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Barack Obama Would Take Back Vote Helping Terri Schiavo
LifeNews.com ^ | February 26, 2008 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 02/26/2008 8:21:18 PM PST by SErtelt

by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor February 26, 2008

Cleveland, OH (LifeNews.com) -- Senator Barack Obama debated his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton on Tuesday night and said his biggest mistake was voting to help save Terri Schiavo. Terri is the disabled Florida woman whose husband won the legal right to starve her to death.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: assistedsuicide; barackobama; euthanasia; moralabsolutes; obama; prolife; schiavo; terrischiavo
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To: alecqss

So in other words. He would denounce a white racist antisemite if he had to, but since he doesn’t have to...

Don’t ask don’t tell.


21 posted on 02/26/2008 8:54:36 PM PST by shineon
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To: SErtelt

I’ve never encountered another individual who I liked more on a personal impression basis and hated more for his positions on morals issues. Take the others, say like Nancy Pelousi, Kerry, or Ted Kennedy — I can’t stand them personally either.


22 posted on 02/26/2008 8:57:04 PM PST by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurtureā„¢)
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To: SErtelt

G-d help us!


23 posted on 02/26/2008 9:01:27 PM PST by SkyDancer ("There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress - Mark Twain")
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To: steve86

I’m going to stick to my love of Jesus Christ. I’m really not a good political watcher.

But I’m telling you, I saw this same let me have it your way spirit in Deval Patrick.

It reminds of these verses

23Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.

24For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

We are entering the last act my friend. I’m not saying that the Obama Nation is the last act. I’m just saying that we are entering the last act.

That’s my story and I’m stickin to it.


24 posted on 02/26/2008 9:08:32 PM PST by shineon
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To: shineon

Yes, as you may know from other threads, I don’t disagree with that interpretation.

And I don’t mean “hate” in the Biblical sense, but I do find his positions terribly repulsive.


25 posted on 02/26/2008 9:11:32 PM PST by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurtureā„¢)
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To: SErtelt

I do not believe that is correct.

I do not believe from what I heard (or what his track record indicates) that he voted in favor of Terri Schiavo. After all, look at this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1975783/posts

I believe that he actually said that his regret is that he did not lead on the floor and use procedural technicalities, in order to stop Congress from trying to help Terri Schiavo.

Maybe we should both listen again.


26 posted on 02/26/2008 9:11:59 PM PST by unspun (Mike Huckabee: Government's job is "protect us, not have to provide for us." Duncan Hunter knows.)
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To: unspun

Yup, and I agree. Congress should not have gotten involved. Here’s the transcript:

RUSSERT: Senator Obama, any statements or vote you’d like to take back?

OBAMA: Well, you know, when I first arrived in the Senate that first year, we had a situation surrounding Terri Schiavo. And I remember how we adjourned with a unanimous agreement that eventually allowed Congress to interject itself into that decision making process of the families.

It wasn’t something I was comfortable with, but it was not something that I stood on the floor and stopped. And I think that was a mistake, and I think the American people understood that that was a mistake. And as a constitutional law professor, I knew better.

And so that’s an example I think of where inaction...

RUSSERT: This is the young woman with the feeding tube...

OBAMA: That’s exactly right.

RUSSERT: ... and the family disagreed as to whether it should be removed or not.

OBAMA: And I think that’s an example of inaction, and sometimes that can be as costly as action.


27 posted on 02/26/2008 9:25:22 PM PST by UndauntedR
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To: Williams

Yeah that wasn’t adding up to me at all. No sale.


28 posted on 02/26/2008 9:29:42 PM PST by Norman Bates (Freepmail me to be part of the McCain List!)
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To: SErtelt

Did anyone catch his line, “Exxon-Mobil made $11 BIL last year. It’s not going to be easy taking back some of the profit.” (Something like that.)


29 posted on 02/26/2008 9:32:14 PM PST by Norman Bates (Freepmail me to be part of the McCain List!)
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To: SErtelt

Just showing his true colors. Bastard.


30 posted on 02/26/2008 9:41:59 PM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp (Don't let Bill back into the White House to defile it again.)
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To: UndauntedR

The United States Constitution was signed in 1789, but the United States Charter was signed in 1776. It properly observes that our United States owes observance to the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God — and to our Creator endowed Right to Life.

If Congress has no place to protect the Right to Life, it has no foundation.


31 posted on 02/26/2008 9:42:48 PM PST by unspun (Mike Huckabee: Government's job is "protect us, not have to provide for us." Duncan Hunter knows.)
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To: shineon
He said he would. That’s nice. When is that going to happen?

Did you pay attention to the debate? He denounced Farahkan.

32 posted on 02/26/2008 9:50:58 PM PST by Swordfished
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To: shineon

and I applaud Obama on his new opinion Congress’s role in the Schiavo case, which is based on constitutional law.


33 posted on 02/26/2008 9:52:18 PM PST by Swordfished
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To: Swordfished

If he denounced Farrakhan, he better watch his back. Malcolm X didn’t make out so well after doing that.

Farrakhan has called him the next black messiah. Does he denounce that too?

Farrakhan does not just throw out endorsements. He vets his candidates.


34 posted on 02/26/2008 9:57:34 PM PST by shineon
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To: weegee

He did denounce Farrakhan — after he was forced to by Farrakhan’s controversial endorsement. How timely, considering his church’s Trumpet magazine gave Farrakhan a lifetime achievement award — last November.

I just noticed the TUCC.org web site has no link or reference to Trumpet magazine — and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright is retiring in early March.

How convenient.


35 posted on 02/26/2008 9:57:58 PM PST by zipper ( Suicide voting is the quickest way to send the whole country to Hell.)
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To: Swordfished

What constitution? Obviously not The United States Constitution. It has protections for people against what was done to Terri Schiavo. Failure to recognize her rights does not make her government imposed murder magically constitutional.


36 posted on 02/26/2008 10:03:11 PM PST by LilAngel (FReeping on a cell phone is like making Christmas dinner in an Easy Bake Oven)
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To: ari-freedom

“and he expects us to think he’s not a liberal”

obama is counting on suckers, fools and a protective media that hides his liberalism for his victory.

see my tagline.


37 posted on 02/26/2008 10:09:01 PM PST by WOSG (Obama: national journal ranked him most liberal senator in the Senate.)
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To: SErtelt
Well, isn’t that special?
But coming from a guy that thinks that babies who survive abortions should be left to die, I’m not surprised.
Tells you just how low our country has sunk, doesn’t it?
38 posted on 02/26/2008 10:17:14 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Guns don't kill people, gun free zones kill people)
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To: WOSG

also note that hillary simply could not respond to his answer “why yes, you really are a super liberal and here’s why...”


39 posted on 02/26/2008 10:17:43 PM PST by ari-freedom
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To: SErtelt
"Bo" Obama is sounding like Hitler. In 1941 Hitler's Ufa, the Nazi film agency used Liebeniener's film Ich klage an! (I Accuse) to convince the German people that it was essential to eliminate "all worthless lives." This euthanasia program was directed at handicapped and mentally ill children and adults. It is estimated that 70,000 German citizens were euthanized in mental institutions and killing centers. The German people were exposed to the idea of euthanasia through posters, movies, and books.

The idea that keeping seriously ill people alive was against the basic principles of nature, paved the way for the ultimate euthanasia program: the genocide of the Jewish people.

This is why I continue to call the Democrats "DemonRATs."

40 posted on 02/26/2008 11:19:55 PM PST by jonrick46
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