Barack Obama did vote against such a bill in the Illinois Senate. He even voted against one particular version of the bill that contained the particular language that he said was required in order to safeguard a woman's right to abortion.
In the latter case, one can argue as to the exact meaning of the word "closely". However, we've already discussed "card check" and the fact that George McGovern thinks that it's a bad idea. Quite reasonably, one might say that's part of an extreme leftist agenda, because I don't think one can characterize McGovern as "not liberal".
So I must ask, how is this dirty campaigning? What you see here -- with the possible exception of raising Obama's ties to Ayers (and Obama raises McCain's ties to Bush constantly, so I'm thinking that's not a forbidden tactic) -- is a discussion of specific issues that might influence voters.
If the McCain campaign is forbidden from discussing the candidate's past voting history and his positions on the issues, what is it allowed to discuss? How wonderful a president Barack Obama would be?
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Date: 2008-10-17 08:35 pm (UTC)In the latter case, one can argue as to the exact meaning of the word "closely". However, we've already discussed "card check" and the fact that George McGovern thinks that it's a bad idea. Quite reasonably, one might say that's part of an extreme leftist agenda, because I don't think one can characterize McGovern as "not liberal".
So I must ask, how is this dirty campaigning? What you see here -- with the possible exception of raising Obama's ties to Ayers (and Obama raises McCain's ties to Bush constantly, so I'm thinking that's not a forbidden tactic) -- is a discussion of specific issues that might influence voters.
If the McCain campaign is forbidden from discussing the candidate's past voting history and his positions on the issues, what is it allowed to discuss? How wonderful a president Barack Obama would be?