So maybe he did have a legislative accomplishment. Well, almost.

An article in this week's "National Review" highlighted an important point about the inexperience of Obama. Come election day 2008, Barack Obama will have spent 59 of the previous 112 months campaigning for higher office. Essentially, Obama has spent more time asking American voters to give him a job upgrade than actually serving the public in office. It is evident that if Obama were elected president, he would launch his 2012 re-election campaign almost immediately. However, we have little to go on as to how he would actually govern. It appears Obama can run a campaign for public office, but once in office he has accomplished very little. He has no notable legislative accomplishments to speak of, but in the thick of the primary vs. Hillary Clinton, he aligned himself with fringe left-wing groups opposing a surveillance-reform bill intended to help the CIA and NSA. The bill actually obtained broad bi-partisan support in the Democrat dominated Congress, and Obama was in a small minority. Still, he stood strong, and promised to vote no or filibuster the surveillance-reform bill. But, after the final vote rolled around, it became politically expedient to just cave in and vote yes for the bill. One would like to believe Obama voted for the bill to strengthen the national security of the United States. Instead, Obama's goal of blocking the bill succumbed to the need to boost his presidential campaign.