Abortion Politics
The abortion positions of both McCain and Obama are starting to come to the mushy middle. Obama has denied the much repeated charge that he voted to allow babies to be kill even after they had somehow survived an abortion. There will be a ton of allegations going back and forth about different versions of bills and whatnot but the basic fact that he says he did not and does not want to make that legal is encouraging. I would have been very disappointed if he had accepted what the Republicans are saying about that vote and still defended it.
McCain, on the other hand, is showing what people have always felt about him. That he is pro-life but he is not very passionate about it. He resents the idea that it sould play a role in his VP assessment. That leaves people to wonder if he will let it play a role in his supreme court appointments. Think about it. The senate will be more Democrat than it is now. How hard will McCain have to fight to get a 5th pro-life vote onto the court? Is he going to go to the wall or is he going to compromise? My bet is the pro-lifers get excuses, fingerpointing, and a liberal judge.
Obama’s “pay grade” comment seems a little strange. He was not being asked to determine when life begins. He was being asked to discern when life begins. Does he feel this is unknowable? Why would being unsure whether or not something is human make it OK to kill it? I assume he means that the answer to when life begins is unchangable. But resolving doubt in favor of death rather than life means you are making a de facto change.
I guess I get very frustrated with the shallow answers both sides get away with in these debates. I know he is pro-choice and in this audience he is just hoping some folks will give him a hearing. But why even bring it up? Nobody learns anything new.
I thought the same thing on the question of evil. Yes, we need to fight evil. Yes, we can think we are doing good when we are actually doing evil. So how do you know? He talked about humility and being careful. What does that mean? To be tentative? To always second guess yourself? That is not what you want and it isn’t the way Obama is either. So how do you know what you think is good is not really evil? Like your pro-choice position.
I am just not sure either man has any kind of grasp on truth. They are playing political games. They are both playing the hand they are dealt. Obama’s hand is better right now. But does either man really know right and wrong? Something that is not based on polls or feelings. Both seem to get some right answers and some wrong answers but it seems like it is pretty much dumb luck. McCain’s Baptist church reinforced his conservative thinking. Obama’s black church reinforces his liberal thinking. They both think they know Jesus but do they?
Unfortunately, Obama apparently lied about his vote on the bill to require medical assistance for aborted children born live.
The National Right to Life Committee went back and checked his record. He claims he voted against the bill because it did not contain a clause protecting Roe v Wade that was in a related federal bill. But when NRLC checked, it found out that Obama himself had helped to get such a claus added, yet even with the claus added he still voted against the bill.
Obama holds some pretty extreme views on abortion.
August 18th, 2008 at 2:39 pmI know everyone is calling everyone else nasty names. I don’t want to get into that. What is important is that he did not defend the notion that a baby born alive should be allowed to die without medical aid. That is the position that many Republican were claiming he held. He denies it. There are many things the Republicans claim Obama secretly believes even though he denies it. Sadly that is the way they do politics. The infanticide allegation is now on that list.
August 18th, 2008 at 3:10 pmDo most Americans want GOD to BUTT OUT?
As Catholics and Christians, what is important in the upcoming elections? What are the priorities involved? Both candidates say they are Christian. Both candidates say they promote a “Culture of Life”! Obviously no candidate has ever been perfect. The only perfect man who ever walked the face of the earth was crucified by all of us sinners 2000 years ago. So how can we discern properly in this complicated, confusing and critical point, in the history of our country?
One of the presidential candidates and his followers say they promote a culture of life by helping the poor which will help, as they say, to diminish abortions. At the same time their presidential candidate says that before all other problems to tackle: “The first thing I’d do as president is sign the “Freedom of Choice Act”. That’s the first thing that I’d do.” — Senator Barack Obama, speaking to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, July 17, 2007 (http://www.nrlc.org/foca/index.html).
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October 30th, 2008 at 2:41 pm