Would you let someone with such little experience run the country?

Before being elected to the Illinois state Senate, Obama worked as a community organizer and a lawyer in Chicago.



In his memoir, Obama says being a community organizer taught him how to motivate the powerless and work the government to help them. His chief example is an effort to remove asbestos from Altgeld Gardens, an all-black public housing project on Chicago’s South Side.



But those who were involved in the effort say Obama played a minor role in working the problem and never accomplished his goal. “Was [Obama] involved in stuff? Absolutely,” says Robert Ginsburg, an activist who worked with Obama on the problem. “But there was stuff happening before him, and after him.”



After three years working as an organizer, Obama could say he helped obtain grants for a jobs program and got asbestos removed from some pipes in the project. But as the Los Angeles Times has noted, the “large-scale change that was needed at the 1,998-unit project was beyond his reach.” To this day, most of the asbestos remains in the apartments.



Fruitless though his efforts were, Obama devoted more than 100 pages to his experiences at Altgeld Gardens and surrounding areas. Michelle Obama has said his work as a community organizer helped him decide “how he would impact the world,” assisting people to improve their lives. Yet, in a revealing passage in his book, Obama wrote, “When classmates in college asked me just what it was that a community organizer did, I couldn’t answer them directly.”



Instead, he said, “I’d pronounce on the need for change. Change in the White House, where Reagan and his minions were carrying on their dirty deeds. Change in the congress, compliant and corrupt. Change in the mood of the country, manic and self-absorbed. Change won’t come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots.”



Thus, Obama admitted that he accomplished little but that he was able to cover that up with fancy talk about change.



After going to Harvard Law School, Obama returned to Chicago, where he briefly headed a voter registration drive and then became a lawyer. While Obama’s campaign has touted him as a civil rights lawyer, “Over the nine years that Obama’s law license was active in Illinois, he never handled a trial and mostly worked in teams of lawyers who drew up briefs and contracts in a variety of cases,” according to David Mendell’s “Obama: From Promise To Power.”



A review of the cases Obama worked on during his brief legal career “shows he played the strong, silent type in court, introducing himself and his client, then stepping aside to let other lawyers do the talking,” the Chicago Sun-Times has reported.



“A search of all the cases in Cook County Circuit Court in which Obama made an appearance since he graduated from Harvard in 1991 shows: zero,” the article said.



Instead, his practice was “confined mainly to federal court in Chicago, where he made formal appearances in only five district court cases and another five in cases before the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — a total of 10 cases in his legal career,” the paper said.



If Obama had virtually no impact as either a community organizer or as a lawyer, he was even more invisible in the state Senate and later in the U.S. Senate.



In both bodies, Obama had a reputation for voting “present,” thus avoiding controversial decisions that could be used against him later. In the U.S. Senate, he has missed more than one in five votes.



Only one of the measures Obama has sponsored as a U.S. senator was enacted: a bill to “promote relief, security, and democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo.”



Contrary to Obama’s portrayal of himself as a unifier, on every bipartisan effort in the Senate to forge compromises on tough issues, Obama has been missing in action.



In sum, it would be difficult to imagine a more mediocre record. Most candidates for dog catcher have contributed more to society. Yet with the help of adoring reporters, Obama has managed to parlay extraordinary speaking and political skills into a presidential campaign built on sand.



The idea that America might entrust its security and future to someone who has never demonstrated an ability to get anything of significance done is scary.



trueobamafacts.comWould you let someone with such little experience run the country?
If Obama can't salute the flag of my country. I won't except him as a president.



Tcw





To Itchi the Killer

Much is made of McCain's age. Has anyone brought up the fact that Obama smokes and both of his parents died at an early age. Plus Biden has had two brain aneurysms which could have killed him. If they both died while in office that would leave Nancy Pelosi as president.



I can't think of a better reason to vote for McCain %26amp; Palin.
Yes, I would.Would you let someone with such little experience run the country?
Thanks for the cut and pasted article.



To answer your question, yes, why would I want someone that is one foot in the grave running my country?
I disagree. Would you let someone with such little experience run the country?
No but I can't rig elections
NEVERRRRRRRRR!
Thank you. Too bad obama supporters don't want to know the truth.
I don't feel he has enough experience, so I'm not voting for him.

However I'm not voting for McCain either because he is old and in poor health and his replacement ~also~ lacks enough experience to tackle the position.



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Yes if he is different than that devil W. He has experience and we are on the verge of a depression. Ain't no way I'll fall in that hole with same game McCain.
So little experience... you mean like Palin has??

Yeah, I would definitely vote for Obama even if I had read that rambling load of crap.
ummmm....'trueobamafacts.com' is NOT a valid source. The website's slogan is "Showing that Barack is not all he is cracked up to be'....that would be biased....sure enough...the article you copy-pasted has zero sources for its claims.
inexperience is both a negative and a positive. on one hand, hes a new and fresh face that will supposedly bring "change". on the other hand inexperience could mean that he will not be a good enough president,just look at what bush admin did.
This is not a question it's a short novel.I will vote for McCain but not for any of your listed reasons
You are just trying to get other people to vote for the republicans. I would rather kill myself than vote for those lying cheating thieving scum bags.

Who is going to pay for all of GBs mistakes? You think we can take 4 more years of this? Start another war with Russia? Make the oil tycoons richer, and the bankers. And make the little guys pay the tax debt for it all.



You are a pipe dreamer. Vote Democratic, that is what our constitution is all about. Democracy not the rich, spoiled brats who get off scott free all the time. They all belong behind bars. I wish I could put them there.
lol...I thought this was about Palin! I'll take Obama anyday compared to the old dude and the pitbull!



I think it is funny, McCain wanted Lieberman for VP...but the party would not allow it so he picked Palin! Palin the mayor of the meth capitol of world and with a high rate of rapes. Palin charged the rape victim 12 hundred dollars for a rape kit. What kind of a woman does something like that? Palin is an extremist that claims foreign experience because she can see Russia from Alaska.



Thank goodness not all women in Alaska support Palin!



http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/525…



Is that really the best woman candidate that the Republicans can muster. Like the bridge...she was for it before she was against it...people are laughing at her and at the Republican party. I would be ashamed. She even lied about troopergate, she wanted it settled before the election. Now they are refusing to testify...the Republicans in Alaska are the majority! What is the issue other than she is guilty! Abuse of power...that is her problem. She is Bush and Cheney on steroids and McCain is a joke! He is the cause of the deregulation of the protections that FDR put in place after the stock market crash in 1929. These people are for the rich and the transfer of wealth out of this country and at the expense of the middle class.



And what about Palin's church that hired the minister to find the witch....lol...oh Palin was born 2 centuries too late!



Why is she against legislation that would protect the salmon from mining contamination? Why would she sue the federal government to take the Polar Bear off the endangered species list? Look how she kills wolves...from a helicopter, she is not a sportsman!






yes because absolutely no one is prepared to be President of the United States when they campaign for the office. Heck, the current occupant of the Oval Office won't be prepared even after his successor is sworn in.



How would I know? Because: I call bullshi.. when I see it



Because I've never been: responsible for the defense and well-being of three hundred million citizens; theoretically accountable to the subset of the afore mentioned citizens who actually bother to vote; pragmatically yet probably unethically accountable to the high-roller donors who bank-rolled my campaign for the office in the first place, and entrusted with the lives (and ultimately responsible for the deaths!) of all the members of the United States Armed Forces as Commander-in-Chief.



And neither have you, gentle reader, and for that matter, nor has anyone else who hasn't been President of the United States before they get into the White House.



So all this bullcrap about who's better prepared to be President based upon their experience as community organizer, senator, governor, or long-suffering spouse of the Philanderer-in-Chief, is exactly that: bullsh...




The founding fathers would disapprove of Obama and so do I



" you mean like Palin has"



Executive experience



Palin- 6 1/2 years





Obam- Not a single day