McCain Himself Accuses Obama of Courting Infanticide

LifeSiteNews ^ | 8/28/08 | John-Henry Westen

[wagglebee]

WASHINGTON, August 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The mainstream media has yet to notice, but Senator McCain last week directly accused Barack Obama of courting infanticide.  While the pro-life movement in the nation has been on the issue for weeks, McCain himself delivered the punch line in his radio address for August 23.

McCain noted Obama's vote against the Illinois version of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, which McCain described as a "law to require medical care for babies who survive abortions."  McCain added to that description: "living, breathing babies whom Senator Obama described as, quote, 'previable.'"

McCain also accused Obama of lying on the matter, a fact which is well known to pro-life Americans who have followed the saga. 

"At Saddleback, he [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 Infants Protection Act," said McCain. "Even though the language of both the state and federal bills was identical, Senator Obama said people were, quote, 'lying' about his record."  McCain concluded: "When that record was later produced, he dropped the subject but didn't withdraw the slander. And now even Senator Obama's campaign has conceded that his claims and accusations were false."

Taking a shot at Obama's now famous "above my pay grade" cop out on the question of when life begins, McCain concluded his message saying: "I can assure you that if I am president, advancing the cause of life will not be above my pay grade."

Full Text of Senator John McCain's radio address of August 23
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/aug/08082708.html

To listen to the audio version click here: http://www.johnmccain.com/Downloads/082208_B.mp3

[RKBA Democrat]

“Why couldn’t Bush ever say anything like this?”

Because President Bush wanted to go along to get along. What he failed to understand was that there are those who simply aren’t interested in getting along.

[RKBA Democrat]

“I can assure you that if I am president, advancing the cause of life will not be above my pay grade.”

Good response. While I think it would be nice to have an ostensibly pro-creation President, I don’t think it’s going to matter much one way or the other. Life just isn’t much of an issue for the politicians. They’re much more interested in splitting up the goodies.

I continue to believe that we will not end infanticide through electoral politics. Which is not to say that legalized infanticide won’t end; I think it will and possibly in my lifetime. It just won’t be the result of anything the politicians do or say.

[8mmMauser]

Pinged from Terri Dailies

8mm

[PghBaldy]

He looks like a cold blooded monster even to people like me, of whom abortion isn’t even the #1 issue. This vote, and his defense of it, and lies about it, need to be pushed. It’s above and beyond (or below...) the “choice” issue. It is baby killing.

[Skywalk]

And the funny thing is, only a total moron would believe the hard left would ever do anything but slander him and use the media to create a narrative that even relatively moderate Americans (and many conservatives and libertarians) would believe.

For chrissakes, there are libertarians so caught up in the IRaq War (and the whole warfare-welfare template in their head) that they think a person with anti-American, racist and Marxist ‘mentors,’ clearly wants to expand the state, set up a millions-strong ‘national service’ army of forced ‘volunteers,’ and whose party mates have not only obstructed on expanding our base of resources but have openly spoken of NATIONALIZING two of the biggest sectors of our economy!