More infoAnd among those that had been killed were his request in 2006 for $1 million for an expansion of the University of Chicago Medical Center, where Mr. Obama’s wife, Michelle, is a vice president.
Mr. Obama’s aides and officials at the hospital said Mr. Obama’s wife had had nothing to do with the request.
Senator Barack Obama on Thursday released a list of $740 million in earmarked spending requests that he had made over the last three years . . . . Mr. Obama’s presidential campaign also said that only about $220 million worth of his requests had been approved by Congress.
3/4 of a billion bucks, and "only" $220M approved? for the odds-on favorite to be the nominee of the party
in control of congress, he certainly doesn't seem to have much juice. he can give a speech like no politician
on the planet, but the more we learn about his effectiveness as a U.S. senator, the more we understand what
a raging mediocrity he is.