Pelican Six
08-29-2008, 12:23 PM
I think it's another brilliant move by McCain's campaign. I still am not thrilled he's the nominee, but I have to hand it to his handlers, they've played this season with lots of savvy.
Obviously, it's a play for disaffected Hillary voters. The biggest turn off for them is going to be her pro-life stance, but she's got a built-in rebuttal. Her fifth child, born in April, has Down's Syndrome. She knew this in advance and made the, ahem... choice to keep the baby.
Conversely, Obama voted against a bill while in the Illinois Senate that would have required doctors to render medical care to babies born alive after attempted abortions. Testimony in the case was given by a nurse who held a baby for 45 min while it struggled for life, after doctors had placed it in a utility closet, waiting for it to die, but unwilling to watch the consequences of their inaction.
And the reason this baby was aborted in the first place? It had Down's Syndrome. (http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/brianwolanin/gG5KRV/commentary) Attack Palin for her views and watch the Rethuglicons drag Jill Stanek out of the woodwork:
From the moment of her testimony, Stanek sensed she was in trouble: She recalled an incident when she was asked to take an aborted Down’s Syndrome baby to the hospital “Soiled Utility Room,” where the “attempted-aborted” babies were sent to take their final breaths. The little boy’s parents did not want to hold him, and none of the other nurses could find the time or bear the agony. Stanek remembers rocking the baby in her arms for the final 45 minutes that he suffered an excruciating life. “He was too weak to move very much,” she remembered, “expending any energy he had trying to breathe. Toward the end, he was so quiet that I couldn’t tell if he was still alive unless I held him up to the light to see if his heart was still beating through his chest wall.”
This incident took place at Christ Hospital, which would fire Stanek for her testimony.
Stanek was struck by Sen. Barack Obama’s cold, non-response to her testimony: Interviewed for this article, she told us that he appeared “unmoved” by her testimony and “even argued against it.” He told her, “What we are doing here is to create one more burden on a woman and I can’t support that.” Perhaps signaling his April 2008 remarks about his daughters, Obama could not imagine these un-desiring mothers being “punished with a baby.”
Obama gazed right past Stanek’s image of a gasping, dying, abandoned, newborn baby and instead saw an over-riding moral imperative: a woman’s “health-care choice.”
Please, please, PLEASE bring this issue up, Democrats. It is a loser, and you know it. The Born Alive Infant Protection Act is now federal law. Guarantee you the Obamessiah does not want his support of infanticide dragged into the light.
Back to Palin - more executive experience than either Obama or Biden, so pretty safe from that charge. Pro-gun hunter, pro-life, which shores up the Republican conservative base, and also gives her a strong argument that abortion views notwithstanding, a bunch of Hillary's PUMAs are in play.
This is shaping up to be one of the most interesting election cycles in my lifetime.
Obviously, it's a play for disaffected Hillary voters. The biggest turn off for them is going to be her pro-life stance, but she's got a built-in rebuttal. Her fifth child, born in April, has Down's Syndrome. She knew this in advance and made the, ahem... choice to keep the baby.
Conversely, Obama voted against a bill while in the Illinois Senate that would have required doctors to render medical care to babies born alive after attempted abortions. Testimony in the case was given by a nurse who held a baby for 45 min while it struggled for life, after doctors had placed it in a utility closet, waiting for it to die, but unwilling to watch the consequences of their inaction.
And the reason this baby was aborted in the first place? It had Down's Syndrome. (http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/brianwolanin/gG5KRV/commentary) Attack Palin for her views and watch the Rethuglicons drag Jill Stanek out of the woodwork:
From the moment of her testimony, Stanek sensed she was in trouble: She recalled an incident when she was asked to take an aborted Down’s Syndrome baby to the hospital “Soiled Utility Room,” where the “attempted-aborted” babies were sent to take their final breaths. The little boy’s parents did not want to hold him, and none of the other nurses could find the time or bear the agony. Stanek remembers rocking the baby in her arms for the final 45 minutes that he suffered an excruciating life. “He was too weak to move very much,” she remembered, “expending any energy he had trying to breathe. Toward the end, he was so quiet that I couldn’t tell if he was still alive unless I held him up to the light to see if his heart was still beating through his chest wall.”
This incident took place at Christ Hospital, which would fire Stanek for her testimony.
Stanek was struck by Sen. Barack Obama’s cold, non-response to her testimony: Interviewed for this article, she told us that he appeared “unmoved” by her testimony and “even argued against it.” He told her, “What we are doing here is to create one more burden on a woman and I can’t support that.” Perhaps signaling his April 2008 remarks about his daughters, Obama could not imagine these un-desiring mothers being “punished with a baby.”
Obama gazed right past Stanek’s image of a gasping, dying, abandoned, newborn baby and instead saw an over-riding moral imperative: a woman’s “health-care choice.”
Please, please, PLEASE bring this issue up, Democrats. It is a loser, and you know it. The Born Alive Infant Protection Act is now federal law. Guarantee you the Obamessiah does not want his support of infanticide dragged into the light.
Back to Palin - more executive experience than either Obama or Biden, so pretty safe from that charge. Pro-gun hunter, pro-life, which shores up the Republican conservative base, and also gives her a strong argument that abortion views notwithstanding, a bunch of Hillary's PUMAs are in play.
This is shaping up to be one of the most interesting election cycles in my lifetime.