Obama: The only thing you need to know

[killbotfactory]

This is a great series of diary posts at DailyKos. I think anybody who is honestly concerned about his experience should give them a look.

This week I've been doing / will be doing a series of diaries entitled Obama: The Only Thing You Need to Know] (Yes, the irony is apparent). Two days ago, this started with the first diary on Barack Obama's time as a constitutional law senior lecturer at the University of Chicago, entitled http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/12/14/21433/589/757/422317">Obama: The Only Thing You Need to Know. It was so successful that yesterday I followed up with a diary on his time as a civil rights lawyer, entitled http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/12/15/113124/87/613/422461">Obama: The Only Thing You Need to Know, Part 2.

I know everyone is waiting for the diary on community organizing, but today I chose to focus on an area of Barack Obama's experience that often gets overlooked, and ironically may have helped Bill Clinton win the election in 1992. I'm of course talking about when Barack spearheaded Project Vote! on the eve of the 1992 election, with "George Bush gaining ground in Illinois" and "Carol Moseley Braun embroiled in allegations about her mother's Medicare liability".

A huge black turnout in November 1992 altered Chicago's electoral landscape—and raised a new political star: a 31-year-old lawyer named Barack Obama.

Source: Chicago Magazine, January 1993

It's worth noting that he accomplished this feat while writing his book: no small task. From what I've read, Michelle wanted to kill him for all the time he was spending working, but I guess that's just Barack Obama. When he puts his mind to something, he makes it happen, and makes it happen big.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/12/16/11305/823/252/422838

[MethuenProgressive]

1. Too bad he never put his mind on making votes once he got to the Senate.

A dead guy made more votes than Obama did.

[Cha]

7. Well then, too bad hillary

voted for bushit enabling for the last 5 years that resulted in so many "dead guys" and dead women.

[Beacool]

10. Yep!!!

All show and no substance. One of the state senators with most "presents" in his record and in the US senate, one of the senators with the poorest voting records (not counting the campaign months when they all have missed plenty of votes).

A leader needs to take a stance, whether he's right or not, and I don't see him doing so.

[Yuugal]

11. Maybe....

But I'll gladly take one of the "All show and no substance" candidates like Edwards or Gobama than a candidate who openly espouses views that are in direct conflict with my progressive hard-wiring such as Hillary.

[babylonsister]

2. Rec'd with thanks! nt

[Nimrod2005]

3. WOW! Obama is God!

[Bitwit1234]

4. Two things, he wanted to bomb Iran and he can't show up to vote.

[IndyOp]

5. Thanks for the thread kbf. I am rooting for Edwards, praying for Gore,

but I will work for the Obama campaign if he wins the primary.

[killbotfactory]

6. I'm firmly in Obama's camp

But I would welcome an Edwards presidency if he gets the nomination.

[Cha]

8. Then Kerry and Obama both helped

bill win back then and what did they get from the clintons? I mean beside knives in backs?

[oasis]

9. Paul Krugman "knows" about Obama's cobbled together health plan for America.

And "knows" it's a mess.

[Imagevision]

12. Obama, A Star Is Born? {for lack of better words}