Posted on 01/17/2007 2:45:43 PM PST by IntelliQuark
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama may have a lot of explaining to do.
He voted against requiring medical care for aborted fetuses who survive. He supported allowing retired police officers to carry concealed weapons, but opposed allowing people to use banned handguns to defend against intruders in their homes. And the list of sensitive topics goes on.
With only a slim, two-year record in the U.S. Senate, Obama doesn't have many controversial congressional votes which political opponents can frame into attack ads. But his eight years as an Illinois state senator are sprinkled with potentially explosive land mines, such as his abortion and gun control votes.
Obama occasionally supported higher taxes, joining other Democrats in pushing to raise more than 300 taxes and fees on businesses in 2004 to help solve a budget deficit. The increases passed the (Illinois State) Senate 30-28.
He helped pass legislation overhauling Illinois' troubled capital punishment system and was a key figure in requiring a massive statewide study of traffic stops to look for signs of racial profiling.
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
Wow, that sure didn't take long, did it?
If Obama raped and tortured children, you'd only read about it here. The MSM is as good at burying facts as they are spreading them around.
Here's all any Conservative needs to know about Obama:
Special Interest Group Ratings:
Planned Parenthood - 100% Support
National Right To Life - 0% Support
NARAL - 100% Support
Americans for Tax Reform - 0% Support
ACLU - 83% Support
NEA - 100% Support
NOW Hags - 100% Support
Citizens Against Government Waste - 13% Support
Gun Owners of America - 0% Support
NRA - "F" Rating
Federation for American Immigration Reform - 0% Support
US Border Patrol - 8% Support
Unions - 82% - 100% Support
Population Connection - 100% Support (These are the 'Zero Growth' freaks)
http://vote-smart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=BS030017
[Obama's record in the Illinois senate:]
- Opposed the Defense of Marriage Act; would work to repeal it in the U.S. Senate; would not vote for any legislation that would restrict the ability of gays and lesbians to marry.
- Opposed the Born Alive Infant Protection Act four times in Illinois. A similar bill passed the U.S. Senate 98-0. The Born Alive bill would have prohibited a baby from being born alive but left to die according to the mother's wishes. Obama inexplicably opposed this bill not once, twice, or three times, but four times.
- Obama took almost $90,000 in bundled contributions from the Council for a Livable World. The council is a well-known anti-defense organization.
- Obama puts rigid ideology before what's best for the people of Illinois, and presumably he would do that as President as well. He has on several occasions made public his opposition to the NAFTA trade agreement and his belief that it must be negotiated. All the while thanks to NAFTA, Illinois exports $1.3 billion in agricultural goods to Canada.
- Obama refused to vote for a bill in the Illinois State Senate that would have increased penalties for drug traffickers.
- Obama voted against a bill that would have delivered the death penalty to gang members who murder first responders.
- Finally, just in case you thought it couldn't get any worse, Obama was the only member of the Illinois State Senate to vote against a bill that prohibited early release for sexual predators.
MSM are masters of CENSORSHIP BY OMISSION
A flash in the pan....!
not even the dumocrats are crazy enough to nominate a guy that has not even run anything but his mouth. It is the beast all the way.
Note, however, that this is the leftist Kansas City [Red] Star, so they are beginning to put this stuff out there. He cannot be allowed to outshine Queen Hillary.
He ain't gonna get elected.
His record will not stand, period.
Imagine, if you will, the so-called "good ole boys", not only in the south, but those all over the US, actually seriously contemplating a vote for a socialist, progressive liberal, semi-black man with a muslim name and father.
Does anyone, anyone with a modicum of sense, think that he'll get any of that vote?
And that is just one of the many factors.
Think of the fundy Christians...and then consider his views on abortion...
Does anyone really think he'll get those votes?
And think of the ones that will seriously take a look at his background, his experience, his record, his ideals.
The truth will out.
Barack Hussein Obama will not be elected POTUS...at least not this time around.
It's true that having Obama and Hillary on opposing sides really puts the MSM in the middle-maybe they'll try something totally radical, like objectivity.
According to Islam, his father was a Muslim so he is automatically considered one as well. Does he still consider himself one, and if not, has he publicly renounced Islam and it's tenets?
If not, there is grave doubt he can be trusted for Dogcatcher, much less as President or Vice President of the United States of America!
We can't expect the answer to those questions to be ferreted out by our treasonous media - or asked by a spineless GOP, for that matter. I have never heard an answer to them and I doubt anybody else has, either.
Just long enough to erase the Hillary name and out the door with the first press release pretending to be news.
Don't hold your breath. We don't want to lose you.
I expect all this stuff will get out in the MSM when the time is ripe.
Hillary orchestrated the destruction of Howard Dean in the media, especially the way they played that scream about 99 times in one day, and she'll handle Osama Obama the same way. He won't even know what hit him.
A lot of lightweight liberal nitwits have jumped on his bandwagon, but most of them will jump right off again when hillary cracks the whip.
Be Careful; Be VERY Careful, and he wants to run for the presidency of the USA.
Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. (black muslim) of Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya, and Ann Dunham of Wichita, Kansas (white atheist ). When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced,and his father returned to Kenya.
His mother married Lolo Soetoro -- a Muslim -- moving to Jakarta with Obama when he was six years old. Within six months he had learned to speak the Indonesian language. Obama spent "two years in a Muslim school, then two more in a Catholic school" in Jakarta.
Obama takes great care to conceal the fact that he is a Muslim. While admitting that he was once a Muslim, mitigating that damning information by saying that, for two years, he also attended a Catholic school.
Obama's father, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. was a radical Muslim who migrated from Kenya to Jakarta, Indonesia. He met Obama's mother, Ann Dunham-a, white atheist from Wichita, Kansas, -at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Obama, Sr. and Dunham divorced when Barack, Jr.was two. Obama's spinmeisters are now attempting to make it appear that Obama's introduction to Islam came from his father, and that influence was temporary at best.
In reality, the senior Obama returned to Kenya immediately following the divorce and never again had any direct influence over his son's education.
Dunham married another Muslim, Lolo Soetoro, who educated his stepson as a good Muslim by enrolling him in one of Jakarta's Wahabbi schools.
Wahabbism is the radical teaching that created the Muslim terrorists who are now waging Jihad on the industrialized world. Since it is politically expedient to be a Christian when you are seeking political office in the United States, Obama joined the United Church of Christ to help purge any notion that he is still a Muslim.
We just thought it was good for the American people to be aware of these facts.
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Obama will definitely get the 20-30% or so represented by the Moveon.org, DU, Daily Kos, Rolling Stone, academic "elite", and other anti-American groups, not to mention a large portion of the democrat party propaganda arm, otherwise known as the MSM.
I believe it behooves all Freepers to make sure, through letters to editors, and so forth, that folks understand just who Obama is, in terms of his fairy tale background (father a goat herd, poor, Christian...) that has been made up by the MSM out of whole cloth. Of course, we may not have to do this as I believe the Clintons likely already have oppo research in the can and ready to go against the erstwhile "black man". Unless, of course, this entire situation has been crafted by the Clinton cabal to set the stage for Her Royal Highness to hook up with Obama as the VP part of the "Dream Ticket" (mega barf alert...).
a 100 percent rating from the Illinois Planned Parenthood Council for his support of abortion rights...
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Please, when going after Obama, use material like this -- stuff which reflects his actual behavior as a very objectionable policymaker -- and not fluff like what his father named him or accusations that he's a Muslim.
One set of criticisms turns people off Obama; the other turns them off us.
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