Can anyone name 3 Obama accomplishments?

Question

The last person who asked this question completely ignored the answers that were given so I thought I would try it again.

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Answer 1

Yes.  This has been asked at least 100 times...

Answer 2

. Graduted from Columbia University in 1983 with a B.A in political science and a minor in international relations.

2. In 1985 he moved back to Chicago and became a community organizer where he set up job training program, college preparatory programs, increased annual budget from 70,000 to 400,000 etc.

3. In 1988 he enter Harvard Law School where he was named the first black president and graducated in 1991 with a law degree.

4. He then traveled to Bali where he wrote his first book titled " Dreams of my father" published in 1995.

5. Obama taught Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago Law School for 12 years

6. He was a State legislator from (1997-2004) where he reformed ethics and healthcare laws, he introduced a law that gave tax credits to poor and middle class citizens, welfare reform, supported payday loan regulations, he helped mortage lending in order to decrease foreclosures, passed a legistration for racial profiling, Obama became chairman of the Illinois Senate's Health and Human Services Committee, had death pentaly reforms.

7. In 2005 he became a U.S. Senator where he voted in favor for the energy act, immirgation act, federal spending act, introduced Iraq war act, Authorization Act, Iran Sanctions Enabling Act, State childeren's insurance health program.

8. He's committees =Obama held assignments on the Senate Committees for Foreign Relations, Environment and Public Works and Veterans' Affairs through December 2006.[70] In January 2007, he left the Environment and Public Works committee and took additional assignments with Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.[71] He also became Chairman of the Senate's subcommittee on European Affairs.[72] As a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Obama has made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa.[73][74][75][76]

9. He's going to restore the country. He is going to increase teacher's pay, make healthcare more afforadle, less drilling, improve unemployment, bring more jobs to america, lower tution, tax cuts for middle and lower class, start pulling troops, restore all our allies etc.

Answer 3

Community Organizer, Hack Law Professor, and 144 days in the senate.

Answer 4

1.) As a community organizer (at 23 yrs old out of undergrad), he built a faith based organization that he led consisting of three people and with a budget of $10,000 to grow to 13 people and a budget of $400,000.  

When McCain was 23, he crashed his aircraft into a river and a crane had to lift him out b/c he could not find the eject button.  (read his book)

2.  Created a program that cut unemployment throughout large historically blighted areas of Chicago.

3.  Helped pass legislation to increase security for the weapons that are brought into the country by freight.

History lesson for you:

When the founders of the country created this Republic, they strived for a system that was free of tyranny.  Thus, no one man would lead the country through great spans of time.  That's why there are elections.  It was thought that, a teacher, a blacksmith or even a community organizer could run for office if they felt that the voice of the people were not being heard.  Once they were done their public service, they would go back to their original profession.  It was never supposed to be that an elected official could stay in power for decades and make a life long career out of it.

It was always thought that each person had their own views and if their views fell out of favor with the public, they would be voted out and replaced.  Now, many politicians stay in office for decades and just change their views to fit popular opinion.  That's why they say the system is broken.

Obama was able to defeat Hilary Clinton in the primaries b/c she was bought and paid for.  Most of her donors were large contributors (over $5,000 donations), while Obama obtained an unprecedented amount of smaller contributors.  Hilary was backed by special interests and Obama was backed by the people.  

People like Obama b/c like Palin he is not part of the belt way corruption.  He comes with fresh ideas and was not sent to the Navel Academy b/c of who his father was.  

Any Candidate can say anything to get elected and McCain has been cunning enough to say the right things for 26 years and get elected over and over again.  Now he's the candidate of change??

Answer 5

Years in State and US Senate

Senate Committees for Foreign Relations, Environment and Public Works and Veterans' Affairs. Chairman of the Senate's subcommittee on European Affairs. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, and more.

Sponsored over 800 bills to reform healthcare, ethics in washington, veterans benefits and more. Passed a bill that expanded healthcare to over 100,000 people in Illinois.. Passed a bill that set up community health centers to serve underserved populations. Passed a bill that provided the earned income tax credit to thousands of Illinois families. Passed a bill reforming the death penalty that had sent innocent people to death row. Passed a major ethics reform bill that banned excessive gifts from lobbysts. Co-sponsored a bill to mandate regular inspections of Veterans hospitals like Walter Reid.

he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.

Answer 6

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_Fun...

**The Lugar-Obama Nuclear Non-proliferation and Conventional Weapons Threat Reduction Act

Authored by U.S. Sens. d**k 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...

**The 2007 Government Ethics Bill

http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_17/new...

http://www.commonblog.com/story/2007/9/1...

** The “Democratic Republic of the Congo Relief, Security, and Democracy Promotion Act.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd...

** S116 - Summer Learning demonstration project to provide summer learning grants and encourage new teaching methods.

http://www.pasesetter.org/demonstrationP...

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

Answer 7

He found his brother George, but forgot to leave him a few dollars.

He beat up a wrinkled and scarred pants suit.

He beat Alan Keys for the Senate Seat. Ambassador Alan Keys was not from Illinois and only moved there for the election.

Answer 8

Not Being Bush, Not being McBush and not being a Republican.

That's good enough reason to vote for him for me.

Answer 9

Change, Change, and change! Ooops, you said accomplishments, not rhetorical quotes, my bad.

Answer 10

1.  He funded a slum

2.  Global Poverty Act sending $840 billion to Africa.

3.  Voted "present"

Answer 11

1. Hope.

2. Change.

3. Yes we can.

(Sarcasm of course. He really has no accomplishments.)

Answer 12

If I'm a dumbazz and answer "ugh ugh ugh"..

Do I get best answer?? hahaha

Answer 13

1. Harvard Law Grad.

2. Community Organizer

3. Has successfully managed his presidential campaign the last two years.

Answer 14

Gave hope to millions.

Planted the thought throughout the world that maybe the USA isn't a lost cause.

Made obscenly rich Republicans to start losing sleep at night.