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Obviously, I thought you were talking about his votes in the U.S. Senate, since that's the page I linked to. So I was going by having not found a single "present" vote in his entire record.
Now that I've looked into it more, I see that he cast "present" votes while in the Illinois Senate. Apparently, this is what is done for the purpose of voting a "soft no;" for instance, as a way to state you're not entirely against a certain piece of legislation but feel there are maybe problems with a part or parts of the final bill. Obama's not the only person to have EVER done this, so criticizing him for it is rather silly. Yes, REPUBLICANS HAVE DONE IT TOO!!
The way you brought it up was in the way that you always post lately when it comes to politics -- tossing it out there like it's some sort of MAJOR FLAW in his character or as though he was doing something horribly wrong, and it's PROOF POSITIVE he isn't fit to be president.
If it was something that was brought up by the people he was running against for the Democratic nomination, I'm going to lean towards thinking they just thought it sounded good, that if they could cause people who don't know any better to think it's something horrible, why not? Fortunately, enough people know the difference between something they should consider an issue, and a campaign smear.
I guess 129 "present" votes sounds like an awful lot to you, but not really when you consider that while serving in the state senate, Obama voted on roughly 4,000 pieces of legislation. So those "present" votes account for less than 3% of his entire voting record. Big whoop.
And when I commented on you saying he didn't know what a community organizer was, I had just skimmed your post and thought you were stating that he was saying that in the present tense. I found the video of him saying a lot of people don't know what a community organizer is, even he didn't really know, entirely, before he became one. I'm sure it's just because it wasn't the official job description, but then he goes on to talk about what inspired him to get into working with the community (the civil rights movement.) Why is that something negative, to you?
And when I brought up you slamming liberals, I just meant that it seems that every single post I've read from you, lately, on anything to do with politics, that's all it is. But you're right. I "better check myself." As a matter of fact, I'll get on that right now.
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