McCain Backs Away from Abortion Pledge

http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/2008/08/17/obamessiah-has-nowhere-to-hide-on-this-one-the-walls-are-closing-in/

Instead of wasting your time on BS like this, asking a known baby killer what she thinks, why dont you ask Obama for a copy of his birth certificate.
I bet you wont get one.
Further Ibet you wont ask for one.
Because you are not news business you are a propoganda network.
Your boy Obama is not going to win, give it up.

OLD McSAME RepubliCON War Monger, BIG SPENDER and BORROWER, FLIP-FLOP and loves bush FAILURES. Hypocrite supreme!

I bet McCain has bigger fish to fry. When McCain is elected in November, he can look into this situation.

So I guess he must be OK with infanticide now, right?
The Base won’t mind too much. They are pretty rational about these things

This guy flipps more then the divers I saw last night in the Olympics.
Just pick a position Johnny. You’re as bad as Pelosi…

This is a very weak story…
Let’s look at Obama and the Resko problem. Obama, during the primary debate, stated he only knew Resko a few hours. In reality, Obama knew Resko, a criminal muslim that was convicted on 16 counts, for 17 years. Resko was his friend, supporter, and business associate. Obama owes Resko for the finicial start of his political ambition in the U S Senate.

Quiet day, a “no” story. Is it true McCain is now ahead in some polls. Time for Obama to display more dirty politics, but “the one” would never stoop to dirty politics.
***** McCain is the Man ********

Any jerk who feels the need to make some kind of issue of Obama’s middle name has already LOST, not made their argument.

Yet another example on McCain FLIP-FLOPPING. You conservatives have the nerve to get angry at ABC for reporting this. At least they are sticking to the issues. But I guess that is why you are angry.. you McCain supporters don’t like to stick to the issues. i.e. Paris Hilton/Barack Obama Comparison… yeah I guess we should start discussing what a celebrity Obama is rather than stick to the issues. Maybe then your candidate would look better. Nah he would still look like an adulterating flip flopping idiot.

war hero

Of course McCain has flipped on this. He’s backed away so many time from everything he claims to believe in…there’s no “there” there. He’s a liar who’ll do anything for political advantage.

Where is the news about Obama’s views on abortion??? There is a huge controversy going on RIGHT NOW and you blog about McCain changing positions from 8 years ago???
ABC is a shill for Obama

Actually, ABC is letting ‘Still in Saigon John’ off light.

Now that he is for the DRAFT, McCain needs all the body’s he can get to fight his many WARS.

McCain is one of his word?
HA!
National Security Policy
1. McCain thought Bush’s warrantless-wiretap program circumvented the law; now he believes the opposite.
2. McCain insisted that everyone, even “terrible killers,” “the worst kind of scum of humanity,” and detainees at Guantanamo Bay, “deserve to have some adjudication of their cases,” even if that means “releasing some of them.” McCain now believes the opposite.
3. He opposed indefinite detention of terrorist suspects. When the Supreme Court reached the same conclusion, he called it “one of the worst decisions in the history of this country.”
4. In February 2008, McCain reversed course on prohibiting waterboarding.
5. McCain was for closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay before he was against it.
6. When Barack Obama talked about going after terrorists in Pakistani mountains with predators, McCain criticized him for it. He’s since come to the opposite conclusion.
Foreign Policy
7. McCain was for kicking Russia out of the G8 before he was against it. Now, he’s for it again.
8. McCain supported moving “towards normalization of relations” with Cuba. Now he believes the opposite.
9. McCain believed the U.S. should engage in diplomacy with Hamas. Now he believes the opposite.
10. McCain believed the U.S. should engage in diplomacy with Syria. Now he believes the opposite.
11. McCain is both for and against a “rogue state rollback” as a focus of his foreign policy vision.
12. McCain used to champion the Law of the Sea convention, even volunteering to testify on the treaty’s behalf before a Senate committee. Now he opposes it.
13. McCain was against divestment from South Africa before he was for it.
Military Policy
14. McCain recently claimed that he was the “greatest critic” of Rumsfeld’s failed Iraq policy. In December 2003, McCain praised the same strategy as “a mission accomplished.” In March 2004, he said, “I’m confident we’re on the right course.” In December 2005, he said, “Overall, I think a year from now, we will have made a fair amount of progress if we stay the course.”
15. McCain has changed his mind about a long-term U.S. military presence in Iraq on multiple occasions, concluding, on multiple occasions, that a Korea-like presence is both a good and a bad idea.
16. McCain was against additional U.S. forces in Afghanistan before he was for it.
17. McCain said before the war in Iraq, “We will win this conflict. We will win it easily.” Four years later, McCain said he knew all along that the war in Iraq war was “probably going to be long and hard and tough.”
18. McCain has repeatedly said it’s a dangerous mistake to tell the “enemy” when U.S. troops would be out of Iraq. In May, McCain announced that most American troops would be home from Iraq by 2013.
19. McCain was against expanding the GI Bill before he was for it.
20. McCain staunchly opposed Obama’s Iraq withdrawal timetable, and even blasted Mitt Romney for having referenced the word during the GOP primaries. In July, after Iraqi officials endorsed Obama’s policy, McCain said a 16-month calendar sounds like “a pretty good timetable.”
Domestic Policy
21. McCain defended “privatizing” Social Security. Now he says he’s against privatization (though he actually still supports it.)
22. On Social Security, McCain said he would not, under any circumstances, raise taxes. Soon after, asked about a possible increase in the payroll tax, McCain said there’s “nothing that’s off the table.”
23. McCain wanted to change the Republican Party platform to protect abortion rights in cases of rape and incest. Now he doesn’t.
24. McCain supported storing spent nuclear fuel at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Now he believes the opposite.
25. He argued the NRA should not have a role in the Republican Party’s policy making. Now he believes the opposite.
26. In 1998, he championed raising cigarette taxes to fund programs to cut underage smoking, insisting that it would prevent illnesses and provide resources for public health programs. Now, McCain opposes a $0.61-per-pack tax increase, won’t commit to supporting a regulation bill he’s co-sponsoring, and has hired Philip Morris’ former lobbyist as his senior campaign adviser.
27. McCain is both for and against earmarks for Arizona.
28. McCain’s first mortgage plan was premised on the notion that homeowners facing foreclosure shouldn’t be “rewarded” for acting “irresponsibly.” His second mortgage plan took largely the opposite position.
29. McCain went from saying gay marriage should be allowed, to saying gay marriage shouldn’t be allowed.
30. McCain opposed a holiday to honor Martin Luther King, Jr., before he supported it.
31. McCain was anti-ethanol. Now he’s pro-ethanol.
32. McCain was both for and against state promotion of the Confederate flag.
33. In 2005, McCain endorsed intelligent design creationism, a year later he said the opposite, and a few months after that, he was both for and against creationism at the same time.
34. And on gay adoption, McCain initially said he’d rather let orphans go without families, then his campaign reversed course, and soon after, McCain reversed back.
35. In the Senate, McCain opposed a variety of measures on equal pay for women, and endorsed the Supreme Court’s Ledbetter decision. In July, however, McCain said, “I’m committed to making sure that there’s equal pay for equal work. That … is my record and you can count on it.”
36. McCain was against fully funding the No Child Left Behind Act before he was for it.
37. McCain was for affirmative action before he was against it.
Economic Policy
38. McCain was against Bush’s tax cuts for the very wealthy before he was for them.
39. John McCain initially argued that economics is not an area of expertise for him, saying, “I’m going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues; I still need to be educated,” and “The issue of economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should.” He now falsely denies ever having made these remarks and insists that he has a “very strong” understanding of economics.
40. McCain vowed, if elected, to balance the federal budget by the end of his first term. Soon after, he decided he would no longer even try to reach that goal. And soon after that, McCain abandoned his second position and went back to his first.
41. McCain said in 2005 that he opposed the tax cuts because they were “too tilted to the wealthy.” By 2007, he denied ever having said this, and falsely argued that he opposed the cuts because of increased government spending.
42. McCain thought the estate tax was perfectly fair. Now he believes the opposite.
43. McCain pledged in February 2008 that he would not, under any circumstances, raise taxes. Specifically, McCain was asked if he is a “‘read my lips’ candidate, no new taxes, no matter what?” referring to George H.W. Bush’s 1988 pledge. “No new taxes,” McCain responded. Two weeks later, McCain said, “I’m not making a ‘read my lips’ statement, in that I will not raise taxes.”
44. McCain has changed his entire economic worldview on multiple occasions.
45. McCain believes Americans are both better and worse off economically than they were before Bush took office.
Energy Policy
46. McCain supported the moratorium on coastal drilling ; now he’s against it.
47. McCain recently announced his strong opposition to a windfall-tax on oil company profits. Three weeks earlier, he was perfectly comfortable with the idea.
48. McCain endorsed a cap-and-trade policy with a mandatory emissions cap. In mid-June, McCain announced he wants the caps to voluntary.
49. McCain explained his belief that a temporary suspension of the federal gas tax would provide an immediate economic stimulus. Shortly thereafter, he argued the exact opposite.
50. McCain supported the Lieberman/Warner legislation to combat global warming. Now he doesn’t.
51. McCain was for national auto emissions standards before he was against them.
Immigration Policy
52. McCain was a co-sponsor of the DREAM Act, which would grant legal status to illegal immigrants’ kids who graduate from high school. In 2007, he announced his opposition to the bill. In 2008, McCain switched back.
53. On immigration policy in general, McCain announced in February 2008 that he would vote against his own bill.
54. In April, McCain promised voters that he would secure the borders “before proceeding to other reform measures.” Two months later, he abandoned his public pledge, pretended that he’d never made the promise in the first place, and vowed that a comprehensive immigration reform policy has always been, and would always be, his “top priority.”
Judicial Policy and the Rule of Law
55. McCain said he would “not impose a litmus test on any nominee.” He used to promise the opposite.
56. McCain believes the telecoms should be forced to explain their role in the administration’s warrantless surveillance program as a condition for retroactive immunity. He used to believe the opposite.
57. McCain went from saying he would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade to saying the exact opposite.
58 In June, McCain rejected the idea of a trial for Osama bin Laden, and thought Obama’s reference to Nuremberg was a misread of history. A month later, McCain argued the exact opposite position.
Campaign, Ethics, and Lobbying Reform
59. McCain supported his own lobbying-reform legislation from 1997. Now he doesn’t.
60. In 2006, McCain sponsored legislation to require grassroots lobbying coalitions to reveal their financial donors. In 2007, after receiving “feedback” on the proposal, McCain told far-right activist groups that he opposes his own measure.
61. McCain supported a campaign-finance bill, which bore his name, on strengthening the public-financing system. In June 2007, he abandoned his own legislation.
Politics and Associations
62. McCain wanted political support from radical televangelist John Hagee. Now he doesn’t. (He also believes his endorsement from Hagee was both a good and bad idea.)
63. McCain wanted political support from radical televangelist Rod Parsley. Now he doesn’t.
64. McCain says he considered and did not consider joining John Kerry’s Democratic ticket in 2004.
65. McCain is both for and against attacking Barack Obama over his former pastor at his former church.
66. McCain criticized TV preacher Jerry Falwell as “an agent of intolerance” in 2002, but then decided to cozy up to the man who said Americans “deserved” the 9/11 attacks.
67. In 2000, McCain accused Texas businessmen Sam and Charles Wyly of being corrupt, spending “dirty money” to help finance Bush’s presidential campaign. McCain not only filed a complaint against the Wylys for allegedly violating campaign finance law, he also lashed out at them publicly. In April, McCain reached out to the Wylys for support.
68. McCain was against presidential candidates campaigning at Bob Jones University before he was for it.
69. McCain decided in 2000 that he didn’t want anything to do with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, believing he “would taint the image of the ‘Straight Talk Express.’” Kissinger is now the Honorary Co-Chair for his presidential campaign in New York.
70. McCain believed powerful right-wing activist/lobbyist Grover Norquist was “corrupt, a shill for dictators, and (with just a dose of sarcasm) Jack Abramoff’s gay lover.” McCain now considers Norquist a key political ally.
71. McCain was for presidential candidates giving speeches in foreign countries before he was against it.

Open polling…I’m so confused.
I’m white,50+, male,got gassed by Daley senior in Grant Park, chicago/68. I live 7 1/2 miles from town on a dirt road. A lot of my buds were on the nam, many died there. I’ve paid soc. sec taxes for 39 years. My current retirement plan is die soon. I haven’t gotten a raise in 3 years, drive well over 100 miles a day for work so 40% of my take home goes in the tank.
This primary season I’ve been called “bitter, clingy, delusional and a whiner”. My long hair won’t cover up my red neck. I got my ged 3years out of grade school so I could work. Its all I do. I build with Habitat in my spare time and contribute to the local food bank regularly. I AM AMERICA…
Obama has been my choice since he spoke at the Dem convention. He’s differant. He MAY BE SOMEWHAT HONEST,who knows-
McCain has been lying to America since way before Nam. He has been on the government dole SINCE HIS BIRTH. Even now he’s double dipping taking a senators pay AND collecting social security. HAS ANY US PRESIDENT EVER BEEN ON SOCIAL SECURITY AT HIS SWEARING IN?
I’m old…but this guy could be MY grandfather.
Every one fears Change. BUT . If America doesn’t CHANGE she will perish!
Sorry if I don’t fit into your supposed polling.
Obama 8&12

Remember that Michelle, also, wrote a letter stating that she and Barrack supported late term abortions. Both of these people should have to watch what happens in a late term abortion, when the baby is born and is alive, crying, trying to hold on to life.
I HOPE AND PRAY THAT BARRACK OBAMA NEVER BECOMES PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. HE BASICALLY SUPPORTS KILLING BABIES!

John McCain wants the moderate vote AND the theocratic (“religious right”) vote. He CANNOT have both.
Stop juggling, John! Decide which one you want.

Tired of TIREDOFSTUPIDASSPEOPLE Like TIREDOFSTUPIDASSPEOPLE

This is a LAME article. I read it twice to make sure I was not seeing things. This is a clear redirect trying to protect Barak (Howdy Doody) Obama. The 5 point lead of MCCains is making the Lib Media crazy.

Its apparent that after the forum this weekend that Obama cannot speak without a teleprompter or speech written by Axelrod. McCain will shred Obama in the debates, that is, if Obama is the nominee. If Hillary is the nominee, then McCain will have his hands full. I can’t BELIEVE the DNC will allow this flake, Obama, to be their nominee….I hope and pray that Hillary wins it somehow.
As far as VP picks….Obama will choose one, then if he continues to sink in the polls as he is doing, he will flip-flop and say he meant to say someone else. It will be ok, cuz the DNC and the Obamabots are so full of Obamaberry Kool Aid!
Face it, Obama is falling in the polls and is basically toast! He needs Hillary….after all, the Convention IS about Hillary this year….remember? Obama, who?

Here we go again. Men and women discussing abortion. After many years of discussing the same problem, again, especially the conservative right, discuss the answer has been in our reach
always. Lets discuss male responsibility. Use those resources in and out of churches to teach males birth control and responsibity. Women in society will always see sex as love while their most counterparts will always see it as recreation. And thus the problem of unwanted pregnancy will continue. If Roe v Wade is overturned we will go back to the same. Conservative women will be able to get safer abortions(which have always been available to them under another title)
so they can put out the face of aposing
abortion and still feel safe. If you write back that doesn’t happen, you are kidding the public.

It would take me too long to write down how far the USA has fallen from grace since George W Bush went into office and we are still in that downward spiral. What I don’t get, how could so many people want to continue that downward spiral by voting for MCCain. I don’t get it, they say Obama has the educated voter and McCain has the less educated and the elderly. Does that mean the idiots might be running the country???McCain’s nothing but a beer peddler…

Sheesh. So much pointless bickering. Everybody’s worried about the Iraq War, gas prices (which have been dropping consistently over the past few weeks), gay rights, and abortion (to name a few). Yes, there has been some talk on the enviornment, and some on the economy (a rare positive side effect of rising gas prices). But what about education, and research in technology and medicine? How is the US going to compete in the future with other countries? What about a secure power supply for our country (I’m all for nuclear power, except for the little problem of securing the nuclear waste)? Personally, after 8 years of an incompetent Republican as Presdient, I hope for a Democrat to assume the office. Bush has ruined much that was wonderful about America.

McCain hints that the VP may be a pro-abortion
candidate, then Rush Limbaugh fires a shot across
the bow warning that this is not a conservative
approach.
McCain flips his story. WHO IS RUNNING FOR
PRESIDENT !! WHO WILL BE RUNNING THE COUNTRY
if McCain is elected. Looks like WE’RE the ones
waking up at 3 AM!!

This is an INSANE debate and an INSANE issue. We have a war for nothing that killed nearly 5 thousand people and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. These are ALL FULL TERM HUMAN BEINGS. I don’t hear the religious holy rollers taking about that. We have an economy in the toilet and a planet burning up. Pretty soon you religious fools won’t have a planet to even argue this insane issue about either cells in a petrie dish or a FETUS yes a FETUS. It’s a FETUS. Let me say that again a FETUS. Remember when you were in utero three months into your mother’s pregnancy? OH SURE. How many of you were products of incest…or rape? You utter insipid fools wake UP full term human life on earth may depend upon it!!

John McSame is a loser,a flip flopper and a serial cheater.All the rightwing bigots will vote for John McSame.

My wish is that every right to lifer has a wife or daughter who gets pregnant and will die if the pregnancy continues. I bet 999% end the pregnancy!

Did you watch the video at the top of the posts?
Here is another copy of it.
http://www.electionnews2008.com/obama-lies-on-abortion-again.htm

And once again McCain tells people what they want to hear. Well politicized McBush, never say what you really think on an issue.

WHAT DOES OBAMA’S BIRTH CERTIFICATE HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING. WHY DO YOU PEOPLE TRY TO AVOID THE TOPIC OR QUESTION BY BRINGING UP SOMETHING THAT HAS NO RELEVANCE.

WOW…… If you are a woman who is raped by a mentally retarded man homeless man of a different race, and you become pregnant, JOHN MCCAIN WANTS TO FORCE YOU TO HAVE THE BABY. JOHN MCCAIN THINKS HE KNOWS BETTER THAN YOU WHAT SHOULD BE DONE.

John McCain continues to hold a strong lead over Barack Obama in Louisiana. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the Bayou State finds the Republican on top 55% to 38%.
Posted by: Will
************************************************
Almost fell on the floor laughing regarding the
above!
No one has telephones anymore, If they did
then they probably still are listening to their
8 track Players. Had a pollster called my cell
phone, I’d be damned if my minutes were
wasted on that crap!

spacerook1:
I think its evident, after this weekend’s forum, that John McCain is the one America wants to receive that 3 am call. Obama, well, he needs to be back in Chicago, sleeping at 3am.
McCain 08!
Posted by: david from texas
David,
Not quite, McCain just said what they wanted to
hear, not what he is going to do. After all IF McCain
was totally against abortion, why is his family exempt from this issue. Or like he said “it’s only a
Family Issue?” Duh…

Time for bed, but it SURE is nice going to sleep knowing that President John McCain will be able to answer that 3 am call!
McCain 08!
__________________________________________________
McCain is totally incapacitated at 3 Am as he takes Ambien every night for sleep.

Alice – why would you vote for a guy whose party stands against everything Hillary believes in? That makes no sense to me. I supported Hillary in the primaries, too, but I’ll support Obama now if it means preventing another 4 years of Republican misrule. Please reconsider!
Posted by: kelly schirmer
Hey someone with wisdom.

I can’t vote for McCain. He’s just another disloyal wife cheating creep. And ya, I think anybody can see that this straight shooter can’t shoot straight. He lies and lies and lies

Let me get this straight, there is no room for an abortion when the mother’s life is in danger, on the republican platform?
I realy didn’t know that. I am not big on abortion, but this stand is ridiculous.

Obamas birth certificate:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/invite/birthcert?source=SEM-google-facts-87&gclid=CP7s8IuOnpUCFQOcFQodvySxjg
Its amazing how fast McCain’s suckers will go into denial.

ObamasNemesis, are you seriously trying to claim that the US President is a ‘higher pay grade’ than God?

ObamasNemesis – McCain lied in the forum
He is using the abortion issue as a political football. He says he’s pro-life yet he’s floating the idea of a por-choice running mate. That makes him a liar.

From reading this board, it seems that right wingers have some serious unresolved issues from their childhood, and are desperate for a strong ‘daddy’ figure.

BAIP?
There is a problem with your view. Why did the state of Ill. need a law that was Identical to Federal law? Word for word, worded exactly like the federal Law, these are there words not mine.
Why didn’t the good nurse then stop the deaths of those babies if there was a Federal law preventing it?

hard to argue with irrational posters. my guess is some are having fun antagonizing others. have a good time…

polls are for strippers.
both candidates will get a bump after the conventions. the election will be close just like the last two have been.

I’m sure the hypocrits on here who say life is sacred wont tell you that they’ll kill animals without thinking twice, they’ll ignore the poor and the homeless and the inner city kids as hopeless human beings to be kicked to the curb, throw them in jail (2 million Americans in jail now and rising) they’ll pollute our earth until we’re all dead, will go to needles war where 100,000 people are killed by our bombs, will let stem cells rot in a garbage can instead of being used to cure diseases and disabilities, that’s the true pro life platform of Rove’s party. I’m willing to adopt a more pro life platform, but unfortunately I cannot support the twisted hypocritical snobs called the Republicans whether they’re pro life or not. I will support Obama who worked hard and turned down great money making jobs to help inner city kids: that’s somebody who truly cares about life! And maybe in time with education and public support, abortion can be clamped down to a very rare occurance which is the only realistic solution.

actually zogby does online polls.

Can there really be any doubt that with the dirty campaign McCain is running that he wouldn’t listen to radio on the way to the event and find out the questions that were being asked? The fact is he wasn’t in a “cone of silence” as was falsely promised by the host and that throws a shadow of doubt over the entire McCain interview! He had every access he could want to the questions being asked and thus more time to formulate slick answers. The obvious give away was McCain answering quetions before they were even asked! I think McCain cheated, he’s too wiley not to have and I don’t think his campaign would’ve hesitatd to get any opportunistic upper hand it could.

Calling a US senator, or any American citizen for that matter, a terrorist comparable to Bin Laden is treason. I am convinced that neo cons are truly evil and enjoy terrorism more than they hate it, they should be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail in the true American tradition. These people are not Americans, they’re anti-Americans. They hate Americans that don’t agree with them. If we continue to listen to neo-cons, the American way of life will be destroyed by white supremist fascism or theological fanaticism, pick your poison, neo con’s embrace them both.

I’ve been quiet for a while, but I can’t hold back any more. McCain is creepy! I don’t like that somebody who is being negative is trying to be our president. And what he did to his first wife was flat out un-Christian. I am pro life but I don’t think anything will change about abortion one way or the other. Clinton didn’t change anything nor did Bush with a republican congress, it’s not a presidential matter, it’s a people matter. We should vote for a complete change of direction in this country because I am sick of the way things are on all the other issues we are dealing with. If people truly want to outlaw abortion they should vote for a constitutional amendment, which can be done without a president. I am a devout Christian living in a red state and i do not think McCain identifies more with Christians than Obama does. I think Obama really identifies with the Bible, with marraige, and with the teachings of Jesus, whereas McCain prays only when he’s in trouble.

Dan Tell me it’s not true, a politician pandering?

Im not sure why all this political talk about abortion?
it would be CRAZY for anyone to ban abortion with the state this country is in thats not even debating a womens right to her own body thats just talking economy!
so why debate it? so that the religious right will feel warm and cozy about you?

i think mccain is screwed with the abortion thing no matter what he does if he doesnt flip flop he is sure to lose the right if he does then its going to be brought up as he isnt strong on his belief and is pandering all the while i think everyone knows its not going to matter because its not going to change…

I find it unacceptable that women’s rights are being tossed around like a political football.
Now to debate when man thinks it is ok for a woman to have an abortion takes this debate to a higher level of insanity, no matter who is president.
This attack is against women. No man has the right to play God.

McCain has a pro-life record but supports stem cell research so his statement that he will have all pro-life policies isn’t true right there.
McCain isn’t a social issues guy, that’s not his thing, it’s not his priority. If McCain let’s himself be McCain then he’ll select a VP he thinks would make a good President and that person’s reproductive rights stance won’t be high priority when doing so and he won’t have a litmus test for the Supreme Court in regards to Roe vs. Wade. A reminder that any Supreme Court nominee needs to be approved by the majority of the Senate which will likely be predominantly Democrats this election and that the Judge who wrote the majority opinion on Roe vs Wade was a Republican Judge from MN, Harry Blackmun, who was appointed by the Republican President Nixon. Three of the four Supreme Court Justices appointed by Republican Presidents were on the majority opinion of Roe vs. Wade. McCain is pro-life but is considering pro-choice supporters as VP and Obama is pro-choice and has been considering pro-life supporters as VP.
Neither of these candidates are making abortion rights the end all or be all of their campaign.

What a non-issue falling attempt to attack McCain. McCain hasn’t backpedaled here, he didn’t say that he supports no abortions even in the case of rape, incest, and the life of the mother. What he did say is “There’s a process in place for the delegates to work on the platform and we are going to let that process work itself out.” Last I checked we still live in a democracy not a dictatorship. In a democracy at some point you are going to be in the minority and you have to suck it up and live with the decision of the majority. That’s life. When McCain comes out and says he actually supports unequivocal anti-abortion platform then you can call him a flip flopper on this.
Oh and alpaig52 don’t be ridiculous, there are more than enough embryos from natural miscarriages to do all the stem cell research necessary.

I agree with one of the posters. ABC should look at Obama’s vote against the born-alive infant protection act (containing the Roe V Wade protection).
I am not sure why they are not touching that topic. May be they don’t want to harm the chosen one.
Fox News is really beginning to look fair and balanced.

So Obama brings Biden on who has more foreign policy experience then him.
Didn’t Biden support going into Iraq?
Wasn’t it Biden who in 2005 said ,”I’ve been calling for more troops for over two years, along with John McCain”.
Wasn’t it Biden who said in 2007 about WMD’s ” the point is, it turned out they didn’t, but everyone in the world thought they had them ” and ” this was not some, some Cheney, you know pipe dream. This was in fact catalogued”.
Wasn’t this the Biden who also said ”
the more people learn about them (Obama and CLinton) and how they handle the pressure, the more their support will evaporate”. The same Biden who said in 2005 ” McCain is a personal friend, a great friend, and I would be honored to run with or against McCain, because I think the Country would be better off, be well off no matter who..”. Wow, he gets to come in and save Obama now that we know how he handles pressure and if they don’t win no problem because his good friend McCain will do just fine.
Good going Barack.

Davis Again- any Supreme Court appointee needs to be approved by the majority of the Senate which most likely after this election will be predominantly Democrat. Also, Again,
the majority opinion on Roe vs. Wade was written by a Republican Judge from Mn, Blackmun, who was appointed by a Republican President Nixon and three out of the four Supreme Court Justices appointed by Republicans were in the majority opinion on Roe vs Wade.

Hey, Biden won’t be able to hide from the comments he’s made on record about Iraq and Obama and McCain. But if he is brought on because he has more foreign policy experience then how do you explain his vote to invade Iraq?
his pushing for more troops along with McCain? his comments in opposition to setting deadlines on getting out of Iraq? so this is what those with the most knowledge around foreign policy support? geez, what does that say about Obama. Thank god Biden came on board I guess.

Not that theres room for principles since Obama will make the whole discussion MOOT.. The man barely understands the concepts of life issues. He’ll be too busy caving in to every lobby that forms around every obscure special interest they can invent.
If the far right can’t bend, they’ll be broken off.
I’m pro-life, but how could anyone force a rape victim to carry his child?
Can anyone imagine what trama that could bring having the government not even defend HER? To have the act perpetuated further by government force??
And an endangered mother. That’s not even pro-life, it’s WHICH life! NOT your jurisdiction, uncle sammy! That’s purely family turf!
I’m with McCain.. if I understand the amendment correctly.
It wouldnt be “political suicide”, it would be a party that understands that life contains only one absolute (that I’ll ever know of).

But Biden supported the invasion of Iraq and how will he attack on McCain on that? he felt we needed more troops there along with McCain and how will he attack that? he’s friends with McCain and wouldv’ve been honored to run with or against him so why should I take to seriously any attack he lodges at McCain since it’s clearly just politics and about winning?

I am pro choice (the only thing I agree with Obama on) but will vote McCain no matter where he stands on this. It’s sad that a woman’s body and her rights are still such an issue, since 1974 Roe V. Wade. The religious right is going to have to be happy with McCain’s VP choice I guess. I don’t care who he picks, OBAMA IS NOT AN OPTION (yet he has this one right).

Hey, Obama is a decent man. He loves his Country. He’s not Muslim. He’s not a socialist. He’s not a racist. He has many, many strengths and attributes but he has limited experience at a time when we have an economy that’s in the dumpster and a mess worldwide in regards to foreign policy. Obama needs to go back to Senate and actually show up for work and do some work and acquire the depth of knowledge, perspective and experience needed to run this Country and come back in 4-8 years and I’ll cast my vote for him but today he’s not ready.

Another item—Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are two of the most crazy idiots. I have listened to them on the radio. They are two of the most dynsfunctional radicals I have ever heard. They twist absolutely everything that Obama says. They are going nuts trying to stop the Obama Express. These two creeps should not be allowed on public radio. They are laughable. If they are so smart why aren’t they running for the Presidency? Limbaugh is a druggie that comes across as a loser. Hannity is coming across as a dysfunctional idiot that has an unhappy life. They sound almost panicky. Even though they claim otherwise, they sure are in McCain’s corner.

It seems like mccain is taking a pretty “hand off” approach on a lot of things. What type of “leader” would he really be. Pretty ineffectual.

So, McCain is turning into an over the hill version of Mitt Romney, but without the business sense. Such a deal!

http://my.barackobama.com/page/invite/birthcert

Obama’s birth certificate???? It was signed in the state of Kansas, where was McCain’s signed?
BTW.. it is McCain that wants to give your country away to the sovereign funds and multi-national oil companies.

p.s.–condi just farted on mccain’s iraq position.

GO Bob Barr!!!!!!!!!

McCain is a man who supports having a woman DIE before permitting a physician to perform an abortion. He is supporting NO exception even when the LIFE of the mother is at risk. How is that pro-life????? That is strictly pro-fetus, screw the LIFE of the mother. This is an EXTREME position. McCain is staking his claim on the far right of the RIGHT WING.

You republican hypocrites! If you’re fanatical about “Jesus” and the bible, how come you’re neglecting the fact that McCorpse cheated on his wife while she was at the hospital suffering?How come the Keating 5 means nothing to you? you evangelical freaks find all kinds of excuses to get McCorpse elected.All of a sudden your crappy values are thrown out the window when it comes to this immoral, stupid, risky(sick) idiot.You guys use religion as a weapon to line your pockets and deceive American idiots who have no clue how to think for themselves.It won’t work this time!

I’ve always thought it was funny that the GOP has no issue killing after someone is born, regardless of age and mental status, but OH NO that 8 week old fetus must be saved, regardless of whether it was the result of rape, incest or that it my kill or cripple the mother. The GOP position is not about the preservation of life, it is about control of the citizenry. If you want to really end abortion, EDUCATE! Convince people of the choice you believe to be correct.

I’m not surprised – i think the neocons are worried about fertility out there, they want to class contraception as abortion too.
McCain never really was a maverick as evidenced by his willingness to go which ever way the wind blows.
McCain has gotten such a free pass from the media, we never hear about his involvement with Jack Abramoff – his previous involvement with the Savings&Loan taxpayer bailout.
Electing McCain would just be a continuation of the current administration’s policies that are tilted too far towards corporate america ignoring ordinary people’s issues.
No more cowboy politicians with handler (Cheney hands the reins over to Lieberman)

Will the real John McCain please stand up!

alpaig52, you are truly ignorant. stem cells do not necessarily have anything to do with fetuses, aborted or miscarried or whatever. the most recent and promising human stem cells (which, ahem, save lives.. you’re pro-life, right?) have been found in adults’ spinal cord fluid and amongst the cells shed by the endometrium into period blood. oh i’m sorry, is having your period anti-jesus now?

First of all, Obama does have a legitimate birth certificate. Actually, if there was a question about that, McCain was born in Panama, but that is legal, so moving on.
Obama does NOT want late term abortions for frivilous reasons, but wants to protect the health of the mother and voted so that the mother could have an abortion if her health was dependent on it. Otherwise, she would die and then of course the baby would probably die also. That is why he voted as he did. He is for giving women a choice, but wants to decrease the NEED for abortions by implementing programs to cut down on unwanted pregnancies.
It is sad to read some of the ignorant and immature responses on here.

america, land of small minds and racists.
you are to stupid , not your fault, to see the world is watching and shamed by your behavior. the world is dying and you think edwards sex is important. thanks for the last eight years of pollution, hate, and war. you make your mama’s proud. freedom fries, gates of hell, dead or alive, no global warming, WMD’S, ………….
AMERICA SUCKS AND YOU REALIZE IT.
AMERICA IS OWNED BY THE CHINESE.
SOLD BY THE PATRIOT GWB.

You on the lunitic fringe are spreading lies faster then you can read, so full of hate and I bet your mama’s would be proud of how ignorant you are, you know McBush will lose because everything he and the smear campaign put out there about Obama is true of himself!!!!!!!!Hate breeds hate, are you having babies to breed more hate?

Ask John McCain with the 10 houses and the trophy (100 million dollar) wife where he was born?
Panama
Why is everyone so afraid of a man who was born outside the US?
because that’s how Republicans win, by playing on the “fears” of Americans.

Maybe this is why the media isn’t chasing the “birth certificate” story?
http://my.barackobama.com/page/invite/birthcert
Did it ever occur to you guys that some of the rumors flying around about Obama may be lies? Just ask yourself what is more likely: A) A US senator running for president doesn’t have a birth certificate or B) Some republicans are suggesting a false rumor about a Democratic candidate in order to win an election?

It is so important that the facts get out there.
It’s amazing what some will or say for power.
Here is the link to Obama’s birth certificate:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/invite/birthcert
We have to come together. We truly have real problems and all of this vitriol is not going to help us, but despite all of your rhetoric, you truly don’t put “Country First”.

I like to think that there probably one last thing that could realy prevent senator Obama to get some major support from many evangelicals republican and that is racism’s yes they presents themselfs to be noble birth right of the lord Jesus-Christ but all the deeds reflect the one that is call the devil oh yes you dont have to be a SHOLARD TO UNDERSTAND THIS ABOUT ONE WAYS OF ?It just a fact that this MCcain guy doenst deliver anything solid yiet they continuous to rally not behind the candidate Himself but behind the so call leaders of the evangelicals fractions well that unfortunate because this peoples themself have nothing but decievers to the body of Christ on earth they just dont do what He the Lord tell them to do they dont preach repentence to the world yiet they accecpt lecture from senator MCcain Himself on gorgiveness while at 71 years old still an unborn Christian and yiet highly regarded by they church leadershi[p as they representative that bring me to conclude they just racist.and I olso think that they are just the accomplisment of prophesy by the Lord Jesus-Christ Himself that this are the falses prophets that the Bible speack about they lies and it’s oke they support a lies. and a evryday liar and it’s all good with them they even say it day after day,by rev:odson testimony He even admit to be flipflopping for the sake of feeding His greeds and personal hatry and yiet yes it’s oke please the Christian those who know the bible need to revoque and change thing to please God and not men did not God shose the least among men and do great thing whith one just think about that and make up your own mind this time for your country and for for other men they rich for themself and they family look around you tell me with good conscience ouhhhh is it not true this peoples are so rich from the parishioner and they dont do nothing for the poor but just pretending and by using the poor name that need to stop and that need to change and you only you can bring that change in at this november election to say no no no nomore of this.God Bless America the world is washing and listening.

Dear spacerook1: (and other readers)
I apologize. I didn’t realize that the African-American slur was by Obamanemisis. My sinceriest apologies. Please replace your name with obamanemisis. Again, I am so sorry for using your name there. Sorry. :(

If I recall correctly, for the first six years of this decade, Republicans had control of Congress, two additional years of control of the White House, and new conservative recruits to the Supreme Court. I wonder when the party’s “base” of right-wing religious fundamentalists will wake up and realize that the Repub party has held most of the power in the 21st century and yet their has been no real progress made on their quest to ban abortion (and more lately also to ban birth control. You’d think they’d finally get it that their pet issue is rolled out every four years just to get their vote without any intention on the part of the Repubs to actually pass such legislation. Paraphrasing the words of the master, “Fool me once, well, you can’t get fooled again.”

McCain is Not Backing away from
Anything!
He made it clear in Saddleback that he
believes that life begins at conception!
It’s time for the MSM, ABC included,
to Stop Lying For Obama and let the
American People Decide the Election!
To bring up something from 8 years ago
is pathetic!
Obama changes his positions every
couple of weeks!

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Dad’s pro-choice…as long as the choice is which of our 17 houses to stay in!! LOL!!!
mccainblogarella.blogspot.com/

Is ABC so desperate to make John McCain look bad that you have to go back to 2000. Make a comparison, then put it on the front page.
That is pathetic, you know that don’t you.
Why dont you do a story on tha lack of an Obamas birth certificate, that will make for a real good story.
Posted by: Bing | Aug 20, 2008 9:10:03 PM
Actually BING… they only have to go back to Saddleback….

People who comment on Obama’s middle name and state he is a Muslim show little else than their prejudices.

Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran…. alright you young man …. be sure to register for the draft….. You can pick up the handy little pamplet at your Local United States Postal Service…

yall are all lame, shutup jesse jackson u racist ignorant %*$&#*#, OBAMA 08 B*TCHES!