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Obama’s ‘baby’ comment draws fire from conservatives
The Hill ^

Posted on 03/31/2008 4:20:42 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Obama’s ‘baby’ comment draws fire from conservatives By Sam Youngman Posted: 03/31/08 05:35 PM [ET] Sen. Barack Obama’s (Ill.) campaign on Monday sought to clarify remarks the Democratic front-runner made on teen pregnancies that had drawn criticism from conservatives.

Speaking about sex education at an event in Pennsylvania Saturday, Obama said, according to the Christian Broadcasting Network, that he will educate his young daughters but “if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby. I don’t want them punished with an STD at the age of 16.”

Conservative talker Sean Hannity mentioned the quotes on his radio show Monday, and several conservative blogs have reacted harshly to the statement.

Tommy Vietor, an Obama spokesman, sought to clarify the senator’s comments in an e-mail to The Hill Monday afternoon.

"What Sen. Obama said and what he believes is clear — children are ‘miracles,’ but we have a problem when so many children are having children,” Vietor said. “As Sen. Obama said on Saturday — and on many other occasions — parents have a responsibility to teach their children about values and morals to help make sure they are not treating sex casually.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; cultureofdeath; lifehate; obama; pa2008; punishment
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1 posted on 03/31/2008 4:20:42 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver; wagglebee

“Punished with a baby.”

Oh, that’s just perfect.


2 posted on 03/31/2008 4:22:00 PM PDT by ovrtaxt (This election is like running in the Special Olympics. Even if McCain wins, we’re still retarded.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Does he really think a grandbaby is a “punishment”?! What a ghoul!


3 posted on 03/31/2008 4:22:09 PM PDT by Tamar1973 (Catch the Korean Wave, one Bae Yong Joon film at a time!)
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To: Sub-Driver

I know, but the American people agree with him. They have Obamamania.


4 posted on 03/31/2008 4:22:57 PM PDT by Theodore R. ( Cowardice is still forever!)
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To: Sub-Driver

As I mentioned earlier on a related thread.....How odd that a gift from God has somehow evolved into “punishment”.


5 posted on 03/31/2008 4:23:56 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Carry Daily. Apply Sparingly.)
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To: Sub-Driver
You cannot simultaneously believe that children are a gift from God AND believe you can abort it.

You simply cannot believe both.

6 posted on 03/31/2008 4:24:23 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Sub-Driver

“if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby. “

There is not enough space on this website for me to express the appropriate degree of contempt and loathing a statement like that brings to the forefront of my mind.


7 posted on 03/31/2008 4:24:56 PM PDT by roaddog727 (BS does not get bridges built - the funk you see is the funk you do)
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To: roaddog727

I so agree with you. It is just repulsive among other things.


8 posted on 03/31/2008 4:25:40 PM PDT by ladyinred
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To: Lizavetta
"You simply cannot believe both."

The double minded man is unstable in ALL his ways (my emphasis)

9 posted on 03/31/2008 4:26:43 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: Sub-Driver
What a stupid and sick @#$%*.

Obama - a Vesuvius of Stupid.

10 posted on 03/31/2008 4:27:34 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: ovrtaxt

Well Obama I want you to repent because I don’t want you to be punished with everlasting destruction in a lake of fire and brimstone for all of eternity.


11 posted on 03/31/2008 4:28:11 PM PDT by DarthVader (Liberal Democrats are the party of EVIL whose time of judgement has come.)
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To: ladyinred

I would elaborate more, but I suspect that what I wrote would have me banned not only from this site, but from every other site as well.

There’s no way in hell that I shall keep my commission as an officer in the US army under this a@@-clown’s “Leadership”. I’ll have done my 20 and put in my papers.


12 posted on 03/31/2008 4:29:02 PM PDT by roaddog727 (BS does not get bridges built - the funk you see is the funk you do)
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To: Sub-Driver

Is it any wonder that the most leftist states have the lowest birth rates.


13 posted on 03/31/2008 4:31:16 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: Sub-Driver

Nobody cares.


14 posted on 03/31/2008 4:33:20 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Don't trust anyone who can't take a joke. [Congressman BillyBob])
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To: Sub-Driver

Sooooooo...it’s only conservatives that object to this statement,eh? That in itself says an awful lot.And the fact that the media dolts consider that it’s weird to object to it.


15 posted on 03/31/2008 4:34:10 PM PDT by Carl LaFong (Building Code Under Fire)
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To: Sub-Driver
“he will educate his young daughters but “if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby. I don’t want them punished with an STD at the age of 16.”

“parents have a responsibility to teach their children about values and morals to help make sure they are not treating sex casually.”

Let me translate: “I am a liberal that will teach my daughter all about screwing because I need to be her pal. I will make sure I do not instill any morals in them because that is judgmental. And after I turn my daughters into sluts (who use condoms some times), I want to make sure they can kill their unborn babies because a damn kid would cramp their lifestyle.”

Is that close?

16 posted on 03/31/2008 4:34:29 PM PDT by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands.")
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To: Sub-Driver

“What Sen. Obama said and what he believes is clear — children are ‘miracles,’”

That wasn’t clear to me. He used the word “punishment.” Punishment/miracles...don’t feel the same to me...

And the fake religousity is off-target. Unless he’s saying Obama doesn’t know how children are made. The better word would be “blessings”


17 posted on 03/31/2008 4:37:02 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: Sub-Driver

What a monster this guy is turning out to be. A racist and he believes children are God’s punishment for sex.


18 posted on 03/31/2008 4:42:19 PM PDT by gitmo (From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Pray for an end to abortion and the conversion of America to a mindset of life!

19 posted on 03/31/2008 4:44:38 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Sub-Driver

if he ‘meant to say’ (whatever spin you are spouting).... then why did he use the word ‘PUNISH’???

Got an explanation for that one, spinboy?

Maybe Obama can hold another press conference to explain God’s ‘punishments’ like he had to do with his pastor?


20 posted on 03/31/2008 4:45:38 PM PDT by bpjam (Drill For Oil or Lose Your Job!! Vote Nov 3, 2008)
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