Obama’s Voting Record–UnDemocratic
- Monday, June 9, 2008, 5:39
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I was going through Obama’s voting records earlier. Trying to see why anyone would vote for the jerk. Anyways, I turned up with several things that should urk anyone. It should come as no surprise that Obama has tap danced around the issues throughout his Senate career. Casting a Null Vote for such things as funding in Iraq. Ok, you claim you don’t support the war and you claim that you will not vote for funding in Iraq–but as far as I am concerned, voting NV on any bill is as good as a yes. A few other things cought my attention aswell. Obama voted yes to limitting the subsidies for farmers. This is horrible, how do you expect us to ever become energy independent if we aren’t growing enough corn. Corn prices will rise if it is grown as little as it is now. Ethanol will be obsolete due to rising costs. This is why we must subsidize our famers, and tell them that we need more corn grown. All over my state there is open fields perfect for growing corn, use them. We must subsidize our farmers in order for them to grow the required amount of corn for us to become energy independent. You cannot claim to be a Democrat and vote something like that down. In fact, McCain voted for the same bill. Guess what was even worse, I scrolled 20 votes down and came across a bill that subsidizes for alternative energies! Obvious flip flop is obvious. Geeze, this guy goes wherever the wind takes him to. Maybe you Obamabots should furthur look into the record of your fellow Senator, because this guy is going to be picked apart by the GOP.
Even the bills that Obama has voted properly for as a Democrat have had no chance of passing. So really, the only time he is voting for bills is when they will not pass. Why do we pay this guy again? I can sit around and say NV all day long too, can I be a Senator? The guy only passed one legislation so far in his entire career. The guy can call himself a Democrat all day long, but the guy just doesn’t align properly on voting record. I want a President who will actually be active in passing bills. We have an ever changing world, so we need ever changing bills.
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First, if a non-vote on Webb’s GI bill (with war funding attached) and a vote against a farm bill is the best you can come up with, Obama is in better shape than I thought.
Second, corn ethanol is already obsolete. It is an unsustainable fuel source. To replace all the gasoline people in the US use with corn ethanol, one would need a corn field larger than the land area of the entire US. It’s just not efficient to make ethanol from corn. If you can find a way to grow a whole bunch of sugar cane to turn into ethanol, then OK, but it’s time to kill corn ethanol.
Not only is it rising the price of corn since we’re using so much of it to make gas, but it’s raising the price of so many other crops since people have stopped growing them in favor of growing corn. It’s basic supply and demand.
And many things don’t have a chance of passing in the Senate as is due to GOP filibusters (and before that, GOP control of the Senate). I’m sure you can say much of the same for Senator Clinton.
First off, I was just giving a few examples–it would take hours to go through every bill. Second, Ethanol–Obsolete? Ethanol is one of the best things that ever happened to this country. Your whole “entire us worth of corn” is also wrong, ethanol has a large alcohol content.
Ethanol is a good idea, yes. Just ask Brazil.
And yes, ethanol has alcohol in it because it is alcohol.
However, corn is not the best crop to make ethanol from. We just use it because we have a lot of it, but it’s so inefficient to create ethanol from corn, that people are still debating whether you actually get more energy from the corn ethanol than you use to create it in the first place.
Instead, we should be moving towards either cellulosic ethanol or trying to find ways to create or import sugarcane ethanol (though the British are apparently also trying out ethanol made from Sugar Beets) or both.
Brazil uses about 1/3 of the crop acreage to create nearly as many gallons of ethanol the US does because they’re using a crop which can be more efficiently used to make it, and they get 8 to 10 times as much energy from it as it costs to make it, as compared to, at best estimates, about 1 1/2 times which corn yields.
And of course there is the deal with it leading to higher crop prices across the board as I noted earlier.
And just a note. I have no idea what Obama’s position is on this topic. He might have stated it, but I don’t know it off the top of my head. I’m just stating my own opinion here.
As for votes…yes, you’re going to find some votes you don’t like. You’re always going to find votes you don’t like. That’s the nature of politics.
However, if someone is going to slam someone else for a vote, it better be a good one or be a consistent and repeating pattern.
Like the war vote…why he didn’t vote, I don’t know, maybe if some of the people who complain about it bother to ask, someone in the campaign may answer it. Maybe it was a protest since he didn’t want to vote against the GI bill but didn’t want to vote for the funding, so chose to do neither.
In a sense, that’s politically smart since it insulates hims from “you’re for the GI bill? but you voted against it!” and “you’re against the war? but you voted to fund it!” Basically falling into the “I voted for it before I voted against it” crap Kerry was attacked for. However, he has voted against war funding in the past, so it doesn’t seem to be a consistent trend.
Picking a vote here and a vote there won’t cut it because you can do that for anyone (a big reason why Senators have found it difficult to be elected President). And even if you do find a few votes you don’t like…does that make it so you just can’t vote for Obama? That’s especially true if you plan on voting for McCain as the alternative.
People voted Green as a protest vote in 2000 and that got us Bush. While protest votes make people individually feel good, one has to look at the whole picture and what exactly the consequences will be if one does that.
Personally, I fail to see how voting for McCain is better than Obama, even if people are mad at him for one thing or another in regard to Clinton. And I guarantee that if you went through McCain’s votes like you do Obama’s, that you will really find stuff to make you shudder.