What's He Done? He's Done A Lot. Well, What Exactly Has He Done? He's Done A Lot. What Specifically Has He Done? He's Done A Lot. Like What? A Lot.

One of the few memorable highlights of a political convention are the interviews with the various advisers and advisor wannabes that want their faces on camera to help further the cause of the candidate they are backing or in the case of the Democrats, Barack Obama. However, I have yet to listen to one interviewee that can list one single major accomplishment for this guy. They ultimately all drift back to his days as a community organizer in Chicago, forgetting the fact that was an awfully long time ago and even then can't come up with anything extraordinary that he did while in that position. His day's in the Illinois house were basically lackluster and was basically chosen to run for the U.S. Senate by Illinois state Senator Emil Jones, more than likely because he didn't have any baggage that would catch up to him during the election process and if elected would owe his lofty position to the Illinois legislature and as such would shower them with favors, such is politics and especially Illinois politics. Also, he ran against the now infamous, in Illinois, Jack Ryan. A well bred, well educated investment banker turned high school teacher from one of Chicago's "North Shore" suburbs with a closet stuffed full of skeletons, so many that there was no way he could hide them from even the most inept media organization. As you can guess, Mr. Ryan, to keep the family secrets, secret, dropped out of the race and went into obscurity, where he should have been from the beginning and never allowed to enter a public race for office, but that's a whole nother blog for a whole nuther day. Then to fill the void the geniuses' in the Illinois Republican Party decided they needed a person of color to run against this young upstart so they brought in the veteran, but very unelectable, Alan Keys, who wasn't even from Illinois, who had no local appeal, who was viewed as basically a nut and was subsequently crushed in the election.

Mr. Obama then went to the U.S. Senate and in the last two years has done about the same as he did as a community organizer and in the Illinois Senate, nothing of any significance. Which brings me to the interview process and what Mr. Obama and company have accomplished and what his qualifications actually are. Now I know he is well educated, Columbia University, and managed to garner a Harvard law degree along the way and appears to have a nice family, which in this day and age is actually an accomplishment he should be blowing his horn about, although his fringe constituency might not like that. But what is the most distressing is that not one person interviewed can come up with one major accomplishment for this guy while in office. The best being the interview the other night with Sean Hanady interviewing Michael Dukakis, the Democratic candidate for the Presidency in 1988, who by the way was beaten handily by Bush I, which proves he was basically a dufus. And when asked directly by Mr. Hanady,what his guy had accomplished he kept repeating "He's done a lot".

Now I'm not the brightest guy in the world but even I don't buy the term "He's done a lot". Personally, I would like Mr. Dukakis and all of Mr. Obama's advisers, hangers on, friends, family, pastors, wife, kids, admirers, handlers, running mate, Illinois legislators and anyone else who wants to be part of this gravy train to give some specific accomplishments, authored legislation or anything else that shows this guy has done anything other than having been in the right place at the right time. It's starting to look like we have a real life Chance the gardener on our hands (reference the movie Being There, 1979 starring Peter Sellers).