I apologize for this tangent away from family into politics, but I just couldn't let this slide. Last night I was watching MSNBC's coverage when I saw Tweety Mathews corner a guy from Texas like so (the fun starts at 3:30 in the video) :

I was so annoyed I was basically yelling at the TV, "Tell him, dude. Tell him what Obama did. Just name one thing!" But then I thought to myself, "What a minute, I CAN'T NAME ONE THING." At 6:12 into the video Olbermann does a good job of putting Tweety back in his place, which felt good, however I was still without an answer on what Obama had done.

I have always based my support for Obama on the fact that he's inspirational enough to triple the youth vote and bring in independents, thus shellacking McCain in the general election and giving us a more successful chance of getting more congress critters in the house and senate. It was more a pragmatic decision than one based on who I thought was the more substantial candidate. So I never bothered to learn the details of what he actually did. So this morning I went back and looked on Daily Kos where they were also talking about last night. What I discovered was not only did he sponsor some legislation, he sponsored a metric tonage of legislation.

In Illinois, he sponsored over 800 bills.

On the federal level, in his short time, he passed a decent amount of legistlation, in a bi-partisan manner>. His first year in the U.S. Senate, he authored 152 bills and co-sponsored another 427. Mind you, not many passed with that idiot Republican and limpy Demcratic Senate in his way, but that's a lot of bills. The big ones are:

• the Coburn-Obama Government Transparency Act of 2006 (became law)
• The Lugar-Obama Nuclear Non-proliferation and Conventional Weapons Threat Reduction Act,(became law)
• The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, passed the Senate
• The 2007 Government Ethics Bill,(became law)
• The Protection Against Excessive Executive Compensation Bill,(In committee

More about his record can be found here, here, here, and here.

Finally, to learn details of his entire plan for the country should he become president you can go to his website. You can also download his Blueprint for Change here (WARNING: Large substantial 64 page PDF).

The Obama campaign better make sure all of his surrogates know his record from now on. The dude is substantial. Don't let the media bully America into thinking otherwise.