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Politics : Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. President or Pretender?
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From: Nikole Wollerstein2/24/2008 9:33:38 PM
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red-meat liberalism, and Obama is ready to give it to them, as he's shown in vote after vote in his less than full term in the U.S. Senate. They certainly don't want hearings on who stuck what in Roger Clemens' tushie.

We commented recently on Obama doing something few thought possible — compiling a Senate voting record more liberal than Ted Kennedy's. National Journal's 2007 analysis of how senators aligned across the political spectrum showed the former Illinois state legislator eclipsing the patron saint of liberalism, going from the 16th-most-liberal senator in his first year in the Senate to the 10th-most-liberal in 2006 to the front of the line.

Clearly Obama saw the lay of the land and the direct route to the White House, or at least his party's presidential nomination. His campaign bus would be driven on the left side of the road all the way to Denver.

National Journal found that in 2007 he favored the liberal position on 65 of 66 key votes in which he voted, giving him a 95.5 score, the highest in the Senate.

On the issue of Iraq, he opposed the surge that has brought us victory. On March 15, he voted in favor of limiting debate on a proposal expressing the sense of Congress opposing President Bush's troop surge designed by Gen. David Petraeus.
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