Posted on 10/11/2008 12:22:22 PM PDT by Keyes2000mt
In this same spirit, as defenders of the culture of life, John McCain and I believe in the goodness and potential of every innocent life. I believe the truest measure of any society is how it treats those who are least able to defend and speak for themselves. And who is more vulnerable, or more innocent, than a child?
When I learned that my son Trig would have special needs, I had to prepare my heart for the challenges to come. At first I was scared, and Todd and I had to ask for strength and understanding. But I can tell you a few things Ive learned already.
Yes, every innocent life matters. Everyone belongs in the circle of protection. Every child has something to contribute to the world, if we give them that chance. There are the worlds standards of perfection and then there are Gods, and these are the final measure. Every child is beautiful before God, and dear to Him for their own sake.
As for our beautiful baby boy, for Todd and me, he is only more precious because he is vulnerable. In some ways, I think we stand to learn more from him than he does from us. When we hold Trig and care for him, we dont feel scared anymore. We feel blessed.
Its hard to think of many issues that could possibly be more important than who is protected in law and who isnt who is granted life and who is denied it. So when our opponent, Senator Obama, speaks about questions of life, I listen very carefully.
I listened when he defended his unconditional support for unlimited abortions. He said that a woman shouldnt have to be quote punished with a baby. He said that right here in Johnstown punished with a baby and its about time we called him on it. The more I hear from Senator Obama, the more I understand why he is so vague and evasive on the subject. Americans need to see his record for what it is. Its not negative or mean-spirited to talk to about his record. Whatever party you belong to, there are facts you need to know.
Senator Obama has voted against bills to end partial-birth abortion. In the Illinois Senate, a bipartisan majority passed legislation against that practice. Senator Obama opposed that bill. He voted against it in committee, and voted present on the Senate floor. In that legislature, present is how you vote when youre against something, but dont want to be held to account.
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Democrat, described partial-birth abortion as too close to infanticide. Barack Obama thinks its a constitutional right, but he is wrong.
Most troubling, as a state senator, Barack Obama wouldnt even stand up for the rights of infants born alive during an abortion. These infants often babies with special needs are simply left to die.
In 2002, Congress unanimously passed a federal law to require medical care for those babies who survive an abortion. Theyre living, breathing babies, but Senator Obama describes them as pre-viable. This merciful law was called the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. Illinois had a version of the same law. Obama voted against it.
Asked about this vote, Senator Obama assured a reporter that hed have voted yes on that bill if it had contained language similar to the federal version of the Born Alive Act. Theres just one little problem with that story: the language of both the state and federal bills was identical.
In short, Senator Obama is a politician who has long since left behind even the middle ground on the issue of life. He has sided with those who wont even protect a child born alive. And this exposes the emptiness of his promises to move beyond the old politics.
In both parties, Americans have many concerns to be weighed in the votes they cast on November fourth. In times like these, with wars and a financial crisis, its easy to forget even as deep and abiding a concern as the right to life. And it seems our opponent hopes that you will forget. Like so much else in his agenda, he hopes you wont notice how radical his ideas and record are until its too late.
But let there be no misunderstanding about the stakes.
A vote for Barack Obama is a vote for activist courts that will continue to smother the open and democratic debate we need on this issue, at both the state and federal level. A vote for Barack Obama would give the ultimate power over the issue of life to a politician who has never once done anything to protect the unborn. As Senator Obama told Pastor Rick Warren, its above his pay grade.
For a candidate who talks so often about hope, he offers no hope at all in meeting this great challenge to the conscience of America. There is a growing consensus in our country that we can overcome narrow partisanship on this issue, and bring all the resources of a generous country to the aid of both women in need and the child waiting to be born. We need more of the compassion and idealism that our opponents own party, at its best, once stood for. We need the clarity and conviction of leaders like the late Governor Bob Casey.
He represented a humanity that speaks to all of us no matter what our party, our background, our faith, or our gender. And no matter your position on this sensitive subject, I hope that spirit will guide you on Election Day. I ask you to vote for McCain-Palin on the November fourth, and help us to bring this country together in the rational discussion of compassion and life.
Obama and Born Alive act exposed so that even children can understand - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA-EU72Sp0A
what a terrific speech....says it all....
WOW!
Let’s face it...this lady has FAR more power in every one of her speeches than the 3 guys in the race combined.
Thank you, Sarah!
“When we hold Trig and care for him, we dont feel scared anymore. We feel blessed.”
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Yes, Palin is the real deal.
Refreshing to say the least.
Beautiful. Sarah’s stance on life is one of the main reasons I will proudly vote for her and for John McCain.
It’s about time we had a high profile conservative willing to speak out. The lady has more cajonies then most of the men in Washington city.
A friend from high school days (long, long ago) recently sent me this e-mail.
Oct. 7, 2008 | My government is my worst enemy. Im going to fight them with any means at hand. This was former revolutionary terrorist Bill Ayers back in his old Weather Underground days, right? Imagine what Sarah Palin is going to do with this incendiary quote as she tears into Barack Obama this week. Only one problem. The quote is from Joe Vogler, the raging anti-American who founded the Alaska Independence Party. Inconveniently for Palin, thats the very same secessionist party that her husband, Todd, belonged to for seven years and that she sent a shout-out to as Alaska governor earlier this year. (Keep up the good work, Palin told AIP members. And God bless you.) Enjoy this story? Thanks for your support. AIP chairwoman Lynette Clark told me recently that Sarah Palin is her kind of gal. Shes Alaskan to the bone she sounds just like Joe Vogler. So who are these America-haters that the Palins are pallin around with? Before his strange murder in 1993, party founder Vogler preached armed insurrection against the United States of America. Vogler, who always carried a Magnum with him, was fond of saying, When the [federal] bureaucrats come after me, I suggest they wear red coats. They make better targets. In the federal government are the biggest liars in the United States, and I hate them with a passion. They think they own [Alaska]. There comes a time when people will choose to die with honor rather than live with dishonor. That time may be coming here. Our goal is ultimate independence by peaceful means under a minimal government fully responsive to the people. I hope we dont have to take human life, but if they go on tramping on our property rights, look out, were ready to die. This quote is from Coming Into the Country, by John McPhee, who traipsed around Alaskas remote gold mining country with Vogler for his 1991 book. The violent-tempered secessionist vowed to McPhee that if any federal official tried to stop him from polluting Alaskas rivers with his earth-moving equipment, he would run over him with a Cat and turn mosquitoes loose on him while he dies. Vogler wasnt just a blowhard either. He put his secessionist ideas into action, working to build AIP membership to 20,000 ?quot; an impressive figure by Alaska standards ?quot; and to elect party member Walter Hickel as governor in 1990. Voglers greatest moment of glory was to be his 1993 appearance before the United Nations to denounce United States tyranny before the entire world and to demand Alaskas freedom. The Alaska secessionist had persuaded the government of Iran to sponsor his anti-American harangue. Thats right Iran. The Islamic dictatorship. The taker of American hostages. The rogue nation that McCain and Palin have excoriated Obama for suggesting we diplomatically engage. That Iran. AIP leaders allege that Vogler, who was murdered that year by a fellow secessionist, was taken out by powerful forces in the U.S. before he could reach his U.N. platform. The United States government would have been deeply embarrassed, by Voglers U.N. speech, darkly suggests Clark. And we cant have that, can we? The Republican ticket is working hard this week to make Barack Obamas tenuous connection to graying, 60s revolutionary Bill Ayers a major campaign issue. But the Palins connection to anti-American extremism is much more central to their political biographies. Imagine the uproar if Michelle Obama was revealed to have joined a black nationalist party whose founder preached armed secession from the United States and who enlisted the government of Iran in his cause? The Obama campaign would probably not have survived such an explosive revelation. Particularly if Barack Obama himself was videotaped giving the anti-American secessionists his wholehearted support just months ago. Wheres the outrage, Sarah Palin has been asking this week, in her attacks on Obamas fuzzy ties to Ayers? The question is more appropriate when applied to her own disturbing associations.
My response so far is that the ties between o and ayers are not fuzzy.
Help Sarah.
She asked for our help the other day with the MSM.
We MUST get the word out. Time is so short.
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CALLING OBAMA A RESPECTABLE FAMILY MAN THAT WE NEED NOT FEAR IS OUTRAGEOUS!
McCAIN TAKING THE ABUSE AND INSULTS FROM OBAMA AND REFUSING TO FIGHT BACK IS OUTRAGEOUS!
WERE NOT TURNING THE WHITE HOUSE KEYS OVER TO BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA- NOT IF WE ON FR, RUSH, HANNITY AND FOX HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT!
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McCain is losing this campaign because he refuses to fight Obama and his lies, and dirty tactics such as ACORN voter fraud. Hes just been rolling over (or bending over, I should say) and accepting the abuse heaped upon him- and expecially Sarah Palin.
The anemic attempts by the McCain camp to fight back within the last few days just aint gonna get it.
He should have been hitting Obama back hard months ago.
He needs to get out there every day and FIGHT BACK.
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To h*ll with bipartisian BS!
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To h*ll with conducting a respectful campaignas McCain has said, and vowed to do.
RESPECTFUL CAMPAIGNING WENT STRAIGHT OUT THE WINDOW WITH OBAMAS NASTY, BRUTAL COMMENTS SUCH AS;
lipstick on a pig and You can wrap AN OLD FISH in a piece of paper called change. Its still going to stink after eight years.
Take off the gloves, McCain!
Hit the Marxist/Muslim hard with Ayers, Acorn, Violation of Logan Act, abortion, 2nd admendment, Campaigning for Odinga!!
Get off the d*mned economy issue. State that Obama/Democrats/ACORN caused this meltdown. State McCain offered a proposal to avert the meltdown and GET OFF IT.
Obama is counting on keeping this going to take the spotlight off his sordid past and dirty dealings!
NOTHING is more important than waking America up to this Marxist/Muslim!! DO IT. EXPOSE HIM!
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Here's hoping someone posts a link to the video or audio. And here's hoping (against hope?)and praying that McCain confronts Obama on this issue during the final debate.
I hope everyone who is discouraged reads this. Clearly, we have someone who genuinely cares about the little people running in this race.
The precision and clarity of morality and language here is truly something! Brooks and Noonan should take note and humble themselves. I won’t be holding my breath.
Wise words.
Wow. Word perfect, every last word of it. And from the heart.
McCain is a fool not to push this issue harder. He is pro life, but he rarely talks about it. That is foolish, because it is a vote winner, as the last several elections have proven. The Republicans lost in 2006 because they forgot what they had stood for in the previous three elections.
Time for McCain to say that a man who doesn’t want his daughters “punished with a baby,” a man who voted three times to throw infants born alive into the garbage—which was taking place in the Chicago hospital that happens to belong his very own “church,” where he sat for twenty years and listened to hate America sermons, is NOT a man to be trusted to stand up for the least and most helpless of us—unless there’s something in it for him, like votes.
If you come across that please let me know.
This is GREAT. Thanks!
This is THE best speech given by any of the candidates this election cycle imo.
My friend, we may disagree with the respected Senator on the particulars of this issue, but he is a fine family man. You don’t need to be afraid of a President Obama. We need to reach across the aisle and find common ground with Obama. Perhaps we could introduce legislation to bash in the head of a child who survives an abortion, rather than letting them suffer in a closet...
Yes, I always wonder what hillary meant by “compromising” on abortion, which she proposed after Bush swept the 2004 election, largely with the help of religious voters. Perhaps cutting the child in half, Solomon style, and only discarding half?
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