Americans who want there to be a country left in which to argue our issues must vote against McCain. As his support for the Bush lies about Iraq shows McCain is hung up on his own version of post-Vietnam traumatic stress disorder. This is a man who would take our civilian culture down in flames and sacrifice it to his sense of death-or-glory military "honor." How do you "win" a wrong war? McCain will make the world more dangerous. You think Bush was a cowboy? Just try McCain. George W. Bush has sanctioned torture, contravened the Geneva conventions, and has lied to the American people about all of it.
Bush has destabilized the world. The latest evidence of this is the fact that Russia attacked Georgia. In the climate of Bush's aggression, where is our moral standing to criticize Russia? McCain offers no alternative. These too are life issues.
When it comes to the issue of abortion there is another side besides legality/illegality: the nature of our country. What kind of care do we provide to mothers and children? What is our educational system like? Is healthcare available to all? Do our preschool programs and everything from paternal and maternal leave to the economic well-being of our country come first? Or do we argue about abortion rights while we live lives of such supreme selfish decadence that the nature of our country means that no matter what we do with the laws about abortion life will not be valued?
The Republican leadership is not pro-life. They are simply against abortion for reasons of political expediency. They are also for torture and military aggression. And they chose a literal executioner for president; a former governor who has more blood on his hands than any other modern American governor; Mr. Texas-sized, Capital Punishment-with-no-mercy-no-pardons hang em' high himself.
The Republicans have contributed to climate change by coddling oil companies and car companies and ducking the hard environmental and energy policy questions for thirty years. They have literally sold our country to the highest polluting bidders from the Saudis to the Chinese. Therefore the Republicans have literally risked the ability of our planet to sustain all human life born and unborn. So much for human life values...on August 16 in the interview between pastor Rick Warren of the Saddleback Church and Obama and McCain. Obama gave real and thoughtful answers, often trying to explore a moral question deeply. McCain offered nothing more than canned applause lines and anecdotes from his tired simplistic stump speech.
McCain fed pre-programed red meat to the Evangelical faithful who were packing the auditorium, but not much more. He parroted all the "right" lines about abortion, the same empty phrases Bush, parrots, Bush's father parroted and Reagan and Ford parroted. "When does life begin?" asked Warren. "At conception!" shot back McCain. The Evangelical crowd goes wild! See?! That's our guy! And where do the tired canned pro-life "correct answers" get us? Nowhere.
As I listen to Senator Obama speak, as I see the selfless altruistic energy he has generated in a whole new generation of young people, as I think about the ethical, caring culture he would like to foster with healthcare for all, a revamped and reenergized educational system that includes the arts, history, poetry and all those things that make life worthwhile, as I think about the wars my son's brothers-in-arms are still mired and dying in because of the hubris of the Republicans, as I think about the crying need to restore our standing in the world, as I think about the scandalous way in which the Republicans have manipulated people, including the most sincere Evangelicals, Orthodox and Roman Catholics, to get their votes, while not actually doing anything about the issues they care most about, yes, I am ready to for a change.
In Obama's America arguments for compassion for the unborn and all the other "least of these" will resonate regardless of Obama's stance on the legality of abortion. Roe is not the point. Our hearts are the point. The unborn like everyone else will do better in a country that puts people, the earth, and our future ahead of greed, oil company profits and jingoistic rule by fear.
I will be voting for Senator Obama and am fighting for his election because I am pro-life.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/frank-as-a-former-pro-lif_b_119...
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This is just yet another example of liberal morality. What he is saying is that he thinks it should be legal for a doctor to put a scapel into a woman's womb and literall HACK THE BABY TO DEATH. To a liberal, not only do they ok it, they think it is a good thing!! Liberals, like this asshole Obama have no better morality than a steaming pile of dog shit on the sidewalk. FUCK OBAMA and his REV WRIGHT loving ass. AND fuck that cunt, Michelle, he's married to. She's "never been proud of the U.S."
MrCope456 2 weeks ago
GOD CAN SEE YOU SHINING
Shadows fall on holy ground. Earthbound angels walk around,
wearing out your dusty clothes. Wandering angels, Heaven knows
that God can find you, Heaven hears you, God can see you shining.
Every baby's holy birth lands a little angel here on Earth,
sheltered from the dark of day. Mother sings your fears away.
She sings God can find you, Heaven hears you, God can see you shining.
eastariel 5 months ago
Sometimes angels lose their way following the darkness of the day.
Cry the dust out of your eyes. You'll see we're all angels in disguise,
and God can find you, Heaven hears you, God can see you shining.
Baby angel, when you're born, mother keeps you safe and warm.
Reach your wings into the sky. Someday you will learn to fly,
when you see God can find you, Heaven hears you, God can see you shining.
eastariel 5 months ago
And I though Americans believed in freedom. My opinion is that woman should be able to choose what happens to the child. I think that the baby life really starts and 5-6weeks. Pro Choice all the way. Barack Obama knows what he's talking about,- in my opinion.
MizCourtneyN 6 months ago
@ryddelwearsahat Unplugging someones life support is different since most of the time, not saying all of the time, the person has told someone that if they were ever a vegetable to unplug them... that is also a very hard subject. And your right it does depend on the circumstances, everyone is different, everyone has their own views, however babies do have rights too and not giving them a chance to live is not moral. Having a president that voted against babies having rights bothers me.
ku4ubabe 9 months ago
-c is it legal and moral to unplug the comatose at times, and the braindead and those on serious life-support. It depends on the circumstances individually, everyone and every situation is different. Killing is not intrinsically evil, either- sometimes it is quite necessary for survival. It is legal to have an abortion for the same reason rape and slavery are illegal.
ryddelwearsahat 9 months ago
@ku4ubabe Uh, does your heart do your thinking, feelings, motor control, memorizing, learning for you? Or does it pump blood? Do ears and nerve buds do that? No- the brain does, and until it is developed enough to receive, interpret, AND process AND REACT to information and stimuli, there is no 'person', just a body. You should understand what the brain does- did you never go to school? Consent to sex is not consent to parenthood, it is consent to sex. Comatose is not braindead, and anyway -c
ryddelwearsahat 9 months ago
@ryddelwearsahat A "fetus" does feel and is conscious, he/she can hear their mom. A heartbeat is not meaningless, where there is a heartbeat there is a soul, just because someone is comatose doesn't mean they are useless... they are still a living, breathing person. Women do have a choice, that choice is to have sex or not have sex, yes there are cases of rape where they may get pregnant, I could not even imagine going through that, but my opinion is to give the baby up for adoption, not kill
ku4ubabe 9 months ago
@ku4ubabe A heartbeat means what, exactly? Does that mean the fetus is no longer unthinking, unfeeling, and w/o opinions, memories, thoughts, consciousness, and it can giggle, coo, puke burp and cry, and is no longer inside of, attached to, and part of one woman for 9 mos? Babies are born. We celebrate birthdays, not conception days. A heartbeat is meaningless- the braindead and comatose have heartbeats too- doesn't mean they have anything else(useful) going on.
ryddelwearsahat 9 months ago
@ryddelwearsahat A "Fetus" has a heartbeat after ONLY 18 days, the mother of that "fetus" will only be 4 days late for her period by that point.... A "fetus" is a baby, he or she is living.... not trying to argue, everyone has their own opinions....
ku4ubabe 9 months ago