This is from an email forward I received...in Canada.
As your doctor starts to perform open heart surgery he tellsyou he has been doing this for 143 days. As your 747 plane pulls away from the terminal the pilot comes on the public address system and announces he has been flying for 143 days. Would you hire a lawyer to defend you 143 days out of law school? Interesting when it's put into perspective, isn't it?
Just think how great a professional of any kind you could be with only 143 days of experience! People want change so badly? . . . . maybe we should lower the experience requirement for doctors, lawyers, airline pilots, etc. This would
cause some change!
Obama's 143 Days of Senate Experience - Just how much Senate experience does Barack Obama have in terms of actual work days? Not much. From the time Barack Obama was sworn in as a United States Senator, to the time he announced he was forming a Presidential exploratory Committee, he logged 143 days of experience in the Senate. That's how many days the Senate was actually in session and working.
The one single Senate committee that he headed never even met once. After 143 days of work experience, Obama belie ved he was ready to be Commander In Chief, Leader of the Free World. I don't think so.
Our children spend more time in pre-school getting ready for kindergarten.
The Rebuttal:
Ridiculous. And I quote...
Fact check:
Senator Obama was sworn in to his first Senate term on January 2005 and joined the 109th Congress.
The Senate is not always in session and it can be argued that only counting session days as 'work days' is a misrepresentation of service done by any Senator.
During this 109th Congress, the Senate met 109 times during 2005 and 109 times during 2006 for a total of 218 days in session.
Senator Obama announced his intent to form a panel to explore a Presidential bid on January 16, 2007. The Senate had been in session for 7 days.
Total days in session during this time period equals 225 days
So even if the author was only counting days in session for Obama (and, conveniently, not McCain), the numbers do not add up.
It is doubtful this mysterious number was based on roll-call votes.
Sen. McCain only had four Senators miss more votes in the 109th Congress (2005-2006). Sen. McCain missed 58 votes but, to his credit, did cast 587 votes. Sen. Obama? He missed 11 votes and cast 634 votes. That's a lot of votes for someone who, as implied by the article, only worked for 143 days.
Further, DailyKos lists all of the bills he sponsored or co-sponsored and all of the amendments he introduced.
In a nut shell:
Senator Obama has sponsored or co-sponsored 570 bills in the 109th and 110th Congress.
Senator Obama has sponsored or co-sponsored 15 bills that have become LAW since he joined the Senate in 2005.
Senator Obama has also introduced amendments to 50 bills, of which 16 were adopted by the Senate.
His record is in fact quite impressive for a junior Senator from Illinois.
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