Posted by
OnceAlwaysaMarine on Saturday, September 06, 2008 1:25:06 PM
From the NY Times, Dec. 20,2007--
"In 1999, Barack Obama was faced with a difficult vote in the Ill. legislature-to support a bill that would let some juveniles be tried as adults, a position that risked drawing fire from [sic] African-Americans, or to oppose it, possibly undermining his image as a tough on crime moderate.
In the end, Mr. Obama chose neither to vote for nor against the bill. He voted "present," effectively sidestepping the issue, an option he invoked nearly 130 times as a state senator.
Sometimes the "present" votes were in line with instructions from Democrat leaders or because he objected to provisions in bills that he might otherwise support. At other times, Mr. Obama voted present on questions that had overwhelming bipartisan support. In at least a few of these cases, the issue was politically sensitive."
Mr. Obama's record in the Ill. Senate, or lack of one in the U.S. Senate, are strong indicators that the candidate who, in running for Commander-in-Chief of our country, in a time where strong leadership on important and controversial, politically sensitive issues demand clear and decisive leadership, points to not only his lack of experience and judgement, but more strikingly to his lack of the guts to take a leadership role on any issue.
Even now, he is constantly side-stepping and flip-flopping on every major issue he is confronted with in his presidential election bid. For months he has been trying to deny the success of the Surge; giving credit to anyone and anything that smacks of U.S. success in that region of the world; whether in Iraqi battlefield conditions or political reconciliation which is evidenced by the Democrat MSMs non-reporting on Iraq. (when it comes to MSM reports on our successes in Iraq, NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS, as bad news is all they feel obliged to report).
Throughout his adult life, inside and outside of politics, he has always and all situations, beeen NOTHING MORE than a follower:
He followed Frank Marshall Davis-a long time anti-America Communist Party member.
He followed William Ayres-a long-time anti-American terrorist & co-founder of the '60s & '70s Weatherman Underground terrorist bombing group.
He followed Rev. Jeremiah Wright-the "Black Liberation Theology anti-America racist pastor of Trinity United Church of Racial Hatred in Chicago.
He followed Minister Louis Farakhan in 1995 to his Million Man March in Washington D.C.- where in an interview with a reporter afterwards, Obama angrily stated that " [blacks] would "turn inward and towards Black Nationalism...." and "white Americans couldn't care less about the profound problems African-Americans are facing in this country."
He followed Antonin "Tony" Rezko- Chicago political-fixer, slumlord, and racketeer.
He followed Rashid Khalidi- PLO operative and funneler of money to radical Islamist in the Middle East & Gaza, and vocal opponent of Israel's existence now a "respected" Prof. at Columbia University. [responsible for inviting Ahmadamnjihad to speak at the university on his U.N. visit).
He followed Dick "Pol Pot" Durbin- the Ill. U.S. Senator who compared the actions of the U.S. military in Iraq to the death squads of the Pol Pot regime in '70s Cambodia.
Now he expects the American people to believe that he can LEAD us?
Who will Barack choose to follow next?
President Ahmadamnjihad of Iran?
If this puppet of Democrat machine politics, whose thin resume' only supports the notion of his complete lack of independent thinking or decision-making in every position he has held, cannot now even answer the simple question of when, in his opinion, life begins....saying the answer to THAT question is above his pay-grade?
Why should anyone but the ultra-radical and left-wing controllers of Democrat anti-family, pro-abortion, homosexual rights, and anti-U.S. military strength, such as Nancy "My job is to save the planet" Pelosi, Harry "The War is lost" Reid, Jack "The Treasonous Traitor" Murtha, and Dick "Pol Pot" Durbin, believe that we can expect him to fulfill his promises now that he will be the agent of CHANGE and HOPE he is now loudly proclaiming he is uniquely qualified to be?
For a President and Commander-in-Chief, it will not suffice for him to merely vote "present" in the War Rooms and secret briefing rooms of the Pentagon, NSA, and White House.
His record of his failure to take a firm stand on ANY issue upon which the leader of our nation will be singularly positioned to have to do, makes being the President and Commander-in-Chief of the United States of America way beyond Barack Hussein Obama's pay-grade.