So the answer is--don't ask.

Or, it just could be that they are nothing to write home about!

Skimming over the other thread discussing, among other things, Obama's qualifications or lack thereof, I did notice that in fact someone did post a link to something that might have fallen under that category, but apparently did not.  Now while having given it a (very) cursory glance I can't say there's anything on there in particular that jumps out at me and I'd say "oh yes now this is why he should be president", it does beg the question, what exactly is an "accomplishment", in the political sense?

All in all, I think I prefer "Europa's" political setup...America bashing, getting offended, picking on France, THESE are the things we can agree on!

Personally, I think all of the above have pretty well answered this question. In case you missed it, I will repeat it for you "                        ". Now I for one have taken my fair share of chances ... but I am not willing to bet the whole enchilada on a man whose most strident adherents cannot answer this one simple question. Faith is all well and good, but "blind faith" is nothing more than telling your masters to do with you, as THEY will. In an age of insanity ... why not ... Pick your own poison, just remember that not all poisons are fatal.

That's what will be written about democracy when it finally gets replaced with whatever's next (Y'all do read history, dontcha?  Something WILL replace it...try playing Sid Meiers Civilization to get the feel for what I mean.)  "It was a good idea except that idiots got to vote, too."

Oooh...I just thought of another government improvement.  A ballot that as a blank vote counts as one vote, but once you fill it in, it's tempered by your IQ.  If you're a moron, your vote becomes less valuable.  That might help the education problem too!  People would get motivated to have their vote be worth more than the other guy's, so they'd educate themselves.

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He studied at Harvard, which suggests he was highly accomplished at school. Then Wikipedia reveals he was elected to his seat in the Senate with 70% of the vote, which is surprisingly high (although admittedly American political parties try not to compete with each other, so maybe not that surprising). He was a teacher (a much maligned accomplishment in this day and age) and a lawyer, which suggests he's accomplished at the manipulation of the law. He was also a streetwalker for the democrats, which suggests he has the persistance of a Mormon.

He came from behind to beat Hillary Clinton, perhaps the greatest political brawler of the past decade. He's also written a book, which suggests he's accomplished at writing (implied by his editorial position at the Harvard Law Review, but everyone knows uni literati rarely actually sit down and actually write anything rather than talk about it).

Proof he's qualified for president? Very little. Only those who've been president have any notion of that, and I'm not sure they're unbiased judges. Most of the living ones are family members of political opponents after all, except for Carter, and he's a bit of a beatnik. At least he's young enough that he should be able to bend with the pressure. Crazy old McCain will probably just let the mind go a little, which is exciting if that's what you're after I suppose.

Keep in mind though folks that the primary duties of a President are to give good speeches, talk to foreigners, travel widely, sign laws and occasionally take a strong stance on something mildly controversial. These are all things Obama is just as likely to be good at as McCain will be. Possibly better if the 'tallking to foreigners' or speech-giving components happen to become more important.

I don't know about good accomplishments but I do know Obama managed to deal with a lot of people who were slum lords, communists, racists and down right haters of America and have seemingly convinced a lot of people that he hasn't had anything to do with them in a long time therefore is nothing like these people.  He's accomplished at charming people out of their money.  He's accomplished at convincing people that he is running against Bush to dectract from the fact that McCain is a much more respectable, sacrificing person who wants to serve our country rather than use the office to promote himself to rock star status.

Thanks Larry, lets add more to the list.

In 2007 when given the chance to divert the money initially earmarked for the Ketchikan bridge in Alaska Obama voted NO! The amendment was offered by Tom Coburn, the Republican that Obama claims he is friends with. Yes that is right. Obama voted NO to helping the victims to Katrina. Instead he decided that the Bridge to Nowhere was much more important than those suffering from such devastating loss.

Obama's Citizenship Promotion Act, S. 795’s, primary goal is “to assist aliens who have been lawfully admitted to becoming citizens of the United States.” It does not provide funding to secure the borders or assist in the USCIS’s quest towards efficiency or its capabilities to root out corruption. Instead, Obama’s bill will organize the immigrant community by allotting U.S. $80 million for outreach programs targeted at immigrants and future voters.

Sen. Barack Obama tried to direct more than $3 million in taxpayer funds to a Chicago museum whose chairman is one of the Illinois senator's largest campaign fundraisers.

Obama won't allow his transcript from his undergraduate days at Columbia University to be released.

One of the first bills Obama wrote in the Illinois General Assemby was a declaration that 1 Nov 1997 would be Islamic Day.

Obama has voted with Harry Reid 92% of the time. 

Obama's "Global Poverty Act" (S.2433)  The legislation would commit the U.S. to spending 0.7 percent of gross national product on foreign aid, which amounts to a phenomenal 13-year total of $845 billion over and above what the U.S. already spends.

In 2007, Senator Barack Obama stood up for a gun owner. He endorsed Chicago Alderman Dorothy Tillman in her Democratic primary. Not only was she a gun owner, but she had even pulled a gun on her colleagues during a contentious 1991 ward redistricting hearing, according to eyewitnesses. Tillman, best known for demanding to be served by black (not white) waiters, and for advocating reparations for slavery, narrowly lost her race despite Obama’s support.

According to a 1996 questionnaire he filled out while running for the Illinois Senate, Obama promised to support a ban on “the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns.”

Senator Obama also supported the District of Columbia’s comprehensive gun ban — he said so in a February television interview with Washington’s WJLA

In 2002, Senator Obama stood on the floor of the Illinois State Senate to oppose the Born Alive Infant Protection Act. By this time, even the abortion rights organizations like Planned Parenthood had dropped their opposition. But Obama continued to oppose the law.

Barack Obama specifically voted four times in the Illinois Legislature to allow criminal charges against a homeowner who used a firearm in self-defense of their person and home -- specifically what the Supreme Court says is a constitutional right. Obama may say he supports it, but his record says exactly the opposite.

Antoin "Tony" Rezko, perhaps the most important fund-raiser for Obama's early political campaigns and a friend who helped the Obamas buy a home in 2005. Rezko's company used subsidies to rehabilitate more than 1,000 apartments, mostly in and around Obama's district, then refused to manage the units, leaving the buildings to decay to the point where many no longer were habitable.

bama voted in 2006 against a bill that extends, through 2010, the cuts in capital gains and dividends tax rates enacted by Congress in 2003.He complained that the bill would “give the wealthiest one-tenth of one percent of all Americans a tax cut that is more than four thousand times larger than most middle-class Americans will get.

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., was the most liberal senator in 2007, according to National Journal's 27th annual vote ratings. The insurgent presidential candidate shifted further to the left last year in the run-up to the primaries, after ranking as the 16th- and 10th-most-liberal during his first two years in the Senate.

Anthony R, Obama excused the whole buying a house along with Rezko's wife as a "boneheaded idea" and that he's going to make "mistakes". 

Anyone who claims to have a "good feeling" about Obama really needs to take a closer look at this guy.  Sure, he's good looking and can speak well.  He's good at making excuses and covering things up too.

Anthony, do you ever look things up? one of the "lame" bills was the Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act, a comprehensive ethics and lobbying reform bill, passed by a 96-2 vote. This bill was signed into law by the President in September 2007.

I am really not sure that you understand how the government works. The author of a bill can't control its fate or the possibility of Presedential veto. Take S.133, a bill that Barach Obama sponsored "A bill to promote the national security and stability of the economy of the United States by reducing the dependence of the United States on oil through the use of alternative fuels and new technology, and for other purposes.A bill to promote the national security and stability of the economy of the United States by reducing the dependence of the United States on oil through the use of alternative fuels and new technology, and for other purposes." You wouldn't consider that important? The bill has been referred to Senate committee. How would you suggest that Sen. Obama force Congress to pass that?

A complete list of bills sponsored by Senator Obama, which I believe to be on topic in terms of accomplishments, can be found at: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400629&tab=bills

This gutless wonder is going to have to deal with a nuclear Iran.