international house: WHY oh WHY are so many saying Sen. Obama has never accomplished anything OR the other outragous claim that he has NO EXPERINCE!!!! LIARS....all LIARS!!! As to Accomplishments: FACTS: Sen Obama raised on his own, 3 gold fish. He also achived the Big-tigger badge in cub scouts at 11 years old. He has also scored 2300 points on donky-kong the video game. Sadly most people don't know this. EXPERIENCE: the REAL FACTS: Sen. Obama has "experinced" many thing in his life, including his forgien policy experience...he has recieved the 3 star award for eating over 1000 times at the "International House of Pancakes" THIS my friends is experience & accomplisments we can turn to in a time of crisis.|||Thanks for enlightening us...here's more. 1. He successfully cleared two tables at his church pot-luck last january. 2. He finally finished the "communist manifesto, by Karl Marx"...even though it was the taped version 3. He sliced and diced a watermelon all by his loneseome!!! 3 Stars for this feat!|||heres some more Obama passed legislation with Republican Senator Jim Talent to give gas stations a tax credit for installing E85 ethanol refueling pumps. The tax credit covers 30 percent of the costs of switching one or more traditional petroleum pumps to E85, which is an 85 percent ethanol/15 percent gasoline blend. -After a number of inmates on death row were found innocent, Senator Obama worked with law enforcement officials to require the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases. -His first law was passed with Republican Tom Coburn, a measure to rebuild trust in government by allowing every American to go online and see how and where every dime of their tax dollars is spent. -Obama created the Illinois Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income working families in 2000 and successfully sponsored a measure to make the credit permanent in 2003. The law offered about $105 million in tax relief over three years. -Obama joined forces with former U.S. Sen. Paul Simon (D-IL) to pass the toughest campaign finance law in Illinois history. The legislation banned the personal use of campaign money by Illinois legislators and banned gifts from lobbyists. Before the law was passed, one organization ranked Illinois worst among 50 states for its campaign finance regulations. -As a member of the Veterans' Affairs Committee, Senator Obama has fought to help Illinois veterans get the disability pay they were promised, while working to prepare the VA for the return of the thousands of veterans who will need care after Iraq and Afghanistan. -He traveled to Russia with Republican Dick Lugar to begin a new generation of non-proliferation efforts designed to find and secure deadly weapons around the world. -Obama has been a leading advocate for protecting the right to vote, helping to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act and leading the opposition against discriminatory barriers to voting. - In the U.S. Senate, Obama introduced the STOP FRAUD Act to increase penalties for mortgage fraud and provide more protections for low-income homebuyers, well before the current subprime crisis began. -Obama sponsored legislation to combat predatory payday loans, and he also was credited with lobbied the state to more closely regulate some of the most egregious predatory lending practices. -Barack Obama introduced the Patriot Employer Act of 2007 to provide a tax credit to companies that maintain or increase the number of full-time workers in America relative to those outside the US; maintain their corporate headquarters in America; pay decent wages; prepare workers for retirement; provide health insurance; and support employees who serve in the military. -Obama worked to pass a number of laws in Illinois and Washington to improve the health of women. His accomplishments include creating a task force on cervical cancer, providing greater access to breast and cervical cancer screenings, and helping improve prenatal and premature birth services. -Obama has introduced and helped pass bipartisan legislation to limit the abuse of no-bid federal contracts. -Obama and Senator Feingold (D-WI) took on both parties and proposed ethics legislation that was described as the "gold standard" for reform. It was because of their leadership that ending subsidized corporate jet travel, mandating disclosure of lobbyists' bundling of contributions, and enacting strong new restrictions of lobbyist-sponsored trips became part of the final ethics bill that was signed into law.|||http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/19鈥?/a> YOU GOT TO SEE THIS ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCE....|||Because haters hear & see what they want.|||He has as much experience as Rodham Clinton|||Lol, very good!|||obama has a lot of experience. just read johnathan's list. swoosh! 2 pts. next smear tactic...|||You have stated the facts very eloquently. Thank you for enlightening us.|||Yeah and they say how mccain (Old fart who will probably die one year after pres.) has alot of experience. Who really wants another Bush, and more war.. and than say aww i wish the troops were back. Haha.. so funny .. Republicans these days|||LMFAO!!!!|||I think the media has really decieved people from looking at the facts which are that Obama is not just an empty suit but he is a Senator from Illinois with one of the most effective records in his brief period of time in the Senate. In addition to Johnathan's specific list about Obama's accomplishments as a Senator, Obama has also sponsored change in his community and at the local level in Illinois (specifically Chicago). Both he and Senator Clinton are junior senators with good political experience. Obama is a firm candidate who stands a good chance at becoming president of the United States not solely on the fact that he inspires people but that his record proves that he can make change if elected President of the United States.|||Jonathon's list is the biggest bunch of RESUME PADDING possible - laughable in Washington. That's the kind of crap that everyone is talking about when they say that Obama has done NOTHING. --Anyone can "introduce" a bill - thousand of stupid bills never get passed. --Member of Congress all "travel" to foreign countries to "begin talks" - they are called "junkets" at taxpayer expense. --All politicians "fight for" legislation that the special interests that fund their campaigns want them to push through. --Obama was "assigned" to work on the Ethics bill by the Democratic leadership. They make new Senators without experience work on simple stuff so they learn the basics. Wake up! OBAMA is barely qualified to work FOR the President, much less BE the President.|||Because he HAS NONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HE HAS NEVER HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE GOVERNMENT!!!!!!!!!|||That's funny. It's because he's the youngest candidate and he actually has little to no experience.