On the day the NY Times endorses Hillary in a strong and balanced editorial, making the case for her candidacy but not overlooking the brutal campaign, the LA Times brings us a new report of more mysteriously arcane Obama votes in the Illinois State Senate.
These six votes, not to be confused with the over 100 "present" votes, are the so-called "mistake" votes.
Barack Obama angered fellow Democrats in the Illinois Senate when he voted to strip millions of dollars from a child welfare office on Chicago's West Side. But Obama had a ready explanation: He goofed.
"I was not aware that I had voted no," he said that day in June 2002, asking that the record be changed to reflect that he "intended to vote yes."
In their endorsement of Hillary, the NY Times said Obama was "undefined," but "incandescent." The more hard-core reporting that comes out of the nation's best newspapers, the less and less "incandescent" he seems, and all the more "undefined."
The LA Times article is analyzed below, with link.
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