Obama '08?

I admit to being conflicted over the issue of abortion. My Catholic upbringing is a factor. But on the other hand...

You have just opened a can of worms, rjb.

Woe, first time I've heard you riled up.

but Obama has voted to consent to the death of children virtually full term.

I am starting to get inundated with robo-calls here in Virginia. Several a day in the 1/2 day I am home. All from the right. The latest and most virulent was from a group claiming to address the issue of abortion. It went something like: Do you intend to vote? Do you intend to vote for McCain or Obama? Did you know that Obama etc, etc? Pretty nasty stuff. Now that you know that, will you vote for McCain?

I admit to being conflicted over the issue of abortion. My Catholic upbringing is a factor. But on the other hand...
I suspect that this robo-call message is not going to play well in Virginia.

Virginia, BTW, is now solidly blue on Pollster.com, thanks to Johnboy and TKO.
One more task: get the vote out despite projected long lines.
That, I fear, could be a problem. My legs and my bladder won't allow me to stand in line for hours.

but Obama has voted to consent to the death of children virtually full term.

Here’s the truth about Barack Obama and the bill:

At the time Barack voted against a bill containing language designed to protect infants who were “born alive,” such protection was already on the books as Illinois state law.[1]

The accusations against Barack are so reckless that not even the Republican state senator who sponsored the bill will support them. In fact, he freely admits that “None of those who voted against SB-1082 favored infanticide.”[2]

The bill was opposed by many legislators and groups like the Illinois Medical Society because of the unintended impact it would have had on other laws and legal precedents in Illinois.[3]

Barack is on the record[3] saying that he would have supported a similar bill that came up in Congress -- but that didn’t pose a threat to a woman’s right to choose the way the Illinois bill did.[4]

As Obama has oscillated, moving somewhat above or somewhat below 50 percent in all the October polls, his election likely hangs in the balance . . . Likely a disproportionate number of the undecideds will vote for McCain.

But don't write Obama off. His candidacy strikes such enthusiasm among young and minority voters that there is still a chance that a massive turnout will deliver the race to the Democrats.

okie wrote:

Woe, first time I've heard you riled up.

Amusingly, folks, back when A2K had the pm capability, Okie and I talked about some of the economics of the oil industry. We disagreed about that subject also, but I learned a lot.
I was not meaning to snap at you. It is not my style, Okie.
But, in reference to your quote above, I did strike out at a particularly vicious poster on A2K about a year or two ago who made what, in my mind, was an appallingly racist comment about another A2k'er. I expected to get tossed off A2K.
So, fair warning, I don't get riled easily, but...

It is now general policy for Obama to deny what he has said or supported in the past, so this is no surprise that you would now claim Obama does not support womens choice to kill almost full term children. Obama claims lots of things, and so the spin continues, and I don't happen to believe him, not anymore. Obama is a spinster, a slickster, no doubt, he will try to make it look like he agrees with everybody, he will not commit to much of anything, except Change, which means what, who knows?

The accusations against Barack are so reckless that not even the Republican state senator who sponsored the bill will support them. In fact, he freely admits that “None of those who voted against SB-1082 favored infanticide.”

Fact remains, if you believe in partial birth abortion, vote Obama.

Votes don't lie, Diest. As much as Obama would want us to not use any record at all about who he is, there is a record, as scant as it is.

Now, Obama even complains when we quote him. Sheesh, we can't connect Obama with his friends and associates, and mentors, thats unfair, a "smear," and now he claims its unfair and smearing him to connect Obama to Obama. Bizarre campaign! Who is Obama? I guess the Obama of yesterday is not the Obama of today, so just who is he?