Obama's Senate achievements

Following last night's Texas/Ohio showdown I don't even want to play too much Wednesday morning quarterback. The show just goes on. But more importantly, tonight I found tons of info about Obama's track record in the Senate. I've narrowed it all down to 10 must-reads, but of course most of these web pages link out to dozens and dozens more useful references. So whether you support Obama's presidential campaign or you dismiss it, it's in your interest to know your stuff before debating someone about him. Check it out...

10 informative links that examine Obama's Senate achievements:

1. OnTheIssues.org: Detailed voting record
Barack Obama

2. Charles Peters on washingtonpost.com: "Judge Him by His Laws"
An examination of bills championed by Barack Obama uncovers impressive evidence of his character and ability.

3. The Candid Blogger: "Experience? Hillary's Legislative Record Exposed"
Since entering the U.S. Senate, Senator Obama has written 890 bills and co-sponsored another 1096.

4. Helenann on Daily Kos: I found the BEEF - Obama's Senate Record"
Next time someone asks you 'where's the beef' in Senator Obama's Senate record, please feel free to send the link to this diary."

5. Grassroots Mom on Daily Kos: "I looked up Obama and looked up Clinton"
Clinton is a frequent co-sponsor on many of Obama's bills. So is Ted Kennedy. So are a number of Republicans.

6. Tom Curry on MSNBC.com: "What Obama's Senate votes reveal"
The list of 'yeas' and 'nays' offer some clues to an Obama presidency

7. Andrew Sullivan on TheAtlantic.com: "Dear Chris Matthews: Please Do Your Job"
fallout after Kirk Watson gets stumped

8. Obsidian Wings: "Barack Obama"
While Obama has not proposed his Cosmic Plan for World Peace, he has proposed a lot of interesting legislation on important but undercovered topics.

9. Wikipedia Wikipedia: Barack Obama
Although a newcomer to Washington, he recruited a team of established, high-level advisers devoted to broad themes that exceeded the usual requirements of an incoming first-term senator.

10. Barack Obama: United States Senator for Illinois
Press Releases

Medvedev... whatever

On Newsvine it looks like I got a little traction on an opinion bit that I whipped up Wednesday morning in response to Clinton's performance in Tuesday night's Ohio debate. I said "She prepared for the last debate by watching SNL, not learning how to pronounce the new Russian leader's name" and got 11 comments and 14 votes up. People began commenting right away and their activity went on till pretty late last night. Looks like most responses are in agreement with my point, which may or may not be a good thing. But then there was one outspoken dissenter in there (someone so supportive of Clinton's debate performance that they sounded as delusional as Saddam Hussein's old press spokesperson from early in the Iraq war... arrghh, what was that dude's name?!?), but the going majority pounced on that person. There's always a good time to be had in web forums, check out my Clinton Wasn't Ready piece and also check out the links I reference from Newsweek and TIME »»

UPDATE: His nickname was COMICAL ALI

Right Now: My story is prominent on Newsvine

I just published and it's Saturday evening so there's not a ton of activity on the site but I'm still going to bigup myself at the moment and take screenshots like a proud dad. Because I tagged my story with clinton and obama, the system is featuring them right up at the top of the sidebar. In the piece I raise the question: Could Hillary Clinton's campaign be starting to get donations from hardcore Republicans who actually need her to succeed?

I'm doing my best to not sound like a conspiracy theorist but it's a fair question when you read the whole piece. Rush Limbaugh is speaking about this subject and everything so check out the sceenshots below and my opinion piece on Newsvine: "Could The "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" Be Financing Hillary?"

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