Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Obama tackles rape comments, "fiscal cliff" on TV talk show
Reuters ^ | Oct. 24, 2012 | Jeff Mason

Posted on 10/24/2012 9:14:17 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama suspended the levity during an interview with late-night TV talk show host Jay Leno on Wednesday to address a Republican Senate candidate's assertion that pregnancies resulting from rape are intended by God and to express confidence that Washington could soon address the looming "fiscal cliff."

"I don't know how these guys come up with these ideas. Let me make a very simple proposition: rape is rape. It is a crime," Obama said on NBC's "The Tonight Show."

"This is exactly why you don't want a bunch of politicians, mostly male, making decisions about women's healthcare."

Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock's comments that pregnancies caused by rape are "something God intended to happen" echoed across the U.S. media and sent ripples through political circles ahead of the November 6 election.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS:
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-24 next last

1 posted on 10/24/2012 9:14:21 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Free ThinkerNY

It was a pregnancy/abortion comment, not a rape comment. He was also correct.


2 posted on 10/24/2012 9:15:52 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Free ThinkerNY

Meanwhile, 4 Americans are dead and I bet Leno didn’t even bring it up..can’t bring up anything that might bring down his messiah


3 posted on 10/24/2012 9:16:02 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Free ThinkerNY

This won’t play like Akin’s comments, but these guys are such idiots. Simply say you’re pro life and leave it at that. Why do they fall for the media’s tricks?

Mourdock should be up by 25.


4 posted on 10/24/2012 9:16:51 PM PDT by teg_76
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Free ThinkerNY

THen why does my new health insurance have to have FREE birth
control for me.....and it’s more expensive.

I don’t get a choice.

Because of you Barack. AND YOU ARE A MALE. (i think)

GET OUT OF MY HEALTH CARE CHOICES BARACK.

You are the male who killed my health choices.

Now i am a slave to the state. If I don’t do what you MALE say,
I am to be fined 2.5% of my income.

Great.

Hitler was nicer to the JEws.


5 posted on 10/24/2012 9:19:10 PM PDT by preamble
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Free ThinkerNY

THen why does my new health insurance have to have FREE birth
control for me.....and it’s more expensive.

I don’t get a choice.

Because of you Barack. AND YOU ARE A MALE. (i think)

GET OUT OF MY HEALTH CARE CHOICES BARACK.

You are the male who killed my health choices.

Now i am a slave to the state. If I don’t do what you MALE say,
I am to be fined 2.5% of my income.

I AM NOW A FEMALE SLAVE TO BARACK OBAMA.

...and the President accuses others of what he already has done.
Killed all choice.

VOTE NOV. 6 this HATEFUL LYING DICTATOR OUT.

DONATE, WAVE SIGNS, DRIVE YOUR NEIGHBORS, VOTE!!!


6 posted on 10/24/2012 9:22:31 PM PDT by preamble
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Free ThinkerNY

“This is exactly why you don’t want a bunch of politicians, mostly male, making decisions about women’s healthcare.”

Obama is far out of touch with the vast majority of Americans who are Pro Life and understand that both Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock are absolutely correct in their view of Life.


7 posted on 10/24/2012 9:22:37 PM PDT by Uncle Slayton
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Free ThinkerNY
"...rape is rape. It is a crime," Obama said on NBC's "The Tonight Show."--- "This is exactly why you don't want a bunch of politicians, mostly male, making decisions about women's healthcare."

I may be a bit slow. How did he make the jump from rape to health care? Maybe the video gives a different impression than the written transcript.

8 posted on 10/24/2012 9:25:47 PM PDT by Baynative
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: teg_76

Yes, you have to be right AND smart for a Republican to get by these days. If you’re a rat it doesn’t matter at all if you’re crap - the MSM will protect you.


9 posted on 10/24/2012 9:26:40 PM PDT by Aria ( 2008 wasn't an election - it was a coup d'etat.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Free ThinkerNY

That’s why women would want you, somewhat male, somewhat white, to make their decisions for them, eh, Hussein?


10 posted on 10/24/2012 9:27:36 PM PDT by glock rocks (Optimist? Pessimist? Naw, I'm an Awesomist - There's a dragon in that glass!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Uncle Slayton; xzins; wagglebee
Obama is far out of touch with the vast majority of Americans who are Pro Life and understand that both Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock are absolutely correct in their view of Life.

The theology behind what Murdoch stated is as Old as the Judeo/Christian tradition. God is our creator an hence any life is the result of God's grace.

The circumstance in which a child is conceived is irrelevant to the value that the life is given upon conception. God is the creator and every life is a gift from God.

"Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you".... GOD (Jer 1:5)

11 posted on 10/24/2012 9:32:19 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Baynative
"...rape is rape. It is a crime...."

But the murder of a helpless innocent isn't.

God help us right the world.

12 posted on 10/24/2012 9:33:07 PM PDT by onedoug
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Free ThinkerNY

He lied to Leno and his audience on national tv. He said he took a spin around the East lawn of the White House in a Chevy Volt. Then he lied he told Leno and the audience the Volt it’s a great car. For God sake’s Jay your a car guy widely respected and known for being somewhat of a car expert. Jay you know the Volt is a pile of steaming crap just like Obama’s failed policys.


13 posted on 10/24/2012 9:37:46 PM PDT by cquiggy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Free ThinkerNY

Interesting that Obama forgets that he is slamming the beliefs of the entire Muslim community in his zeal to attack Republicans:

WARNING: SEXUALLY EXPLICIT HADITH FROM THE CULT OF ISLAM. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK:

Sahih Bukhari Volume 8, Book 77, Number 600:

“Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri: That while he was sitting with the Prophet a man from the Ansar came and said, “O Allah’s Apostle! We get slave girls from the war captives and we love property; what do you think about coitus interruptus?” Allah’s Apostle said, “Do you do that? It is better for you not to do it, for there is no soul which Allah has ordained to come into existence but will be created.””

In other words, Muhammad said it was okay to ejaculate inside of a slave while raping her because any children born from such acts are intended by Allah...


14 posted on 10/24/2012 9:38:38 PM PDT by DoctorBulldog (Hey, Libtards, how's the Moral Imperative to close Gitmo working out for ya'?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Free ThinkerNY

“This is exactly why you don’t want a bunch of politicians, mostly male, making decisions about women’s healthcare.”

If he really believed all that carp he just spouted, he and his fellow DemonRat politicians, mostly male, wouldn’t have shoved Obamacare down our throats, no would they?

The hypocrisy is strong with this One...

Cheers!


15 posted on 10/24/2012 9:43:52 PM PDT by DoctorBulldog (Hey, Libtards, how's the Moral Imperative to close Gitmo working out for ya'?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Free ThinkerNY

“This is exactly why you don’t want a bunch of politicians, mostly male, making decisions about women’s healthcare.”

If he really believed all that carp he just spouted, he and his fellow DemonRat politicians, mostly male, wouldn’t have shoved Obamacare down our throats, now would they?

The hypocrisy is strong with this One...

Cheers!


16 posted on 10/24/2012 9:44:28 PM PDT by DoctorBulldog (Hey, Libtards, how's the Moral Imperative to close Gitmo working out for ya'?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Uncle Slayton

“Obama is far out of touch with the vast majority of Americans who are Pro Life and understand that both Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock are absolutely correct in their view of Life.”

EXACTLY! But under Commiecare, the Gov’t (well actually unelected bureaucratic hacks) will make ALL the decisions regarding everyone’s healthcare! YES, DEATH PANELS ARE in OBAMACARE! Of course they don’t use that term, but HEALTHCARE RATIONING is ON THE WAY! “The Secretary shall be authorized to....” (effectively put rationing mechanisms in place) YOU WON’T HAVE A “CHOICE” about ANYTHING! GET OUT there and VOTE REPUBLICAN like YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT....IT DOES!!! Throw that stinking Marxist and his Commie enablers OUT!!! FUBO!!!


17 posted on 10/24/2012 9:50:25 PM PDT by Frank_2001
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Free ThinkerNY
If "rape is rape and it is a crime" then what does Obama think of Whoopi Goldberg's comments defending Roman Polanski, who drugged and raped a 13-year old girl, then absconded to France?

Whoopi: "I know it wasn't rape-rape. It was something else but I don't believe it was rape-rape. He went to jail and and when they let him out he was like "You know what this guy's going to give me a hundred years in jail I'm not staying, so that's why he left."

-----

Obama would never admit that a child of rape could have a right to exist -- they must be aborted because they are, by definition, unwanted. He said if one of his girls were to become pregnant through a "mistake" he wouldn't want them "punished with a baby".

Obama:"...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. You know, so it doesn't make sense to not give them information."

18 posted on 10/24/2012 10:43:22 PM PDT by zipper
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sarah Barracuda

Leno? I watched ears on David Letterman.


19 posted on 10/24/2012 11:30:33 PM PDT by Kenika (I knew Dick Tup...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: P-Marlowe

God’s sovereign, revealed, and permissive will is the issue here.

God’s revealed will is that the rapist should not have sinned by raping.

God’s permissive will is that He nonetheless permitted that event to take place.

Eternally, all of this will fit into God’s sovereign will as God brings to pass His plan for creation.

So, the rapist sinned, and the fact that he will be punished suggests God did not approve of the rapist’s actions. That God allowed it is taken by many to be the price of “free will”.

Nor do we have any idea how it will fit into the sovereign future. The child could have some crucial role to play for all we know, and that could be generations from now through a great-great-grandchild.


20 posted on 10/24/2012 11:40:49 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-24 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson