"Obama's record of turning words into action isn't zero. It's 820, and 427, and 152."

Did you HEAR what they were shouting? UPDATED w/transcripts

by Jsn
Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 01:17:17 PM PDT

Yesterday: a flood of Palin diaries. And yesterday evening was devoted to the gummy, edgeless verbal shufflings of McCain.

That's fine. But meanwhile, something else happened.

There's a new four-letter word. It starts with a Z.



See this kid? He has a batting record. It's an impressive one. Major league, by any standard.

The Republican convention was positively devoted to spreading the lie that it's zero.

Here's how the Los Angeles Times transcribed McCain's speech last night, with crowd responses included:


Did you get that? Not "my record is better," but "my record exists." Followed by a chorus of "Zero! Zero!".

Palin's words on Wednesday night hit the Big Lie even harder:


While you and I were gnashing our teeth and liveblogging to our hearts' content, millions of undecided voters were "learning" this about Obama. Since none of the telepundits seem to have bothered to indict that statement in the afterblather, many of those watching processed it as fact.

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The Republican strategy is, of course, to attack the opponent's strengths, not weaknesses. It's taking shape around the Big Lie that Palin mouthed: Obama's all talk, no action.

It's up to us to call bullshit.

Here are three numbers every Obama supporter needs to know by heart:

820 and 427 and 152

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820 is the number of laws Obama sponsored in the Illinois State Senate.



427 is the current count of the number of bills Obama has co-sponsored in the U.S. Senate.

And the final number, 152, is the most recent tally of the number of bills that Senator Obama has authored. You can see his current legislative record here. Three of them, including S. 3558 ("A bill to provide for enhanced food-borne illness surveillance and food safety capacity") were moved upon just last week.

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