This woman and her values are what we need to not only stop the Obamanation dead in its tracks...but to revive the whole of America!
Posted on 10/11/2008 3:46:41 PM PDT by wiseprince
Sarah Palin gave a speech today and hammered Barack Obama's position on Abortion. It seems as though the McCain campaign wants to make Abortion an issue in the campaign (although I'm not sure McCain is as comfortable with the debate as Sarah would be). This is a must read. I think the Obama campaign should just leave it alone and continue to hit on the economy. It'll be interesting to see how they choose to react
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 I’ve 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 world’s standards of perfection … and then there are God’s, 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 don’t feel scared anymore. We feel blessed.
It’s hard to think of many issues that could possibly be more important than who is protected in law and who isn’t – 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 shouldn’t have to be – quote – “punished with a baby.” He said that right here in Johnstown –“punished with a baby” – and it’s 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. It’s 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 you’re against something, but don’t want to be held to account.
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Democrat, described partial-birth abortion as “too close to infanticide.” Barack Obama thinks it’s a constitutional right, but he is wrong.
Most troubling, as a state senator, Barack Obama wouldn’t 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. They’re 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 he’d have voted “yes” on that bill if it had contained language similar to the federal version of the Born Alive Act. There’s 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 won’t 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, it’s 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 won’t notice how radical his ideas and record are until it’s 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, it’s 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 opponent’s 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.”
Sarah needs to keep hitting on this. McCain should not, I repeat should not shy away from this during the debate
Your forgetting who is at the debate...Its McCain...I think he left his “fighting” in Vietnam.....
Related threads:
Middle Ground Left Behind (Sarah Palin Speaks on Abortion.)
Palin's Pro-Life Speech in Johnstown ("I love that sound... let that baby keep on crying")
Wow. Are their any videos of this speech?
I didn’t get to see the speech (I’m waiting for the video) but the words are amazing.
I especially like the line that says , “There is mans perfection and then there is Gods”
Beautiful
Still waiting for the video
This woman and her values are what we need to not only stop the Obamanation dead in its tracks...but to revive the whole of America!
Until it shows up on YouTube, here's the video on CSPAN: video of the speech.
I especially like the line that says , “There is mans perfection and then there is Gods”
Beautiful
Agreed. Simply beautiful.
“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.”
I am in full agreement with this. However, I must - with great sorrow - point out that 90% of people ulimately vote their “pocketbook” and not their morals or values. Thus, many will vote for Senator Obama because the (wrongly) percieve he fill fix the economy, rather than vot for Senator McCain that is firmly pro-life (which they claim matters to them). In the end, with most Americans, it’s all about “ME” and nothing else. A trully sad state of affairs.
I apologize for the pessimism.
Why wasn’t Baraq Hussein aborted?
I’m watching it right now. Sarah is 100 times better than McCain. Or more. There, I said it.
Don't see why. Many here are concerned about the same thing.
Wow. Fantastic words by Gov. Palin.
And she walks the talk.
Amazing. She says what I feel.
Life trumps the economy in my scheme of things.
May God bless Sarah.
Because abortion was illegal in 1961.
Like I said on another thread this election has now become a one-on-one contest by two former basketball players: Sarah Palin vs Barack Obama. (John McCain and Joe Biden are basically non-factors as they are not going to move the poll numbers to any great extent.) Sarah has three weeks to expose Obama and with all the ammunition that she has at her disposal (Ayres, Dohrn, Annenberg Project and radical education principles, Khalili, Rezko, ACORN, the sub-prime duo of Raines and Johnson and the Community Reinvestment Act, Odinga etc) I am confident that she will be able to take him down. I know this is a non-traditional way of looking at Presidential politics but this is the only way the the McCain-Palin ticket will win the White House. Please John have a good 3rd debate, and then stay out of Sarah’s way.
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