Stark Contrast
Earlier in September after McCain announced Palin as his VP pick, the candidates did something that was not well-publicized by the mainstream media.
Maybe it is because it demonstrates the stark contrast in how the candidates view life and their support for every child, both born and unborn.
Maybe it is because it demonstrates the stark contrast in how the candidates view life and their support for every child, both born and unborn.
You’ll remember Obama’s comments about punishing his daughter with an unwanted pregnancy.
"Look, I got two daughters — 9 years old and 6 years old," he said. "I am going to teach them first about values and morals, 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 age 16, so it doesn't make sense to not give them information."
I don’t think any of us need to wonder what Obama would do if his daughter was not only pregnant with a baby, but pregnant with a Down’s Syndrome child.
His voting record is very clear on how he values life.
Regardless of how you feel about sexual education and what should or should not be taught in schools, Obama's statement clearly demonstrates his feelings toward life and his statements reveal his true heart. His statements about "understanding" both sides of the abortion issue are certainly diminished when he makes such cold and abhorrent remarks when discussing a fellow human being and really shows he has no intention of displaying any goodwill to pro-lifers.
Regardless of how you feel about sexual education and what should or should not be taught in schools, Obama's statement clearly demonstrates his feelings toward life and his statements reveal his true heart. His statements about "understanding" both sides of the abortion issue are certainly diminished when he makes such cold and abhorrent remarks when discussing a fellow human being and really shows he has no intention of displaying any goodwill to pro-lifers.
I’d be willing to bet that neither he nor his wife would embrace life like the following event from McCain/Palin demonstrates.
September 9, 2008
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Kurt in Pittsburgh, hello, sir. Nice to have you on the EIB Network, and how about the Steelers defense?
CALLER: How about those Steelers, huh?
RUSH: How about that?
CALLER: Hey, listen, Rush, longtime listener, first-time caller, one of those Bible, family, gun clingers from western Pennsylvania.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: And I wanted to share a story with you. A week ago last Saturday we went to the Palin-McCain rally in Washington, Pennsylvania, was the day after he announced her, and we have a five-year-old daughter with Down syndrome, and we made a sign that said: “We Love Kids with Down Syndrome.” So when they pulled in in their bus the sign did catch their, McCain and Palin and the rest of their family, it caught their eye, we could tell, they gave us a thumbs-up from the bus, so we were all excited just by that –
RUSH: Wait, wait, wait. Who gave you the thumbs up, McCain and Palin?
CALLER: McCain, Palin, Cindy McCain, we could see them from the bus. We were in a position where we had eye contact with them –
RUSH: Oh, cool!
CALLER: My wife was holding our daughter.
RUSH: Very, very, very cool.
CALLER: It was really cool, Rush. I was like, “Wow, that’s awesome,” because I love Governor Palin and so I thought that’s really neat. So then we moved around as the bus was getting ready to pull out, we kind of positioned ourselves so we could just wave them on and a Secret Service agent came up to us and said, “Hey, can you come with us?” I was like, “Do we have a choice?”
RUSH: (laughing) You shouldn’t have worried. It’s not the Clinton administration.
CALLER: Right. So we accompanied them up the hill, we went right to the bus, where it was, and Governor Palin, Senator McCain, Cindy, Todd Palin, they’re all standing there. We’re in this inner circle with just us and them, and the Secret Service agent, and they came right up to us and thanked us for coming out, said they loved our sign, and Governor Palin immediately said, “May I hold your daughter?” and our daughter Chloe, who’s five, went right to her, and I have some pictures I’d love to send you maybe when I’m done here, but Governor Palin was hugging Chloe, and then her little daughter brought their baby Trig who has Down syndrome from the bus, he was napping, and Chloe went right over and kissed him on the cheek, and my son Nolan who’s nine, he thanked her.
RUSH: This is amazing.
CALLER: I will send you all the stuff, Senator McCain was talking to my son, and we thanked him for his service, and he asked my son if he wanted to see the bus, and we were hanging out and it was very surreal. I felt like we could have had a pizza and a beer with them, they were so warm.
RUSH: You know what? I want to put you on hold. I want Snerdley to give you our super-secret, known-only-to-three-people here, e-mail address.
CALLER: I will send you everything, Rush.
RUSH: And then could you send us these pictures? Would you mind if we put them on the website?
CALLER: I would be honored, and my main thing is they are warm, kind, genuine people, and they represent the best of this country.
RUSH: That’s right. And when you send these pictures, make sure you identify them. I mean, we’ll know Palin and McCain, of course. Identify yourselves.
CALLER: I will, I will identify everybody in the picture, Rush, and God bless you for being a beacon of hope and truth in this country.
RUSH: Oh, no, no. It’s nothing, it’s nothing. You’re doing the Lord’s work.
CALLER: Well, we’re very blessed and I want people to know what a blessing it is to have a child with Down syndrome. These kids, they’re angels.
RUSH: That’s the thing. There’s always good to be found in everything that happens. It may be a while before it reveals itself.
CALLER: Absolutely.
RUSH: Right, and when she hugged my daughter I said, here’s the difference, this candidate embraces life and all its limitless possibilities.
RUSH: All right.
CALLER: That’s what she is.
RUSH: Terrific, okay, I gotta run here, but I’m going to put you on hold.
CALLER: Thank you, Rush.
RUSH: Thank you, Kurt. I really appreciate it.
END TRANSCRIPT
September 9, 2008
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Kurt in Pittsburgh, hello, sir. Nice to have you on the EIB Network, and how about the Steelers defense?
CALLER: How about those Steelers, huh?
RUSH: How about that?
CALLER: Hey, listen, Rush, longtime listener, first-time caller, one of those Bible, family, gun clingers from western Pennsylvania.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: And I wanted to share a story with you. A week ago last Saturday we went to the Palin-McCain rally in Washington, Pennsylvania, was the day after he announced her, and we have a five-year-old daughter with Down syndrome, and we made a sign that said: “We Love Kids with Down Syndrome.” So when they pulled in in their bus the sign did catch their, McCain and Palin and the rest of their family, it caught their eye, we could tell, they gave us a thumbs-up from the bus, so we were all excited just by that –
RUSH: Wait, wait, wait. Who gave you the thumbs up, McCain and Palin?
CALLER: McCain, Palin, Cindy McCain, we could see them from the bus. We were in a position where we had eye contact with them –
RUSH: Oh, cool!
CALLER: My wife was holding our daughter.
RUSH: Very, very, very cool.
CALLER: It was really cool, Rush. I was like, “Wow, that’s awesome,” because I love Governor Palin and so I thought that’s really neat. So then we moved around as the bus was getting ready to pull out, we kind of positioned ourselves so we could just wave them on and a Secret Service agent came up to us and said, “Hey, can you come with us?” I was like, “Do we have a choice?”
RUSH: (laughing) You shouldn’t have worried. It’s not the Clinton administration.
CALLER: Right. So we accompanied them up the hill, we went right to the bus, where it was, and Governor Palin, Senator McCain, Cindy, Todd Palin, they’re all standing there. We’re in this inner circle with just us and them, and the Secret Service agent, and they came right up to us and thanked us for coming out, said they loved our sign, and Governor Palin immediately said, “May I hold your daughter?” and our daughter Chloe, who’s five, went right to her, and I have some pictures I’d love to send you maybe when I’m done here, but Governor Palin was hugging Chloe, and then her little daughter brought their baby Trig who has Down syndrome from the bus, he was napping, and Chloe went right over and kissed him on the cheek, and my son Nolan who’s nine, he thanked her.
RUSH: This is amazing.
CALLER: I will send you all the stuff, Senator McCain was talking to my son, and we thanked him for his service, and he asked my son if he wanted to see the bus, and we were hanging out and it was very surreal. I felt like we could have had a pizza and a beer with them, they were so warm.
RUSH: You know what? I want to put you on hold. I want Snerdley to give you our super-secret, known-only-to-three-people here, e-mail address.
CALLER: I will send you everything, Rush.
RUSH: And then could you send us these pictures? Would you mind if we put them on the website?
CALLER: I would be honored, and my main thing is they are warm, kind, genuine people, and they represent the best of this country.
RUSH: That’s right. And when you send these pictures, make sure you identify them. I mean, we’ll know Palin and McCain, of course. Identify yourselves.
CALLER: I will, I will identify everybody in the picture, Rush, and God bless you for being a beacon of hope and truth in this country.
RUSH: Oh, no, no. It’s nothing, it’s nothing. You’re doing the Lord’s work.
CALLER: Well, we’re very blessed and I want people to know what a blessing it is to have a child with Down syndrome. These kids, they’re angels.
RUSH: That’s the thing. There’s always good to be found in everything that happens. It may be a while before it reveals itself.
CALLER: Absolutely.
RUSH: Right, and when she hugged my daughter I said, here’s the difference, this candidate embraces life and all its limitless possibilities.
RUSH: All right.
CALLER: That’s what she is.
RUSH: Terrific, okay, I gotta run here, but I’m going to put you on hold.
CALLER: Thank you, Rush.
RUSH: Thank you, Kurt. I really appreciate it.
END TRANSCRIPT
posted by Anonymous at 5:52 AM
9 Comments:
Explain to me how it is possible for you to uphold the rigors of the scientific method professionally, but regularly give in to innuendo and generalizations when the topic turns to politics?
Coming from someone often accused of the same, isn't that lofty moral high ground itself a bit "cold" on occasion?
Look at Obama's record.
The facts are very clear.
HB is not taking a moral high ground. He is just plainly stating what the facts support.
Then you'd best be able to illustrate how this is anything but a purely subjective judgment on HB's part:
I’d be willing to bet that neither he nor his wife would embrace life like the following event from McCain/Palin demonstrates.
HB is forever willing to make these subjective judgments for ideological purposes when expressing disdain for his liberal bogeymen, but is quick to deny their veracity when usedd against him.
Can't have it both ways, doc.
Most everything we do in medicine is making subjective decisons based on objective data.
In medical school they told us half of everything we would be taught would be wrong. The only problem was they didn't know which half.
Many things we did in the past (drugs, treatments, etc.)have now been completely reversed or changed.
We continue to make decisions on the current objective evidence; right or wrong.
Here the evidence clearly supports my claim.
I've read this post several times, looking for the "evidence" that supports your claim. I still have not found any.
HB, this is so far from a stretch, that the line broke a long a time ago.
"Look, I got two daughters — 9 years old and 6 years old," he said. "I am going to teach them first about values and morals, 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 age 16, so it doesn't make sense to not give them information."
I see perfectly clear in intended message of this statement, and it is NOT to the context that a human life is a form of punishment for sexual activity at a young age.
I believe it is the ideology of being subjegated to the role of an unwed, teenage mother, the forfeiture of freedom, the self-denial of a "normal" teens life and experiences as the "punishment" for irresponsibility, not the actual child.
But of course when a political party is doing everything it can to demonize Obama, every statement made will be twisted out context to make him look like the biggest monster possible.
As a political independent, even though I am not all that thrilled with Obama/Biden, I am more inclined to vote that ticket, because of the constant immaturity of the GOP.
The mudslinging, name calling, twisting everything out of context from the conservatives is embarrassing, exasperating, and shameful to our country, and one can not help but think if this is the behavior exhibited before the elections who in the hell can one expect anything but partisan games non-stop while the country continues to go downhill...
@NewAlbanian
HB's comment was entirely objective. He stated that he would be willing to bet on a subjective issue. Nothing more objective than a statement of intent.
@ChristopherD
You forgot the issue of the STDs, in the exact form of your argument,
"I believe it is the ideology of being subjegated to the burden of an STD, an infection, the forfeiture of health, the self-denial of a "clean" teen life and experience as the "punishment" for irresponsibility, not the actual STD."
I kept your argument as true as I could and replaced only a few words. Barack used the exact same word and phrase for both forms of punishment, and it isn't fair to judge them however we can to make him seem most human. Either STDs and pregnancies are punishments or they are metaphors.
LOOK AT HIS VOTING RECORD.
IT IS VERY PLAIN.
HE DOES NOT SUPPORT THE LIFE OF AN UNBORN CHILD IF THE MOTHER DOES NOT WANT THE BABY.
IT IS VERY, VERY CLEAR BASED ON HIS VOTING RECORD!
The moral of the story. Doctors don't really know what they are doing. No wonder are healthcare system is in poor shape.
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