I'll give that to you, though that was like 8 years ago.
What was Obama doing eight years ago? Naming post offices in the IL Senate?
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It's not an accomplishment to stop earmarks from being put into bills?
Again, that's not passing a bill. That's making a speech, something that Obama is attacked for.
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It's quite different than making a political speech. How many times has McCain been in Iraq since the Surge began? Who is seen as the point man on the issue, even more than Bush?
And what's McCain done in the past three years?
-Amendment to protect prisoners during interrogation.
-Gang of 14 for the judicial appointments
And if we're examining his whole record (as it shouldn't be held against him that he's been in Congress doing stuff since Obama was in grade school):
-co-wrote the bill creating the 9/11 commission
-co-wrote the bill giving the TSA control over security at airports
-his work on the Vietnam POW/MIA committee which eventually led to normalization of relations with what is now a US ally
-Line item veto
-McCain/Feingold
-his body of work on the Indian Affairs Committee
McCain's record speaks of a body of knowledge on foreign policy whether Iraq, Lebanon, or Vietnam, an opposition to soft money in campaigns, and opposition to pork barrel spending. Now, I understand perfectly Obama's lack of a track record because he's only had a few years to accomplish much of anything, but we shouldn't necessarily take it at as a given that he's capable of delivering on genuinely tough issues (health care, the environment, handling Iraq). It's fine and dandy to pass, as was said two pages back, bipartisan legislation, it's something completely different to take on those uninterested in health care reform, to address global warming, and especially to get something out of the Iraq adventure.
