Barack Obama has put out a new ad touting his legislative achievements. A good thing it is one of those 30 second ads. Otherwise he would have to fill it with lies like he did his first.

Strangely, Obama has decided to come clean (almost) on this ad. He removed the reference to passing a law to extend health care to wounded veterans. You know, that LIE that he told on his first ad because Obama didn’t even vote for the legislation. Whoops!

Ironically the title of this new ad is Dignity. I suppose that Obama finally coming clean after blatantly lying in his first general election ad is considered being dignified by the Obama folk. I think it would have been more appropriately titled: Fessing Up.

So we get to the meat of this ad and lo and behold what do we learn? The troubling fact that of all of the legislative accomplishments he claims, not a single one of them has occurred since he became a US Senator. Get that? He hasn’t accomplished a single thing of note since becoming a US Senator.

Not. A. Single. Thing.

We suppose he has been too busy running for president to have actually accomplished something. Of course Obama probably considers all those speeches he is giving as legislative accomplishments. On the other hand, not accomplishing anything leaves one devoid of any record that can be criticized. It allows Obama to take every side of an issue. A politico du jour, so to speak. And he has definitely accomplished that.



***(I'm greeting everyone a happy 4th from our neighboring country up north....)

-- Modified on 7/3/2008 12:29:56 AM