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Re: the ridiculous charge that Obama allowed for rape-kits to be charged to the victim
Uh - brush up a little - Obama was part of the *minority* Democratic party when he was in the state legislature in Illinois. Since Obama wasn't governor but part of a larger collective Republican-controlled legislative body, that would mean - if your charges are true at all - that yep - the *Republicans* would be at fault for allowing such a situation to occur. The fact that Obama got the laws he pushed through at all in that type of partisan climate - things like mandatory videotaping of police in cop cars in order to diminish police brutality or infringement of citizen rights - actually speaks to his ability to get work done across the aisle.
You know what though? Guess who was *mayor* of the town that charged rape kits to the victim? Guess who hired the police chief who supported the charge of rape kits to the victim? If that's the kind of "executive experience" Palin has, then I'm sorry, thanks but no thanks.
