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Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 5:51 pm
by JayDuck
poptart wrote:Porter wrote:(Palin is) a piece of eye candy with incredibly extremist views
What are her incredibly extremist views?
Well, she's not only a pro-lifer, but was been an abortion clinic protester, impeding patients rights at legal medical facilities.
She believes that dinosaurs and humans walked the earth together.
She believes in speaking in tongues and divine healing.
Those are all extremist views, close to as far along that end of the spectrum as you can get.
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 8:23 pm
by Nishlord
BSmack wrote:Nishlord wrote:You're all wrong.
The Balkans.
I know mv's repeated postings regarding his desire to initiate "ethnic cleansing" can be distracting, but I'm not seeing that comparison. But do feel free to elaborate on your thought.
Fractured tribes desperately holding together a broken alliance that doesn't work anymore.
(and someone else had bagsied Germany)
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 8:29 pm
by PSUFAN
I can imagine The Pope reading from the Quran too.
WHO LEFT THE KORAN ON THE ALTAR BOY'S BACK AGAIN?? NOT FUNNY!!
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 8:42 pm
by smackaholic
who the fukk is sadah?
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 8:43 pm
by no-F-N-Joke
Dinsdale wrote:no-F-N-Joke wrote:
I'm throwing my hat in for the Ottoman Empire, to many similarities.
Nishlord wrote:You're all wrong.
The Balkans.
Wow... it's generally the Ugly Americans that need to be told to "crack a fucking book sometime."
Unless that was some weird reference to Americans being forced into Islam?
Maybe you were still asleep during early 20th Century European History class.
:doh:
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 8:45 pm
by no-F-N-Joke
JayDuck wrote:
Or I could just look at the polling data, which has Obama leading McCain among voters with a college education.
Obama has the uneducated locked up also, 96% of them, and 69% of them are high school drop-outs
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 8:48 pm
by no-F-N-Joke
JayDuck wrote:poptart wrote:Porter wrote:(Palin is) a piece of eye candy with incredibly extremist views
What are her incredibly extremist views?
Well,
she's not only a pro-lifer, but was been an abortion clinic protester, impeding patients rights at legal medical facilities.
She believes that dinosaurs and humans walked the earth together.
She believes in speaking in tongues and divine healing.
Those are all extremist views, close to as far along that end of the spectrum as you can get.
WRONG!
WRONG!
WRONG!
On all counts. Stop listening to the dochebag Matt Deamon and do some research!
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 9:01 pm
by PSUFAN
Why is Larry Flynt so silent? 10 years ago he would have already offered Palin 15 million to churn her butter in his rag.
Heck, if they find that she already posed for someone (GOD, let it be Juggs!), I'll set politics aside and vote for the ticket - no problem.
Do you think Palin's shaved, or does she have a thick pelt of of fishwig? Does she pluck, or does she have a zesty ring of rim fuzz?
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 11:23 pm
by LTS TRN 2
The fact that her (younger!) daughter came home from college three months early--dovetailing into Brood Mare's "secret" late announced pregnancy--for which there is no record of delivery!....makes for a much weirder situation here than we ever could have guessed. Fortunately, despite the desperate hissing racism--sure to mount day by day--McBush will lose and duly go the good doddering way of Bob Dole. But Brood Mare's scary/comic cautionary tale of modern American insanity has just begun.
WW
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 11:28 pm
by Shlomart Ben Yisrael
PSUFAN wrote:
Do you think Palin's shaved, or does she have a thick pelt of of fishwig?
A silky, soft patch as fluffy as a baby sled dog's mane.
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 11:41 pm
by pron
PSUFAN wrote:Why is Larry Flynt so silent? 10 years ago he would have already offered Palin 15 million to churn her butter in his rag.
My man Larry is on top of it.
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 11:49 pm
by PSUFAN
tight, dark, eraser nips...or full, lush, pink rosy areolae?
trev, feel free to weigh in here.
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 12:02 am
by Shlomart Ben Yisrael
PSUFAN wrote:tight, dark, eraser nips...or full, lush, pink rosy areolae?
Kind of hard to tell, with them poking me in the eyes.
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 3:17 pm
by _Porter_
poptart wrote:Porter wrote:(Palin is) a piece of eye candy with incredibly extremist views
What are her incredibly extremist views?
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Off the top of my head, no abortions in cases of incest and rape are not only extremist, but fucking disgusting. So a 14 y/o kid who is raped by her own father is supposed to raise and love that child like she would a kid conceived in a normal relationship? Yeah, that's gonna happen..
B.O., on the other hand, is undeniably ... FAR left.
He's way further left that I'm normally comfortable going, and yeah, it bugs the shit out of me. But what's more important to me this election cycle is sending a message to the GOP with my vote that they need to get their fucking shit straightened out right the fuck now and get back to supporting small government, and a conservative fiscal policy.
mvscal wrote:_Porter_ wrote:but Rev. Wright's views represent those of a majority of black preachers around the country. I've been to one service, therefore it must be true :D. Seriously, rule #1 of speaking before a crowd is "know your audience". He's saying what his congregation wants to hear.
Is that supposed to make it OK? Maybe the rest of the country isn't interested in the views of a bunch of motherfucking n...iggers.
You're a bit vague there, so I'll answer it like this:
- He can say whatever the hell he wants to, 1st amendment being what it is and all. Much of it is pure tinfoil hat hogwash that perpetuates black on white hate to new generations though.
- If you're referring to Obama having him as a minister, yes and no. It's fine if the church is the denomination that he was brought up in. There's a ton of black preachers out there just like Wright. That doesn't make the message okay, just that B.O.'s choices are limited if he's looking for a normal preacher who happens to be black. "Overacting, offended, conspiracy, yelling"-guy is very common in black churches. It's what the (poor, angry) people want to hear.
- Wait, I get it. You're one of those white dudes that thinks the downfall of civilization was when "What's Happening?" and "The Jeffersons" came on tv. This country is and always has been a melting pot. Your ancestors may not have come here on a slave ship, but they sure as fuck came on a boat just like everyone else. So you can stop acting like your views are more important or you're more American than someone else of a different race who's been here just as long or longer than you have.
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 7:53 pm
by Smackie Chan
pron wrote:My man Larry is on top of it.
Nice choice in having Lisa Ann portray "Paylin." A lot chestier, but I won't complain.
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 7:56 pm
by BSmack
mvscal wrote:_Porter_ wrote:So a 14 y/o kid who is raped by her own father is supposed to raise and love that child like she would a kid conceived in a normal relationship?
Never heard of adoption? Of course you have. You're just full of shit that's all.
Ever heard of childbirth? It ain't exactly a walk in the park. I'm guessing it only gets more difficult if you are forced to birth the demon seed of the man who raped you.
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 9:13 pm
by _Porter_
mvscal wrote:_Porter_ wrote:So a 14 y/o kid who is raped by her own father is supposed to raise and love that child like she would a kid conceived in a normal relationship?
Never heard of adoption? Of course you have. You're just full of shit that's all.
Wait a sec. Lemme get this straight. Are you actually defending McCain's VP pick as legit and not a pathetic pandering?
I suppose you also have no problem with her giving her husband complete access to government resources to aid in firing her Brother-in-law.
I knew you people existed, but I figured most would be smart enough to just lay low, rather than argue in favor of a power-abusing, equally bumbling, less-qualified version of Dan Quayle.
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 9:34 pm
by War Wagon
_Porter_ wrote:poptart wrote:
What are her incredibly extremist views?
Off the top of my head, no abortions in cases of incest and rape are not only extremist, but fucking disgusting. So a 14 y/o kid who is raped by her own father is supposed to raise and love that child like she would a kid conceived in a normal relationship?
Great example, _Porter_.
God only knows what percentage of abortions are a direct result of fathers raping their 14 year old daughters.
Any other foot shuffling insight you'd care to impart?
Abortion is a tough topic for me to argue the pro-life side due to the fact that those who are most vehemently pro-choice, by their very existance, make the better argument by simply breathing.
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 10:00 pm
by Mister Bushice
_Porter_ wrote:Obama chose a guy, who while he annoyingly speaks in the third person way too often, is highly experienced and if anything is more than qualified for the job,
I wouldn't say Biden was all that bright.
He said this in a couric interview:
When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed," Biden told Couric. "He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'"
Of course - Television as we know it didn't even start for about another 7 years after the Depression occurred, not to mention that very few households in America even owned TV sets until after WWII.
Odd how the Media has roasted Palin for her idiotic statements, but Bidens seem to be overlooked?
And I'm not defending either side. I'm not voting for this current crop of shitheads so I don't care, but Biden is just as stupid as she is, he's just older.
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 10:11 pm
by BSmack
Mister Bushice wrote:Odd how the Media has roasted Palin for her idiotic statements, but Bidens seem to be overlooked?
Eat a fucking bullet already, your brain has obviously flatlined.
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 10:33 pm
by Mister Bushice
Well lets see.
So far there have been stories published on major news outlets about her husbands background, her children, her daughters pregnancy, the boyfriend, supposed nude photos from when she was younger, a half dozen or so speaking gaffes she's recently made and,
Biden? Nothing. No stories about his family, nothing about his past, and he's not being featured on SNL as a dopey no nothing. They rank on Hilary instead of him.
Biden has pretty much skated under the radar. No one in the media is investigating his life to the extent they are Palins.
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 11:09 pm
by Smackie Chan
Mister Bushice wrote:So far there have been stories published on major news outlets about her husbands background, her children, her daughters pregnancy, the boyfriend, supposed nude photos from when she was younger, a half dozen or so speaking gaffes she's recently made and,
Biden? Nothing. No stories about his family, nothing about his past, and he's not being featured on SNL as a dopey no nothing. They rank on Hilary instead of him.
Biden has pretty much skated under the radar. No one in the media is investigating his life to the extent they are Palins.
Why might that be? The knee-jerk answer would be that the liberal media sweeps it under the rug because it wants to minimize any chance that the Democrats might lose. But a more reasoned cause is that Biden has been a national public figure for over three decades, and his bio is readily available to anyone who wants to know about it. He's also a male who is a typical and wholly uninteresting vice presidential candidate. Palin, on the other hand, is a newcomer to the national political scene, the first female Republican veep candidate, the first Alaskan on a major party's national ticket, a hottie, and someone whose family situation is much more newsworthy than Biden's. Put yourself in the position of the editor of a major news outlet or an SNL writer. Whose stories are going to sell more papers or get more laughs if satirized? You think any of those reasons might have something to do with the disparity in the level of media coverage between the two veep candidates? Do you honestly think that if there was anything remotely juicy or newsworthy about Biden's past or family, the media would sit on it? The fact is that those who report the news have a fairly good idea of what the public wants to hear about, and Biden ain't it.
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 11:40 pm
by War Wagon
Smackie Chan wrote:The fact is that those who report the news have a fairly good idea of what the public wants to hear about, and Biden ain't it.
True enough, Sarah became an instant sensation... and a real threat to Obama's mandate by pre-ordained landslide. That's why the liberal media (and liberal posters) attack her with such ferocity.
They focus on her gaffe's and try to summarily dismiss her as an air-head, while looking the other way and barely mentioning Biden's equally moronic gaffes.
It's not fair, but nobody said politics was. She knew what she was getting into, or should have.
But despite the media and to libs eternal chagrin, American voters tend to make up their own minds. If anything, they see the way this is playing out and will rebel at trying to be controlled like that.
And it really pisses the media off that they can't influence an election to the extent they'd like. See 2000 and 2004. They're still seething over that and have redoubled their efforts trying to make sure it doesn't happen again.
They may get their wish.
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 12:43 am
by Smackie Chan
War Wagon wrote:Sarah became an instant sensation... and a real threat to Obama's mandate by pre-ordained landslide. That's why the liberal media (and liberal posters) attack her with such ferocity.
They focus on her gaffe's and try to summarily dismiss her as an air-head, while looking the other way and barely mentioning Biden's equally moronic gaffes.
It's not fair, but nobody said politics was. She knew what she was getting into, or should have.
But despite the media and to libs eternal chagrin, American voters tend to make up their own minds.
You can compare the campaign to a football game.
After the primary season determined who the major party candidates would be, the Dems had the advantage due to Obama's rock star quality, charisma, youth, oratory skill, and novelty of being black. By comparison, McCain was a bland old shoe who, fairly or not, was tied to the unpopular incumbent administration. Because of this, all concerned knew who would be getting more media attention.
If you're running Obama's campaign, you play a prevent defense, not wanting to give up the big play, and on offense, you play conservatively and primarily try to avoid making mistakes. You choose a safe, boring, and non-controversial running mate. You play to your strengths, and avoid playing into those of your opponent. You're content to maintain the advantage you have going into the final quarter, and hope to perhaps build on it by capitalizing on the mistakes of your opponent, who you realize is going to have to take risks.
On the other sideline, you know you'll have to take chances if you're going to come from behind. You cannot select a ho-hum running mate. You're forced to expose your weaknesses. You hope that the risks you take will result in the equivalent of a long TD pass, recognizing that you're more likely to throw an incompletion or worse, an interception. You have no choice, since trading field goals from that point on will result in a loss. Making your task more difficult is having to try to wrest the mantle of "candidate for change" away from a young black Democrat when you're an old entrenched member of Dubya's party. Perhaps driving the final stake into the GOP's chances of winning is the economy going into the shitter a month before the election, and the same American voters who you claim are smart enough to not be swayed by the media blaming it on the President, even though his role was inconsequential.
So blame the media for the current situation if you want, but you're misplacing that blame if you do. The real "blame," if that's how you choose to view it, is more likely attributable to the average American's placing of style over substance.
And to avoid being perceived as a homer, I predicted a McCain victory (TiC will verify that), and am standing by that prognostication.
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 1:13 am
by Mister Bushice
No argument about Bidens boring life, but since they've both been veeped, the news is all about trying to trip up Palin, and not so much Biden, despite the fact he's got an equal chance of coming across as stupid.
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 1:48 am
by Smackie Chan
Mister Bushice wrote:No argument about Bidens boring life, but since they've both been veeped, the news is all about trying to trip up Palin, and not so much Biden, despite the fact he's got an equal chance of coming across as stupid.
They're only veep candidates, so who really cares if they fuck up? I suppose there are those out there who will vote based on them, but that's pretty shallow. The reason Palin's screw-ups get magnified is because she's Palin. If it was a male candidate making the same comments, they'd get the same level of scrutiny as Biden's. Additional reasons why the veep candidates may be getting more attention during this campaign than in past ones are McCain's age and Obama's race; one stands a better-than-average chance of dying of natural causes while in office, the other stands a better-than-normal chance of being assassinated, putting the chances of the veep ascending to the presidency higher than usual.
I suppose it's a matter of perception, but I see this campaign as being cleaner than those of recent election years. No Karl Rove as political strategist, no Lee Atwater as campaign manager. Let's face it - all things considered, Republicans are generally better at campaigning than are Democrats, because they usually don't worry about playing fair. Their goal has been to win at all costs, and it's worked except for the Clinton years. Relative to most career politicians, McCain is generally an honorable and decent man, and has avoided smear tactics. While that may be noble, it doesn't make for a potent strategy against a polished candidate like Obama. Wags painted the media's treatment of Palin as ferocious, but I hardly think that's the case. Sure, her foibles are put on the front page and parodied on late-night TV, but she hasn't been a victim of character assassination. It's been a fairly tame campaign on both sides so far.
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 1:50 am
by BSmack
Mister Bushice wrote:No argument about Bidens boring life, but since they've both been veeped, the news is all about trying to trip up Palin, and not so much Biden, despite the fact he's got an equal chance of coming across as stupid.
Biden has already run for President twice. His vetting was done a long time ago. Palin, not so much. If you can't understand that basic fact, you shouldn't be engaging in political conversations. Well, unless you enjoy being exposed as an idiot.
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 1:54 am
by Mister Bushice
It's not about the past, you vacuous twit. They aren't delving deep into palins past, they're chopping up her present.
And they aren't doing that to Biden.
Smackie had it about right:
"The reason Palin's screw-ups get magnified is because she's Palin. If it was a male candidate making the same comments, they'd get the same level of scrutiny as Biden's."
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 3:51 am
by Terry in Crapchester
Mister Bushice wrote:Biden? Nothing. No stories about his family, nothing about his past, and he's not being featured on SNL as a dopey no nothing.
If you don't think SNL is spoofing Biden, then you must have missed
this. Granted, dude doesn't come nearly as close to looking like Biden as Tina Fey does with Palin, but it's funny nonetheless.
And since Smackie mentioned it, he did pick McCain. Though I'm somewhat surprised he's sticking with that prediction given current electoral projections.
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 6:21 am
by JayDuck
Smackie Chan wrote: I see this campaign as being cleaner than those of recent election years. No Karl Rove as political strategist
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 9:22 am
by _Porter_
War Wagon wrote:_Porter_ wrote:
Off the top of my head, no abortions in cases of incest and rape are not only extremist, but fucking disgusting. So a 14 y/o kid who is raped by her own father is supposed to raise and love that child like she would a kid conceived in a normal relationship?
Great example, _Porter_.
God only knows what percentage of abortions are a direct result of fathers raping their 14 year old daughters.
Obviously, that's not the point. The point is that she advocates such a hypothetical situation, but you knew that already.
I find the rates of abortion to be disgusting in this country and would not consider it an option for myself under normal circumstances. If my significant other were to be unlikely to survive the birth or the kid was going to be born with 7 arms, then we'd cross that bridge, but otherwise, pass.
That said, even though I'm throwing myself under the bus too since I'm in the conversation, it's pretty stupid that voters have this conversation every election cycle when it should be somewhere around #23 on the list of important topics in any years election. Not much has changed on the topic since 1973, 'cept for that partial birth abortion crap where they were essentially killing viable fetuses. That was borderline Dr. Mengele shit there.
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 11:54 am
by poptart
Porter, if anyone finds B.O.'s abortion position easier to digest than Sarah Palin's, well ... they're just straight up sick in the fucking head.
http://townhall.com/columnists/TerenceJ ... idate_ever
He is so pro-abortion he refused as an Illinois state senator to support legislation to protect babies who survived late-term abortions because he did not want to concede -- as he explained in a cold-blooded speech on the Illinois Senate floor -- that these babies, fully outside their mothers' wombs, with their hearts beating and lungs heaving, were in fact "persons."
"Persons," of course, are guaranteed equal protection of the law under the 14th Amendment.
And ...
http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=yMNgcdef8 ... re=related
http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=AR1RD2-fabA
The democrats have nominated a TOTAL piece of shit.
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 12:32 pm
by rozy
poptart wrote:as he explained in a cold-blooded speech on the Illinois Senate floor --
The most telling debate Barack Obama ever had was not with John McCain but Patrick O’Malley, who served with Obama in the Illinois Senate and engaged Obama in a colloquy every American should read.
The Obama-O’Malley debate was a defining moment for Obama because it dealt with such a fundamental issue: The state’s duty to protect the civil rights of the young and disabled.
Some background: Eight years ago, nurse Jill Stanek went public about the “induced-labor abortions” performed at the Illinois hospital where she worked. Often done on Down syndrome babies, the procedure involved medicating the mother to cause premature labor.
Babies who survived this, Stanek testified in the U.S. Congress, were brought to a soiled linen room and left alone to die without care or comforting.
Then-Illinois state Sen. Patrick O’Malley, whom I interviewed this week, contacted the state attorney general’s office to see whether existing laws protected a newborn abortion-survivor’s rights as a U.S. citizen. He was told they did not.
So, O’Malley—a lawyer, veteran lawmaker and colleague of Obama on the Illinois Senate Judiciary Committee—drafted legislation.
In 2001, he introduced three bills. SB1093 said if a doctor performing an abortion believed there was a likelihood the baby would survive, another physician must be present “to assess the child’s viability and provide medical care.” SB1094 gave the parents, or a state-appointed guardian, the right to sue to protect the child’s rights. SB1095 simply said a baby alive after “complete expulsion or extraction from its mother” would be considered a “’person, ‘human being,’ ‘child’ and ‘individual.’”
The bills dealt exclusively with born children. “This legislation was about preventing conduct that allowed infanticide to take place in the state of Illinois,” O’Malley told me.
The Judiciary Committee approved the bills with Obama in opposition. On March 31, 2001, they came up on the Illinois senate floor. Only one member spoke against them: Obama.
“Nobody else said anything,” O’Malley recalls. The official transcript validates this.
“Sen. O’Malley,” Obama said near the beginning of the discussion, “the testimony during the committee indicated that one of the key concerns was—is that there was a method of abortion, an induced abortion, where the—the fetus or child, as—as some might describe it, is still temporarily alive outside the womb.”
Obama made three crucial concessions here: the legislation was about 1) a human being, who was 2) “alive” and 3) “outside the womb.”
He also used an odd redundancy: “temporarily alive.” Is there another type of human?
“And one of the concerns that came out in the testimony was the fact that they were not being properly cared for during that brief period of time that they were still living,” Obama continued.
Here he made another crucial concession: The intention of the legislation was to make sure that 1) a human being, 2) alive and 3) outside the womb was 4) “properly cared for.”
“Is that correct?” Obama asked O’Malley.
O’Malley tightened the logical knot. “(T)his bill suggests that appropriate steps be taken to treat that baby as a—a citizen of the United States and afforded all the rights and protections it deserves under the Constitution of the United States,” said O’Malley.
But to these specific temporarily-alive-outside-the-womb-human beings—to these children who had survived a botched abortion, whose hearts were beating, whose muscles were moving, whose lungs were heaving—to these specific children of God, Obama was not willing to concede any constitutional rights at all.
To explain his position, Obama came up with yet another term to describe the human being who would be protected by O’Malley’s bills. The abortion survivor became a “pre-viable fetus.”
By definition, however, a born baby cannot be a “fetus.” Merriam-Webster Online defines “fetus” as an “unborn or unhatched vertebrate” or “a developing human from usually two months after conception to birth.” Obama had already conceded these human beings were “alive outside the womb.”
“No. 1,” said Obama, “whenever we define a pre-viable fetus as a person that is protected by the equal protection clause or other elements of the Constitution, what we’re really saying is, in fact, that they are persons that are entitled to the kinds of protections that would be provided to a—a child, a nine-month-old—child that was delivered to term.”
Yes. In other words, a baby born alive at 37 weeks is just as much a human “person” as a baby born alive at 22 weeks.
Obama, however, saw a problem with calling abortion survivors “persons.” “I mean, it—it would essentially bar abortions,” said Obama, “because the equal protection clause does not allow somebody to kill a child, and if this is a child, then this would be an antiabortion statute.”
For Obama, whether or not a temporarily-alive-outside-the-womb little girl is a “person” entitled to constitutional rights is not determined by her humanity, her age or even her place in space relative to her mother’s uterus. It is determined by a whether a doctor has been trying to kill her.
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 4:33 pm
by War Wagon
_Porter_ wrote:...it's pretty stupid that voters have this conversation every election cycle when it should be somewhere around #23 on the list of important topics in any years election.
23rd?
Sorry, but if a candidate can't or won't recognize the sanctity of a human life, especially an innocent, defenseless life, that pretty much makes what you may perceive as issues 1-22 a moot point.
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 6:37 pm
by JayDuck
poptart wrote:Porter, if anyone finds B.O.'s abortion position easier to digest than Sarah Palin's, well ... they're just straight up sick in the fucking head.
http://townhall.com/columnists/TerenceJ ... idate_ever
He is so pro-abortion he refused as an Illinois state senator to support legislation to protect babies who survived late-term abortions because he did not want to concede -- as he explained in a cold-blooded speech on the Illinois Senate floor -- that these babies, fully outside their mothers' wombs, with their hearts beating and lungs heaving, were in fact "persons."
"Persons," of course, are guaranteed equal protection of the law under the 14th Amendment.
You're a fucking moron. Obama's position was that the laws on the books already covered the survivors and there didn't need to be new legislation specific for that case.
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 6:54 pm
by poptart
JaySuck wrote:You're a fucking moron. Obama's position was that the laws on the books already covered the survivors and there didn't need to be new legislation specific for that case.
No, you're a fucking liar.
The 'laws on the books' clearly do NOT 'cover survivors.'
Read the link and sftu, asshead.
Your messiah is a piece of shit liar, as are you.
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 6:56 pm
by JayDuck
poptart wrote:JaySuck wrote:You're a fucking moron. Obama's position was that the laws on the books already covered the survivors and there didn't need to be new legislation specific for that case.
No, you're a fucking liar.
The 'laws on the books' clearly do NOT 'cover survivors.'
Read the link and sftu, asshead.
Your messiah is a piece of shit liar, as are you.
your link is full of shit too. The laws cover the doctors obligation to save viable survivors.
Unlike you, I don't have a messiah.
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 7:15 pm
by poptart
Oh ... viable survivors?
And if they die as they lay there unattended for 45 minutes ... ooops ... see they weren't viable?
Peddle your bullshit to the short-bus, you ridiculous half-@ss.
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 11:27 pm
by JayDuck
You're a fucking dipshit. There are already laws that require they attend to any that have a viable chance of survival with their aid, not unattended for 45 minutes. If, with their help, the doctors believe that they have a viable chance of saving the fetus, they are already required to attend to it. It didn't require any additional laws and granting citizenship rights to fetuses is a fucking bad idea.
Re: are any of you McCain voters concerned about this?
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 1:09 am
by poptart
Barack Obama is the most pro-abortion presidential candidate ever.
He is so pro-abortion he refused as an Illinois state senator to support legislation to protect babies who survived late-term abortions because he did not want to concede -- as he explained in a cold-blooded speech on the Illinois Senate floor -- that these babies, fully outside their mothers' wombs, with their hearts beating and lungs heaving, were in fact "persons."
"Persons," of course, are guaranteed equal protection of the law under the 14th Amendment.
In 2004, U.S. Senate-candidate Obama mischaracterized his opposition to this legislation. Now, as a presidential frontrunner, he should be held accountable for what he actually said and did about the Born Alive Infants Bill.
State and federal versions of this bill became an issue earlier this decade because of "induced labor abortion." This is usually performed on a baby with Down's Syndrome or another problem discovered on the cusp of viability. A doctor medicates the mother to cause premature labor. Babies surviving labor are left untreated to die.
Jill Stanek, who was a nurse at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Ill., testified in the U.S. Congress in 2000 and 2001 about how "induced labor abortions" were handled at her hospital.
"One night," she said in testimony entered into the Congressional Record, "a nursing co-worker was taking an aborted Down's Syndrome baby who was born alive to our Soiled Utility Room because his parents did not want to hold him, and she did not have the time to hold him. I couldn't bear the thought of this suffering child lying alone in a Soiled Utility Room, so I cradled and rocked him for the 45 minutes that he lived."
In 2001, Illinois state Sen. Patrick O'Malley introduced three bills to help such babies. One required a second physician to be present at the abortion to determine if a surviving baby was viable. Another gave the parents or a public guardian the right to sue to protect the baby's rights. A third, almost identical to the federal Born Alive Infant Protection Act President Bush signed in 2002, simply said a "homo sapiens" wholly emerged from his mother with a "beating heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord or definite movement of voluntary muscles" should be treated as a "'person,' 'human being,' 'child' and 'individual.'"
Stanek testified about these bills in the Illinois Senate Judiciary Committee, where Obama served. She told me this week he was "unfazed" by her story of holding the baby who survived an induced labor abortion.
On the Illinois Senate floor, Obama was the only senator to speak against the baby-protecting bills. He voted "present" on each, effectively the same as a "no."
"Number one," said Obama, explaining his reluctance to protect born infants, "whenever we define a pre-viable fetus as a person that is protected by the Equal Protection Clause or the other elements in the Constitution, what we're really saying is, in fact, that they are persons that are entitled to the kinds of protections that would be provided to a -- a child, a 9-month old -- child that was delivered to term. That determination then, essentially, if it was accepted by a court, would forbid abortions to take place. I mean, it -- it would essentially bar abortions, because the Equal Protection Clause does not allow somebody to kill a child, and if this is a child, then this would be an anti-abortion statute."
That June, the U.S. Senate voted 98-0 in favor of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act (although it failed to become law that year). Pro-abortion Democrats supported it because this language was added: "Nothing in this section shall be construed to affirm, deny, expand or contract any legal status or legal right applicable to any member of the species homo sapiens at any point prior to being born alive as defined in this section."
Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer explained that with this language the "amendment certainly does not attack Roe v. Wade."
On July 18, 2002, Democratic Sen. Harry Reid called for the bill to be approved by unanimous consent. It was.
That same year, the Illinois version of the bill came up again. Obama voted "no."
In 2003, Democrats took control of the Illinois Senate. Obama became chairman of the Health and Human Services committee. The Born Alive Infant bill, now sponsored by Sen. Richard Winkel, was referred to this committee. Winkel also sponsored an amendment to make the Illinois bill identical to the federal law, adding -- word for word -- the language Barbara Boxer said protected Roe v. Wade. Obama still held the bill hostage in his committee, never calling a vote so it could be sent to the full senate.
A year later, when Republican U.S. senate candidate Alan Keyes challenged Obama in a debate for his opposition to the Born Alive Infant Bill, Obama said: "At the federal level there was a similar bill that passed because it had an amendment saying this does not encroach on Roe v. Wade. I would have voted for that bill."
In fact, Obama had personally killed exactly that bill.
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Can't you pull your head off B.O.'s dick long enough to look at his RECORD OF ACTION??
It's what's commonly known as ... FACT.
Your messiah is a lying sack of fucking shit, as are you.