Seamaiden
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True enough, but honestly, that's quibbling. He voted in favor when he did have the opportunity to vote. In any event, let's try looking where his history is more established, in Illinois. Are you going to assert that he's actually clean?Obama wasn't in the Senate in 2001 when the original bill was passed. The only person to whose vote was opposed was Feingold.
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So, instead of voting absolutely according to conscience, he let himself be compromised, have I got that right? Why yes, yes I do!Obama supported the SAFE act as an alternative. He wanted to change the PATRIOT act and expressed that he recognized the dangers but ultimately ended up voting on a compromise bill. Obama knew that the bill would be passed and the best use of his time would be to lessen the danger of the bill. He did however vote to filibuster Bush's version of the bill.
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And, according to law, that vote should be recorded.Go ahead, write his name on a ballot one person will see before they throw it in a spoilt vote bin.
You are demonstrating a slight misunderstanding of ballots and voting. There is ALREADY a little box with a blank area next to it where you are, by law, allowed to WRITE IN your candidate of choice and check the pre-printed box next to it. The thing most folks who write in candidates either don't appreciate or don't care about is that the person already meets qualifications for the position and they tend to use that space to make "objection" votes. Those are wasted votes that will be noted before being tossed.By you drawing a little box on your ballot in November, ticking it and writing Ron Paul next to it is basically saying 'I don't care about the legitimate candidates' I'm going to vote for who I want to be president.