Posted on 09/07/2008 6:32:38 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama considered joining military, regrets abortion answer By: Mike Allen September 7, 2008 09:11 AM EST
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) says his answer about abortion at the Saddleback Church forum was “probably” too flip.
During separate televised interviews last month, Pastor Rick Warren asked the two presidential candidates when a baby gets human rights. Obama replied that the question is “above my pay grade,” while Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) won love from the right by saying quickly, “At the moment of conception.”
Now, Obama tells ABC’s George Stephanopoulos in an interview taped for “This Week”: “What I intended to say is that, as a Christian, I have a lot of humility about understanding when does the soul enter into … It's a pretty tough question. And so, all I meant to communicate was that I don't presume to be able to answer these kinds of theological questions.”
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Sounds to me like he is even more likely to need a poll to be taken before answering a question than Bill Clinton was.
“When does life begin?” It’s a personal question about your beliefs - anyone can answer this. If you are firmly grounded in your faith, then it gets even easier.
What he is really means to say this time is “Since I didn’t know the uh proper uh theological answer, and uh I wasn’t able to get uh help from the audience the way they do on uh TV uh game shows, I said that I uh, uh did not know because I am just the uh president - I mean a presidential candidate, not someone who is being paid to make hard decisions yet. That is why it is uh above my uh pay grade.”
Did Obama mention whose military he was thinking of joining?
I agree. Knowing that human life begins at conception is a scientific fact. Religion has nothing to do with that.
“as a Christian”.....well he is a real convenient Christian since he discovered that church would help his career.
If he were a real Christian he wouldn’t have so much trouble figuring out when a life matters.
Sounds like Hillary and her being turned down for the Marines. I guess the conclusion we are to draw from Obama's comments is that the only way he would join the military if there was a real shooting war going on. He really wanted some action and a peacetime military just didn't cut it. It is so easy to be courageous when you are Walter Mitty.
I want to see above "my pay grade" in McCain ads.
At this point it seems he will say anything to appear to be what he is not - a patriotic American.
Oh, he considered it, did he? Well, wup-de-doo. Lets clap our hands in applause and admiration. Of course, there's no proof of this and even if there was, so what? Its actions that matter, not transitory musings. If Obama ever considered the military, it was from the perspective of how to make it smaller and weaker and/or an object of derision. And that goes for Hillary ("I considered the Marine Corps") too. What a bunch of a$$ clowns.
Of course he regrets the abortion answer.
He made the remark and out walked
Sarah and Trig, Bristol and child.
Oh, and have I mentioned my teenage daughter gets blue in the face when she hears that comment of his.
Yeah, right. I’m sure he would have gone willingly to Vietnam—except that he really meant North Vietnam accompanying Jane Fonda.
Oh, and I don’t believe for a minute he considered joining the military.
“You know, I actually did,” Obama said. “I had to sign up for Selective Service when I graduated from high school.
OK, he's answered that question. But then again, we haven't gotten his authentic birth certificate. I'm holding my fire.
And I was growing up in Hawaii. And I have friends whose parents were in the military. There are a lot of Army, military bases there.
“And I actually always thought of the military as an ennobling and, you know, honorable option. But keep in mind that I graduated in 1979. The Vietnam War had come to an end. We weren't engaged in an active military conflict at that point. And so, it's not an option that I ever decided to pursue.”
OK, lemme get this straight -- you considered going into the military, but decided not to BECAUSE the Vietnam War was OVER?
It's amazing how Obama can't answer any questions without raising a bunch more.
Doesn't say a darn tootin' thing different here. He again can't even give a straight answer by stopping midstream and then falling on "...it's a tough quwestion." The real question that Obama should have been asked was, "When do you believe a (fetus) feels physical pain?" or even "When do you believe a fetus has it's first thoughts/dreams? "Like all pro-choicers he can't answer that question because it leads to the tortuous defense of aborting a growing human being. Legally/legislatively they always have to claim there is no pain up until the birth of a child. Sickening.
LLS
I guess he didn’t like the idea of having to put on a suicide bomber’s vest.
Obama is very insecure. He can't handle criticism. He's never been criticized like he is now. He's shell shocked. He was able to get away with calling the Clinton's racist, because they are too politically correct to defend themselves. Obama played the race card, McCain called him on it.
No one this insecure should ever be President of the US.
Well, ya know, he wrote two memoirs- I wonder if he mentioned this potential career choice in either one of them. He also ran for the Senate in Illinois- again, I wonder if he mentioned this. In fact, I wonder if he ever mentioned this at any other point in his life. If this doesn’t make him a national laughingstock, nothing will.
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