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Please disregard all links within tables in this post (I didn't feel like stripping them from the original source). If a link in this post is good, I will so indicate. Otherwise disregard! A FReeper mailed me the text of the sex education bill that Obama was in favor of. The Bill is the 93rd General Assembly bill SB0099. It was introduced on 1/23/2003 by Sen. Carol Ronen. Its course of action through the Legislature is shown by the following: Actions  Date Chamber  Action   1/29/2003 Senate Filed with Secretary by Sen. Carol Ronen   1/29/2003 Senate First Reading   1/29/2003 Senate Referred...

In recent days, a consensus has developed among the Obama campaign and commentators in the press that John McCain has decided to lie his way to the White House. Exhibit A in this new consensus is McCain’s ad, released last week, claiming that Barack Obama’s “one accomplishment” in the field of education was “legislation to teach ‘comprehensive sex education’ to kindergartners.” Within moments of the ad’s appearance, the Obama campaign called it “shameful and downright perverse.” The legislation in question, a bill in the Illinois State Senate that was supported but not sponsored by Obama, was, according to Obama campaign...

When will Obama's born alive act come into play? I don't understand why basically no one has discussed this? Is John McCain afraid to run ads on this? I would think learning that Obama supported infanticide basically, would be a turn off to most Americans.

Suffolk University Poll Shows Ohioans Identify with Palin BOSTON, Sept 15, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- With just 51 days remaining in the 2008 Presidential campaign, the Republican ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin holds a 4-point lead in the key state of Ohio, according to a poll released today by Suffolk University. McCain-Palin led the Democratic ticket of Barack Obama-Joe Biden 46 percent to 42 percent. More respondents identify with Sarah Palin than with the other candidates. Asked which of the four candidates is "most like you," 31 percent said Palin, followed by Obama (22 percent), McCain (21...

In this year of historic firsts, it should surprise no one that political prognosticators predict Election Day turnout to exceed 60 percent of the voting age population for the first time in 40 years.  Americans have “change” on their minds.  But they’re getting decidedly different visions of it from two presidential candidates who stand diametrically opposed on almost every issue.  Despite the stakes, there remain some conservatives who see little reason to exercise that which Samuel Adams called one of the most solemn trusts in human society -- the right to vote.  So, with voter registration deadlines looming, let me...

Under Obama's plan, ... individuals will face a tax rate of 15.65 percent from payroll taxes and the top income-tax rate of 39.6 percent for a combined top rate of more than 56 percent on each additional dollar earned. Obama's plan would keep Social Security in the black for only three more years. Annual deficits would hit in 2020, instead of 2017, and by the 2030s the system would still run an annual deficit exceeding $150 billion.

It has been quiet for several months at the CLINTON POWER STATION, 45 miles northeast of Springfield. That could change with the November presidential election. Both Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama have consistently included nuclear power — along with coal, wind, solar and biofuels — in their promises to wean the country from dependence on foreign oil. There are variations, but the climate does appear to have changed, so to speak, when it comes to nuclear energy. It has been 3 1/2 years since about 300 people, mostly for but some against, attended a public hearing at Clinton...

Barack Obama’s Pakistan Connections Posted on September 1, 2008 Adil Najam Most Pakistanis seem to like Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic Party candidate for President. However, for most, Senator Obama’s “Pakistan Connections” were limited to (a) his rather strong words about Pakistan, including about sending troops into Pakistan, and (b) his choice of Senator Joeseph Biden, who has a long and deep interest in foreign affairs, including Pakistan. Most Pakistanis are not very fond of the first of these connections. The second connection they like, especially because Senator Biden has been the key architect of a new, very generous and...

Start reading at item 15 His paternal grandmother, half sister and half brother claim he was born in Kenya --and docs have been found that may support this, according to Berg's lawsuit. http://obamacrimes.com/attachments/016_Obama%20Complaint%20from%20Pacer.pdf

Breaking up is so hard to do. Judging from the Democratic Party platform, remarks from presidential nominee Barack Obama and his selection of anti-gun Sen. Joseph Biden as a running mate, the long, transparent courtship of gun owners by Democrats is over and instead of a goodbye kiss, there was a slap in the face; the political approximation of a domestic assault...... The party platform tries to patronize gun owners by claiming to “recognize that the right to bear arms is an important part of the American tradition, and we will preserve Americans’ continued Second Amendment right to own and...

This chart shows the key presidential election issues and Obama's positions on each. McCain's position on each issue is the exact opposite of Obama's.

9/11 is no longer a wedge issue that one side or the other can use as a political club. It has become part of our national story, awaiting perhaps a Scott Fitzgerald or Frank Capra to give the event a definitive place in our cultural treasure chest. September 11, 2001 belongs to all of us now in a way it didn’t just four short years ago. To dramatize that, John McCain and Barack Obama took a time out from campaigning on Thursday and visited Ground Zero in New York City. It was a simple gesture....

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) had some of his harshest words yet for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Friday, suggesting his colleague lacks the temperament and judgment to be president. Reid used time on the Senate floor to talk presidential politics, lumping the GOP nominee together with President Bush and drawing a clear distinction between them and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), the Democratic presidential nominee. “Our dangerous world calls for leaders with sound judgment, not those with a temperament prone to recklessness,” Reid said. “Our country deserves more than token shifts and lip service to change. We need to...

Michelle Obama has said an Obama Administration would "recognize" homosexual adoption rights http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2076458/posts . What does that mean? Aren't adoption laws set by the states? I don't think the Federal government should take over state perogatives and ban homosexual adoption, but what do you think of a Federal law saying that parents have the right in their wills to prohibit homosexuals from adopting their children after their death? The media won't question Obama about this. Conservative activists need to make it an issue. I am posting this now because a judge in Florida has overturned the state ban on homosexual...

If Barack Obama loses the presidential election, it may well be the result of a public perception that he is detached and elitist -- a politician whose expressions of empathy for hard-working Americans stem more from abstract solidarity than a real connection to the lives of millions of citizens. Suggestions that Sen. Obama has failed to relate to working- and middle-class voters in swing states have dogged his campaign for months. His choice of Sen. Joseph Biden as his running mate only marginally corrects the problem.~~snip~~ The "new politics" Democrats have found their new, improved Stevenson in Mr. Obama. In...

Many Democrats, including Joe Biden himself, are second-guessing Barack Obama's selection of Biden, but I have to wonder how many are having even greater misgivings about Obama leading the ticket. How quickly the political landscape can change. The dynamics of this presidential campaign have turned faster than a Jack Bauer torture target. But those praying that Palinmania is as ill-conceived and fleeting as Obamamessiahmania will be sorely disappointed. Building one's house on the rock of Sarah Palin is quite different from erecting it on the shifting sands of Barack Obama. As the Democratic primary season was winding down, discerning Democrats...

A poll released Thursday by the National Journal and Diageo gives McCain a 46 percent to 44 percent lead among 900 voters. That same poll showed 44 percent of the voters surveyed trust McCain on the economy compared with 43 percent for Obama. Rasmussen Reports shows the presidential race tied at 48 percent each, in its Thursday poll of 1,000 likely voters. Rasmussen's survey also shows 48 percent of voters trust McCain's economic policy compared with 45 percent for Obama. A Gallup tracking poll released Thursday gives McCain a 48 percent to 44 percent lead among 2,700 voters nationwide. That...

WASHINGTON, Sep 10, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Window Media LLC, the nation's largest gay publishing group announced today that the Washington Blade has landed an exclusive interview with Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama--offering the LGBT community an insider's look at the senator's positions on important issues, such as "Don't Ask Don't Tell," DOMA, ENDA, hate crimes legislation and comprehensive sex education in schools. The interview will appear in Friday's print edition and is already posted online at www.washblade.com, along with an exclusive interview with Obama's openly gay college mentor. "It's gratifying that a major party's presidential candidate is engaging...

The next president will not only have to confront the war on terror, but he will have a new/old battlefront in the East. The Russian bear has awoken. The new president will have to be able to persuade our old NATO allies to be the head of the spear on this new front. Which candidate is best for that job? The sparse record of Obama is extremely scary in this dangerous time....

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