Reply #46: His voting record speaks for itself, but here's why his campaign promises are different [View All]

[ShadowLiberal]

Obama's voting record speaks for itself in terms of how liberal he is. He's ranked the 10th most liberal member of congress, but it's true he isn't so bold to speak out as a die hard extreme liberal on those issues you list, but let me explain why he's said what he's said on those issues.

In the past yeah Obama didn't commit to a full troop withdrawal, but lately he's been committed to what's about as realistic as we can get, troops in Iraq only doing stuff like guarding our embassy, and going after terrorists in there, and I think maybe training Iraqi soldiers, I forget. This is what the American people want, and Obama has to say he'll keep our soldiers fighting terrorists, otherwise we'll continue to lose on the national security issue.

On gay marriage, I will admit I don't know if Obama personally supports it, but I have no doubt that he supports other important rights for gays, like joining the army, etc. Also, the sad fact of the matter is being a presidential candidate in a general election advocating gay marriage is a BAD place to be because a little under then 2/3's of America isn't for gay marriage, and the voters decide who to elect, not just the democratic party. However, polls also show that support for gays in other areas like civil unions, and child care rights, etc, has consistently been going up lately, as has acceptance of gays. Like it or not blacks didn't win their most important rights overnight, they had plenty of small victories before they got their big ones, gays probably need plenty of small victories before getting a big one in civil unions or gay marriage.

On Health care please, while Obama's plan won't cover everyone, it covers most people. I will admit though, I don't care much about health care, so maybe another Obama supporter could put up (or already has) a stronger argument then this.

On engaging corporations, again Obama is playing a more general election strategy. While Obama is not talking about corporate interests and such corrupting us and doing bad things, he consistently attacks lobbyists for much of the same charges (though not completely the same yeah). Most people hate lobbyists, but are more neutral or split on corporations. Obama's stance on lobbyists shows that he won't let corporate interests try to control Washington with their lobbyists.