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Politics : President Barack Obama

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To: SiouxPal who wrote (24880)6/28/2008 10:34:03 AM
From: ChinuSFO  Read Replies (1) of 149317
 
Race To The White House: Obama’s Bipartisan Appeal
By: Nicole Belle on Thursday, June 19th, 2008 at 4:00 PM - PDT

The Bizarro-World of the punditocracy has the world so shifted askew that in their view, John McCain, who has voted with President Bush 95% of the time in 2007 and 100% of the time in 2008 is a bipartisan who reaches across the aisle and Barack Obama, who has only the 40th most liberal voting record, is a flaming liberal with no record of working on a bipartisan basis, despite co-sponsoring legislation with ultra-right wingers Tom Coburn and Dick Lugar. Catch that logic?

Stephen Hayes and Tony Blankley are foisting this incredible bit of specious syllogism, based on The Weekly Standard’s article naming Obama the most liberal Senator. Because we all know The Weekly Standard (founded by neo-con William Kristol) never makes things up, right? Rachel Maddow, once again casting pearls of wisdom before porcine truthiness, tries to set them straight:

....contd at crooksandliars.com
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