Reply #50: get it straight!

[chill factor]

To begin with the 'present' votes were in the Illinois legislator - it is a standard vote by legislatures in the state if they want to re-think a bill or make changes in one; there are no 'present' votes in Congress.

113 bills were introduced by Sen. Obama in the 110th Congress. He introduced 153 in the 109th. Look it up http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/02/22/bills-obama-sponsored-in-the-senate/

He advocates a measured withdraw of troop from Iraq - withdrawing our troops is something that is going to happen over night! It takes 6 months to pull out one battalion! And if McCain is elected, it will never happen.

His health care stance is coverage for everyone who wants it - not mandated coverage with a fine if you do not pay the premium - many people in this country cannot pay health care premiums ask me, I am one of them.

Don't be so lazy! Do some research on Rev Wright. His sermons were not the soundbytes you heard on cable news that were played until one wanted to threw up. Rev Wright is an ex-marine with an exemplary service record and has been defended by Clinton's former pastor as well as many other people who have the greatest respect for the man. And Bloomberg's Albert R. Hunt: 'The perverse irony here is that whatever the Reverend Wright's failings, there is nothing - nothing - in Obama's adult life to even remotely link him to racially divisive sentiments. Quite the contrary. Talk to conservatives who attended Harvard Law School with him, like former Republican Party Chairman KEN MEHLMAN or current Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin; or Republicans in the Illinois state legislature, or U.S. senators; or look at his campaign staff. There is not a more inclusive politician in America.'

And if there was anything about Rezko that was so negative to Senator Obama, you had better believe the Clinton Camp would have dug it up by now. And watch this video...a Republican on the foreign relations committee who even recognized Obama during today's hearings -Sen. Voinevitch at Petraus hearing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsJkHebt4fc Voinevitch does a good job of illuminating the stupidity of the military surge with no comparable diplomatic surge.

Do some thinking before you do any posting.