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It's interesting for Obama supporters to take the approach of 'I was campaigning and missed alot of the votes' when they are labeled the most liberal senator. Then they want to say that McCain voted with the president 95% of the time while he was doing the same thing. How hipocritical! The fact is that when McCain was not busy running for President he only voted with the president 67% of the time. Get the facts straight!

You seem to care sincerely about honest, fair judgment in regard to Obama. I am not sure from your article, however, whether this ranking was simply an analysis of voting in the senate during 2007 or whether anything else about those being ranked was taken into consideration.

It certainly would have been nice if you and the rest of the news media had been so conscientious in reporting and drawing conclusions about Hillary. Your self-rightious indignation about Hillary not immediately announcing Obama's victory Tuesday night when the super delegates had not cast their votes and there was no legal end to the race, certainly showed your prejudice.

Somehow the media doesn't realize that their strong bias against Hillary and tendency to treat Obama like a Pied Piper does not do him or the nation any good in the long run.

I love the idiot Clinton supporters here who attack Obama for missing votes while campaigning, even though the article said clearly that they had missed the same number of votes. How ignorant can you get?

Oh, and after all this was calculated, Hillary skipped out on an important FISA vote that Obama showed up for.

1. You Clintonistas waiting for Rezko to bite Obama get over it. If there were something to it besides the smoking mirrors the press and Billary are trying to present it would have been uncovered by now.

2. Obama stands for change and Billary does not. They stand for business as usual. How much more money are they going to sell their souls for?

3. I will NEVER vote for another Clinton, period. Obama can pick her if he wants to but I will stay home. I figure if we survived 8 years under the Shrub hell we might as well let them destroy the rest of the world and fulfill the Republican wingnuts prophecies.

3. Everybody keeps trying to find some dirt on Obama yet the dirt on Billy Bob keep on coming--the latest being the Kazakhstan mining deal. It will only continue.

4. Congress folks have been missing votes for years but no big deal. Now you want to make a big deal out of it get over it.

5. Headlines like these are designed to grab attention. It won't work.

If Obama truly wants to change this country he can start by spending more time in the Senate and run for Office when he is ready.

"You say po-tay-to and I say po-tah-to./You say to-may-to and I say to-mah-to./Po-tay-to,/Po-tah-to./ To-may-to,/To-mah-to." etc., etc.

Maybe what we should be asking Obama is why he felt he needed to miss this many votes in order to campaign. Hillary did not miss anywhere close to what he missed.

Obama is always pampered and promoted by the media in some way or other, I see no strength there. The media usually doesn't treat Hillary with favor, on the other hand.

Why are we not talking about Rezko. Let the truth out yhe American people has a right to know.

Their policies are very similar but the approach is different, that's why I am inclined to vote for Sen.Obama, besides the fact that he has really started a new political era in the USA, rallying Americans to work together towards a common cause and to be more politically involved, that can just be good for this country!

Jake, I posted a comment on the earlier post you did about this subject which pointed out the absurdity of the National Review...excuse me, National Journal "liberal" methodology. That comment was deleted. I posted it again, and it was deleted again. Why? There was no cursing in it, and no personal attack on you or anyone else. Yet, somehow, it got deleted, not once, but twice. A person would get to thinking that maybe Jake Tapper didn't really like to hear his reader' opinions. Say it ain't so, Jake. Tell me that you support the First Amendment and are interested in hearing other people's opinions, even if they aren't the same as yours.

'Cause, you know, it would just be too sad if ABC News was actually deleting comments from this blog simply because they didn't like what the commenter said. Just too, too sad.

I wonder why Nat. Journal would misrepresent voting records to rate Obama as much more liberal then Clinton right before super Tuesday. It could be they think this info may sway votes to Barack and they prefer to run against him in the general (or NOT) Kudos for giving blog space to Obama pushback.

I thought reporters were more awesome than bloggers because they were "accountable"? Your hit piece is quite the "hit" over at Drudge.

WE LOVE OBAMA IN NYC!
this is best pro-obama article i've read so far, "goodbye to all that" by andrew sullivan.

Just one novel observation on the Democratic debate: Senator Clinton made seven grammatical errors as opposed to only two for Senator Obama.

lol Max...
point taken.

don't let it get into your head.

anyway, if i recall correctly that comment really didn't belong in here.

-dc

Washingtonian, what comment are you talking about?

Max, why did you post that here?? why not post it under the blof entry that your comment is about?

sheesh.

Another person arrested in the Obama scandal. This is going to get good. The person is a Iraq-born billionaire Nadhmi Auchi with ties to REZKO and Obama

just wanted to reiterate my comment on your previous entry regarding the so-called survey:

According to CNN, the only 2 votes that Obama and Clinton differed on were 1) imposing "...a measure...to establish an Office of Public Integrity to handle ethics complaints (Clinton voted no, Obama yes)..."
and 2)"...a measure that sought to allow certain immigrants to stay in the united states while renewing their visas (again, Clinton voted no and Obama yes)".

-dc