Michael Ejercito's Blog

Obama Votes For Mercy for the Least Among Us

me8md — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:29:03 EDT

"As you have done it to these the least of my brethren, you have done it unto me" (Matthew 25:40)

In 1999, a bill came up in the Illinois Senate, SB 485. It would have eliminated good behavior time for certain jail inmates.

Obama was the only one to vote against this bill. Obama was the only one to stand up for these inmates.

Obama Opposed Gun Law Loophole

me8md — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:18:08 EDT

While in the Illinois Senate in 2004, Obama voted against a law that would have created a loophole in local handgun bans.

The loophole would have allowed people who used handguns to defend themselves against intruders to assert self-defense as a legal defense against prosecution for violating local handgun bans.

Barack Obama Calls for Conservation

me8md — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:31:38 EDT

"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.

"That's not leadership. That's not going to happen," he added.

Obama Stands Up For Immigrants

me8md — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:32:48 EDT

"When communities are terrorized by ICE immigration raids, when nursing mothers are torn from their babies, when children come home from school to find their parents missing, when people are detained without access to legal counsel, when all that is happening, the system just isn’t working, and we need to change it."- Barack Obama

Nonprofit Work by Obama

me8md — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:55:31 EDT

Barack Obama was a director of the Woods Fund, a nonprofit group. He served on the board alongside William C. Ayers.

Among the Woods Fund's activities was a forty thousand dollar grant to the Arab American Action Network. One of ther founders of the Arab American Action Network is Rashid Khalidi, who hosted fundraisers for Obama. Khalidi had made statements supportive of Palestinian terror and worked with the Palestine Liberation Organization even when the State Department labaled it as a terror group.

Obama Supports Total Handgun Ban

me8md — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:37:44 EDT

Senator Barack Obama supports a total handgun ban, like the one that was in D.C. before the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional.

http://www.politico.com/static/PPM43_080328_obama_iviquestionaire_091096.html (PDF format.)

Obama Defends Women's Right to Choose

me8md — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:27:34 EDT

In 2002, Barack Obama orchestrated the defeat of the Induced Infants Liability Act in Illinois. Introduced by extermists, the Induced Infants Liability Act would have required care for third-trimester fetuses that survived an abortion attempt and were born as a result. Requiring medical care for fetuses that survived a failed abortion attempt defeats the purpose of an abortion.

A similar law was passed by Congress that year, the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. Here is a quote from one of the extremists:

"There is no such thing as a right to a live-birth abortion. A baby born alive is a baby, a human being under the terms of the law in all 50 states and the District of Columbia." - Rep. Jerrold Nadler

Obama will go all the way in defending a woman's right to choose.

Obama Quotes

me8md — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:48:09 EDT

I would occasionally pick up the paper [Louis Farrakhan’s “The Final Call”] from these unfailingly polite men, in part out of sympathy to their heavy suits in the summer, their thin coats in winter; or sometimes because my attention was caught by the sensational, tabloid-style headlines (CAUCASIAN WOMAN ADMITS: WHITES ARE THE DEVIL). Inside the front cover, one found reprints of the minister’s [Farrakhan’s] speeches, as well as stories that could have been picked straight off the AP news wire were it not for certain editorial embelleshments (”Jewish Senator Metzenbaum announced today…”).Barack Obama, “Dreams From My Father,” p. 201It contradicted the morality my mother had taught me, a morality of subtle distinctions–between individuals of goodwill and those who wished me ill, between active malice and ignorance or indifference. I had a personal stake in that moral framework; I’d discovered that I couldn’t escape it if I tried. And yet perhaps it was a framework that blacks in this country could no longer afford; perhaps it weakened black resolve, encouraged confusion within the ranks. Desperate times called for desperate measures, and for many blacks, times were chronically desperate. If nationalism could create a strong and effective insularity, deliver on its promise of self-respect, then the hurt it might cause well-meaning whites, or the inner turmoil it caused people like me, would be of little consequence.

If nationalism could deliver. As it turned out, questions of effectiveness, and not sentiment, caused most of my quarrels with Rafiq.

“Dreams From My Father,” pp. 199-200

That was the problem with people like Joyce [a college classmate of Italian, African-American, Native American, and French ethnicity]. They talked about the richness of their multicultural heritage and it sounced real good, until you noticed that they avoided black people. …The truth was that I understood [Joyce], her and all the other black kids who felt the way she did. In their mannerisms, their speech, their mixed-up hearts, I kept recognizing pieces of myself. And that’s exactly what scared me. Their confusion made me question my own racial credentials all over again. …To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

“Dreams From My Father,” pages 99-100