Barack Obama repeatedly talks about bringing Republicans, Independents and Democrats together. While he can make a good speech about unity, is change really going to happen when Barack Obama has the most liberal voting record in the United States Senate according to the well-respected political magazine, National Journal?
http://time-blog.com/real_clear_politics/2008/01/national_journal_obama_most_li.html
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I don't get your point. What's the problem with a liberal voting record? Civil rights was a crazy liberal ideal up until very recently. So you want us to vote for Clinton or McCain because Barack is a steadfast liberal? Or do you want me to not support him because he mistakenly said that Mexico was overseas, and misconstrued the maytag case? It is a fact that we lost jobs to other countries during the Bush admin because it became more profitable to hire people in India and other developing countries. You could at least dig up some dirt on Resco instead of these weak attempts.
The point is Barack Obama is not running as a liberal. He repeatedly talks about governing across party lines and how Hillary is a devisive, partisan figure (She may well be, but Obama is clearly masking his true principles). I think it's fair to say that the majority of the Independents and Republicans who are voting for Barack Obama know little about Obama's views on issues and how he would govern as a President. That's the point of the blog. Before a citizen casts his/her vote, he/she needs to look past the stump speeches. The Barack Obama you see at the campaign rally is not the Barack Obama you'll find on Capitol Hill or in the White House.
With regard to Maytag, that company became the theme of his U.S. Senate race, not to mention his Iowa caucus campaign. Despite the closing in Galesburg, Maytag still had over 1,000 other employees in Illinois and continued to be a major employer in the state. Barack Obama wrote those employees off for political gain and look what happened...more lost jobs. And from my research, he never did anything to help. Maytag was a victim of globalization, not a bad corporate citizen. It was extremely inappropriate for a sitting U.S. Senator to twist the facts and single out a single company for political gain, especially when it was a struggling major employer in his state.
If a candidate is going to make such accusations, he should be able to back them up with facts and have a record of doing something to help. Speeches are not solutions.
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