Senator Obama, do the right thing and resign your chairmanship.

Obama should resign his committee chairmanship as Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Subcommittee on European Affairs, since he has done nothing on this critical committee. We can’t afford a missing-in-action Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Subcommittee on European Affairs.

Obama is a sad joke. He uses his chairmanship as Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Subcommittee on European Affairs as a qualification for the presidency, yet he has done NOTHING as chairman. He hasn’t visitied Europe. He hasn’t held a single committee hearing.

But, wait, Obama has an excuse: “I didn’t have time to do my job, because I was running for president.”

Dec. 29, 2007

Doubts about Barack Obama's presidential credentials have crystallized during the past two weeks over his stewardship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Subcommittee on European Affairs, which has convened no policy hearings since he took over as its chairman last January. That startling fact, first uncovered by Steve Clemons, who blogs on the Washington Note, prompted acid comment in Europe about the Illinois senator's failure to visit the continent since assuming the committee post, and even speculation that he had never traveled there except for a short stopover in London.

But why should those questions matter to Americans who consider Senate hearings so much useless verbiage? And why does anyone care whether and where a would-be president has traveled, on official or personal visits?

Barack Obama's chairmanship of the Senate Subcommittee on European Affairs | Salon.com.