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CBSNews.com Reports: As He Courts Evangelicals, Some Activists Look To Label Dem Candidate "The Abortion President"
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- So what is the case for McCain?
No candidate for President since Wendell Wilkie in 1940 has had as little relevant experience before running for President as Barack Obama. The Illinois Senator served for 8 years, in a generally undistinguished fashion, in the Illinois legislature. He was best known for voting present more often than any other State Senator. When the Democrats took over the Legislature the last two years he served, Obama worked out a deal with the Democratic leader, Emil Jones, to get his name on some bills so he could buff up his resume before running for the open US Senate seat.
In the US Senate, Obama missed many votes in his first term even before he launched his Presidential bid, as he traveled the country speaking to Democratic Party events (and positioning himself with activists for a future Presidential run). Since the campaign began, he has missed virtually all Senate votes and failed to hold meetings of his own subcommittee. So the Obama record is very thin.
His major campaign themes have been lofty messages of change and hope and bipartisan unity. This is a smart course to take, when you have little to show for your years in public office. McCain needs to focus on Obama''''s record of scant legislative accomplishment and inexperience. What has Barack Obama done, as opposed to claiming to have done? - Reply to this comment
- The general election will prove that after we see more crazy flip flops from the only candidate who is not credible. Obama should accept that he is wrong for the USA and get off the pedastal that does not suit him.
Posted by Ariel133
The greatest flip flopper of all time goes to the republican nominee, john mccain. He has never met a position on any issue he hasn''t liked. - Reply to this comment
- This biased support of a person who has flip flopped and is being excused for doing so is hypocritical when spoken in terms of adjusting his frame of reference according to the times and then not accepting McCains changes as well. It is so obvious and evident the propaganda for this unqualified Democrat just because of the unpopularity of Bush and not because MCCain is actually more experianced and less embarressing as a leader of a nation. People are not that stupid that they can see through the manipulation, media. The general election will prove that after we see more crazy flip flops from the only candidate who is not credible. Obama should accept that he is wrong for the USA and get off the pedastal that does not suit him.
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- The so called "legal reasoning" used by the Supreme Court in Roe v Wade to legalize abortion is not only silly it is embarrassing. They contorted the US Constitution into a pretzel. This is the poster-boy of judicial activist decisions.
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- Now, if you read Roe vs. Wade, please point to the verbiage the court found in said Constitution that guarantees a woman the right to chose to butcher her own baby right up until the moment it falls out of the birthing canal??
Posted by JonGood65 at 01:00 AM : Jul 10, 2008
The court ruled that the 9th amendment (correctly in my opinion) covers the right to privacy, which was the basis for the ruling in Roe V Wade. This ruling had nothing to do with any form of murder. - Reply to this comment
- ...when someone says they support the "woman''s right to choose" it doesn''t mean that they them selfs are in favor of abortion it simply means that the constitution supersedes what he or her personal values may be on the subject and it the president''s duty to uphold it to its fullest extent. it''s mealy saying it is not my choice so i have no right to tell the woman what to do even if i am personally against it.
Posted by rdp842003 at 12:44 AM : Jul 10, 2008
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The second Amendment minces no words in explaining how it guarantees an individuals right. The Supreme Court ruled just a couple of weeks ago this was exactly what the founders meant when they wrote the words.
Now, if you read Roe vs. Wade, please point to the verbiage the court found in said Constitution that guarantees a woman the right to chose to butcher her own baby right up until the moment it falls out of the birthing canal??
For if all the baby butchers were so confident the wording is as specific as was that in the Second Amendment, why is there so much fear of a bunch of strict constructionist judges having trouble finding such language??? - Reply to this comment
- Posted by rdp842003 at 12:27 AM : Jul 10, 2008
Again, excellent post. Tolerance needs to be the law of all people. All Americans (and it should be all humans) have the right to believe or not to believe it whatever it is that they choose to believe in or not. That said they do not ever have the right to try to force others to accept their ideology, religious or political. If history has taught us anything it''s that forced conversions to any kind of ideology is false conversion, is meaningless and ultimately is more harmful then anything else. - Reply to this comment
- Ladies and gentlemen, The President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama!
I love the sound of that! - Reply to this comment
- George W Bush ran for office on an anti-abortion platform.
Posted by johnmcsame at 12:22 AM : Jul 10, 2008
Any person, any at all, that puts the bible up as a more sacred document then the US Constitution, has no place as a public servant and certainly not as the president of the US. Yes Bush ran as a anti-abortion candidate, but that doesn''t change the truth that he''s far and away the worst president this country has ever had and certainly the most anti-American one. - Reply to this comment
He is following American law, which as a public servant is his job to do above his religious feelings or convictions. he is following the US Constitution instead of the bible, which is what he is supposed to do. I respect that very much. I realize that the current administration has broken and ignored the law so much that many people think it''''s the right thing to do, but it''''s not and it''''s about time to put someone in the White House who realizes that his supreme obligations are to the law and the American people.
Posted by SgtRDS10-4 at 12:14 AM : Jul 10, 2008
Let me make it clear to you. If Hussein is a Christian, he should run on an anti-abortion platform. He should be a republican. Don''t jump the gun. Hussein is not President yet. He is still running for the Oval Office.
Hussein is a pseudo-Christian. He is a fake. That is why he is able to so easily discard his Christian values to try and win more votes. Hussein should not be running on a pro-choice platform.
George W Bush ran for office on an anti-abortion platform.- Reply to this comment
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