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• Sunday, January 6, 2008 11:02 AM

  @ anonymous

  I posted obama's voting record as part of my response to you, if you read down that far, so I've been looking at it too. I'm wondering why you are posting as anonymous on this board if you're proud of your candidate?

  Also, why do you post Clinton's criticism of Obama without looking at my criticism of clinton? Which part of her record that she is standing on is she proud of? Only the part in which Bill was President? What has been her work in the Senate that she is proud of?

  I mentioned the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 as a measure Obama co-sponsored, and something that I think he built bipartisan support for and accomplished. Not bad for a junior Senator, and in a similar way he took on Special Interests, as Edwards pointed out in the debate, by his contributions toward an ethic's committee ban on Lobbyists purchasing politicians' lunches. Both Edwards and Obama were pointing out how corrupt this system is.

  So as for the Patriot Act, he did not sign the old version of the bill but he signed a new version in which he worked for the best compromises he could on the bill. Here is his statement about it.

  http://obama.senate.gov/speech/060216-floor_statement_2/

  Clinton was making a typical poltician's jab at Obama, because he could make a similar jab at her for "compromising." He did not, as she alleged, flip-flop, as much as he worked toward bipartisan support for something he wasn't/isn't completely happy with. Maybe the reason that Obama was shaking his head in the debate instead of answering her was that Clinton supported the Patriot Act herself, twice

  http://www.factcheck.org/article416.html

  both in it's original form, AND in it's new form. This is why you saw Edwards and Obama both wondering why Clinton had to mention the word change thirty five times and still people weren't really believing it. Running on her record is not enough...her record is broad and includes failures as well as successes. I ask again, where are Clinton's successes that convince us that she's the best leader?

  She's taking her party's nomination for granted, and I think a lot of voters are frustrated and want her to be more specific not only about what she's going to do, but how she's going to lead. That's what a President does on Day One in the white house.

  —doloresflower Read doloresflower's other letters
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