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Obama considered joining military, regrets abortion answer
The Politico ^

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; obama; obamabiden; obamatruthfile; saddleback
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To: Jeff Head
"“What I intended to say is that, as a Christian,... I don't presume to be able to answer these kinds of theological questions.”"

Two lies...

61 posted on 09/07/2008 6:53:57 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: Sub-Driver
Obama considered joining military


Which military?


Hamas?

Soviet Union?

Cuba?

Iran?

Black Panthers?

62 posted on 09/07/2008 6:54:04 AM PDT by Momaw Nadon ("...with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.")
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To: Sub-Driver
LOL!...So did $HRILLary, *flashback* "I walk into the Marine Recruiting Center..... I was named after Sir Edmund Hillary.....I 'm A Mets / Yankees / Red Sox Basketball Fan......GrandDaDDy was Jewish...there was Snipper fire @ the Airfield"....Keep 'em comin' OBambi / OBiden.
63 posted on 09/07/2008 6:54:25 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (If you aren't "advancing" your arguments,your losing "the battle of Ideas"...libs,hates the facts 8^)
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To: jerod

If Obama would have made a career out of military service, he would have grown up to be Wesley Clark


64 posted on 09/07/2008 6:54:29 AM PDT by Mr. Binnacle (Obama/Biden: Just Brown Noise and Static)
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To: Sub-Driver

Last month: Obama replied that the question is “above my pay grade,”

“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.”

First of all “when does life begin” is not a theological question, it is a biological question.

Do we really need a president that cannot express himself properly?

What will he tell the Russians or the North Vietnamese after the first N-Bomb hits the US. Well, I didn’t really mean what I said.


65 posted on 09/07/2008 6:56:38 AM PDT by chainsaw ( No racist radical Muslims in the WH)
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To: Sub-Driver
In an electric interview, Obama suggested again and again that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, McCain’s running mate, is unprepared for the job.

Ha ha, Barry is STILL going after Palin - what a maroon!

66 posted on 09/07/2008 6:56:38 AM PDT by JohnnyZ (This gun for hire)
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To: raybbr

OBAMBI IN THE MILITARY! OH MY LORD!!! WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP!!

OBAMBI IS A BORN COWARD AND CRYBABY!! HOLD YOUR FIST UP! and he would fall into a crumpled ball of sniveling, sobbing protoplasm, UK!

As Guiliani stated, this pathetic blob has never led anything, not even a two person rendition of Our National nthmn! or the line to the men’s urinal!! Bets are that OBAMBI sits to pee:-)


67 posted on 09/07/2008 6:57:23 AM PDT by NOBAMA in 08 (An Empty Suited Opportunist with No Redeeming Value!)
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To: JohnnyZ

Uhbamuh probably really meant to answer that it is below his pay grade.


68 posted on 09/07/2008 6:57:55 AM PDT by WillVoteForFood
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To: Sub-Driver

Obama’s pay grade remark reminds of Al Gore’s response to a question about executing a pregnant woman and rather than saying wait until after she gives birth said he would have to get back to questioner the next day.


69 posted on 09/07/2008 6:58:34 AM PDT by monocle
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To: Sub-Driver

Yeah, and I hear tell that McCain’s going to join Trinity United Church of Christ.

Gimme a break.


70 posted on 09/07/2008 6:59:11 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (His Negritude has made his negritude the central theme of this campaign)
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To: Roy Tucker

Somehow the good people of this country, Democrat, Republican and Independent alike can still spot a phony.

71 posted on 09/07/2008 7:00:07 AM PDT by Lady GOP
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To: Mr. Binnacle

If Obama would have made a career out of military service, he would have grown up to be Wesley Clark

I doubt if he would have made it past recruit!


72 posted on 09/07/2008 7:00:41 AM PDT by chainsaw ( No racist radical Muslims in the WH)
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To: television is just wrong

“so obama punished his wife at least twice that we know of?”

His two kids are the ones that were not punished, lucky for them.

Michelle is perfectly cabable of punishing herself. I’m sure that, at least prior to her marriage, that she would have no hesitation to abort her unborn child if “the time was not right” to bring a baby into this world.


73 posted on 09/07/2008 7:00:45 AM PDT by motoman
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To: Sub-Driver

This is such a crock of crap! As much as I follow news, politics, the presidential race, this is the first time I’ve heard anything about Obama having considered joining the military; and even if he did, who gives a flip! As for his abortion comment...all it did was reveal his true nature—a “soul-less”, gutless wonder!


74 posted on 09/07/2008 7:01:53 AM PDT by nfldgirl (Tribe Member: 'Runs with Rush')
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To: Lady GOP

Amen.


75 posted on 09/07/2008 7:02:02 AM PDT by Roy Tucker ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."--Ayn Rand)
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To: Sub-Driver
He would not last one day in basic. He is a sissy coward.
76 posted on 09/07/2008 7:02:19 AM PDT by Big Horn (I bac Mac)
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To: Sub-Driver
Obama considered joining military,


77 posted on 09/07/2008 7:02:36 AM PDT by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: Lady GOP

I’m totally PRO-LIFE!! That being said!

STANLEY(OBAMBI’S MOTHER) REALLY SCREWED UP WHEN SHE CHOSE NOT TO HAVE AN ABORTION and to bring OBAMBI into this World!


78 posted on 09/07/2008 7:02:37 AM PDT by NOBAMA in 08 (An Empty Suited Opportunist with No Redeeming Value!)
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To: Sub-Driver

LOLOL.........hillary tried that lame lie too.

Next we’ll hear that Obambi was a Reagan campaign worker.


79 posted on 09/07/2008 7:06:24 AM PDT by Carley (she's all out of caribou.............)
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To: Lady GOP

er ah uh obama, real life does not allow you to revise and extend your remarks.


80 posted on 09/07/2008 7:07:13 AM PDT by Carley (she's all out of caribou.............)
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