In response to his embarrassing performance on MSNBC last night, in which he could not recall a single legislative achievement by Sen. Barack Obama, Texas Sen. Kirk Watson explains that he didn’t expect to be asked those kinds of tough questions. “I expected to be asked about the primary that night, or the big one coming up in Texas on March 4, or just about anything else in the news,” the longtime Obama supporter writes. “When the subject changed so emphatically, I reached for information that millions of my fellow Obama supporters could recite by heart, and I couldn’t summon it.”

So, here they are, in Watson’s words, the Obama legislative achievements that the masses are apparently reciting:

** Senator Obama’s fight for universal children’s health care in Illinois.
** His success bringing Republicans and Democrats together (a huge selling point for me in general) on bills such as the one in Illinois requiring police interrogations and confessions to be videotaped.
** His leadership on ethics reform in Washington (the bill that lobbyists and special interests are complaining about right now has his name on it).
** His bill to make the federal budget far more transparent and accessible to Americans via the Internet – we could use that openness in Texas.
** And his vital work with Republicans to lock down nuclear weapons around the world.

And that’s all he wrote.

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