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A close friend of mine recently sent me this op ed from the Washington Post about Barack Obama’s supposed appeal to some “Republicans”. Let me sum it up for you in one sentence:

Some Republicans like Obama because he is fighting the Clintons and speaks well despite be an inexperienced empty suit.

Ok, I added the empty suit part from this focus group that emphasized a feeling from Obama but couldn’t name a single example of him uniting or accomplishing anything.

The key quote from the article is exactly what I pointed out in my last post about him being the most liberal member of the senate:

“If Obama becomes the Democratic nominee and fails to take steps such as this, his liberal views will be his greatest vulnerability. Obama will try to reject the liberal label — but based on his stands on the issues, at least so far, the label will fit, and it will stick.“

Is he a uniter? No, he is the most liberal member of congress masquerading as a “hope for America” “bipartisan” uniter. If anyone is a true uniter with a record to back it up (though I don’t necessarily support him), it’s John McCain.

Obama has charisma. I will definitely give him that. He is probably the best campaigner out there. I can admire that but, let’s not fool ourselves into thinking he is a “moderate” or a “uniter”. He is the most partisan of politicians. Look at the latest ratings from the non partisan National Journal:

“Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., was the most liberal senator in 2007, according to National Journal’s 27th annual vote ratings.”
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“On foreign policy, for example, Obama’s liberal score of 92 and conservative score of 7 indicate that he was more liberal in that issue area than 92 percent of the senators and more conservative than 7 percent.”
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“Obama garnered perfect liberal scores in both the economic and social categories. His score in the foreign-policy category was nearly perfect liberal”

Obama is way ahead with my generation, the media and popular personas perpetuate this every day but, I think our generation will cheat ourselves and our posterity if we fall for Obama’s charisma while ignoring his extremist, harmful policies.

Given, this may not effect the average college students’ choice but, just remember that as we go to the polls, a vote for Obama is not a vote for some star powered moderate who will unite us all, it’s a vote for the most extreme liberal in the Senate.