Ok. How is Obama going to counter when the conservatives bring THIS up?

[BigBearJohn]

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=/Commentary/archive/200801/COM20080109b.html

[CalGator]

1. wait

I thought he was a DLC shill who was a total moderate?

Now's he the most pro-choice candidate ever?

The Hillbots need to stick to one talking point. It is too easy to refute two wholly different ones.

[abburdlen]

2. Wait. Clinton has told everyone

she was more pro-choice than Obama?

I have a feeling every year, whomever the Democrats nominate gets labeled as THE MOST PRO-ABORTION CANDIDATE evar!!!!

(in the end, being solidly pro-choice is a net positive with the American public, so I doubt he's sweating it)

[NanceGreggs]

3. Maybe he can ask "the Conservatives" ...

... about their record when it comes to protecting and/or providing for live children, post-birth.

Show me a Republican, and I'll show you someone who loves a fetus - and hates children.

[truthpusher]

4. "Sometimes I wish I was a woman, just so that I could get an abortion" John Waters....

....now that's somebody who likes abortion!

[anigbrowl]

5. Abortion has not been a hot-button issue in this election campaign

And almost certainly won't be, either.

[Skittles]

13. it does lose its appeal as a hot-button issue

with a war gone horribly wrong and an economy crashing around us

[NMMNG]

6. Oh for Pete's sake

Maybe somebody could counter with the thousands (millions?) of people starving and dying in the streets because those bastards keep cutting funding to social service programs every year. Funny how they rant and rave about fetuses but don't give a flying rip about human beings once they're born. :banghead:

[Maat]

7. Precisely (n/t)!

[Kitty Herder]

9. I agree.

Conservatives just don't make any sense to me.

[CalGator]

10. It's clearly the kids' fault their family is poor

what, with NAFTA, CAFTA, the WTO, and preferred trade status with a country that forces people to work for near slave wages, it is clearly the kids of America that drag America down.











:sarcasm:

[Ken Burch]

8. Like they aren't gonna call HRC a babykiller too.

n/t.

[Telly Savalas]

20. Yes, it would be really interesting to hear the OP explain how many people

he thinks would reject Obama on the issue of reproductive choice but would support Clinton and why.

I won't hold my breath though.

[Levgreee]

11. misread

[cloudythescribbler]

12. This anti-choice screed is more of the same old crap as usual; as for NEW crap

also check out:
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=/Commentary/archive/200802/COM20080208a.htm

at the same site. If Obama gets the nomination, this is the whining we will hear until election day. Obama is a very thoughtful politician, and shows that in the debates (even though by classical standards, he is widely tagged 'not a good debater'). He has risen in popularity for real reasons -- let the right wing rant and complain all they want.

I think Obama would make a STRONG candidate as nominee, and a good president. Hillary Clinton would also make a good president (though not as good IMHO as Barack Obama) but as a candidate, she just is not top notch. And that difference is crucial, lest we end up with someone who wants to stay in Iraq until the Greenland Icecap melts.

[npincus]

14. is there shame in being pro-choice?

Pro-choice Democrats should not expect under any circumstance to win the votes of the right-to-life crowd-- and that includes Hillary.

[cooolandrew]

15. Barack "I am from illinois so I know rough and tumbel"

[johnnydrama]

16. McCain

McCain is pro stem cell research.

So abortion is out as a campaign issue for 2008. To the people who think abortion is murder, stem cell research is murder as well.

[ellisonz]

17. They'd say that even if he was pro-life.

[retread]

18. Hey! How about a warning with that link? Terence Jeffery eeewwwwww!! n/t

[Orsino]

19. Simply by pointing out that America is pro-choice...

...and perhaps by noting incidentally that the word "pro-abortion" is a clumsy framing easily revealed as a lie.

[polichick]

21. Ick - Terry Jeffrey!!! nt