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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