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No politician is perfect. In order to counter the above Hillary hater's irrational scream, the following is from the syndicated columnist Bonnie Erbe:

"The "phenom" phase of Sen. Barack Obama's campaign may be ending. The shine may be starting to deflect off the star. Yes, it's still a tight race for the Democratic presidential nomination between the junior senator from Illinois and the junior senator from New York. But up to this point, Obama has had the distinct advantage (and disadvantage) of being less well known. That era will soon be behind him.

Most damaging to Obama so far is a New York Times article published several days ago showing that while in Iowa during a stump speech Obama claimed to have "passed" a bill regulating nuclear power plants.

Trouble is, that measure never was approved by the Senate. The bill was to have required nuclear power plants to alert citizens if even minor leaks of radioactive waste were discovered. Under current law, only significant leaks must be made public.

While Obama claimed to have "passed" a bill that never did pass, he also participated in negotiations that watered down the measure to the point of meaninglessness. That, however, didn't stop him from claiming the mantle of being pro-environment and anti-nuclear pollution while campaigning. Is this another case of "I invented the Internet"?

What's worse, he took campaign contributions worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from Exelon executives and employees. Exelon is the company that owned a plant that kept smaller leaks quiet. According to its own Web site, it is also the largest nuclear power provider in the nation.

We can all expect to see more of the same as reporters dig deeper into Obama's record. For example, are the young and/or upscale ultra-liberals who form the core of his voter base going to be thrilled by comments he made while in Idaho, trying to portray himself as pro-gun rights?

According to The Washington Post's Web site, the following happened while he made a visit to Boise State University's Taco Bell Arena before a roaring crowd of thousands:

"Obama was not shy about tailoring his stump speech for the setting, adding a line to rebut any fears that he is aggressively pro-gun control, an issue he almost never mentions on the trail. He urged the crowd not to listen to 'people who say, "He doesn't believe in the Second Amendment." We've got a lot of hunters in Southern Illinois and I've got no intention of taking away people's guns.' "

How are the ultra-liberals going to feel when they learn their shining star is hunter- and gun-friendly? Is this guy a friend of Mitt Romney -- liberal while campaigning in blue states and conservative while in red states?"

Obama is young as a result without much baggage, even so, he is not perfect either as this article depicts.

The link to the original article: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/350296_erbe07.h

This typical Hillary hater's biased, negative and irrational scream.

You have every right to support Obama, but please don't do it at the expense of distoring Hillary.

Obama's politician too.

exactly - free speech - the Clinton machinery cannot control it all (yet). Sen. Clinton may call her campaign a "movement", too - again, free speech, but that does not change the reality.