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September 3, 2008 9:46 AM

On Day of Palin Speech, Obama Courts Women Voters

By
Maria Gavrilovic
Topics
Barack Obama
(CHICAGO) On the day of Sarah Palin's speech at the Republican Convention, Barack Obama is making a play for women voters. He heads to Ohio today where he will host an economic town hall meeting with women, as he continues to argue that he is the candidate who will stand up for women's rights.

Last week, Obama blasted both McCain and Palin on equal pay for women. "She's opposed like John McCain is to equal pay for equal work. That doesn't make much sense to me," Obama said in Toledo, Ohio.

The campaign also released a radio ad highlighting McCain's opposition to abortion and suggesting that he will overturn Roe vs. Wade.

"John McCain's out of touch with women today," the narrator says. "McCain wants to take away our right to choose. That's what women need to understand. That's how high the stakes are."

In recent months, both the Obama and McCain campaigns have targeted women voters, especially disaffected Clinton supporters. McCain's decision to pick Palin as his running mate appears to be an obvious move to attract more women to his ticket, but her opposition to abortion rights may be major sticking point with those voters.

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by hopeful08 September 4, 2008 11:40 AM EDT
A communist country just put on the best Olympics ever AND won the most gold medals. There were just too few Moms and Dads like Michael Phelp%u2019s or Shawn Johnson%u2019s who%u2019s sacrifice was enough to propel their kids to the top. The rest were too distracted by mortgage failures, medical expenses, gas prices and educational budget-cuts, all problems that grew during two-plus decades of rising corporate profits and tax-cuts. (3/4th of Fortune 500 companies pay ZERO taxes today while consumers and small businesses pay the majority of them)

China is also growing twice as fast as the US and is the new operations center for some of America''s biggest companies. They did it by greatly expanding their middle-class with sustained investments in education, healthcare and housing and energy...all things that that have been draining our middle-class since the two Bush Presidents piled on the debt, sold it to other countries and blindly deregulated everything. Wake up America. It was NEVER about Socialism vs. Capitalism...China has both. Its about government policies that help us help ourselves AND channeling the private sector''s natural creativity to actually help the country instead of stealing from it.

McCain/Palin want to double down on corporate tax cuts and further deregulate housing, big oil, healthcare, education. This election is possibly the last chance to save the working middle-class and everything it does for this country.
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by MopayLikeCrazy September 3, 2008 8:34 PM EDT
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by bherrin4 September 3, 2008 6:55 PM EDT
what is he racist about he has a white running mate and he has children so what is he racist about? is he racist because he cares for the future of the U.S is he racist because he wants to dig our GREAT NATION out of the dumpster that the republicans dumped us into and start a fresh future.or is it because he didnt choose a running mate that had so much baggage of her own and he chose to keep the attention on the nation instead of his running mates dirty laundry THAT MY FELLOW AMERICAN IS BEING RESPONSIBLE NOT RASIST!!!!!!
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by bettymowery September 3, 2008 6:31 PM EDT
He doesn''t know what it''s like to be a woman so his attempts at the women vote is laughable!!!!
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by bherrin4 September 3, 2008 6:30 PM EDT
where does having mass amounts of children show value of life? to me that is called expanding a family and there again maybe one of the running mates over expanded and bit off more than she could chew she should of sat with her children and explained the birds and bees.and it also shows that running the state of Alaska consumed her time from doing that, so that makes it ok to keep producing even though she has no time for the children she already had and then have one with down syndrome that does not show me value of life it shows me that she was selfish and that there is a time to be a business women and there is a time for being a mother.where i come from if more people would practice better family values and spend more time teaching the young we would have less violence less babies having babies and possibly even better future presidents with more brains and better family values.
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by bettymowery September 3, 2008 6:22 PM EDT
WoW!! you democrats are scared....aren''t you??? I hope that you don''t believe the lies you''re making up and what the democratic media is telling you?? It''s so sad!! This is all he has....Obama can''t talk about issues cause he has none! He''s a racist....sexist communist democrat who wants power and people to like him!! He has never stuck with anything long enough to make a big difference in his life!! As soon as he''s got what he wanted he moved on.....the only way up from here is king of the world.
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by bettymowery September 3, 2008 6:15 PM EDT
Does Obama really think that we will believe that Palin DOES NOT want equal pay for equal work??? Really?? WOW!! He really thinks that we are just that stupid!!
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by bherrin4 September 3, 2008 5:50 PM EDT
I agree hail the new commander in chief but you spelled his name wrong the correct spelling is Barack Obama no problem correcting that for you just do know that we all need to think about the future of our U.S.and are younger generation and as i see it so far all the republicans have accomplished flushing problems down the toilet and not fixing them but just leaving the problems to linger in the sewer so our younger generation will eventually have to fix what the republicans think they are so highly qualified to do and it shows that already poor judgement is being exercised by MCcain what will we let him poorly decide next.I will tell you with any luck it won''t be the future of our children.The country is in such a downward spiral that i don,t know how he could of possibly thought that choosing a woman with so many personal issues going on in her life that needs attention,was a good choice. if you ask me that was a poor decision.
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by misha128-2009 September 3, 2008 5:26 PM EDT
McCain has 7 children!!!

palin has 5.

now that alone speaks volumes about who values life.

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Posted by bswalker121 at 02:16 PM

Truly valuing live involves nurturing, educating and protecting among other things. Please I cast no dispersions on these parents in any way. Only the notion that valuing live appears to be fully expressed at birth alone based on your statements.

In a question how is value of life weighed when an armed conflict is considered? If the reasons for that armed conflict are unsound or the methods of conducting that armed conflict fail to limit the loss of life (especially to non-combatants, pregnant women and children) how does that reflect on the Commander-in-Chief''s commitment to live?
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by jefflz-2009 September 3, 2008 5:23 PM EDT
We don''t know how much we don''t know about Palin. Who is Palin?? We are just learning like McCain is. She is a creationist, anti-choice, anti-environment, denier of global warming, pro-gun, hard core evangelical who fired a city librarian for resisting censorship. She is a double-talker who fought for huge earmarks for her tiny town. She appointed a man convicted of sexual harassment to be in charge of Public Security. She is a hypocrite who attacked Hillary as a whiner and now wants to ride Clinton''s coat tails. She has no serious education and these attempts to give a strident abuser of political power (Troopergate) credibilty through The Big Lie will backfire and sink McCain. His judgment is on the line and he failed the test.
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