My hometown paper endorses McCain, gets fact wrong about Obama

The Clanton Advertiser has endorsed John McCain for president. I have no problem with that, but their primary reasoning for why Obama is not their choice is just plain wrong.

McCain has shown that he has the experience necessary to get legislation passed in Congress. Obama hasn’t. In the years he has been in office, Obama hasn’t been able to get any legislation passed into law. If you can’t get any bills pushed through Congress to become law, then you can’t produce any change.

This is the reason why we believe McCain is the best man to lead our country for the next four years.

The Advertiser has the right to endorse John McCain but they owe their readers to at least get the facts right!

Their primary reason for why Barack Obama does not get their endorsement contains the following factual inaccuracy:

In the years he has been in office, Obama hasn’t been able to get any legislation passed into law.

Barack Obama has indeed been able to get legislation passed in Congress since he became a US Senator. In fact, 16 bills sponsored or co-sponsored by Obama have became law.

Here is a list of some of the legislation that is now a US law thanks to Obama:

The Lugar-Obama Non-Proliferation Act

S.2590 Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006
S.2125 The Democratic Republic of the Congo Relief, Security, and Democracy Promotion Act
S.2488 OPEN Government Act of 2007
S. 2803 Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act of 2006
S. 707 PREEMIE Act
S. 906: Mercury Market Minimization Act of 2007
S.2617 Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2008

S.2135 Child Soldiers Accountability Act of 2008
S.1760 Healthy Start Reauthorization Act of 2007
S.1492 Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act
S.1276 Methamphetamine Production Prevention Act of 2008
S.793 Traumatic Brain Injury Act of 2008
S.431 KIDS Act of 2008

I don't know how the Advertiser got this easy-to-confirm fact wrong but anyone can learn the truth about Obama's record of passing bills into law by doing a little research online.

The Clanton Advertiser is being irresponsible by publishing this falsehood about Obama and I demanded that they print a retraction before election day. If they have any journalistic integrity at all they will do so as soon as possible.