Posted on 08/16/2008 11:06:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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. Read the transcript below.
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.
Brody: I want to ask, I was back stage I didn't see the handshake, but I'm curious what that was like to be on stage with John McCain and what was going through your mind when all of that was going on.
Obama: Well, you know John and I serve in the Senate together, so we see each other all the time. It was great to see him. As he said, he'll see me in a couple weeks. We're going to be debating each other throughout the fall.
Brody: Tell me a little bit about how you felt up there on stage in terms of what may have been that, the hardest question or at least the question that you may not have been looking forward to address so much.
Obama: You know, I thought, Pastor Rick is a good friend, he and I have known each other for some time, I've been to this church before, and so I knew that he'd be fair and press me on issues that are of particular concern to the Evangelical community, but I also knew they weren't issues that I hadn't heard before and hadn't wrestled with myself. So, you know, one of the wonderful things about Rick is he is somebody who, I think, has genuine good will towards everybody and even when he disagrees with you, I think he's going to give you a fair hearing.
Brody: Let me ask you a little about some of these ads that John McCain has been running not just on television, but on the web. Let's face it, let's call a spade a spade, there has been some Messianic references, there's been some antichrist stuff going on, the celebrity, they're trying to pigeonhole you a certain way. Do you believe this is being done on purpose?
Obama: Well of course it's being done on purpose. They're not spending a whole bunch of money to make me out as a good guy. They're engaging in the kind of politics that I think we've become accustomed to which is you try to tear your opponents down and you engage in sort of slash and burn tactics. And very personal sort of personal character attacks. And one of the challenges for us in this campaign is how do you make sure those attacks are answered quickly and forcefully, but also truthfully and that we don't fall into that same kind of tactic. And look, I think ultimately the American people are going to understand by the time they go into the polling place in November that this is not an election about me. This an election about them - ordinary people, their lives, their hopes their dreams, the fact that their incomes have gone down over the last eight years, the fact that their jobs are less secure, that they have less retirement security, that their kids can't afford college, that jobs are being shipped overseas that the tax code isn't fair and that special interests have come to dominate Washington. And as long as we're communicating an active plan to fix those problems then I think we're going to do well.
Brody: Real quick, the born alive infant protection act. I gotta tell you that's the one thing I get a lot of emails about and it's just not just from Evangelicals, it about Catholics, Protestants, main -- they're trying to understand it because there was some literature put out by the National Right to Life Committee. And they're basically saying they felt like you misrepresented your position on that bill.
Obama: Let me clarify this right now.
Brody: Because it's getting a lot of play.
Obama: Well and because they have not been telling the truth. And I hate to say that people are lying, but here's a situation where folks are lying. I have said repeatedly that I would have been completely in, fully in support of the federal bill that everybody supported - which was to say --that you should provide assistance to any infant that was born - even if it was as a consequence of an induced abortion. That was not the bill that was presented at the state level. What that bill also was doing was trying to undermine Roe vs. Wade. By the way, we also had a bill, a law already in place in Illinois that insured life saving treatment was given to infants.
So for people to suggest that I and the Illinois medical society, so Illinois doctors were somehow in favor of withholding life saving support from an infant born alive is ridiculous. It defies commonsense and it defies imagination and for people to keep on pushing this is offensive and it's an example of the kind of politics that we have to get beyond. It's one thing for people to disagree with me about the issue of choice, it's another thing for people to out and out misrepresent my positions repeatedly, even after they know that they're wrong. And that's what's been happening.
Brody: I wanted to give you a chance to clear it up.
Obama: I appreciate it.
Brody: Thank you so much.
Could this be Obama’s Dean moment ? UUUUUUgggggggghhhhhhhhhaaaa !!!...
Obambi is toast.
Unfortunately, the transcript does not convey the disfiguring disdain plastered on Obama’s mug during that exchange.
He really said that? 8^)
There’s a video of the interviw at the link: Perhaps one of our computer capable FReepers can put it here...
On the question about his position on the "born alive" infant bill, I have no idea what his answer was. I can read the words, but I don't know what he's saying. Can anyone help? BTW, English is indeed my first (and only - sorry, Obambi)language, so I don't think that's the problem.
What second language does Senator Obama speak? Arabic? Indonesian? What?!
Obama is a liar. Brody did a piss-poor job of holding Obama to account for the facts.
Here is a link to the National Right to Life Committee website on this issue:
http://www.nrlc.org/ObamaBAIPA/ObamaCoverup.html
They include a link to the 2000 law that Obama voted against. Here is the text in full:
” ‘Person’, ‘human being’, ‘child’, and ‘individual’ as including born-alive infant ``(a) In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, or of any ruling, regulation, or interpretation of the various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States, the words `person’, `human being’, `child’, and `individual’, shall include every infant member of the species
homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development.
``(b) As used in this section, the term `born alive’, with respect to a member of the species homo sapiens, means the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of that member, at any stage of development, who after such expulsion or extraction breathes or has a beating heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles, regardless of whether the umbilical cord has been cut, and regardless of whether the expulsion or extraction occurs as a result of natural or induced labor, cesarean section, or induced abortion.’’.”
So when Obama says that law undermined Roe V Wade, he is a liar. When he says there were laws on the books requiring doctors to save the life of aborted fetuses born alive, then I’d like to know if the doctors that nurse Jill Staneck blew the whistle on were prosecuted and why not.
http://www.catholic.org/national/national_story.php?id=26868
Arabic most likely since he can cite the Quran.
Sedikit saja, saya pikir. Ingat ini - dia tinggal di Indonesia berlama dahulu, tahun 1968 -1969.
Saya tinggal di Indonesia sudah 30 - 60 umur tahun, tetapi bahasa Indonesia saya belum pintar.
Barry Soetoro bicara Bahasa Indonesia? Saya pikir tidak.
pandai
Mr. Soetoro stammers and stutters an awful lot when the teleprompter is turned off.
That's racitst!
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