What has Barack Obama Accomplished?

He blocked the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.

It's an accomplishment.

Not one to be proud of. But it is an accomplishment.

And he wrote a couple of books.

They're filled with deception, but they are books... and getting a book published is an accomplishment.

I'm sure there are others. I still won't vote for him.

Obama is not going through the intense vetting process which candidates

usually have experienced by this stage of a national campaign. Consciously

or not, the national media are neglecting to shine the spotlight on him when

it comes to blunders and mistakes.

His mistakes range from the laughable to the seriously critical.

This week during an 11-minute impromptu statement to the media, he stumbled

and said "uh." 144 times. When off the TelePrompTer, he clearly is not the

golden orator we have been sold.

Little was mentioned outside the blogs when Obama said that he has traveled

all 57 states. Dan Quayle must be envious.

When arguing that our military's Arabic translators are needed in

Afghanistan, he did not know that Afghans do not speak Arabic. George Bush

would have been crucified for such an error.

His campaign lied when asked if he was born a Muslim. The media took him at

his word and did not research enough to find out that Islam is patrilineal.

This example of cultural ignorance had the Israeli media buzzing.

Obama told a crowd that Iran does not "pose a serious threat to us" because

"tiny countries" having small defense budgets are not a threat to America.

The following day, after a little homework, he was correcting himself: "I've

made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave."

During his Senate race, Obama admitted using drugs beginning in high school

and into college. To many a left-wing journalist, use of marijuana and

cocaine are no big deal, so why should they bring attention to Obama's past

use? Allegations of later drug use have been ignored.

While overlooking Obama's cocaine usage, recent displays of lack of

knowledge and campaign mistakes, the media are committing a great disservice

to America. They are essentially abandoning their historical role as a

watchdog over government and politics.

The media do not want to recognize his problems. There is no pressing of

Obama as we have seen with Hillary Clinton over her Bosnia story or John

McCain over lobbyists in his campaign. Softball questions are the order of

the day when he meets with the media. They want him to succeed so badly they

are willing to accept his shortcomings and faults. However, most Americans

are not aware of this media bias and believe the information they are being

told is objective.

Bernard Goldberg, a correspondent at CBS News for 28 years, is author of,

"Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News." When the book

was released, he had trouble finding anyone from network television to

discuss the issue of media bias except the late Tim Russert, writes Goldberg

in The Wall Street Journal. Goldberg queried Russert later: "Why the

closed-mindedness when the subject comes around to media bias?" Russert

replied, "That, to me, is totally contrary to who we're supposed to be as

journalists."

"The Obama campaign is secure in the knowledge that the mainstream media

will not report any of this. Certainly they haven't so far," observed Robert

Knight of the Media Research Center. "They know that the media will not do

anything to embarrass liberal candidates. They cover for them all the time."

The media are acting like a group of friends saying "we've got you covered"

to another friend in need. Barack Hussein Obama is the "Golden Boy" of

America's liberal media elite -- and because of that, they have him covered.

I think Barcak has a brilliant mind and a guy like him comes along once in a lifetime. We are going to either use his great mind or we aren't. I live in Illinois and the people who have met him and know him say he is genuinely a great guy.

- He was elected the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.

- Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney before serving in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004

- He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.

- Obama delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004.

- He was elected to the Senate in November 2004 with 70% of the vote.

- As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, he helped create legislation to control conventional weapons and to promote greater public accountability in the use of federal funds.

- He also made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. During the 110th Congress, he helped create legislation regarding lobbying and electoral fraud, climate change, nuclear terrorism, and care for returned U.S. military personnel.

- The list goes on and on

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

Nothing in the Senate, In Chicago he made his buddies rich by stealing the money that was supposed to remodel low cost housing/got his wife a job at the local hospital that Paid 300 thousand a Years,This is a lot more than most surgeons make at same hospital.The man is a great con artist that will surely make Ripleys believe it or not.

He has manage to alienate a large number of people who originally thought he might make a good President.

His behaviors (the overseas jaunts especially), have caused me to rethink what he is.

He has accomplished about as much as you or i have but he has the abiltiy to turn our wrecked economy around and reduce te largest national debt known to man because of the Bush Adminastration.

Have you been a Senator too? Or is that not impressive enough? Or maybe you'd rather have an oil tycoon again, or a nut job who has no more experience with anything other than bombing people.

Sorry pal... Obama is the next president, dunce.

Good question....

He did get the citizens of Berlin to chant his name in a manner eerily similar to a Nazi rally.

If Obama won, we would take off the Statue of Liberty's torch and have her holding a sign that says "Abandon hope all ye who enter here"

He has given a multiple policy statements on a single issue

he has accomplished getting 37 million plus voters so far to support him.. Enough to be elected! What else you need to know??