“The media have uncritically applied to [Obama] the ‘reformer’ label because of his promises to change Washington.  It seems unimportant that he has done virtually nothing while in Washington to change it.” (Freddoso)

Washing Times reports, Records show McCain more bipartisan: “Since 2005, Mr. McCain has led as chief sponsor of 82 bills, on which he had 120 Democratic co-sponsors (220 total), for an average of 55%. He worked with Democrats on 50 of his bills, and of those, 37 times Democrats outnumber Republicans as co-sponsors.

Mr. Obama, meanwhile, sponsored 120 bills, of which Republicans co-sponsored just 26, and on only five bills did Republicans outnumber Democrats. Mr. Obama gained 522 total Democratic co-sponsors but only 75 Republicans, for an average of 13% of his co-sponsors.”

Fifteen earmark related bills have come before the Senate during Obama’s term.  He only voted on six of these, and voted against four of the reforms bills. 

After Katrina, Sen. Coburn twice proposed pulling earmarked money (for things like baseball stadiums and visitor’s centers) to shore up levees in N.O., Obama voted against redirecting these earmarks twice.  After the bridge collapse in MN, Coburn tried to redirect federal bike path earmarks to bridge maintenance.   Obama voted to keep the bike path earmarks safe. 

Taxpayers for Common Sense: Obama was the sole sponsor for earmarks totaling $10.7 million in fiscal 2008.  In 2007, Obama earmarked $1 million for U of Chicago Medical Center.  His wife is vice president of the center and received a pay raise ($121,910 to $316,962) the same year Obama was elected to the Senate.   When questioned about this earmark, Obama replied it was “probably something that we should have passed on to [IL Senator] Durbin.”  Suggesting that if his earmark could be seen as corrupt, the solution was to hide is by having a friend sponsor it.

One TV ad gives Obama credit for welfare reform in Illinois which, the ad proclaims, reduced the rolls by 80%. But there’s one problem - Obama opposed the 1996 welfare reform act at the time. The Illinois law, for which he takes credit, was merely the local implementing law the state was required to pass, and it did, almost unanimously.  (Real Clear Politics)

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