[frogjerk]

I feel better now. Thanks.

[aft_lizard]

Shhh. Don’t you know the single issue voters have spoken and thus it can not be undone?

[rightinthemiddle]

Okay, on another thread, his “spokesman” was quoted as saying McCain supports embryonic research.

I hope that report was wrong or a spokesman is about to be fired.

If this is McCain’s position, then good for him.

[politicket]

Don't try putting lipstick on THAT pig - and by pig, I'm referring to McCain's support of killing babies through embryonic stem cell research.

His spokesman has clearly stated that McCain is not backing down from that position.

The ONLY way that McCain will get my family's vote is if he backs down from embryonic stem cell research and makes it VERY clear in his speeches that he is doing so.

[1035rep]

bttt

[rightinthemiddle]

From the thread on the new McCain stem cell ad:

‘The omission (of embryonic research from the ad) is not a signal that McCain is backing away from his record in favor of embryonic stem cell research, spokesman Brian Rogers said.

“Clearly, John McCain supports it,” he said, emphasizing that the ad is intended to refer to all forms of stem cell research, including experiments using human embryos and those using cells from adults.’

So, does this mean McCain supports stem cell research using embryos that already exist? How does one acquire these embryos without “growing” them?

I’ll give McCain the benefit of the doubt and assume there’s some communication snafu. But the McCain camp needs to stop sending mixed signals.

[Salvation]

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[epow]

The hullablloo over stem cell research is unnecessary for both sides of the issue IMHO. As I understand the situation, and I admit that I could be mistaken, there are no legal restrictions on privately funded research on those live embryos now, only a ban on public funds being used for what many millions of Americans believe is tantamount to killing living human beings for scientific research purposes. If that is true, I certainly don't want any of my tax dollars to go for such research when there have been many recent discoveries and medical advances brought about by research on adult stem cells and infantile umbilical cord blood cells.

If McCain announces his opposition to such taxpayer funded research and makes it a significant issue in his campaign, the multiplied millions of evangelicals and Catholics who have so far been uncharacteristically cool to his long record of anti-abortion votes and his agreeable position on right to life issues in general may finally give him the credit he's due and get on board his wagon in order to keep the most fervently pro-abortion, pro-PBA, pro-public-funded stem cell research, pro-gay " rights" major party nominee ever to run for president from being elected.

Sure, McCain divorced his first wife for reasons that are antithetical to Catholic doctrine, and are also unacceptable to most evangelicals as well. There are a number of other less publicized factors that have kept him out of first-line favor with both evangelical and Catholic voters, but they all know that no candidate's life story or his/her positions on moral and ethical matters are going to be right down the line with their own doctrinal views on every issue. On balance, I think his opposition to taxpayer funded stem cell research will help him more than hurt him. At least I hope so, because I want Obama kept far away from Oval Office-level power as much or even more so than evangelicals and Catholics combined want that same thing.