More Obama deception! - Obama’s Record Does Not Match His Rhetoric on Kennedy v. Louisiana
This found on Red State
Sphere: Related ContentThe nation was outraged this week when Justice Kennedy sided with the liberal members of the United States Supreme Court to decide Kennedy vs. Louisiana. So outraged, even Barack Obama took the public’s side on this case.
Obama said
I disagree with the decision. I have said narrow circumstances for the most egregious of crimes. The rape of a small child, 6 or 8 years old, is a heinous crime and if a state makes a decision that under narrow, limited, well-defined circumstances that the death penalty can be pursued, that that does not violate the Constitution.
But let us put some perspective on how Obama’s rhetoric matches up with his actual legislative history.
In 1999, Barack Obama was the only member of the Illinois State Senate to vote against a bill that prohibited convicted criminal sex abusers from getting early release. The amendment to the “County Jail Good Behavior Allowance Act” provided that a person in a county jail may not receive a good behavior allowance if he is convicted of criminal sexual assault against a minor who is also a family member or if the criminal were to be convicted of criminal sexual abuse or aggravated sexual abuse.
The legislation, S.B. 485 (IL 1999), passed 54-1.
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