National Purple Heart Recognition Day.
8. Support the goals and ideals of National Purple Heart Recognition Day.
9. Honor the life and legacy of Alexander Hamilton on the bicentennial of his death.
10. Congratulate the Syracuse Univ. Orange Men’s Lacrosse Team on winning the championship.These bills can be found on the website of the Library of Congress (www.thomas.loc.gov).
Now, I would post those of Obama’s, but the list is too substantive, so I’ll mainly categorize.
During the first (8) eight months of his elected service he sponsored over 820 bills. He introduced
233 regarding healthcare reform,
125 on poverty and public assistance,
112 crime fighting bills,
97 economic bills,
60 human rights and anti-discrimination bills,
21 ethics reform bills,
15 gun control,
6 veterans affairs and many others.His first year in the U.S. Senate, he authored 152 bills and co-sponsored another 427. These included the following:
**the Coburn-Obama Government Transparency Act of 2006 (became law),
**The Lugar-Obama Nuclear Non-proliferation and Conventional Weapons Threat Reduction Act, (became law),
**The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, passed the Senate,
**The 2007 Government Ethics Bill, (became law),
**The Protection Against Excessive Executive Compensation Bill, (In committee), and many more.
There are a lot of Americans who do believe America needs “drastic change” if they did not Obama would be back in the Senate right now. Obama does not just say the country needs drastic change, but he believes he can not do it himself…no, he knows he can not. He knows the only way to do it is to get the American people behind him and pressure Congress to act with him. This is how all major movements in America have been done, since the Progressive Movement before World War I; the Roosevelt years of the Great Depression; and the political and social upheaval of the 1960’s. All of these came about by grass roots action and pressuring politicians to act. Obama wants to do this again. That is not demagoguery, that is classic American politics. I believe the first person to do it was Andrew Jackson.
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