Obama Confronts Racial Division in US

Observant fan wrote:

<quoted text>show me where...don't give me empty arguments...

mlc9852 wrote:

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That's what I thought. There is nothing positive about Obama, just he isn't a Republican.

mlc9852 wrote:

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So it's better to let live babies die....
Who in their right mind could support this????
Not to mention the mental health of a mother who stood by while her child was murdered. Abortionists don't give a crap about women - just money.

Obama For Dog Catcher wrote:

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The Audacity of Death
Wall Street Journal: By DANIEL ALLOTT
June 5, 2008
According to Barack Obama, Gianna Jessen shouldn't exist.
Miss Jessen is an exquisite example of what antiabortion advocates call a "survivor." Well into her third trimester of pregnancy, Gianna's biological mother was injected with a saline solution intended to induce a chemical abortion at a Los Angeles County abortion center. Eighteen hours later, and precious minutes before the abortionist's arrival, Gianna emerged. Premature and with severe injuries that resulted in cerebral palsy. But alive.
Had the abortionist been present at her birth, Gianna would have been killed, perhaps by suffocation. As it was, a startled nurse called an ambulance, and Gianna was rushed to a nearby hospital, where, weighing just two pounds, she was placed in an incubator, then, months later, in foster care.
Gianna survived then, and thrives now, because, as she told me recently with a laugh, "I guess I don't die easy." Which is what the abortionist might have thought as he signed his victim's birth certificate. Gianna's medical records state that she was "born during saline abortion."
As an Illinois state senator, Barack Obama twice opposed legislation to define as "persons" babies who survive late-term abortions. Babies like Gianna. Mr. Obama said in a speech on the Illinois Senate floor that he could not accept that babies wholly emerged from their mother's wombs are "persons," and thus deserving of equal protection under the Constitution's 14th Amendment.
A federal version on the same legislation passed the Senate unanimously and with the support of all but 15 members of the House. Gianna was present when President Bush signed the Born Alive Infants Protection Act in 2002.
When I asked Gianna to reflect on Mr. Obama's candidacy, she paused, then said, "I really hope the American people will have their eyes wide open and choose to be discerning.... He is extreme, extreme, extreme."

Observant fan wrote:

<quoted text>Mental health of the mother? Are you kidding? Now you are defending the same woman that CHOSE to have an abortion?
just ridiculous!

Boycott McD wrote:

Get rid of Obama, he is a traitor to our country. He needs to live in Iraq with the other Muslims

mlc9852 wrote:

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I am talking about the mother's mental health after knowing her child was murdered. I would imagine it wouldn't be good either way.

Boycott McD wrote:

Hmmmm....muslims go crazy over cartoons, muslim osama goes crazy over a cartoon? Get the commies out of the US!!

Mo Lubee wrote:

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Hmmmm.... botcott McDonalds, get rid of Obama; you are on the cutting edge of losing causes, aren't you?
A little ignorance isn't all that bad, but if you still believe Obama is a Muslim, you are really bordering on being mega-stupid complicated by self-delusion.

Observant fan wrote:

<quoted text>this tells me nothing considering the act bush signed was different from the one obama didn't vote for.
Apples to Oranges

The laughing liberal wrote:

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Obama voted against giving medical attention to a baby that survived an Abortion attempt.
There's something wrong with a person that holds such low regard for human life. This is Obama.
Do you really reign an understanding of what he voted against or are you just another one that is covering their ears, eyes and nose on anything Obama?

Observant fan wrote:

<quoted text>I understand that in the overall picture, he voted to protect roe vs wade, and therefore women's rights. The act, as it was written by republicans would have put a hardship on women, doctors, hospitals, etc...

mlc9852 wrote:

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Do you think it puts a hardship on the baby after it is born and killed?

Observant fan wrote:

<quoted text>I understand that in the overall picture, he voted to protect roe vs wade, and therefore women's rights. The act, as it was written by republicans would have put a hardship on women, doctors, hospitals, etc...

The laughing liberal wrote:

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As they say, "That's his story and he's sticking to it"
It's basically more BS because it was specific legislation concerning the real life occurrences of what to do when babies survive the abortion doctor.
His reasons included an explanation that this abortion surviving baby laying on the table really wasn't "born" yet.
Again, there's something wrong with a person that denies help to a newborn child. This is Obama.

Mo Lubee wrote:

We are seeing a strange condition of racial Americana play itself out on these threads.
The younger generation is ready to accept all skin color as equals, and considers their own racially bigoted parents as somewhat odd social dinosaurs.
The die-hard racists among us are now mostly older curmudgeons, under-educated whites, or if younger live in houses delivered on wheels.
This ever-shrinking minority of bigoted gene-pool dregs has become increasingly bitter and strident, as they see the very foundation blocks of their ignorant beliefs being utterly destroyed by the acceptance of the candidacy of Barack Obama by main-street America.
Real Americans - those that truly believe in our Constitution and Bill of Rights - are going to unite, black and white, to elect America's first black President in November.
This will send a message that will speak loudly of equality and opportunity in American society for Americans of all color, and it will spell the death knell of racial bigotry as a viable viewpoint.
And the bigots know it.