thehill.com - 8/25/2008
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Sen. Barack Obama s short voting record in the upper chamber includes a number of controversial votes likely to surface in national GOP attack ads aimed at taking down the surging Democratic candidate. Republican researchers are poring over the Illinois Democrat s three-year Senate voting record, looking for fresh fodder to be used should Obama become the Democratic Party s nominee. Obama has ...
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Reuters: Who The Hell Is Obama?
Pirate's Cove —
... change the way business is done in Washington, and John McCain, who is just more of the same of what we have had over the course of the last eight years,” he said.
Barack is just as much a political insider as John McCain, just with less time. He knows how things are done, and works the system. If Barack wants to change the way Washington works, why did he vote for the Bridge To Nowhere multiple times, one of those votes being an attempt to shift the money from the bridge to a Katrina ravaged New Orleans?
If Barry ...
Reuters: Who The Hell Is Obama?
Stop The ACLU —
... being an attempt to shift the money from the bridge to a Katrina ravaged New Orleans? If Barry is so great, why won’t he talk in specifics? And, wouldn’t the attempt to link McCain to Bush be more of the old style politics, or, as Barry himself has said, “to distract people from talking about the real issues”?
THE CANDIDATE TO NOWHERE...
Dr. Sanity —
...voted for the "Bridge to Nowhere": ...Obama and 81 other senators opposed an amendment in 2005 to strike the infamous $231 million “Bridge to Nowhere” earmark for Alaska and redirect that funding to help with rebuilding New Orleans. The Senate rarely backs efforts to strike another member’s pet projects. Translation: Obama, for all his hype about 'hope and change' , is actually the poster boy for 'politics as usual.' Sarah Palin, however, killed the entire project: Some called it a ...
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