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Obama's Catholic Problem ( Linda Chavez )
townhall.com ^ | August 08, 2008 | Linda Chavez

Posted on 08/08/2008 5:58:53 AM PDT by kellynla

Barack Obama has a Catholic problem. If he doesn't do better than John Kerry did in 2004 with this quintessential swing voting bloc, he won't be elected president. Obama's campaign understands this -- which is why they're considering allowing a pro-life Democrat, Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, to speak at the Denver convention. Sen. Casey's father, the late Governor of Pennsylvania Robert Casey Sr., was denied a speaking slot at the Democrats' 1992 convention for fear of offending pro-choice Democrats. But simply allowing his son to speak at the convention won't be enough to woo Catholics back.

Catholics are by no means a single-issue voting group. But for observant Catholics, those who attend Mass regularly and follow the Church's teachings, a candidate's position on abortion matters. Even among more broadly identified Catholics -- those who call themselves Catholic, regardless of whether they are observant -- 59 percent oppose abortion, according to a recent Time magazine poll. And Barack Obama's record on this issue will cause pause for many of them.

Like most Democratic politicians, Barack Obama favors abortion rights for women, with few exceptions. He has recently said that he might support some limits on very late-term abortions, those that occur in the last trimester of pregnancy. But when it comes to actual legislative limits, he's never found one yet he can vote for.

Take partial-birth abortion, a gruesome procedure in which the fetus is delivered feet-first, its skull punctured and its brain suctioned out, thereby killing the fetus and collapsing the skull for easy delivery of the full body. Although he was not in the U.S. Senate when it voted to ban partial-birth abortions, Obama has nevertheless heavily criticized the legislation and the Supreme Court ruling that upheld its constitutionality.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; abortion; barackobama; catholics; catholicvote; election; electionpresident; elections; obama; swingvote

1 posted on 08/08/2008 5:58:53 AM PDT by kellynla
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To: Salvation; NYer; narses; A.A. Cunningham

ping


2 posted on 08/08/2008 5:59:25 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: kellynla

Casey is NOT pro-life. Grrrr....


3 posted on 08/08/2008 6:05:30 AM PDT by SumProVita ("Cogito ergo sum pro vita." .....updated Descartes)
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To: kellynla

Crazy that an health care facility called Christ Hospital was letting babies die in the back closet.


4 posted on 08/08/2008 6:14:20 AM PDT by KansasGirl ( b/c Obama is just creepy.)
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To: KansasGirl

Catholics against Obama


5 posted on 08/08/2008 6:19:09 AM PDT by Dacula (I never left the Republican party, they left me a long time ago.)
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To: kellynla

Casey - what a joke. His position is basically: I’m against abortion, but for a woman’s right to “choose.”


6 posted on 08/08/2008 6:24:30 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: kellynla

Media passing on the lie that Casey is a pro-life senator. He voted for the Boxer Ammendment as one of his first votes on abortion after assuming office.

Every four years, the Dems come up with some chicanery to try and fool the Christians/Catholics as to what they believe about abortion.


7 posted on 08/08/2008 6:30:42 AM PDT by rjp2005 (Lord have mercy on us)
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To: kellynla
which is why they're considering allowing a pro-life Democrat, Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, to speak at the Denver convention.

Just because Casey hgas promised never to have an abortion does not make him pro life. The guy's a pro choice joke.

8 posted on 08/08/2008 6:31:27 AM PDT by pgkdan (Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions - G.K. Chesterton)
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To: kellynla

I am a Catholic, and I can tell you that not only does the Democrats “pro-choice” (pro baby murder) stance turn my stomach, but the fact that they believe that Catholics are so stupid as to be taken in and convinced to vote for them simply because they allowed a Catholic to speak at their convention pi$$eS me off even more than if they maintained their evil stance unflinchingly. It is an insult to Catholics (to all Christians, really).


9 posted on 08/08/2008 6:37:11 AM PDT by VRWCer (Barack Hussein Obama - The scrofulous Pied Piper of stupid people.)
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To: VRWCer

“simply because they allowed a Catholic “ - make that simply because they allow a person deemed by them to be “pro-life”. I really have no idea whether or not he is a Catholic.


10 posted on 08/08/2008 6:39:16 AM PDT by VRWCer (Barack Hussein Obama - The scrofulous Pied Piper of stupid people.)
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To: kellynla; antonius

11 posted on 08/08/2008 7:29:46 AM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: kellynla
Yes, Obama has a big Catholic problem. And it's not going away!

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12 posted on 08/08/2008 7:31:43 AM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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