One thing about John McCain, you know what you get with him if you vote for or against him. But with Barack Hussein Obama you know absolutely nothing. He makes grandiose speeches about being a uniter, someone who would cross party lines to work together but in reality the man is anything but. He is the most partisan liberal in the Senate, as of 2007 that is.
The National Journal rates Senators on their voting records every year and numbers them according to those same voting results. From most liberal to most conservative. In Obama’s first year in the Senate he was rated the 16th most liberal. 2006 he was the 10th, and in 2007 he took the prize. The number one most liberal in the United States Senate.
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., was the most liberal senator in 2007, according to National Journal’s 27th annual vote ratings. The insurgent presidential candidate shifted further to the left last year in the run-up to the primaries, after ranking as the 16th- and 10th-most-liberal during his first two years in the Senate.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., the other front-runner in the Democratic presidential race, also shifted to the left last year. She ranked as the 16th-most-liberal senator in the 2007 ratings, a computer-assisted analysis that used 99 key Senate votes, selected by NJ reporters and editors, to place every senator on a liberal-to-conservative scale in each of three issue categories. In 2006, Clinton was the 32nd-most-liberal senator.
In their yearlong race for the Democratic presidential nomination, Obama and Clinton have had strikingly similar voting records. Of the 267 measures on which both senators cast votes in 2007, the two differed on only 10. “The policy differences between Clinton and Obama are so slight they are almost nonexistent to the average voter,” said Richard Lau, a Rutgers University political scientist.
I’m amazed the man actually showed up and voted instead of calling out “present” as he usually does.
The evidence points out to us all exactly the type of President he would be. Someone who would push his extreme leftist mentality at every turn and instead of working together to unify us all he would instead ensure that Washington stays as partisan as ever.
You can bet your ass that this topic will come up, and come up often, if he is the nominee we are fighting against.
Oh, and this topic may come up as well:
Last fall during a nationally televised presidential debate, Sen. Barack Obama hesitantly raised his hand and joined with most of his Democratic rivals to declare that he opposed decriminalizing marijuana.
But as a candidate for the U.S. Senate four years ago, Mr. Obama told Illinois college students that he supported eliminating criminal penalties for marijuana use or possession, according to a videotape of a little noticed debate that was obtained by The Washington Times.
“I think we need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws,” Mr. Obama told an audience during a debate at Northwestern University in 2004. “But I’m not somebody who believes in legalization of marijuana.”
Asked about the two different answers, Mr. Obama’s presidential campaign said he in fact has “always” supported decriminalizing marijuana as he answered in 2004, meaning the candidate mistakenly raised his hand during the presidential debate last fall.
That position leaves Mr. Obama as the lone presidential candidate among the four leading challengers in either party who supports eliminating criminal penalties for marijuana. Mr. Obama’s chief rival for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Hillary Clinton, opposes decriminalization, Clinton campaign spokesman Phil Singer said.
The drug user supports legalizing marijuana….shocker!
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And to think that some of the conservatives are going to let someone like this in the White House because they don;t like McCain or Romney. Pathetic. Why not just et the UN take over and get it over with.
How would Hill be any better. At least if Obama wins he won’t bring Bill’s and Hill’s machine into the White House again. There is not such thing as a uniter unless you don’t have an agenda.
To point out the difficulty of giving an answer to your question, imagine these hypothetical questions:
Iran has just managed to sink a US Aircraft Carrier in the Gulf. Do you have any basis to predict what Hil will do? What Obama will do?
China has just invaded Taiwan. Same thing.
Everything is fine, but it’s time to do some tax increases. What top marginal rate will Hil ask for? What will Obama ask for? What will the rate on dividends and capital gains be increased to?
The US force in Iraq has been drastically reduced. Al Maliki has just been…hm…relieved of his duties and Al Sadr is proclaimed the new Ayatollah of the entire country. He has give all Sunnis in Baghdad an ultimatum: leave in 24 hours or be killed. He has given the remaining Americans in the Green Zone, including the embassy 24 hours to leave without specifying the consequences. Same thing.
What exactly will either one do about Global Warming? Healthcare? Israel? Russia? Kenya? India?
Do you know anything about these people?
Speaking of Kenya, we know where Obama stands there.
Michael,
Maybe it’s just that I haven’t “read up” on all of these charges, but I really think it goes the route of smear and the conspiratorial.
Word,
It is difficult to keep up as ow the Dems have revealed their inner-party racism in the Primaries and the rhetoric they throw at each other. I was listening to a report today that Hillary’s people had a media conference call where someone accused Obama of NAZI like campaigning in his latest add.
I highly doubt Obama is a NAZI, but I do not know the man. I do know he is advocating destructive and bankrupting socialist policies, but with the superdelegates in the DNC running the show, I doubt he will see the nomination. Hillary MAY have him as her running mate, and the the media will forget everything said thus far about Obama.
Hillary may lose the hard core left vote to…. I do not know, but Code Pink/Breasts not Bombs crashed one of her campaign offices a few months back. This was before their darling, Kucinnich, dropped out. I wonder if they will still vote for Hillary. She will keep the main core of the DNC, but she runs with a huge negative feeling with the general electorate.