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- In the Senate Obama voted against partial birth abortion but the people accusing him of infanticide never mention that.
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Posted by realpatriot1 at 04:00 PM : Aug 22, 2008
Actually his vote was very clear...he is and has been FOR partial birth abortions! His not so charming gas bag wife held fund raisers for those lobbying for it at his events! - Reply to this comment
- What a pack of HORSE HOCKEY over his VP selection KRAP! Who the hell cares except the freaking media hypes in case they don''t know FIRST! And except Obscamma''s egotistical bull ***** drawing attention to his scam campaign!
Why doesn''t the little rock star just say I haven''t made the decision and I''ll let you know when I make it instead of all tis tittalizing KRAP! It''s just a a lame EGO TRIP! - Reply to this comment
- If you find reading facts about Obama''s record OF CHANGE...you should stop asking CHANGE.... questions.
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- CHANGE...
Obama can''t vote ''present'' when he''s president so he''s probably freaking out about that. "You mean I have to take a stand yes or no on something?? Can''t I just keep saying Change and everyone believe me?" - Reply to this comment
- And let''s not forget "The Keating 5." After all, if McCain hadn''t gotten greedier than the rest of his neocon republickher friends, he may have had a chnce at being president.
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- CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN ??????
AND MORE CHANGE ... - Reply to this comment
- CHANGE?
Totality of Bills written by Obama in the 110th congress that have passed...
Jun 26, 2007 S.Con.Res. 25: A concurrent resolution condemning the recent violent actions of the Government of Zimbabwe against peaceful opposition party activists and members of civil society.
Jul 13, 2007 S.Res. 268: A resolution designating July 12, 2007, as "National Summer Learning Day".
Passed Senate
Mar 28, 2007 S.Res. 133: A resolution celebrating the life of Bishop Gilbert Earl Patterson. - Reply to this comment
- vietnam21,
You folks can''t get it through your head why legislators voote present. It''s a means to bargian for changes to imperfect bills to make them better before they''re ultimately voted up or down.
His present vote wasn''t a vote for partial birth abortion but it was a vote for Roe vs. Wade.
In the Senate Obama voted against partial birth abortion but the people accusing him of infanticide never mention that. - Reply to this comment
- And more CHANGE...
6. In 2003, Obama announced he was running for the U.S. Senate, and Rezko -- a member of his campaign finance committee -- held a lavish fund-raiser June 27, 2003, at his Wilmette mansion.
7. A few months after Obama became a U.S. senator, he and Rezko''s wife, Rita, bought adjacent pieces of property from a doctor in Chicago''s Kenwood neighborhood -- a deal that has dogged Obama the last two years. The doctor sold the mansion to Obama for $1.65 million -- $300,000 below the asking price. Rezko''s wife paid full price -- $625,000 -- for the adjacent vacant lot. The deals closed in June 2005. Six months later, Obama paid Rezko''s wife $104,500 for a strip of her land, so he could have a bigger yard. At the time, it had been widely reported that Tony Rezko was under federal investigation. Questioned later about the timing of the Rezko deal, Obama called it "boneheaded" because people might think the Rezkos had done him a favor.
8. Eight months later -- in October 2006 -- Rezko was indicted on charges he solicited kickbacks from companies seeking state pension business under his friend Gov. Blagojevich. Federal prosecutors maintain that $10,000 from the alleged kickback scheme was donated to Obama''s run for the U.S. Senate. Obama has given the money to charity.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/watchdogs/757340,CST-NWS-watchdog24.article - Reply to this comment
- CHANGE?????
4. In 1995, Obama began campaigning for a seat in the Illinois Senate. Among his earliest supporters: Rezko. Two Rezko companies donated a total of $2,000. Obama was elected in 1996 -- representing a district that included 11 of Rezko''s 30 low-income housing projects.
5. Rezko''s low-income housing empire began crumbling in 2001, when his company stopped making mortgage payments on the old nursing home that had been converted into apartments. The state foreclosed on the building -- which was in Obama''s Illinois Senate district. - Reply to this comment
- CHANGE?
from the Chicago Sun-Times re: Rezko...
1. They met in 1990. Obama was a student at Harvard Law School and got an unsolicited job offer from Rezko, then a low-income housing developer in Chicago. Obama turned it down.
2. Obama took a job in 1993 with a small Chicago law firm, Davis Miner Barnhill, that represents developers -- primarily not-for-profit groups -- building low-income housing with government funds.
3. One of the firm''s not-for-profit clients -- the Woodlawn Preservation and Investment Corp., co-founded by Obama''s then-boss Allison Davis -- was partners with Rezko''s company in a 1995 deal to convert an abandoned nursing home at 61st and Drexel into low-income apartments. Altogether, Obama spent 32 hours on the project, according to the firm. Only five hours of that came after Rezko and WPIC became partners, the firm says. The rest of the future senator''s time was helping WPIC strike the deal with Rezko. Rezko''s company, Rezmar Corp., also partnered with the firm''s clients in four later deals -- none of which involved Obama, according to the firm. In each deal, Rezmar "made the decisions for the joint venture," says William Miceli, an attorney with the firm. - Reply to this comment
- MORE CHANGE.....???
CHANGE?
The now famous...
"You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing''s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it''s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren''t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." - Reply to this comment
- MORE CHANGE....
In 2001, Obama voted "present" on two parental notification abortion bills (HB 1900 and SB 562), and he voted "present" on a series of bills (SB 1093, 1094, 1095) that sought to protect a child if it survived a failed abortion. In his book, the Audacity of Hope, on page 132, Obama explained his problems with the "born alive" bills, specifically arguing that they would overturn Roe v. Wade. But he failed to mention that he only felt strongly enough to vote "present" on the bills instead of "no."
And finally in 2001, Obama voted "present" on SB 609, a bill prohibiting strip clubs and other adult establishments from being within 1,000 feet of schools, churches, and daycares."
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/02/the_everpresent_obama.html - Reply to this comment
- CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN...
CHANGE?
From realclearpolitics.com on his record of voting "present" in the Illinois Legislature...
"For example, in 1997, Obama voted "present" on two bills (HB 382 and SB 230) that would have prohibited a procedure often referred to as partial birth abortion. He also voted "present" on SB 71, which lowered the first offense of carrying a concealed weapon from a felony to a misdemeanor and raised the penalty of subsequent offenses.
In 1999, Obama voted "present" on SB 759, a bill that required mandatory adult prosecution for firing a gun on or near school grounds. The bill passed the state Senate 52-1. Also in 1999, Obama voted "present" on HB 854 that protected the privacy of ***-abuse victims by allowing petitions to have the trial records sealed. He was the only member to not support the bill. - Reply to this comment
- CHANGE?
From CNN...
In his first race for office, seeking a state Senate seat on Chicago''s gritty South Side in 1996, Obama effectively used election rules to eliminate his Democratic competition.
As a community organizer, he had helped register thousands of voters. But when it came time to run for office, he employed Chicago rules to invalidate the voting petition signatures of three of his challengers.
The move denied each of them, including incumbent Alice Palmer, a longtime Chicago activist, a place on the ballot. It cleared the way for Obama to run unopposed on the Democratic ticket in a heavily Democrat district.
"That was Chicago politics," said John Kass, a veteran Chicago Tribune columnist. "Knock out your opposition, challenge their petitions, destroy your enemy, right? It is how Barack Obama destroyed his enemies back in 1996 that conflicts with his message today. He may have gotten his start registering thousands of voters. But in that first race, he made sure voters had just one choice."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/29/obamas.first.campaign/ - Reply to this comment
- Obama is desperate and he will choose Hillary or he will lose. I personally hope that if he does ask her, she tells him thanks but no thanks. If he chooses Hillary he will come off as the biggest phony of all time, but he is desperate to win and his supporters will hang in there with him.
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Reflecting his character as a Kerry-like shallow, arrogant, platitude-spouting, inexperienced, elitist, narcissistic, flip-flopping gas-bag, hussein will likely pick a running mate who is so bland, unknown and undistinguished he won''t even have a shadow. That is the only way the empty-suit hussein won''t be upstaged by a VP with all those things he doesn''t have, like experience, competence, skill, good judgment, accomplishments, etc.
AMNESTY-JOHN, on the other hand, needs desperately to have a competent, experienced running mate who can take over the Presidency when the inevitable occurs. That makes Romney the best choice.
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