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Campaign Issues: McCain and Obama on abortion
WORLD Magazine has begun a series of articles that examine the presidential candidates’ positions on key campaign issues. In the current issue, Jamie Dean takes a look at where John McCain and Barack Obama stand on abortion:
In a campaign season dominated by the economy, the war, and the price of gasoline, pro-abortion and pro-life groups agree on one thing: The stakes in the abortion debate remain high, and the two presidential candidates largely represent opposite ends of the spectrum.
Read Jamie’s entire analysis here.
Topic: Campaign 2008, WorldMagBlog
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The Supreme Court issue is one very important reason to keep Obama out of the White House, and not only because of the abortion debate. On the SCOTUS issue alone I may have to hold my nose and vote for McCain, even though I do not like him (but like him better than I do Obama).
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In my opinion,it is very foolish for high visibility Evangelicals(James Dobson, Lou Engle)to declare that they will NOT VOTE in the next Presidential election as a protest against McCain’s voting record on stem cell research. That is just like shooting yourself in the foot.
First of all, NO ONE on the “opposing” side will be impressed with this stand, but instead will be delighted that conservatives may stay away from the polls.
Secondly, NOW is NOT the time to protest. We will suffer even greater pro-life losses if Obama wins the Presidency…not to mention socialism, pro-Muslim, excellerated taxation of the middle class, ya, ya, etc…
FOR THE NEXT ELECTION…PREPARE….the “Big Guns” of the Evangelical world need to UNIFY and begin preparing a candidate NOW for the next election.
Conservative Christians have done a pitiful job raising up anyone who is an acceptable candidate.
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Not content with just killing babies, Obama is also all about offing old people when the become inconvenient.
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/4/6/155527/9837
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Interesting to read Anthony’s post question blind Christian loyalty to the Democratic party, and this piece, which is such an obvious exercise of that blind loyalty!
WMB don’t have much reason to support McCain. He can’t make the tax cuts stick around, and a 72 year old man going to a one term presidency with a strong democratic majority in both houses and a failing war starts as a lame duck! You think the “gang of 14″ guy is going to burn political capital on a drawn out judicial nomination fight with Patrick Leahy? Ha!
Go ahead and work your collective butts of McCain. It will get you a string of Republican filibusters on pro-Mexican immigration reform!
It might actually be kind of fun around WMB if McCain pulls a rabbit (or collectively Ohio, Florida, and Michigan) out of his hat and wins this thing!
The most rewarding thing for me right now: the absolute pessimism running through the right-wing right this very moment.
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Failure to edit:
Anthony’s post questioned blind Christian loyalty to the Republican party! And I should say “conservative Christian” (and for that matter Anthony should have also).
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Who’s pessimistic, Luke? I’ve heard nothing but optimism from conservatives in the Midwest regarding this fall’s elections. But believe whatever you wish . . .
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The age discrimination thing really annoys me, especially when it comes out of the mouth of someone who hasn’t yet lived, and more than likely isn’t even out of school or just about is.
The old judge I used to work for is now 87. He has hired clerks for the 2009-2010 term. People who are older than 65 do work and do have something to contribute — and they do it with more wisdom than the young.
I’m sorry that Luke doesn’t know any old people who are active and that he discriminates against age. (And he always complains about Christians who discriminate! Bu that’s the usual liberal pick and choose approach.) What goes around comes around. If the liberals prevail, by the time he’s old, the government will be handing him a pill to kill himself, assuming they don’t just round up the old people on their own. What was that phrase: Soylent green is people.
I am glad to read that people realize the damage that will be done if Obama gets to put someone on the SCOTUS! I, too, wish people like Dobson would stop saying they won’t vote, because others might follow their advice. To be sure, we should be working on the next election, but let’s not hand this one over to the pro-death people.
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It’s not a stretch to say that Obama may actually detest children, given his dismal efforts to protect them.
Evidence of this lies in the records and the efforts/views of those who support him from the media to congress to this blog.
I wonder if Michelle knows?
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Make no mistake about it. A vote for Obama will lead to the appointment of one or two leftist judges that will guarantee for a long time the continued wholesale slaughter of innocent children and probably a Supreme Court decision in the future that will allow homosexual marriage, both of which issues are central to the well being of American family life.
The court is teetering on the brink of restoring sanity to family law or going down the hard secular path of radical sexual freedom.
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#3 ZZ,
I am way to the left of Obama when it comes to pot. There is no question in my mind that pot should be legalized, controlled and treated just like alcohol in today’s society.
It’s current illegal status makes the government do too much harm, to too many people, too often than any harm that would ever happen if it were legal. We learned that from making alcohol insanely illegal once upon a stupid phase we went through. We are in the same stupid zone with pot. Making pot illegal is criminal.
Old people can always off themselves whenever they want to, anyway they want to regardless of whether it is legal to do so or not. Once done it is over. I see Obama’s stance on this as a non issue for him.
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Like trying to enforce sodomy laws in private bedrooms, laws against assisted suicides are pretty futile. You may catch a Kevorkian now and again, but for the most part, if you want to commit suicide, you can do so.
If you ban assisted suicides, people will find ways around or through that law.
I’m surprised about Llama’s stand on pot. While it is a great way to increase government excise tax revenues, it is not a great way to promote a healthy culture for our children.
If you are worried about the effects of legalized gay marriage, I can’t see how you can be pro-pot. Pot will do more to damage our youth than allowing a few gays and lesbians to marry.
Whatever. I’m sure the progressive liberals will find a way to convince us that pot is AOK. It seemed to work on Llama.
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PETER LEAVITT: Make no mistake about it. A vote for Obama will lead to . . .
One vote either way in this election will have no significance, unless it’s one of nine in a 5-4 decision in McCain v. Obama.
A Federalist Society panel about the court term just ended prophesied that gay marriage won’t reach the Supreme Court.
Any number of justices are powerless to cause, much less guarantee, abortions. You can drop to your knees and praise God that Roe v. Wave prevents the government from interfering in a woman’s pregnancy.
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Obama can’t be pro-abortion, for he says he wants fewer abortions to occur. He’s completely neutral about whether a particular pregnant woman gets an abortion. If you’re looking for a president who will persuade or pressure her to kill her fetus, Obama will disappoint you! He claims he is going de-incentivize [sounds like Republican jargon, doesn't it!] abortion by helping people to avoid unwanted pregnancy in the first place, and keep their fetuses if they want to.
Although McCain is “pro-life,” that’s not all he is. He’s also pro-criminalization! If the law brings death, then how in the world would criminalization be pro-life?
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While it is true that if Obama makes the next nominations that it won’t have much of an effect, that is because it is assumed that Stevens who is 88, I think, and Ginsburg, who is in her 70s are liberals and would be replaced with liberals.
It would be better by far if those two were replaced by justices similar in temperament and skill as Roberts and Alito, Thomas and/or Scalia.
Vote for McCain and give us a decent majority!
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NJL,
I mention he’s 72 because it establishes that he is likely to be a one term president. This is by his own admission.
But yes, I also think the man is too darn old to be president! And it’s not just because he appears forgetful.
But re post 14: What exactly are you reasons for thinking you could get another Alito through the nomination process now much less in January?
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NJ LAWYER: the next nominations . . . won’t have much of an effect . . . because . . . Stevens who is 88, I think . . . would be replaced with liberals.
That’s theoretically right, but no replacement will be as respected on the right and the left as Stevens is. He’s incredibly sharp, smart, and savvy, and knows how to maximize his influence. This is one case where age calls for reverence. His replacement, even by another liberal, will be a loss for liberalism with the result that the court will continue to get more conservative.
Ginsberg, a great believer in lifetime appointment, meaning the last calorie of effort possible, won’t leave.
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Now here is a gem regarding John McCain:
Obama can’t remember what has been preached and bellowed from the pulpit of his church for 20 years just to name one. This is probably one of the funniest comments I’ve read so far on “FORGETFUL” -
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Do you read a lot of comments on “FORGETFUL”. You crack me up.
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Anyone remember this?
And here we are, eight years later, all breathless about the necessity of electing Juan McSame so that he can “appoint conservative judges” to the SCOTUS.
Q: Why would he appoint judges who hold views other than his own? This is the same claim Giuliani made. (Anyone remember him, BTW?) These guys rule and legislate as liberals — excuse me, like statists — yet they want us to accept their word — to take it on faith — that they will appoint judges with constitutional viiews.
Pander, pander, pander … and more pandering …
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