Who else is wise to the obvious over the Republicans voting for Obama in the...

[leonard bruce]

...Primary to un-seat Hillary? Republicans doing what Republicans do best......flip flopping, and corruption politics. Obama is even a little amaized by the efforts, but isn't fooled. The Republicans will vote for McCain, the 2nd Great Depression, and 100 years in Iraq.

What will the Republicans do next for America's amusement?

[The Thing]

It would be funny if true, but in actuality Republicans know beating Hillary will be easier than beating the 200 pounds of quivering Jell-o of ideas that is Barack Hussein Obama...

"What am I for? Change! And Hope! And hoping for Change! And Changing Hope! And Hopefully Getting Elected!" A lot harder to fight than Hillary's witchy whining...

[TexasTemptress]

You are correct.

Ralph Nader worries me. Is he the reason we had an ignorant fundie in the White House for 8 years?



Obama passed legislation with Republican Senator Jim Talent to give gas stations a tax credit for installing E85 ethanol refueling pumps. The tax credit covers 30 percent of the costs of switching one or more traditional petroleum pumps to E85, which is an 85 percent ethanol/15 percent gasoline blend.

-After a number of inmates on death row were found innocent, Senator Obama worked with law enforcement officials to require the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases.

-His first law was passed with Republican Tom Coburn, a measure to rebuild trust in government by allowing every American to go online and see how and where every dime of their tax dollars is spent.

-Obama created the Illinois Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income working families in 2000 and successfully sponsored a measure to make the credit permanent in 2003. The law offered about $105 million in tax relief over three years.

And...

-Obama joined forces with former U.S. Sen. Paul Simon (D-IL) to pass the toughest campaign finance law in Illinois history. The legislation banned the personal use of campaign money by Illinois legislators and banned gifts from lobbyists. Before the law was passed, one organization ranked Illinois worst among 50 states for its campaign finance regulations.

-As a member of the Veterans' Affairs Committee, Senator Obama has fought to help Illinois veterans get the disability pay they were promised, while working to prepare the VA for the return of the thousands of veterans who will need care after Iraq and Afghanistan.

-He traveled to Russia with Republican Dick Lugar to begin a new generation of non-proliferation efforts designed to find and secure deadly weapons around the world.

-Obama has been a leading advocate for protecting the right to vote, helping to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act and leading the opposition against discriminatory barriers to voting...

And...

- In the U.S. Senate, Obama introduced the STOP FRAUD Act to increase penalties for mortgage fraud and provide more protections for low-income homebuyers, well before the current subprime crisis began.

-Obama sponsored legislation to combat predatory payday loans, and he also was credited with lobbied the state to more closely regulate some of the most egregious predatory lending practices.

-Barack Obama introduced the Patriot Employer Act of 2007 to provide a tax credit to companies that maintain or increase the number of full-time workers in America relative to those outside the US; maintain their corporate headquarters in America; pay decent wages; prepare workers for retirement; provide health insurance; and support employees who serve in the military.

And...

-Obama worked to pass a number of laws in Illinois and Washington to improve the health of women. His accomplishments include creating a task force on cervical cancer, providing greater access to breast and cervical cancer screenings, and helping improve prenatal and premature birth services.

-Obama has introduced and helped pass bipartisan legislation to limit the abuse of no-bid federal contracts.

-Obama and Senator Feingold (D-WI) took on both parties and proposed ethics legislation that was described as the "gold standard" for reform. It was because of their leadership that ending subsidized corporate jet travel, mandating disclosure of lobbyists' bundling of contributions, and enacting strong new restrictions of lobbyist-sponsored trips became part of the final ethics bill that was signed into law.

[Sher]

Let's wait for California, Ohio and Texas.. that will give us a better picture... whether it's Hillary or Obama, either one will be a huge improvement over the miserable, lying and dangerous Bush administration. If McCain gets elected.... I don't even want to think about that! It just CAN'T happen! How much more can America take, and why don't the republicans see it?

[Phil M]

Well what do you know, Obama has won in closed and open states.....kinda shoots the wheels off your theory huh?

[Mr. Taco]

Obvious? Hardly.

What's to say that the Democrats didn't do the same thing? McCain? He's hated in his own party, and supports the war, thereby making him hated by everyone outside his party. I think your conspiracy theory is baseless.

[Christopher S]

Like Democrats have never done that. Isn't that how Bush beat McCain in 2000?

Leave it to Democrats try to limit the power of the vote when it suits them. An open primary means just that. If you think your vote better serves your interests when cast for Clinton, than McCain, then that is the way you should vote, no matter if that isn't who you want to win in the end.

Your real problem is that people you disagree with are still FREE to do as they wish. If she wins, I'm sure that will change soon enough.

[Becca]

Actually the coo is the other way around. Vote for Hillary so she gets the nomination for McCain can beat her easier than Obama. Obama has a big movement going on right now.

[Cubby]

Texas TEm
you forgot to add that OBama doesn't recognize the American Flag.
He turns his back on it!!!

[chinaman]

Go McCaine! Is that how you spell his name, I really don't know. I live in Canada where Limewire is legal, the dollar is equal, and everything you buy online is more expensive.