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Sunday, August 17, 2008

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Stances on when life begins among clear differences

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Garland

QUESTION: At one point does a human fetus have rights? OBAMA ANSWER: Urr, aah, urr, aah, urr, ahh.... that's above my paygrade. McCAIN ANSWER: At conception.
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Garland

QUESTION: At what point does a human fetus have rights? OBAMA ANSWER: Urr, aah, urr, aah, urr, ahh.... that's above my paygrade. McCAIN ANSWER: At conception.
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freedomtothelast

Mccain definintely answered the questions better and Obama saying at what point human life is created and saying thats above my paygrade...well it better not be if your going to be president..even i know that and i am 15...yikes
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soxconn

The questions were fundamentally of moral issues. McCains answers were from his values, while Obama's constantly leaned toward social relativism. AIDS, poverty and the environment(?) are social symptoms which the foundation values of religion try to address through faith based initiatives (with the exception of the environment). Obama's answers seemed to indicate we should wait for the social swarm to tell us what to do. Once again, this offers vulnerabilities from corrupt or biased feedback in the decision process. A leader must know what is right and what is wrong and not wait for the social intellect to tell him.
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rjanderson1916

Obama, uhh, aah, urr, uhh, where's the 3X5 card or teleprompter when you need it?
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RogueAmerican

Obama the clown is something else. Last night, he claims he doesn't know when human life begins. But as a legislator he votes to allow partial birth abortions yet doesn't know if he is destroying life or not? This man has no self morals or values at all. None.
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ozzy1

If Obama was at the "right paygrade" would he be able to say when life begins, I doubt it. Since he believes in late term abortion when the brains are sucked out of a living baby he couldn't tell you when life began but could tell you when it ended. His right paygrade should be in the Capitol Hill motorpool with a tire inflation gauge.
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beth1

before you can deal with lifes issues, you must deal with the issue of life - if there is not life, there are no issues
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nokatrina

No, Obamas was clear last night when he could not or would not say when babies get rights. He was clear that he does support abortion. Babies have no rights with him. John McCain on the other hand was immediatley able to assign human rights to human babies as soon as God allowed them to be conceived. There is no contest here: McCain is the clear winner. Obama never really answered any of the questions. It was er. . .um. . .uh. . .let's not get into specifics. . .uh right!!!
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Garland

QUESTION: Which present United States Supreme Court Justice would you NOT have nominated? OBAMA ANSWER: Clarence Thomas. McCAIN ANSWER: Ruth Ginsberg. I'ts easy to understand why McCain would have selected the former ALCU lawyer and communist, Ginsberg. Why did Obama throw Thomas under the bus? Thomas is not the most conservative justice. Is it because Obama believes that Thomas is an "uppity black." or is it because Thomas refuses to join Obama in pushing socialism onto our young people. The format was great last night and it should be used again. The candidates got the same questions, sat at the same table, had the same interviewer and the same audience. Very fair. McCain showed that he is a leader. Obama was in way over his head and showed that he is completely unqualified for the presidential paygrade.
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Mag7

We can salute McCain all we want (I'm not) but he reamins a pro-choice candidate. And according to Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge McCain appears ready to pick a pro-choice VP candidate. At least Obama is upfront about it. McCain is now going to a fundraiser with Ralph Reed, the same lowlife who, with Jack Abromoff, played tribe against tribe and extorted millions from Indian tribes. I'm angry about more than a single issue and McCain is wrong on most of them. I really enjoyed his windmill commercial, even though he has refused to attend all of the past eight votes on subsities to alternative energy. He doesn't want alternative energy and neither to the oil companies that are buying his vote.
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Pendamon

Obama struck out. McCain hit it out of the park. "That's above my pay grade"? I guess B.O. forgot the next president will have to nominate judges for the Supreme Court who will have to decide such matters. How will he know who to nominate? I guess Joe Biden will tell him. B.O. said Clarence Thomas shouldn't have been nominated to the Supreme Court because he "lacked experience"---when Thomas had more experience than Obama, and Obama wants to be PRESIDENT! Obama stammered and stuttered his way through his long, boring hour, while McCain was decisive, unequivocal, and Presidential. Who wants a president who will sit down and "listen to both sides", stick his finger in the wind and then make a decision based on which way the political wind is blowing? The only case B.O. could come up with when asked for an example of when he went against the party line and "did what was best for America" was when he worked on ethics reform---which was John McCain's legislation---and B.O. betrayed McCain on it and went with the Democrats! What a hypocrite. B.O. was dishonest last night. Does anybody in their right mind think he will do anything to stop abortion? He said abortions have not decreased in the last 8 years, but that's a lie---they have under Bush's policies. I cannot imagine B.O. picking up any evangelical votes from last night---but I can guarantee you McCain did. B.O. is nothing but a political hack. "Above his pay grade"? Obama shouldn't even be a Senator, let alone President. He needs to go back to Illinois where they can appreciate a corrupt,dishonest,stuttering greasy-slick politico on the take.
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bfsand

We are now seeing the real B. Hussein Obama. He stole that phrase from a movie an actor at a low bureaucratic level used in order to save his own skin. In reality, for a nominee for the Presidency, there is NO issue "above his pay grade." In their blind arrogance and ignorance, the Dimocrat Party has nominated a total Zero, a man with no experience, no historical perspective, incredibly bad judgment and a prop for his image-makers who lack core values. Obama is going to lose in November, and if this keeps up, by a landslide.
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Pendamon

I tend to believe more and more that Obama will be losing by a landslide in November as well. I wonder if there is still time for the Democrats to nominate someone else.
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bfsand

Of course there is time for the Dimocrats to nominate someone else. It is the point the Clintons are clinging to, and no one, particularly in the MSM, will talk about it, though Hillary alluded to this, though the MSM still wouldn't pick it up. No one, absolutely no one, wants to be tarred as prejudiced, and today that's easily done. William Tecumseh Sherman was right in his letters of 1860, forecasting that however "reasonable and moderate" Abraham Lincoln might be, in the South his name was like a red rag to a bull so that his election to the Presidency would make civil war likely --- "reason has little influence in this world: prejudice governs." Well, to a degree, Sherman is still right. The South will never vote for Obama and no one has ever won the Presidency without the South. There is a element of the Dimocrat Party that knows this, along with the Clintons. It will be interesting to see if the Dims, at their convention, will truly understand this.
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