As a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Obama made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. In August 2005, he traveled to Russia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan. The trip focused on strategies to control the world’s supply of conventional weapons, biological weapons, and weapons of mass destruction as a first defense against potential terrorist attacks.

Following meetings with U.S. military in Kuwait and Iraq in January 2006, Obama visited Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian territories.

He left for his third official trip in August 2006, traveling to South Africa, Kenya, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Chad. In a nationally televised speech at the University of Nairobi, he spoke forcefully on the influence of ethnic rivalries and corruption in Kenya.

Obama worked with Russ Feingold (D–WI) to eliminate gifts of travel on corporate jets by lobbyists to members of Congress and require disclosure of bundled campaign contributions under the “Honest Leadership and Open Government Act”, which was signed into law in September 2007.

He joined Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in sponsoring S. 453, a bill to criminalize deceptive practices in federal elections, including fraudulent flyers and automated phone calls, as witnessed in the 2006 midterm elections.

Obama also introduced the “Iraq War De-Escalation Act”, a bill to cap troop levels in Iraq, begin phased redeployment, and remove all combat brigades from Iraq before April 2008.

Later in 2007, Obama sponsored with Kit Bond (R-MO) an amendment to the 2008 Defense Authorization Act adding safeguards for personality disorder military discharges, and calling for a review by the Government Accountability Office following reports that the procedure had been used inappropriately to reduce government costs.

joined Chuck Hagel (R-NE) in introducing legislation to reduce risks of nuclear terrorism.A provision from the Obama-Hagel bill was passed by Congress in December 2007 as an amendment to the State-Foreign Operations appropriations bill.

Obama also sponsored a Senate amendment to the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to provide one year of job protection for family members caring for soldiers with combat-related injuries. After passing both houses of Congress with bipartisan majorities, SCHIP was vetoed by President Bush in early October 2007, a move Obama said “shows a callousness of priorities that is offensive to the ideals we hold as Americans.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama

THESE ARE BARACK’S ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN THE U.S. SENATE TO DATE:

** First legislation, the HOPE Act, which increased Pell Grants to $5100, and later joined Senator Kennedy on the Higher Education legislation that passed July 20, by a vote of 78-18. That legislation also included funding for Predominantly Black Colleges to assist with counseling, tutoring and other needs of low income students. It also creates the Teaching Residency Act which will create a school-based teacher preparation program in high needs schools to provide each teacher with a mentor, content instruction, classroom management skills, a master’s degree and state certification, and a 2 year follow-up program.

**The Coburn-Obama Government Transparency Act of 2006
is an act that requires the full disclosure of all entities or organizations receiving federal funds beginning in fiscal year (FY) 2007 on a website maintained by the Office of Management and Budget.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Funding_Accountabi...

**The Lugar-Obama Nuclear Non-proliferation and Conventional Weapons Threat Reduction Act
Authored by U.S. Sens. Dick Lugar (R-IN) and Barack Obama (D-IL), the Lugar-Obama initiative expands U.S. cooperation to destroy conventional weapons. It also expands the State Department’s ability to detect and interdict weapons and materials of mass destruction.
Signed into Law on January 11, 2007.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/chrisblas...

**The 2007 Government Ethics Bill
http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_17/news/19664-1.html?...
http://www.commonblog.com/story/2007/9/14/164837/331

** The “Democratic Republic of the Congo Relief, Security, and Democracy Promotion Act.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s109-2125

** S116 – Summer Learning demonstration project to provide summer learning grants and encourage new teaching methods.
http://www.pasesetter.org/demonstrationPrograms/nasd.ht...

and this one, moved out of committee just a few days ago:
Obama’s Global Poverty Act of 2007, passed out of committee just a few days ago
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Barack Obama (D-IL), Chuck Hagel (R-NE), and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Congressman Adam Smith (D-WA) today hailed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s passage of the Global Poverty Act (S.2433), which requires the President to develop and implement a comprehensive policy to cut extreme global poverty in half by 2015 through aid, trade, debt relief, and coordination with the international community, businesses and NGOs. This legislation was introduced in December. Smith and Congressman Spencer Bachus (R-AL) sponsored the House version of the bill (H.R. 1302), which passed the House last September.
http://obama.senate.gov /

Amendments, that have all passed:

S.Amdt.159 to S.Con.Res.18 – To prevent and, if necessary, respond to an international outbreak of the avian flu.

S.Amdt.390 to H.R.1268 – To provide meal and telephone benefits for members of the Armed Forces who are recuperating from injuries incurred on active duty in Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom.

S.Amdt.670 to H.R.3 – To provide for Flexible Fuel Vehicle (FFV) refueling capability at new and existing refueling station facilities to promote energy security and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

S.Amdt.808 to H.R.6 – To establish a program to develop Fischer-Tropsch transportation fuels from Illinois basin coal.

S.Amdt.851 to H.R.6 – To require the Secretary to establish a Joint Flexible Fuel/Hybrid Vehicle Commercialization Initiative, and for other purposes.

S.Amdt.1362 to S.1042 – To require a report on the Department of Defense Composite Health Care System II.

S.Amdt.1453 to S.1402 – To ensure the protection of military and civilian personnel in the Department of Defense from an influenza pandemic, including an avian influenza pandemic.

S.Amdt.2301 to H.R.3010 – To increase funds to the Thurgood Marshall Legal Educational Opportunity Program and to the Office of Special Education Programs of the Department of Education for the purposes of expanding positive behavioral interventions and supports.

S.Amdt.2605 to S.2020 – Expressing the sense of the Senate that the Federal Emergency Management Agency should immediately address issues relating to no-bid contracting.

S.Amdt.2930 to S.2349 – To clarify that availability of legislation does not include nonbusiness days.
S.Amdt.3144 to S.Con.Res.83 – To provide a $40 million increase in FY 2007 for the Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program and to improve job services for hard-to-place veterans

S. Amdt 41 to S. 1 To require lobbyists to disclose the candidates, leadership PACs, or political parties for whom they collect or arrange contributions, and the aggregate amount of the contributions collected or arranged.

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Barack has Written a total of 890 Bills and Co-sponsored Another 1096 since he started serving in the U.S. Senate.

SECOND!

seejanemom on October 29, 2008 at 4:55 PM

This is a strange and misguided declaration that he is a beta male video game geek of the highest magnitude. Try to ignore him.

Vhat has he done? Der Obama has tolllldd us that HE HAS THE ANSWER!!!!

Romeo13 on October 29, 2008 at 4:26 PM

And the answer is . . . 42.

Brat on October 29, 2008 at 4:38 PM

I don’t understand why this isn’t in a campaign ad. He is a failure as a senator. He didn’t bring anyone “together” to fix anything. If he couldn’t do it as a senator then why should we expect him to be able to do it as President?

Brat on October 29, 2008 at 4:38 PM

Perfect.

Brought the country together? Oh yeah, I can feel the love. You betcha.
Terrye on October 29, 2008 at 7:16 PM

Okay so people have linked this a lot today, but here you go – Michelle Obama’s official endorsement of her Husband, based on his resume.

This is a Harvard educated economist. No wonder everyone laughs at economists – he thinks Obama has “brought the country together” on a “way out of this mess”.

Does anyone have the slightest idea wtf this clown is talking about? Does he?

Obama said that this management of his campaign was his major executive experience to be President. Shouldn’t most of those points be a major McCain commercial to close the deal now that the $600 million man is in a statistical dead heat?

econavenger on October 29, 2008 at 5:47 PM

MANAGEMENT OF HIS FRAUDULENT CAMPAIGN

Obama’s only accomplishment to date is in being a FRAUD, representing FRAUDS who wish to defraud our nation into a communist dictatorship.

Claiming to unify, that only applies to Progressives. Obama himself has NOT done the unification, but merely been the figure head for the Progressive movement. They chose him and groomed him with the proper mask and hidden school transcripts and birth documents. He did not groom himself, but allowed others to elevate him beyond his abilities. Obama’s even a fraud according to Marx, “according to their abilities.”

As per the nation, Obama is DIVISIVE!!! He ridicules with pejorative labels any who disagree, and has his club use the government to harass and violate the civil rights of citizens. He represents the worst domestic terrorists and is best friends forever with the worst Palestinian terrorist clan, and is endorsed by Islamofascists (Ahmedinejad, Gadaffi, et. al.) and Der Spiegel Nazi forum editors. THEY CLAMOR FOR OBAMA, AND OBAMA REVELS IN THEIR ADORATION.

Obama aligned himself and his talents with ACORN in order to destroy the American economy and the legitimacy of American elections FOR THE LOVE OF MARX and disdain for our Constitution.

Obamanada:

NO POSITIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
FRAUD!

Unfortunately, our media started channeling Josef Goebbels.

No let up! Focus! VOTE!

Let’s roll!

Duhbama is unqualified to be President of the PTA.

fogw on October 29, 2008 at 5:16 PM

He’s not even qualified to get a security clearance.

If it was brought out too early, then Obama would have had time to build his talking points. This way, like Joe the Plumber, he has to either tell the truth, or come up with something fast and hope it is the right lie.

right2bright on October 29, 2008 at 5:06 PM

Every good campaign has an arc to it. The McCain should have been slowly, in a drip drip fashion, building its case. At the same time not overwhelming the public with too much info. Provide just enough info top wet the palate in addition to creating a persona for McCain. They did the persona part ok but the slow tearing down of Obama never really happened.

At this point we should be be at the crescendo of that arc for deconstructing Obama. My point is that, from the start to mid-campaign through to the end, we never got a concerted build-up to that final argument. Now it seems that they are trying to cram all that info in at the last minute

If Obama were to join the military and have to go through similar vetting there would be no way he would be eligible for top secret clearance based on past associations. I had a buddy who was denied clearance just because he had associated with some kids who were in a gang (motorcycle)

And president has highest security clearance?

Insane!

The fact that I actually remember that game makes me feel very old and nerdish again.

Lincoln on October 29, 2008 at 5:14 PM

Say that like you’re proud of it :) I can’t sympathize much on the old part but there’s nothing wrong with nerdish :D

Thanks for the explanation guys, I was away from my desk for an hour and would have hated to come back and find myself dead ;)

*eats*