Posted on 09/07/2008 6:32:38 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama considered joining military, regrets abortion answer By: Mike Allen September 7, 2008 09:11 AM EST
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) says his answer about abortion at the Saddleback Church forum was “probably” too flip.
During separate televised interviews last month, Pastor Rick Warren asked the two presidential candidates when a baby gets human rights. Obama replied that the question is “above my pay grade,” while Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) won love from the right by saying quickly, “At the moment of conception.”
Now, Obama tells ABC’s George Stephanopoulos in an interview taped for “This Week”: “What I intended to say is that, as a Christian, I have a lot of humility about understanding when does the soul enter into … It's a pretty tough question. And so, all I meant to communicate was that I don't presume to be able to answer these kinds of theological questions.”
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I get the impression he’s acting like he barely missed the war. The Viet Nam war ended when he was 10 years old!
It’s not like “gee, i almost slid in there and got to fight for my country!”
Oh wait, he was 9. Not even 9.5
or worse, after pushing the red button....
Now that’s a scary though.
Hillary wanted to be in the Marines.
She also wanted to join NASA.
Politicians of all stripes exaggerate, select, distort, and puff themselves up, and always have. The unique price we paid for the Clinton regime was that this kind of frank shameless lying became institutionalized in 'rat politics. Make up any damn thing that you think will sell, just make sure it isn't fact-checkable. Stick with old stories where all possible witnesses are dead or unidentifiable; hide as much of your paper trail as you can, ahead of time, just to be on the safe side; report vaporous nonsense about 'intentions,' which no one can see, as if it were the equivalent of action. Count on the NEA to keep the boobs stupid and hopefully they will never wake up to what you're doing.
Hard to believe he can say these things and not be shunned by society, isn't it?
Hardly worth reporting such a fleeting, idle thought, no doubt quickly banished.
He actually said that? Are you serious?
Been outdoors, haven’t seen any TV
I don't think so, unless it was your own. But there would be no doubt as to what kind of monster would fail to do so.
Good grief! They make things up as they go along. What next? Astronaut? Doctor? Scientist? Olympic athlete?
What an asshole. I mean, REALLY.
Shades of Hillary trying to join the Marines. Sure reminds me of that whopper.
He didn’t join the military and there is nothing more he can say.
Good point. My $$ is on NO. Any mention of the military in a positive light would no doubt horrify his readers.
BHO didn’t join because there was no MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) for Messiah.
After Sarahcudda's barbs, that is the best one I've heard all week!
Du-uuh
It’s just too obvious.
We must think this through. We must analyze. Consider all the possible answers. Take a poll. Consider the changing times. Project the future. Count the votes. Then answer.
“It’s above my pay grade.”
and what would that be?
ZerObama?
I’m not sure if I am an atheist or an agnostic. But I am sure that life begins at conception.
Individual life...a new person.
The origin of “Life” in the broader sense of all living creatures is harder to determine....but that’s theology, not biology.
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