Why support Obama?
Time has a pretty good answer to this question. The article lists various points:
- After graduation from college, he took a low-paying job working with families to improve public housing.
- He returned to school for a law degree, which he took to Illinois’ Project VOTE, which added hundreds of voting registrars, causing registration to jump 15% between the 1992 primary and general election.
- He then spent several years working as a civil rights attorney, and a constitutional law
attorneylecturer. - After running for the Illinois State Senate, he proposed hundreds of bills, most of which were spiked by the Republican leadership. One that passes was the Gift Ban Act, Illinois government’s first new ethics restriction since the Watergate days.
- He also helped set up the Kidcare program for children who didn’t qualify for Medicaid.
- He joined the State Senate in 1997 — four years before Senator Clinton entered elective office.
- In the US Senate, he teamed with Republican Richard Lugar on nuclear non-proliferation, and Republican Tom Coburn on oversight of federal spending in the wake of Katrina.
- And with John McCain on sharp cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
Note the text I bolded above: that’s pretty high on the list of why everyone should be supporting Obama after the past 7 years. (Edit: braino-ed on job, fixed)
Posted by Garrett on February 20th, 2008 in Election 2008, Politics | No Comments
