That milquetoast, middle of the road, centrist guy running for President:
Get your talking points ready, Republican National Committee: Barack Obama is the No. 1 most liberal senator in National Journal‘s vote ratings this year.
The freshman senator from Illinois appears to have tacked farther left after declaring his candidacy for president of the United States. He zoomed to numero uno — bypassing such liberal lions as Edward Kennedy and Patrick Leahy — after placing 10th in NJ‘s 2006 ratings.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, meanwhile, is relatively far behind at No. 16. NJ hasn’t released the full list yet; we’ll post it here when it’s available.
But, but, if you take half a quote from him you can say he luvssss him some Ronny Raygun! Ignore the fact his only opponent left has actually praised him and her husband credits him with single-handedly winning the Cold War.
And when the time came to take a stand in the Illinois Senate, the Big O was Zero and voted present (and that had nothing to do with any sort of progressive political strategy so just ignore the people who explained all that a million times).
Have you see that ad with the parachuter? It rocks! It has a parachute. And a plane. And pictures of headlines.
(Dang I’m in a snarky mood today.)