You said try this web address. But ya' didn't give me one. Unless you're talking about his election office address. I was just getting ready to crash and burn here. So I'm speaking before checking out the web site. So just on the surface of what I've heard him say. He sounds like a Marxist. I'm sorry but that's how he comes across to me. Remember I haven't checked out that website yet. I hope you realize that bringing up some body's record is not mud slinging or running a dirty campaign When old john edwards was in the running. He brought this point up on the voting record of obama in the senate. That he didn't do a lotta voting. He would say "Present" but rarely yea or nay. so there would be no trail. By the way, edwards got a real good applause on that line. Personally I think like bill clinton in '92 the so-called press is really giving him a pass. There's that and I also believe what he's got going for him is an awful lot of white folks on a very serious guilt trip. Dig it, some woman calls up a talk show in a tizzy cause she doesn't know who to vote for. hilary or obama. Her dilemma is one's a woman the other is black. Here's a lib that her only consideration is the sex of one and the skin color of the other. We know there are more people that are basing their vote on those two things. I really hope it ain't alot more. But a lotta white people are on a guilt trip for some reason. I understand his wife isn't running for anything. Thankfully. That woman sounds like she soaked up the reverend wrights sermons of the last 20 years. She sounds like she got a lot of hate and anger. He oughta keep her sidelined. Like I said he's a politician. Which means he ain't gonna be honest. Like when he was in Pennsylvania. He was pro second amendment. Once back in the liberal zones it;s "I'm all for getting the guns outta the hands of American citizens." I know as well as you he didn't come right out and say that. But I'd wager that's what he believes..

I'll get back to ya' later after visiting that web site. Get some more info...............

Sorry... did a copy and paste, and I guess it didn't take. I hadn't noticed.

Here you go...

http://www.barackobama.com/pd...

Again, I apologize for the lack of the link where I had intended to include it.

Don't worry. I actually appreciate the way you are acknowledging that such information may have been slanted for before being presented to you... or some of it possibly straight out false. I'll let you decide for yourself.

I do want to comment though on the "present" votes. Just like there are times in here when a person may vote "None of the Above" because it is the best representation of their position, sometimes in the senate neither a Yes or No vote will completely represent a person's stance on an issue. For example, if Barack Obama agreed with parts of something that was being voted on in the Illinois state senate, voting "Yes" on it would have potentially helped it go through as-is including the parts that he disagreed with. Voting "No" would have indicated that he disagreed with the concept of it or felt that it was so far off the mark as to be irreparable. By voting Present, he was voting for change... asking that modifications be considered rather than accepting the proposal as-is or rejecting it altogether. I'm not certain that each of the other candidates knows this, but it would surprise me if any of them didn't.

As for the press, look at some of the earlier coverage and you will see that they favored Hillary Clinton and John McCain from the start, but as time went on they first started to talk about Barack Obama as if he were a rock star type personality with too much popularity and no substance, but as they learned more about him the positions of even the strongest Hillary Clinton and John McCain supporters have shifted drastically toward Barack Obama because they have found that the substance is the REASON behind the popularity.

Anyway... I hope that link helps, and thanks for your patience.