Obama got called to the mat for voting "PRESENT"...

and well he should. Obama got exactly what he deserved. Obama is toast.:applause:

I can already see the commercials.

Somebody should tell him there's no "Present" vote as President on tough issues.

amazing all the whistling past the graveyard here.

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he allowed people to freeze in the buildings of his buddy -- and main financial contributor -- in his District and did nothing to correct it.

Link:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/353829,CST-NWS-rez23.article

from the article:

For more than five weeks during the brutal winter of 1997, tenants shivered without heat in a government-subsidized apartment building on Chicago's South Side.

It was just four years after the landlords -- Antoin "Tony'' Rezko and his partner Daniel Mahru -- had rehabbed the 31-unit building in Englewood with a loan from Chicago taxpayers.

It was just four years after the landlords -- Antoin "Tony'' Rezko and his partner Daniel Mahru -- had rehabbed the 31-unit building in Englewood with a loan from Chicago taxpayers.

Rezko and Mahru couldn't find money to get the heat back on. But their company, Rezmar Corp., did come up with $1,000 to give to the political campaign fund of Barack Obama, the newly elected state senator whose district included the unheated building.

with the blasting he's getting from Hillary and Edwards

It is truly pathetic that a politician is taken to the mat for present UNLESS they are diseases with it.

Obama was rattled...and I bet his comment comes back to haunt him.

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no idea

but will probably have to settle for one of them.

got you to greatest threads!

I only hope all this is in time to rescue Edwrads, the last chance the REAL Progressive arm of the Democratic Party has left.

If either Hillary or Obma wins, we all lose!

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/presidential.xpd

Clinton missed 143 of 2394 votes (6%) since Jan 23, 2001 (Average relative to peers).

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/presidential.xpd

did, because she already had a huge war chest. It's a fair criticism, but this is one of the potential reasons why.

The overwhelming bulk of his missed votes were in 2007, as were Hillary's.

care to specify how much and from whom?

I think.

:shrug:

I'd sooner vote for the candidate who missed every frigging vote over the one with the excellent attendance record who made the monumentally tragic and stupid mistake that one time when it really mattered. She could have done the right thing but she was more concerned about her political hide. At least John Edwards is big enough to admit he made a mistake, when is she going to?

"Hillary Clinton has missed 103 votes (23.3%) during the current Congress."

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/c001041/

why should I trust any of them?

I never have trusted a cop-out in my life.

performances last year....they didn't go into that yet huh.

since it's such a big deal to you and all, maybe you could educate us on that crucial stat. Thanks.

who gives a damn about local voting strategies and middle names? Fox News, GOP consultants, and DU apparently.

"Local voting strategies"??? What do you mean by that?

This present vote shit is more of the same.

:silly:

She got several and one of them called him Barack Hussein Obama over and over.

25 years before it held ANY signifance for American voters.

READ THIS BOOK:


Makes you want to say, "HMMMMmmmmmm??" All 300 of Bernstein's sources are lying! Liars to the left of me,liars to the right of me....stuck in the middle with Bill.

If they don't replay it so I can record it, I'm definitely going to download it. What a hoot! Like when Hillary gave that exasperated look at Edwards, when they were talking about how Barack won't accept responsibility for his votes, priceless! And I missed the first 25 minutes of it, wonder what I missed.

Voting "present" is a procedural matter to fix flawed legislation. An experience legislator would know that.

Of course, you do realize, you won't hear that from the "gnarling on a tiny bone" crowd....or is that,to be fair, the "grasping at straws" caucus.

Hillary is right. Obama never takes responsibility for his voting record. He, like Bush, also has the trait of not being able to admit a mistake.

Considering how Clinton and her supporters constantly dodge the IWR vote.

Are you working for your candidate anywhere? i.e. making calls, putting up yard signs,stuffing envelopes, ORGANIZING? Or just typing away today?

the fact that he missed K/L.