Humotropy

The Laws of Obama

Now this is an interesting article from the Washington Post.  Here I was, thinking that I had to vote for Obama because of his basketball-playing ability, his snobery and his inability to throw a strike down the lane (all of which I am pro-), when along comes Charles Peters who just changes my little world-view with this review of the laws that Obama has worked so hard to enact.

[1.] … The problem he wanted to address was that too many confessions, rather than being voluntary, were coerced — by beating the daylights out of the accused.

Obama proposed requiring that interrogations and confessions be videotaped…

[2.] … He played a major role in passing many other bills, including the state’s first earned-income tax credit to help the working poor…

…and…

[3.] … the first ethics and campaign finance law in 25 years (a law a Post story said made Illinois “one of the best in the nation on campaign finance disclosure”)…

[4.] … he co-authored the new lobbying reform law that, among its hard-to-sell provisions, requires lawmakers to disclose the names of lobbyists who “bundle” contributions for them ….

It’s a short list only because it is a short article, but it’s a good list.  Anti-torture, tax credits, ethics: I can get behind all that.