Jacobtm
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« on: January 12, 2008, 11:18:52 AM » |
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People tend to talk about Obama like all he's ever done was run for senate, then run for president. The claim is that Barack Obama has too little experience in government, and that being a good speaker doesn't mean you have the ability to work within the frame of a real-life government to enact change. Though, isn't Illinois a state commonly known for its rough partisan politics? As such, wouldn't 8 years in its state senate have given Obama a good deal of experience in dealing with that sort of thing?
People tend to think of state legislatures as some kind of insignificant joke on the national stage, but it's not as if being a legislature affecting the lives of some 12 million people is a job that allows you to sit around all day and eat free lunches.
It's possible he didn't do much in the Illinois Senate, I don't know his record, but it seems like 8 years dealing with state politics should be counted as something.
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