On Day of Palin Speech, Obama Courts Women Voters
(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.
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.
The Republican Fanatics cheered every time one of the speakers addressing the collective would suggest WAR and National Security, as if war was some type of football game or something?
I don%u2019t understand how such moral valued people that claim to support pro-life are so preoccupied and seem to enjoy pro-death.
GOP = WARMONGERS!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/02/palins-church-may-have-sh_n_123205.html
QUOTES FROM HER PASTOR:
Jesus called us to die. You''re worried about getting hurt? He''s called us to die. Listen, you know we can''t even follow him unless you are willing to give up your life. ... I believe that Jesus himself operated from that position of war mode. Everyone say "war mode."
Kalnins has preached that the 9/11 attacks and the invasion of Iraq were part of a "world war" over the Christian faith, one in which Jesus Christ had called upon believers to be willing to sacrifice their lives.
He preaches repeatedly about the "end times" or "last days," an apocalyptic prophesy held by a small but vocal group of Christian leaders. During his appearance with Palin in June, he declared, "I believe Alaska is one of the refuge states in the last days, and hundreds of thousands of people are going to come to the state to seek refuge and the church has to be ready to minister to them."
Sarah Palin is.
Posted by bswalker121 at 02:07 PM
BILL O''RIELLY ate the most unbiased newsman .....
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High oil prices
High Medical Care Insurance Costs
High Prescription Drugs
Loss of Jobs
Loss of Governmental effective response.
Degredation of our infrastructure
Pollution
CORRUPTION
and, unecessary Iraq War!
nuff said, vote the Republicans out of office...it''s the start.
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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- 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)
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See all 22 CommentsChina 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.