What Brownback forgot about Obama

brownback“I think that the biggest thing I’ve seen from Barack Obama is a willingness, aggressiveness, to talk bipartisan and yet to vote the hard left — most liberal member of the United States Senate.” — Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., prompting the Obama campaign to release a list detailing how Brownback and Obama worked together on issues such as Darfur, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Iran sanctions

11 Comments

  1. JMWalker
    Posted July 7, 2008 at 6:05 am | Permalink

    Being as Brownback missed so many votes as a Senator, I would question his knowing much of anything that went on in the Senate. Time for a new Senator representing Kansas.

  2. Maggotpunk
    Posted July 7, 2008 at 6:22 am | Permalink

    Since when did Obama become more liberal than Senator Sanders? Oh wait, Brownback is an idiot. Nevermind.

  3. fleettwood
    Posted July 7, 2008 at 8:59 am | Permalink

    “Since when did Obama become more liberal than Senator Sanders?”

    Point taken.

    “Obama is almost as liberal as Sanders.”

    There is your campaign slogan. Good luck with it.

  4. CF2K
    Posted July 7, 2008 at 9:01 am | Permalink

    No surprise to see Sam the Sham running the “most liberal” line fed to him by the McCain campaign. Given that nobody buys it, Sam comes off looking even more lame and unprincipled, as if that were possible.

  5. CF2K
    Posted July 7, 2008 at 9:03 am | Permalink

    fleettwood,

    Given that “conservative” now means the destruction of Iraq and the U.S. economy, name-calling and flogging the term “liberal” is, indeed, all you Wingnuts can do. Good luck with that.

  6. outlander
    Posted July 7, 2008 at 9:23 am | Permalink

    I have to admit that it seems that the rule of thumb for Republican leaders lately is to spend like a Democrat.

    The only exception is when they can find a place to make a fiscal stand that is easy to attack and is sure piss off the average voter.

  7. lindainks55
    Posted July 7, 2008 at 9:30 am | Permalink

    The differences I’ve noticed are when they are up for reelection and there is a viable opponent. I’ve noticed proof that the main job of elected officials is to be reelected.

  8. Phantom
    Posted July 7, 2008 at 11:49 am | Permalink

    I’ve noticed the party line baton often gets passed off to the Senator not up for reelection. Then the one passing tries to present himself as an independent thinker, even with their voting records denouncing them.

  9. fleettwood
    Posted July 7, 2008 at 2:59 pm | Permalink

    “…Brownback and Obama worked together on issues such as Darfur, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Iran sanctions.”

    They have done so well with those. What’s next?

  10. KansasNative
    Posted July 7, 2008 at 9:26 pm | Permalink

    Brownback must not know that lying is a sin.

    Bearing false witness is not above most pretend Christians, and Brownie is one of them.

  11. Bill_McKean
    Posted July 8, 2008 at 8:15 am | Permalink

    Sam Brownback is the epitome of the self-promoting GOP politician who claims to be a devout Christian. He now tries to glom good public relations by associating himself with Obama. Why isn’t Brownback concerned with the human rights abuses, extortion and criminal racketeering that occur in Kansas on a routine and bipartisan basis by an out of control district court judges and their crooked good old boy attorney cronies? The obvious answer is that despite his public piety and recent conversion to conservative Catholicism, Brownback is first and foremost an attorney and must maintain the code of silence. Given Sebelius’s close connection to the federal judiciary and the Kansas Bar Assoication, I hope Rhonda and the other “star struck” editorial writers at the Eagle who practice celebrity journalism keep on promoting the national political aspirations of Sebelius & Brownback. Greater publicity will eventually lead to greater scrutiny by a legitimate national publication.

    Bill McKean kiakahahaha@yahoo.com 293-6079