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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: Sub-Driver

Obama’s Army story seems as truthful as Hillary’s Marines story.


41 posted on 09/07/2008 6:46:53 AM PDT by writmeister
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To: Sub-Driver

Keep talking Obama... Keep talking...any Counselor will tell you that usually your “ off the cuff, first response”..speaks volumes.


42 posted on 09/07/2008 6:47:21 AM PDT by pollywog (I will lift mine eyes to the hills from whence cometh my help. My help comes from the Lord...Ps 121)
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To: Sub-Driver

Can someone explain to Obama that the Girl Scouts despite their lovely Berets are not part of our military....


43 posted on 09/07/2008 6:47:23 AM PDT by usmcobra (A vote for McCain & Palin is a vote against Obama bin Biden)
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To: Sub-Driver
Obama considered joining military

A take-off on a liberal public service message popular on Air America stations: "There once was a country which was ALMOST defended by a man who ALMOST joined the military. Don't ALMOST join."

44 posted on 09/07/2008 6:47:51 AM PDT by FrdmLvr ("I don't know of a single thing Obama has done except talk and write". -- Newt Gingrich)
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To: Northern Yankee

I think Obama thinks he gets to play the movie “Ground Hog Day”, where he gets to keep trying over and over again until he gets it right.


45 posted on 09/07/2008 6:48:01 AM PDT by BRL
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To: DooDahhhh
I'm not a woman. But I still know the answer.

My point was that Obama can't even draw the line after giving birth when there's no argument at all left.

Which simply proves he's being completely disingenuous at best. Or in other words, he's trying lawyer himself out of a jam and he's been caught lying.

46 posted on 09/07/2008 6:48:06 AM PDT by DB
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To: Sub-Driver
Obama was against giving medical aid to botched abortions when babies are born alive.

Outside an abortion clinic, wouldn't a person be charged with a crime for not rendering aid to a living baby?

47 posted on 09/07/2008 6:48:23 AM PDT by lonestar
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To: Sub-Driver

Obamadon during Ramadan regrets being dumbadon.


48 posted on 09/07/2008 6:48:35 AM PDT by realcleanguy ("I have not yet begun to fight")
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To: Sub-Driver
“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.”

Piss off 0bama, your first answer revealed who you are and what you're about.

You don't get a do-over.

49 posted on 09/07/2008 6:49:00 AM PDT by tx_eggman (Privatizing profits and socializing losses is no way to run an economy)
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To: nypokerface
"Somebody should tell Obama that there both crappy answers."

I was thinking the same thing. He has had a lot of time to rework this answer and this is the best he could come up with?

I don't think this is his final answer and I am not holding out hope that the next one is going to be any better.
50 posted on 09/07/2008 6:49:07 AM PDT by j_k_l
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To: lonestar

This behavior would not be acceptable for a dog but somehow Barry “I just want to help women” Hussein thinks it is ok for women.


51 posted on 09/07/2008 6:49:43 AM PDT by Lady GOP
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To: Sub-Driver

Join the military, you say? Wouldn’t he have to show his birth certificate?


52 posted on 09/07/2008 6:49:43 AM PDT by shiva
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To: Sub-Driver
“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.

Mr obama, if you don't know, as you say you don't, then err on the side of caution. A good start would be to sit in a very public place and watch those who pass before you. Imagine everyone you see to have never existed. Forty million times.

53 posted on 09/07/2008 6:50:10 AM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Man, that's stupid ... even by congressional standards.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Maybe the title of this article should be Sex, Lies and Videotapes! Anyway it sounds like Barry is throwing Code Pink under the bus. I sure hope so because, Hell hath no fury as a woman scorned, and Medea Benjamin is a real piece of cr@p.


54 posted on 09/07/2008 6:50:45 AM PDT by Misschuck
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To: Sub-Driver

So essentially Barry O was for the Army, before he was against it... LOL


55 posted on 09/07/2008 6:50:48 AM PDT by jerod (They were pro-abortion, for gun control & wanted a cleaner environment at all cost - The NAZI party)
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To: writmeister

Actually I believe Hillary’s Marine story, Our recruiters are very selective.


56 posted on 09/07/2008 6:50:57 AM PDT by usmcobra (A vote for McCain & Palin is a vote against Obama bin Biden)
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To: Sub-Driver
And so, all I meant to communicate was that I don't presume to be able to answer these kinds of theological questions.”

Odd then that when he answered the question at Saddle Back, he said, "looking at it from a theological perspective or... a scientific perspective...".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mem_xEcZHVY

57 posted on 09/07/2008 6:51:24 AM PDT by new cruelty (I don't want my daughters punished with obama.)
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To: television is just wrong

His own mother was a “single mom” and did not choose to abort him. And Im going to use discretion and not finish the rest of this statement.


58 posted on 09/07/2008 6:51:35 AM PDT by Lady GOP
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To: Lady GOP

“The older I get the less attention I pay to what a man says and the more attention to what a man does.”—Andrew Carnegie

Obama’s record on abortion is clear.


59 posted on 09/07/2008 6:52:05 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

Just get the empty suit off a prepared speach and he will self destruct.


60 posted on 09/07/2008 6:53:34 AM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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