Voting "present"

What a JOKE. Obama was elected to the Illinois State Senate to MAKE DECISIONS, not just show up, sit in his chair, and vote "present." The PRESIDENT has to make decisions. he can't just say "I'm here."

Senator Obama, in the Illinois State Senate, voted "present" 130 times. Why? Because he valued his POLITICAL CAREER above the work he was elected to do. he didn't want to take a stand on controversial bills because then he would be attacked, no matter which way he voted. So he voted "present."

Yeah, that's what I call "ready to lead."

Read: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/feb/13/obamas-present-tension/

If you can't MAKE A DECISION 130 times in the State Senate, how can you be ready to be the President of the United States where you cannot be just "present" one time. You have to decide. Obama is a joke.

Are you a baby killer?

Well, no matter your position on ANY other issue, if you help to elect a man who you KNOW has voted FOUR TIMES AGAINST a bill in the Illinois State Senate that would provide health care to babies BORN ALIVE due to a botched abortion, then YOU have to live with yourself for that, and yes, YOU have blood on your hands.

How important IS anything else when you respect a woman's right to choose to the point that even after the baby has LEFT HER BODY, and is living, human being, with a SOUL . . . that you respect the MOTHER'S RIGHT to have the baby killed by just throwing a live human being in a dumpster to die? What kind of sick, twisted world do we live in that, although important, education, health care, the economy, etc . . . take a front seat to such PRIMAL ISSUES?

For information on the FACTS, go to http://www.citizenlink.org/content/A000007034.cfm

The site reads as follows:

On Jan. 10, 2005, newly elected U.S. Sen. Barack Obama visited former colleagues and staffers at the Illinois state Capitol, where he had served seven years as state senator. I happened to be at the Capitol that day, too, and a friend and I took the opportunity to speak to Obama, who had not yet achieved rock-star status and was still approachable.

We were in Springfield to lobby for passage of the state Born Alive Infant Protection Act, legislation that would require hospitals to care for infants who survive an abortion. Obama spoke against the legislation in 2001 and 2002 and single-handedly defeated it in committee in 2003.

My friend stood in Obama’s path and said, “Senator, we are going to pass Born Alive here in Illinois this year.”

Obama smiled smoothly and agreed, “I think you will,” adding, “I would have voted for the Born Alive Infant Protection Act in Illinois had it been worded the same as the federal bill. I think that’s the position the Democrats should take.”

There’s just one thing he forgot to mention: Obama had stopped his committee from adding the federal wording.

With Obama no longer in the state Senate, the Born Alive legislation passed in 2005.