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Before being elected to the Illinois state Senate, Obama worked as a community organizer and a lawyer in Chicago.

In his memoir, Obama says being a community organizer taught him how to motivate the powerless and work the government to help them. His chief example is an effort to remove asbestos from Altgeld Gardens, an all-black public housing project on Chicago’s South Side.

But those who were involved in the effort say Obama played a minor role in working the problem and never accomplished his goal. “Was [Obama] involved in stuff? Absolutely,” says Robert Ginsburg, an activist who worked with Obama on the problem. “But there was stuff happening before him, and after him.”

After three years working as an organizer, Obama could say he helped obtain grants for a jobs program and got asbestos removed from some pipes in the project. But as the Los Angeles Times has noted, the “large-scale change that was needed at the 1,998-unit project was beyond his reach.” To this day, most of the asbestos remains in the apartments.

Fruitless though his efforts were, Obama devoted more than 100 pages to his experiences at Altgeld Gardens and surrounding areas. Michelle Obama has said his work as a community organizer helped him decide “how he would impact the world,” assisting people to improve their lives. Yet, in a revealing passage in his book, Obama wrote, “When classmates in college asked me just what it was that a community organizer did, I couldn’t answer them directly.”

Instead, he said, “I’d pronounce on the need for change. Change in the White House, where Reagan and his minions were carrying on their dirty deeds. Change in the congress, compliant and corrupt. Change in the mood of the country, manic and self-absorbed. Change won’t come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots.”

Thus, Obama admitted that he accomplished little but that he was able to cover that up with fancy talk about change.

After going to Harvard Law School, Obama returned to Chicago, where he briefly headed a voter registration drive and then became a lawyer. While Obama’s campaign has touted him as a civil rights lawyer, “Over the nine years that Obama’s law license was active in Illinois, he never handled a trial and mostly worked in teams of lawyers who drew up briefs and contracts in a variety of cases,” according to David Mendell’s “Obama: From Promise To Power.”

A review of the cases Obama worked on during his brief legal career “shows he played the strong, silent type in court, introducing himself and his client, then stepping aside to let other lawyers do the talking,” the Chicago Sun-Times has reported.

“A search of all the cases in Cook County Circuit Court in which Obama made an appearance since he graduated from Harvard in 1991 shows: zero,” the article said.

Instead, his practice was “confined mainly to federal court in Chicago, where he made formal appearances in only five district court cases and another five in cases before the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — a total of 10 cases in his legal career,” the paper said.

If Obama had virtually no impact as either a community organizer or as a lawyer, he was even more invisible in the state Senate and later in the U.S. Senate.

In both bodies, Obama had a reputation for voting “present,” thus avoiding controversial decisions that could be used against him later. In the U.S. Senate, he has missed more than one in five votes.

Only one of the measures Obama has sponsored as a U.S. senator was enacted: a bill to “promote relief, security, and democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo.”

Contrary to Obama’s portrayal of himself as a unifier, on every bipartisan effort in the Senate to forge compromises on tough issues, Obama has been missing in action.

In sum, it would be difficult to imagine a more mediocre record. Most candidates for dog catcher have contributed more to society. Yet with the help of adoring reporters, Obama has managed to parlay extraordinary speaking and political skills into a presidential campaign built on sand.

The idea that America might entrust its security and future to someone who has never demonstrated an ability to get anything of significance done is scary.

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If Obama can't salute the flag of my country. I won't except him as a president.

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Much is made of McCain's age. Has anyone brought up the fact that Obama smokes and both of his parents died at an early age. Plus Biden has had two brain aneurysms which could have killed him. If they both died while in office that would leave Nancy Pelosi as president.

I can't think of a better reason to vote for McCain & Palin.

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My dad abuses me and I can't stop it. I don't know what to do, I feel like I'm a victim. Whenever I tell my teachers at school what my dad does my mother keeps saying that its not true to them because she doesn't want me to be taken away from my family. I feel scared and uncomfortable when my dad is at home. Thinking of what he does to me makes me cringe. He hits me with belts and hangers, kicks me, and when he hits me, he basically hits me for no reasons or for something I did by an accident, If I drop a glass and brake it, He chases me and I run upto my room, lock my bedroom door so he can't get in to hit me because when he hits me he doesn't hit me once, he hits me like 10 times and leaves me with hand/belt and hanger marks, when I used lock my door to get away from him he broke down the door, now he took the lock off of my door and now I really don't know what to do. all he does is shout/scream at me, and he also smashes my stuff. he makes me feel ashamed of myself and that fact i have his surname makes me feel literally sick and ashamed of myself like I belong to him. I actually hate the word dad because of him. when I say my prayers and I hear the word father, I feel horrible. I just hate the word father or dad because of who my dad is. My mother is italian and my dad is irish, when people say i'm half irish because of him, I hate it, I don't want to hear it.. I hate it when people explain biologaly to me and tell me i'm half irish because of him, I don't want to be what he is, He makes me hate irish people, I don't know his family but apparently his family are all sexist and abusive. I even made a 10 page essay explaining how I am Italian because my mom is, thats how much I don't want to be half of what he is.. I can't explain what I'm saying but I WON'T accept his heritage as a part of me, I feel so upset when I read peoples biography like christina aguileras and they say she is half ecuadorean just because her dad is. I feel like I'm only my mothers because I look so much like her and nothing like my dad, I only want to be my mothers, I want to have nothing to do with my dad. My mother will not divorce him and I'm only 15 years old so I'm trapped for another few years. My dad has been abusing me for basically all of my life. My mom said even when I was 2 years old he used to hit me with belts for writing on the wall. my dad doesn't hit my brother, Only me. He has made me hate men and think there all the same. My dad doesn't work and his always home, all he does is sit down and watch soccer all day. If he goes out and I'm watching TV on the sofa, When he gets home he says to me get off the sofa now, and I have to do it straight away and go up to my room. and I'm so skinny because my mom doesn't even cook for me, she only cooks for my dad and brother. I have no friends and I can't trust anyone because of him. Do I have the right to feel like this about my dad? what should I do? all of this is true so I NEED serious answers before I commit suicide. I live in Los angeles if that helps by the way. Please give me some advice on what to do?

I think you should go to the police or child protective services. They take all complaints seriously. Good Luck

Please read all of this.. My dad abuses me and I can't stop it. I don't know what to do, I feel like I'm a victim. Whenever I tell my teachers at school what my dad does my mother keeps saying that its not true to them because she doesn't want me to be taken away from my family and she thinks she will never see me again. I feel scared and uncomfortable when my dad is at home. Thinking of what he does to me makes me cringe. He hits me with belts and hangers, kicks me, and when he hits me, he basically hits me for no reasons or for something I did by an accident, If I drop a glass and brake it, He chases me and I run upto my room, lock my bedroom door so he can't get in to hit me because when he hits me he doesn't hit me once, he hits me like 10 times and leaves me with hand/belt and hanger marks, when I used lock my door to get away from him he broke down the door, now he took the lock off of my door and now I really don't know what to do. all he does is shout/scream at me, and he also smashes my stuff. he makes me feel ashamed of myself and that fact i have his surname makes me feel literally sick and ashamed of myself like I belong to him. I actually hate the word dad because of him. when I say my prayers and I hear the word father, I feel horrible. I just hate the word father or dad because of who my dad is. My mother is italian and my dad is irish, when people say i'm half irish because of him, I hate it, I don't want to hear it.. I hate it when people explain biologaly to me and tell me i'm half irish because of him, I don't want to be what he is, He makes me hate irish people, I don't know his family but apparently his family are all sexist and abusive. I even made a 10 page essay explaining how I am Italian because my mom is, thats how much I don't want to be half of what he is.. I can't explain what I'm saying but I WON'T accept his heritage as a part of me, I feel so upset when I read peoples biography like christina aguileras and they say she is half ecuadorean just because her dad is. I feel like I'm only my mothers because I look so much like her and nothing like my dad (Thank God!), I only want to be my mothers, I want to have nothing to do with my dad. My mother will not divorce him and I'm only 15 years old so I'm trapped for another few years. My dad has been abusing me for basically all of my life. My mom said even when I was 2 years old he used to hit me with belts for writing on the wall. my dad doesn't hit my brother, Only me. My dad also calls me names like C U N T, even we I was 7 years old he used to call me a C U N T, he blames everything on me. and his so scary and big. He has made me hate men and think there all the same. Sometimes I can't blame myself for not wanting to be part of his heritage, Why should I take pride in half his heritage when he didn't even have me? He does NOTHING for me but abuse me. On my 18th birthday, the minute I turn 18 the first thing I'm going to do is change my surname. The fact that I have his surname makes me HATE myself! My dad doesn't work and his always home, all he does is sit down and watch soccer all day. If he goes out and I'm watching TV on the sofa, When he gets home he says to me get off the sofa now, and I have to do it straight away and go up to my room. and I'm so skinny because my mom doesn't even cook for me because I'm a vegetarian, she only cooks for my dad and brother, I do cook for myself sometimes but I hate the way I cook, and plus I'm not worried about that because I've got used to not eating, I can actually go a whole week without eating now. I have no friends and I can't trust anyone because of him. Do I have the right to feel like this about my dad? what should I do? all of this is true so I NEED serious answers before I commit suicide. I live in Los angeles if that helps by the way. Please give me some advice on what to do? My mom won't do anything about it because she is scared of him.
thanks soo much everyone

Call the police or child protective services or the suicide hotline (to talk and for referrals to help).