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legislative career. In 2004, the ever ambitious Obama ran for the US Senate but the sexual dalliances of his main primary opponent doomed his rival. Likewise, in the general election race his republican opponent, Jack Ryan, bowed out after his divorce files were made public. Obama eventually ran against the ultra conservative outsider Alan Keyes who barely offered any resistance to Obama's political onslaught. Again Obama won without any substantial opposition. Remarkably, with just a decade in public office Obama faced his first true political challenge when he went up against the Democratic establishment candidate Hilary Rodham Clinton and prevailed thanks to a complicit media.

Media's Favorite Candidate Oversight #2: Barack Obama's explicit even extreme support for abortion. Obama supports unequivocally the legal right to abortion as defined by Roe v Wade and has a 100% rating from NARAL (National Abortion & Reproductive Rights Action League) and Planned Parenthood the largest abortion provider in the US. As an Illinois legislator Obama opposed the bill to ban partial birth abortion and the state's "Born Alive Infants Protection Act" that ensures the rights of children who survive failed abortion attempts by giving them life saving medical treatment. He also voted against legislation banning state funding for abortions. Indeed, Obama has never supported any limitation of abortion to either lessen the availability or government funding for abortions. He has made it clear that he opposes any and all restrictions on abortion, including partial-birth abortions. Obama has earned a rating of 0% by the national right to life council the largest prolife advocacy group.

If that isn't pro-abortion enough in July 2007 Obama gave a speech to Planned Parenthood promising "The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA)," which as co-sponsor along with 18 other senators would nullify every state law limiting or regulating abortion including the federal ban on partial birth abortions. Besides making abortion on demand a "fundamental right" throughout the United States, FOCA would effectively invalidate all laws on informed consent and parental notification as well as waiting periods, and would eliminate all state restrictions on taxpayer funding of abortions and health safety regulations for abortion clinics. It would also for the first time require Catholic and other religious hospitals to provide abortions. Perhaps Obama's most revealing

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