Posted on 08/16/2008 8:47:59 PM PDT by Hadean
Speaking with CBN’s David Brody [immediately] after Saturday’s forum, the Senator responds forcefully when asked about the “Born Alive Infant Protection Act.”
Link to video: http://thepage.time.com/cbns-brody-speaks-with-obama/
Transcript by midnight
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Note from David Brody:
Attention Brody File readers.
I was just granted an exclusive one on one interview with Barack Obama here at the Saddleback Civil Forum. CBN News was the only media outlet to go behind the scenes and conduct an interview. It happened literally two minutes after Obama walked off the stage.
Video of the interview is now posted above. The transcription will be posted by midnight eastern time.
I had five minutes and I asked him about the McCain handshake, his toughest question during the forum and whether the McCain campaign is purposely using imaginary to scare people about him. He got pretty heated when I brought up the Born Alive Infant Protection Act. He had some choice words for The National Right to Life Committee. Wait until you see his response.
Also, I'll have my analysis on Obama and McCain's performance during the Civil Forum on The Brody File as well a little later tonight
It’s starting to become more and more obvious why Obama doesn’t want to debate McCain. He still just a two-bit “community organizer” and that’s about it.
Bump for later
Just WOW
the thread for the forum
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2062984/posts?page=1782#1782
Whoops!
mark
Testy testy.
Facts are stubborn things.
using imaginary?
Just damn!
Did he vote against giving aid to an infant that survived abortion or not?
Did Border say, “let’s call a spade a spade?” Probably not the best choice of words. By the way, the final freeze frame of Obama-—he look’s mad.
Obama More Pro-Choice Than NARAL
by Amanda B. Carpenter
Sen. Barack Obama (D.-Ill.) portrays himself as a thoughtful Democrat who carefully considers both sides of controversial issues, but his radical stance on abortion puts him further left on that issue than even NARAL Pro-Choice America.
In 2002, as an Illinois legislator, Obama voted against the Induced Infant Liability Act, which would have protected babies that survived late-term abortions. That same year a similar federal law, the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, was signed by President Bush. Only 15 members of the U.S. House opposed it, and it passed the Senate unanimously on a voice vote.
Both the Illinois and the federal bill sought equal treatment for babies who survived premature inducement for the purpose of abortion and wanted babies who were born prematurely and given live-saving medical attention.
When the federal bill was being debated, NARAL Pro-Choice America released a statement that said, “Consistent with our position last year, NARAL does not oppose passage of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act ... floor debate served to clarify the bill’s intent and assure us that it is not targeted at Roe v. Wade or a woman’s right to choose.”
But Obama voted against this bill in the Illinois senate and killed it in committee. Twice, the Induced Infant Liability Act came up in the Judiciary Committee on which he served. At its first reading he voted “present.” At the second he voted “no.”
The bill was then referred to the senate’s Health and Human Services Committee, which Obama chaired after the Illinois Senate went Democratic in 2003. As chairman, he never called the bill up for a vote.
Jill Stanek, a registered delivery-ward nurse who was the prime mover behind the legislation after she witnessed aborted babies’ being born alive and left to die, testified twice before Obama in support of the Induced Infant Liability Act bills. She also testified before the U.S. Congress in support of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.
Stanek told me her testimony “did not faze” Obama.
In the second hearing, Stanek said, “I brought pictures in and presented them to the committee of very premature babies from my neonatal resuscitation book from the American Pediatric Association, trying to show them unwanted babies were being cast aside. Babies the same age were being treated if they were wanted!”
“And those pictures didn’t faze him [Obama] at all,” she said.
At the end of the hearing, according to the official records of the Illinois State senate, Obama thanked Stanek for being “very clear and forthright,” but said his concern was that Stanek had suggested “doctors really don’t care about children who are being born with a reasonable prospect of life because they are so locked into their pro-abortion views that they would watch an infant that is viable die.” He told her, “That may be your assessment, and I don’t see any evidence of that. What we are doing here is to create one more burden on a woman and I can’t support that.”
As a senator, Obama has opposed measures to criminalize those who transport minors across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.
At a townhall meeting in Ottawa, Ill., Joanne Resendiz, a teacher and mother of five, asked him: “How are you going to vote on this, keeping in mind that 10, 15 years down the line your daughters, God forbid, could be transported across state lines?”
Obama said: “The decision generally is one that a woman should make.”
Just the facts Barack, just the facts.
With Obama, it seems that something is ‘always offensive’. A commander in chief cannot worry about being offended. This guy is so light-weight and thin-skinned, I wonder how many demos are shaking in their boots after tonight’s performance.
McCain was very succint and to the point. Obama has reason to fear debates with McCain.
Here is one of his votes.
page 87
http://www.ilga.gov/senate/transcripts/strans92/ST033001.pdf
McCain made Obama look like a scool boy.
“let’s call a spade a spade”
ROTF!
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