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[Tom Hansen]

g stated:

"Perhaps if you really wanted to be "part of the solution" you would 
refute the whole premise of the post by listing BHO's extensive 
qualifications for office."

Well, g.  I am glad you asked.  I have been collecting and maintaining a 
list of what I consider to be Senator Obama's accomplishments.

- 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 Ob 
More..ama 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.

Now, g.  Care to list John McCain's accomplishments?

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
 
"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college 
students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."

- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)


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