Topic: Election 2008
Obama and McCain - Their Voting Records May Surprise You The two leading Presidential candidates stand for nothing tangible while other candidates of conviction were castigated early in the process.by Chuck Angier
(libertarian)
Monday, August 18, 2008
Analysis of voting records on key issues reveals that our two leading Presidential candidates stand for nothing tangible while some other candidates of conviction were castigated early in the process.
The New American, (TNA), a publication of the John Birch Society, has compiled what it calls "The Freedom Index". The Freedom Index is a "scorecard" of voting records of all the members of the 110th House and Senate on 30 key issues. TNA has released The Freedom Index in 3 installments with the 3rd installment published in the July 21st edition of the magazine. I have chosen to use the 3rd installment of The Freedom Index as a base to compare the voting records of 6 former and/or current Presidential candidates.
IN THE SENATE - Votes on 10 controversial Senate bills for Senators Obama, McCain and Clinton are shown in the graphic below. The "yeas" and "nays" are self explanatory. "DNV" (did not vote) is in yellow, the universal color for cowardice. Out of 30 potential votes between them on 10 issues, they managed to "not vote" on 24 of them, or 80%!!! All three failed to vote when the Senate decided to blow $600 billion of someone else's money on the Foreclosure Prevention Act and the Farm Bill (combined). They also managed to not vote when the Senate subordinated our sovereignty to the Peruvians and when they considered a carbon cap and trade system that could cost us trillions, relegating us to 3rd world mediocrity. I guess it was politically safe for them to not vote on Head Start and SCHIP. Obama and Clinton voted to spend $2.64 trillion of someone else's money while borrowing (or creating out of thin air) at least $564 billion of it while also voting to continue the moratorium on offshore drilling. McCain must've thought that those votes weren't very important. After much talking for economic stimulus and against electronic eavesdropping, Obama and Clinton chose to play it safe and not show up.
Over in the House - we have 3 early contenders for the Republican nomination, Duncan Hunter from California, Tom Tancredo from Colorado and Ron Paul from Texas. Between them they missed only 5 votes out of 30, or about 17%. All three voted against SCHIP, the Economic Stimulus Package (also known as the Crash the Dollar Act), the "Target the Oil Companies" Act, and the Farm Bill. For some odd reason they all three felt that we have no business giving $50 billion of someone else's money to two-bit corrupt dictators in the name of AIDS and HIV prevention. They also voted against spending $68.5 million helping jurisdictions return to verifiable paper ballots (gimme a break!). Ron Paul was the only one of the three that voted against the budget (I understand he has never voted for an unbalanced budget). Hunter was the only one to vote FOR Head Start.
By the time the election is over, we will have spent close to half a billion dollars electing one of two candidates that obviously don't care about the issues that face us. They both have been going around the country promising fantasies that they don't have the authority to deliver all in the name of getting elected while 3 guys who have real convictions about what's best for America are benched. It should be obvious why THIS voter may not be pulling the lever for Obama or McCain!
Angier is self-employed in agri-business and can be reached at chuckangier@gmail.com
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We have these two candidates because the American people don't give a rat's patutti about the issues you mentioned. As far as I can tell the people fall into two camps:
Camp 1 wants free stuff from government.
Camp 2 cannot be happy unless we are at war with someone. It doesn't matter who or why, just so long as our military is kicking the crap out of somebody.
IMHO that is currently the sad state of affairs in American politics.
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