I support representative government being representative of the people. Somebody who isn't from Illinois, has never lived in Illinois, and if they don't win probably never will be from Illinois, can't possibly represent the people of Illinois. If the Illinois GOP can't find a homegrown person to run then shame on them.
Then Obama should step down, if the race is only for the homegrown. He's from Hawaii, lived in Indonesia, and went to school in New York before settling down in Illinois to spend time campaigning for Clinton.
Perfectly said.
See below for some tax-hiking socialized-medicine anti-jobs and anti-school-choice bills that Obama-rama supported.
So he's more fit to represent you because he's been a Socialist in Springfield rather than a Conservative in America as a whole?
Isnt it clear that Keyes the Conservative is a better choice than Obama the Liberal?
"Obama voted for a bill during the 2003 Illinois General Assembly legislative session that raised a huge number of fees and taxes for businesses and licenses to cover day-to-day expenses of state government.
One increase alone drove nearly 17,000 trucking jobs out of the state, according to Mid-West Truckers Association estimates. Obama has remained unapologetic about that vote, which could lead a voter to suspect that Obama thinks money for government is more important than private-sector jobs.
Will you consider abandoning your teachers-union allies to permit parents in failing public schools to experiment with a school-choice program?
In 1997 and again in 1999, he voted as a state senator against an education tax credit for working families struggling to give their kids a parochial school education because public schools are so bad. These votes hurt kids but helped unions. Will a U.S. Sen. Obama continue to stick with the teachers union over schoolchildren every time?
Do you agree with Sen. John Kerry that the delivery of health care primarily through private industry is "shameful" and that the only system you will support is a government-mandated one, no matter how expensive?
During the 2003 legislative session in Springfield, Obama proposed a state plan similar to the one offered by former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and rejected by Congress in 1993. If the Illinois plan had been enacted it would have created an enforceable legal claim by anyone in the state to full, free medical care. Legislative budget analysts from Obama's own party calculated that the plan would cost between $2.6 billion and $4 billion. The cost would have nearly doubled the state's budget deficit at that time."
http://www.obamatruthsquad.com/docs/articles/fourquestions.html
When Davy Crockett moved to Texas to help them win independence, was he a carpetbagger? Should the Texicans have told him to go away?