Obama Watch: Barack on Business

Ok guys, enough talk about the primary.  It's time to move on to the general.

If Hillary wins, well, we all know the dirt.  Now if Barack wins...

Forgive me, but I'm just not one of those Republicans who is "freaking out" over Barack Obama.  I have heard him speak and yes, he is a great orator.  But I have also seen his record, and I am confident that once the voters see it, they will reject his far left agenda.  He is outside of the mainstream on almost every issue that is important to independent voters.

With that said, let us turn our attention to some of Barack's votes during his time in the Illinois State Senate; in a new segment we will call Obama Watch.  It's time to spread the knowledge.  Let's begin with Barack on Business.

During his time as a state senator Barack was no friend of business.  Let us look, for example, at four pieces of legislation authored by the good conservative State Senator Chris Lauzen, from Aurora. In 1999 the 91st Illinois State Senate was controlled by a Republican majority.  This is the time when Senator Obama famously began voting "present" as opposed to "yes/no" on controversial issues that could hurt his chance of unseating incumbent Democrat Congressman Bobby Rush, from the south side of Chicago.  His bid for Congress nonetheless failed, but that didn't keep him from voting "present" over four thousand times during the rest of his time in the State Senate.  Yea, you heard right. Four thousand times.

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