Question?

[quirkysmilin]

How is Obama allowed to take a religious stand on refusing to answer when life really begins by delcaring it is "above his pay grade" yet his running mate tries to skew ancient teachings of the Catholic faith in favor of his political views? How does that fly?

[quirkysmilin]

Re: Question?

CBS briefly covered Obama’s remarks to a right-to-life question at Rick Warren’s church, yet completely ignored his infamous declaration that deciding when life begins is “above my pay grade.” They just ran the quote “I am pro-choice. I believe in Roe vs. Wade. And I come to that conclusion not because I'm pro-abortion, but because ultimately I don't think women make these decisions casually.” For CBS, abortion has been an issue in this race only on the Republican side. CBS has described Governor Sarah Palin’s views on abortion as “fierce” several times, but would never apply that adjective to Obama or Biden.


Obama’s record is beyond “fierce.” Not only has Obama dared to support the right to a partial-birth abortion, but in the Illinois state Senate, Obama fought against a Born-Alive Infant Protection Act, designed to offer legal protections to a child who survived an abortion attempt. In one debate in 2002, in a great spasm of ideological ardor, he argued it was acceptable for babies to be killed after they’d exited the womb, since trying to keep this tiny survivor alive “would just burden the original decision of the mother to abort the child.”


Obama wouldn’t want that gnawing tension across the dinner table: “Mom, why did you want me dead?”


This is the same Senator Obama that declared in April that he wouldn’t want his daughters to be “punished with a baby” for having premarital sex without contraceptives. CBS ignored that, too, as well as ABC. (NBC skipped it except for Tim Russert airing a clip on “Meet the Press.”) There is apparently nothing harsh Obama can say about babies that will be considered newsworthy by Barack’s disciplined message providers in the media.


Remember all this omission when you see vapid pseudo-journalists like Jon Stewart oozing to Michelle Obama that her family has been "vetted about as much as a family can be vetted." Remember all this when the networks claim the campaign should be about “the issues.” Obama’s been on the presidential campaign trail for twenty months, and the TV networks are still giving him a pass. At this point, it isn’t accidental, nor is it coincidental. It is deliberate.

[straydoglogic]

Re: Question?

How is Obama allowed to take a religious stand on refusing to answer when life really begins by delcaring it is "above his pay grade" yet his running mate tries to skew ancient teachings of the Catholic faith in favor of his political views? How does that fly?

im not sure i understand what youre asking...are you asking how they can have different views and explanations regarding religion?

[quirkysmilin]

Re: Question?

It just amazing to me that two men on the same ticket who are supposedly for the same basic issue - ie: abortion - can be so different when it comes to discussing it. One tries to make excuses for his lack of a stand and the other tries to explain it away with bs theories on what he thinks the Saints from the 1600's meant about the church's stance on abortion.