Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin went on the attack Saturday at a Pennsylvania rally against Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama for what she calls his radical views on abortion rights.
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(Photo: AP/Keith Srakocic)Reublican vice presidential candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks during a campaign stop in Johnstown, Pa., Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008.
"In times like these with wars and financial crisis, I know that it may be easy to forget even as deep and abiding a concern as the right to life, and it seems that our opponent kind of hopes you will forget that," Palin told a crowd in Johnstown, according to CNN. "He hopes that you won't notice how radical, absolutely radical his idea is on this, and his record is, until it's too late."
Pro-life activists and social conservatives have long hammered Obama on his extreme pro-choice views.
Obama opposes the Supreme Court ruling to uphold the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, and voted against legislative efforts in the Illinois Senate for three consecutive years (2001-2003) to give legal protections to a baby born alive during an attempted abortion procedure.
The 2003 born-alive protection measure was virtually identical to a bill unanimously passed in the U.S. Senate and signed into law by President Bush in 2002.
"In short, Sen. Obama is a politician who has long since left behind even the middle ground on the issue of life. He's fighting with those who won't protect a child born alive,” Palin said, according to The Associated Press.
Palin contrasted herself and running mate Sen. John McCain’s abortion stance with Obama.
Palin believes Roe. V. Wade should be overturned and abortion laws left for state governments to decide and she opposes abortion in all cases, including rape and incest, with the exception of when a mother’s life is in danger.
McCain has had a 100 percent pro-life record during his 26 years in the U.S. Congress. He voted in support of the Prohibit Partial Birth Abortion bill in 2003, and supports the Supreme Court ruling to uphold the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act. He opposes abortion except in cases of rape, incest and to protect the life of the mother.
"A vote for Barack Obama is a vote for activist courts that will continue to smother the open and democratic debate that we deserve and that we need on this issue of life - that's OK, that debate - at both the state and federal level," she said.
On Saturday, Sen. Obama was also in Pennsylvania campaigning in Philadelphia. At one point during the rally, he said he “appreciated” McCain’s recent efforts to “tone down the rhetoric” on the campaign trail.
Recently, the two presidential candidates were highly criticized by pundits and voters for spending too much time on the attack and not enough time explaining their policies and positions during a critical time in the nation’s history.
Obama currently leads McCain by a seven point margin (50 percent v. 43 percent), according to the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking report. The results show the gap has narrowed between the two candidates since last week when Obama was leading by double-digits.
McCain and Obama will face off on Wednesday for the third and final presidential debate at Hofstra University in New York.
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blue, I didn't know that life was a game of truth or dare.
Huckabee was denounced here on Christian Post (by atheists and agnostics) when he mentioned the notion of amending the constitution to include protection of al human life.
Now that Obama wants to take away state rights to adopt alternative measures, where are they now????
"The most horific of circumstances"???
In the case of the life of a mother, abortion was already legal well before Roe v Wade.
How dare any stranger try to take office and force me, by law, to continue a pregnancy in the most horrific of circumstances. How dare a woman with no legal degree attempt to overrule a Supreme Court decision that has presided for over 30 years. Certainly, she is a washington outsider..
johnzon, she's from Alaska and they tend to be late night and several months of the year almost no nights people!
I have a question for Palin supporters. Why will she appear on SNL, but she wont go on news proprams such as Meet the Press?
If you missed Hannity and Combs the other night you missed a good performance by both candidates. There is some foundation that holds a dinner about 2-3 weeks before an election. It is an opportunity for the candidates to 'roast' themselves and each other. It has been a tradition for quite some time.
I had no idea McCain had such a sense of humor. The room was made up of mostly 60's people made good liberals and giving back. George W. Bush when it was his first turn said the room was made up of 'the haves...and the have mores'.
McCain said he knew their was hope for him to win the election because even in that room there was support to beat Barrack and he was glad Hillery was able to make it....
McCain on 'The View' had called Obama "that man". When Obama had his turn he announced that Barrack was actually swiheily (like I spelled that right) for "that man". He also said the person who picked out his middle name obviously never thought he'd run for President. Barrack Stephen Obama...just kind of rolls of the tounge doesn't it?
I have to admit...both made me laugh (in a good way).
If you map the promises and statements coming from Stephen (yep...that's Obama's middle name) you will find he cannot keep all of his promises because many are contrary.
For example, he said he would not raise taxes during a recession. He says we're in a recession. Yet, he says he's going to pay for his programs by increasing taxes on people making more than $250,000 (which I am not in danger of a tax increase by that guideline...). Is he saying he isn't going to fund the programs for as long as we have a recession? It could last for years. Is he saying he isn't going to do any of what he says as long as we are in a recession?
How's he going to pay for it? Borrow money from Iran? There comes a point where logic just shakes it's head and walks away from the Obama camp.
There's a great Republican yard sign on our street, in the dark blue with the crisp font above and below the horizontal line.
Above it reads: PALIN
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Below it reads: REALLY?
despicable...
http://www.koco.com/cnn-news/17724300/detail.html
There is nothing like an NRA gun-toting,death-penalty supporting, states'righter-loophole proponent of 'life' to advance the cause not only of the unborn, but of the living -be they God's innocent woodland creatures or, those who actually do possess souls and, not too few of them wrongly convicted, languishing on death row! The circle of life is just that, a circle: any break in its great chain of being is a lie and a fraud.
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According to Stanley Kurtz of National Review Online, "ACORN succeeded in drawing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into the very policies that led to the current disaster." ACORN put pressure on banks by threatening them with accusations of racism if they didnâ
Sorry about the typos.
There is not enough space here to give an economic lesson to prove that Fannie Mae. The housing market exploded form the beggining of 2002to about the end of 2005. This was due to a enourmous amount of buyers taking advantage of the super low interest rates Alan Greenspan(Fed Chairman) caused by lowering the federal funds rate. CEO's and shareholders made out like bandits and to balme low income workers is horrible. They lost the one home they owned.
This explains it very well.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/53802.html
Believer, it wasn't soon after the Civil War, it was more like after the Civil Rights era of the 60s.
Slavery was in fact the Democratic Party line. And like it or not it was they who filibustered anti-lynching legislation right up in the mid 1900s.
"Look in the South Seed, notice how overwhelming the populace is black and yet they have not even a close representation there."
After the Civil War there was black representation until the Democrats fought to restore state rights to adopt their own laws, which ensued with them all being turned out of office.
Anyone can blame the government, but it is still quite obvious that the southern Democrats were pro-slavery and fought for their rights to maintain slavery at the consternation of the northern states which primarily consisted of Republicans. Be that as it may it was in fact radical Republicans who voiced opposition to slavery, it was they who in fact chose to push for Lincoln's candidacy. It is a fact that the BIG issues was slavery.
Granted Lincoln used a lot of political tact which has caused for some historical revisionism. If you look at it from his scope you can easily see why he said certain things and adopted certain measures. It worked - or it almost worked, if it wasn't for the southern Democrats who were reinstated by Andrew upon Lincoln's assassination.
"What I think has happened is the Democratic Party dangled a carrot to get the black vote."
You're loosing it Seed, blacks, and minorities in general as voting blocks, have generally been voting democratic for quite some time (at least some 50 years). Putting Obama in is not a paradox as already the minorities were already voting democratic, the only paradox is the inverse is that some white voters (blue collar working class) who might vote democratic might not simply for skin color.
"I think that the fact of Obama's involvement with social activism reveals how the black people are being exploited in an ultimate power play by communists."
Or that blacks are fed up and want equal representation for a change, something whites have had for 200+ years. Look in the South Seed, notice how overwhelming the populace is black and yet they have not even a close representation there.
"It is not a secret how they have operated in black communities specifically to wreek havic on our economy."
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Then all they have to do is blame Republicans who all along were in fact respecting black people as their equals."
All along? Like since the 60's 'all along'?
"The original language was even more directed against slavery and was removed to solidify the south in joining their cause against the British"
It might have been, but none the less such wording didn't make it into the the final draft apparently, and such a shame. Saying 'all men are created equal' and then having slavery is enough illogically to make some blacks reject that the US ever had best intentions for them at all.
"but many of those KKK democrats are now a part of the republican party in the South"
Yeah, but don't tell Seed that. Sure the democrats (and republicans) were in some capacity pro-slavery, but this was back was democrats actually were popular in the South. Since the civil rights era of the 60's and LBJ, the south got basically turned over to the republicans, and we both know why. This federal action was too much for the southern states, and to make it worse, it was spearheaded by democratic administrations.