This article does a run down of something I've been wondering for awhile: the claim of 20 years of public service does add up mathematically. Seven years as State Senator, mostly spent planning to be a US Senator, and now three years as a US Senator, mostly spent planning to be US President. So when has he actually done the job he was elected to do, and how does it add up to 20 years?
I like this summary the best:
Look at his record: he's now completed over half of a Senate term; yet, is there even one signature issue he has taken hold of, other than his own presidential run? Similarly, as the New York Times recently pointed out, Obama spent twelve years on the University of Chicago Law School faculty--singularly famous for its intellectual ferment and incubator of scholarship--and produced not even a single scholarly paper. He was President of Harvard Law Review, but wrote nothing himself. Even as a state legislator for seven years-or community organizer for three years, there is little that shows his imprint. OK, to be fair, he did write two books. About himself.
For all his glowing job titles, Obama has never gotten much done. Is it any wonder that his spokesmen respond with sweeping generalities when asked what Obama has actually accomplished relevant to the presidency?
There are also holes in his claim to being a "Constitutional Law Professor"...but that he was simply a lecturer at a Chicago area university.
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