Follow-up to the last 2 posts
1. At this point, I probably will vote for Clinton if she wins the Democratic nomination, contrary to what I said in my last post. Clinton and McCain are currently competing for who can get me the most P.O.ed before November. The more I find out about McCain, the more sketchy he seems. I think that this opinion article is not only pretty much right on, but also contains another reminder of what I don't like about McCain--in particular, the fact that he used to stand up to people like Jerry Falwell, and is now palling around with them.

2. I found an article on Yahoo News with a little more insight about the National Journal rankings.

Conservatives claim Obama's positions place him out of sync with most Americans. They point to the National Journal's 2007 rating of him as the most liberal senator and intend to cite it in advertisements and fundraising appeals.

``It's an easy case to make that Barack Obama is both culturally and ideologically way out of the mainstream,'' said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster.

The National Journal rated Obama's rival for the Democratic nomination, New York Senator Hillary Clinton, as the 16th most liberal, even though the analysis found the two lawmakers differed on just two ``key'' bills.

The magazine said Clinton, 60, voted against establishing a Senate office to handle ethics complaints, which Obama supported. Clinton also opposed a proposal, backed by Obama, that would allow some immigrants to remain in the U.S. while their visas were being renewed.

This PROVES that Obama is much more liberal than Clinton, because ethics reform is universally seen as a radical leftist move that only liberal elites would support... liberal elites like John McCain. And letting immigrants who possess visas and are in the process of getting them renewed remain in the country is just one step away from an open-border policy. Both of those positions are obviously "way out of the mainstream."

Of course, none of that will matter to most of the viewers of political ads who hear a quote from a self-proclaimed "independent" journal about how Obama is the most liberal member of the Senate.