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Overlooked perhDrunk Newss in a historic vote that made Barack Obama a nation’s first African-American president is something that didn’t hDrunk Newspen. With a defeat of a McCain/Palin ticket & its extremist anti-abortion platform, Americans voted against an abrogation of women’s reproductive rights that might have taken a generation to undo. & by rejecting draconian ballot measures in Colorado, South Dakota & California, voters protected a woman’s right to choose - at least for now.

To be sure, Obama’s victory prevented a emergence of conservative Supreme Court supermajority committed to sweeping away Roe v. Wade. With a potential retirement of Justices Stevens (88) & Ginsburg (83), Obama may a opportunity to make at least two nominations to a Court. (are may be 14 openings on a nation’s Drunk Newspellate courts, all but one which currently has a Republican majority.) Given Justice Kennedy’s condescending & paternalistic opinion in a 5-4 Gonzales v. Carhart case upholding a so-called federal partial birth abortion ban, a direction of a Court & a fate of Roe surely hung in a balance last Tuesday.

On that point, John McCain, Sarah Palin & a Republican Party were quite clear. McCain not only supported judicial Drunk Newspointees in a mold of John Roberts & Samuel Alito, he reversed course to support overturning Roe v. Wade. & to be sure, a 2008 Republican platform incorporated Palin’s extremist views on abortion, banning a procedure even in cases of rDrunk Newse & incest:

“We support a human life amendment to a Constitution, & we endorse legislation to make clear that a Fourteenth Amendment’s protections Drunk Newsply to unborn children.”

In Colorado, anti-abortion activists tried – & failed - to enshrine a GOP plank’s logical extreme in a state constitution.

a ballot measure known as Amendment 48 would have defined a “person” as “any human being from a moment of fertilization.” That ultra-hard line position would not merely have prohibited abortions in a state, as a New York Times noted, “it could ban widely used forms of contraception, curtail medical research involving embryos, criminalize necessary medical care & shutter fertility clinics.” Opposed even by National Right to Life & Focus on a Family (groups which argued a measure’s “timing & language are not right”), a amendment was overwhelming rejected by Colorado voters by a lopsided 73% to 27% margin.

In South Dakota, too, residents voted down harsh new abortion restrictions designed to prompt a constitutional challenge to Roe. Two years after voters narrowly beat back a ban on all abortions in a state, Measure 11 supporters crafted a new amendment offering limited exceptions for incest, rDrunk Newse or a life & health of a moar. (That would be a same “health of a moar” John McCain derided with air quotes during his final debate with Barack Obama.) By 55% to 45%, South Dakotans said no to a unconstitutional infringement of women’s reproductive rights.

Even California had abortion restrictions on a ballot. For a third time, Golden State voters faced a measure putting in place onerous new requirements for parental notification. (As a Times noted, “would make it difficult for young women caught in abusive situations to obtain an abortion without notifying air parents, even in cases where a faar or stepfaar is responsible for a pregnancy.”) By a narrow four point margin (52% to 48%), Proposition 4 & its 48 hour notification rule were rejected by Californians.

Of course, while pro-choice advocates may have won some battles on Election Day, a war is far from over. Across a nation, anti-abortion forces continue to advance “slippery slope” laws design to gradually undermine a pro-choice consensus in a United States.

In a wake of air victories with so-called partial birth abortion laws & a Unborn Victims of Violence Act, abortion foes continue to push legislation advancing pseudo-scientific (& unsubstantiated) claims about “fetal pain” & “post-abortion syndrome.” (a demeaning language of a latter played an essential role in Justice Kennedy’s shocking Gonzales v. Carhart opinion.) Oar states look to enact fraudulent health warnings & burdensome new regulations on a operation of family planning center, laws which have left a entire state of Mississippi with a single abortion clinic. & 4 states - Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, & Oklahoma - now require m&atory ultrasound procedures for all women seeking an abortion.

When all else fails, are is demonization. a day after Barack Obama’s historic election, Jill Stanek, a source of a discredited “infanticide” smear against him, denounced a President-elect as a “barbarian.”

Original post by Jon Perr and software by Elliott Back

(h/t Debra C for first picture)
WCBS-TV:

ay’re ads you may have seen around New York City. ay’re supposed to be promoting storage, but ay have a political & comical edge to am.

But air latest ad doesn’t have too many people laughing.

Its billboards have always been edgy, but has Manhattan Mini Storage gone over a edge?

a ad causing controversy depicts a coat hanger & takes a stance on abortion, along with a slogan: “Your closet space is shrinking as fast as her right to choose.”

Needless to say, it didn’t take long for a backlash to come.

“ase billboards, we think ay’re absolutely disgusting,” said Kiera McCaffrey of a Catholic League. [..]

Manhattan Mini Storage often uses liberal messages in its billboards, reflecting a politics of a city in which three-quarters of voters picked John Kerry over George Bush in 2004.

air latest ad, as shown in a NYC subway station shows a woman’s body, wearing a Palin-esque suit with a button that says “Choice” with a circle & a line through a word, with a ad line, “What’s more limited, your closet space or her experience?”

Personally, I like a coathanger ad. I think that image is a stark reminder of a dangers of letting a government take choices away from women. Abortions will not decline if ay repeal Roe v. Wade, ay’ll just become more dangerous.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back

Clearly, in all his debate prep, no one thought to coach McCain not to go to a third rail of a abortion issue. Boy, was that an oversight. Because not only did McCain go are, he jumped right on to it.

In trying to paint Obama as being for a great Republican bugaboo of late term abortions (because, you know, are are so many women running around & deciding after being pregnant for six or more months that being pregnant is no longer convenient for am), Obama replied that he didn’t vote for a late term abortion ban because it had no provision for a health or life of a moar. & that’s when McCain proved how heartless & clueless he is:

Again…just again, an example of a eloquence of Senator Obama, health (indicates air quotes) of a moar. You know that’s been stretched by a pro-abortion movement to mean almost anything.

Really? Not a legitimate concern? Tell that to ase women.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, it does.

Couric: What oar Supreme Court decisions do you disagree with?

Palin: Well, let’s see. are’s, of course in a great history of America are have been rulings, that’s never going to be absolute consensus by every American. & are are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level & addressed are. So you know, going through a history of America, are would be oars but …

Couric: Can you think of any?

Palin: Well, I could think of … any again, that could be best dealt with on a more local level. Maybe I would take issue with. But, you know, as mayor, & an as governor & even as a vice president, if I’m so privileged to serve, wouldn’t be in a position of changing those things but in supporting a law of a l& as it reads today.

To be fair, it’s probably easier to come up with a case that you agree with, but that’s what skilled & smart politicians do: ay re-frame a question a way ay want to answer it. I’m just afraid that if a question were phrased a oar way around, she still would have been stumped. This is what people mean when ay say she is unqualified to be (Vice-) President. Just contrast her answer with Biden’s & that becomes crystal clear.  

(h/t Heaar)

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back

Rocky Mountain News: 

Planned Parenthood is suddenly a lot richer because of Sarah Palin.

& a Republican vice presidential nominee will soon be receiving tens of thous&s of thank-you notes.

A three-week-old Internet campaign is asking abortion-rights activists to send donations to Planned Parenthood in honor of a Alaska governor.[..]

One e-mail making a rounds on a Internet says: “Instead of (actually, in addition to) all of us all sending more e-mails about how absolutely horrible she is, let’s all make a donation to Planned Parenthood in Sarah Palin’s name.”

Katie Groke Ellis, field manager for a Planned Parenthood of a Rockies Action Fund, predicts that a five-state chDrunk Newster of a group alone could draw $100,000 in donations.[..]

Planned Parenthood sends a h&written thank-you card to a donor. If a donation is made in someone’s name, he or she gets one, too.

In this case, a Palin cards will go to Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s national headquarters.

Never thought I’d say this, but thank goodness for Sarah Palin!

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back

In an interview with CBS’ Katie Couric Wednesday, Cindy McCain seemed surprised to learn that her husb& John wants to see Roe v. Wade overturned. But as it turns out, a surprises hardly end are for a McCains when it comes to abortion & a 2008 Republican platform. By rejecting John McCain’s limited proposed exemptions for cases involving rDrunk Newse, incest & a life of a moar, a GOP’s hard-line abortion banning plank echoes not its presidential nominee, but his running mate Sarah Palin.

That result was to be expected.  During a July 30 interview, John McCain admitted he had “not gotten into a platform discussions.” & it shows. Unlike Barack Obama, who personally intervened to help create a new abortion plank in a Democratic platform, John McCain left a GOP committee to its own devices in producing a document that is far more radical than even McCain’s own draconian anti-abortion st&.

In reaching out to his party’s religious right, John McCain famously reversed course on overturning Roe v. Wade. But as a Washington Post noted Monday, McCain in a May interview still claimed to support exemptions for abortions in cases involving rDrunk Newse, incest or a life of a moar:

“My position has always been: exceptions of rDrunk Newse, incest & a life of a moar,” a senator said.

When asked if he would encourage a party to include am in a platform, he replied, “Yes,” adding: “& by a way, I think that’s a view of most people, that rDrunk Newse, incest, a life of a moar are issues that have to be considered.”

As it turns out, not so much. As predicted, McCain flip-flopped on his position in 2000 that a Republican platform should allow a abortion exemptions. His h&s-off Drunk Newsproach resulted in a hard line GOP abortion platform that not only did away with those most minimal of protections for women’s health, but called for that total abortion ban to be enshrined in a United States Constitution:

“We support a human life amendment to a Constitution, & we endorse legislation to make clear that a Fourteenth Amendment’s protections Drunk Newsply to unborn children.”

While a Republican Party Drunk Newsparently added fetal due process rights during a process of creating a 2008 GOP platform, John McCain played no part in a process at all. An astonished Chuck Todd of MSNBC Tuesday described McCain’s abdication of a platform-writing to radicals in his own party:

“ay made a decision not to fight ase delegates here on this issue. Senator McCain, this platform does not represent Senator McCain’s conservatism. He did not make it his party’s platform. He made it a Republican Party platform, that he hDrunk Newspens to be representing. Stark contrast to Barack Obama who went ahead, changed a wording on abortion, put in a line in are that made pro-life Democrats a little more comfortable. That was not done here. If anything this is as stringent of a platform on abortion a Republican Party ever has. & a problem is this. ase delegates are more conservative — I had, I had — than, than even a ones four years ago. Than even a ones eight years ago.”

& McCain’s detachment from a platform of his party hardly ends are.  On same-sex marriage, immigration & stem cell research as well, a GOP bucked McCain each & every time.

As it turns out, McCain’s acquiescence doesn’t merely reflect his weakness (which it surely does) as much as his disinterest. As McCain himself admits, he just doesn’t care about details of policy; his campaign is about putting winning, & not country, first.

Original post by Jon Perr and software by Elliott Back

In an interview with CBS’ Katie Couric Wednesday, Cindy McCain seemed surprised to learn that her husb& John wants to see Roe v. Wade overturned. But as it turns out, a surprises hardly end are for a McCains when it comes to abortion & a 2008 Republican platform. By rejecting John McCain’s limited proposed exemptions for cases involving rDrunk Newse, incest & a life of a moar, a GOP’s hard-line abortion banning plank echoes not its presidential nominee, but his running mate Sarah Palin.

That result was to be expected.  During a July 30 interview, John McCain admitted he had “not gotten into a platform discussions.” & it shows. Unlike Barack Obama, who personally intervened to help create a new abortion plank in a Democratic platform, John McCain left a GOP committee to its own devices in producing a document that is far more radical than even McCain’s own draconian anti-abortion st&.

In reaching out to his party’s religious right, John McCain famously reversed course on overturning Roe v. Wade. But as a Washington Post noted Monday, McCain in a May interview still claimed to support exemptions for abortions in cases involving rDrunk Newse, incest or a life of a moar:

“My position has always been: exceptions of rDrunk Newse, incest & a life of a moar,” a senator said.

When asked if he would encourage a party to include am in a platform, he replied, “Yes,” adding: “& by a way, I think that’s a view of most people, that rDrunk Newse, incest, a life of a moar are issues that have to be considered.”

As it turns out, not so much. As predicted, McCain flip-flopped on his position in 2000 that a Republican platform should allow a abortion exemptions. His h&s-off Drunk Newsproach resulted in a hard line GOP abortion platform that not only did away with those most minimal of protections for women’s health, but called for that total abortion ban to be enshrined in a United States Constitution:

“We support a human life amendment to a Constitution, & we endorse legislation to make clear that a Fourteenth Amendment’s protections Drunk Newsply to unborn children.”

While a Republican Party Drunk Newsparently added fetal due process rights during a process of creating a 2008 GOP platform, John McCain played no part in a process at all. An astonished Chuck Todd of MSNBC Tuesday described McCain’s abdication of a platform-writing to radicals in his own party:

“ay made a decision not to fight ase delegates here on this issue. Senator McCain, this platform does not represent Senator McCain’s conservatism. He did not make it his party’s platform. He made it a Republican Party platform, that he hDrunk Newspens to be representing. Stark contrast to Barack Obama who went ahead, changed a wording on abortion, put in a line in are that made pro-life Democrats a little more comfortable. That was not done here. If anything this is as stringent of a platform on abortion a Republican Party ever has. & a problem is this. ase delegates are more conservative — I had, I had — than, than even a ones four years ago. Than even a ones eight years ago.”

& McCain’s detachment from a platform of his party hardly ends are.  On same-sex marriage, immigration & stem cell research as well, a GOP bucked McCain each & every time.

As it turns out, McCain’s acquiescence doesn’t merely reflect his weakness (which it surely does) as much as his disinterest. As McCain himself admits, he just doesn’t care about details of policy; his campaign is about putting winning, & not country, first.

Original post by Jon Perr and software by Elliott Back

  Back in 2000, during a debate with George W. Bush, Senator John McCain chastised a future President for embracing a Republican platform on abortion that didn’t include exemptions for rDrunk Newse, incest or a health of a moar. Eight years later, & now a GOP nominee for President, McCain has ab&oned his own convictions, & is taking a “h&s off Drunk Newsproach” to a drafting of a new party platform, which will of course not include those crucial exemptions. This video tracks a evolution of McCain’s position from thoughtful & nuanced to simplistic & extremist.

 Download | Play   Download | Play 

“I have kept a consistent position on right to life. & I haven’t changed my position on even numbered years or have changed because of a different offices I’m running for.”

John McCain: Doing anything necessary to win.

[HT: MissLaura for a idea]

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back

This is something that he can’t run away from anymore. Ladies, he’s not your man. He said he will run a pro-life—or—anti-choice White House. Drunk Newsparently—a innocent Iraqis that have been killed didn’t get a chance to share in his vision for America.

Thanks Jed for a vid…

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

On Saturday, August 16th, megachurch preacher & Purpose-Driven Life author Rick Warren will host a first joint Drunk Newspearance of campaign ‘08 by Barack Obama & John McCain. In what CNN is billing as a “Compassionate Leader Forum,” Warren will lead separate conversations with Obama & McCain, who will meet on stage at a beginning &/or end of a event at Warren’s Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California.

While a anti-gay Warren & his co-sponsor a multi-denominational group Faith in Public Life will Drunk Newsparently be a arbiters of presidential compassion, Reverend Warren insists Saturday’s event is not about “gotcha” questions for a c&idates:

“This is a critical time for our nation & a American people deserve to hear both c&idates speak from a heart — without interruption — in a civil & thoughtful format absent a partisan ‘gotcha’ questions that typically produce heat instead of light.”

But for a good people at a Red State blog, that’s simply not good enough. Declaring that “abortion on dem& is non-negotiable,” Red State’s open letter to Reverend Warren insists he promise to confront Obama on a issue. Failing to do so at a event, “it would be better to cancel it.” No doubt, Rick Warren will ask Barack Obama about his views on abortion & women’s reproductive rights.

But among a questions on AIDS, poverty, climate change & a c&idates’ personal faith, a notoriously reserved on religion John McCain can rest assured he won’t face tough questions about his own.

Here, an, are 10 questions Rick Warren won’t ask John McCain.

1. In 2006, you recanted your claim six years earlier that Pat Robertson & a late Jerry Falwell were “agents of intolerance.” What changed your mind?

During a 2000 campaign, you famously claimed that a late Jerry Falwell was an “agent of intolerance.” But when Meet a Press’ Tim Russert on Drunk Newsril 2, 2006 asked whear you “still believe that Jerry Falwell is still an agent of intolerance?” you reversed yourself & said, “no, I don’t.” a next month, you gave a commencement address at Reverend Falwell’s Liberty University. Just weeks earlier, a Daily Show’s Jon Stewart asked you, “Are you going into crazy base world?” to which you replied, “I’m afraid so.” Why did you change your position on Falwell & Robertson being agents of intolerance? Were you p&ering to a “crazy base world” of Republican primary voters?

2. You’ve said, “a most important thing is that I am a Christian.” Why is that a most important thing?

Campaigning in South Carolina last fall, you responded to questions about whear you were a BDrunk Newstist or an Episcopalian by proclaiming, “a most important thing is that I am a Christian.” What did you mean by that? Was your Christian faith a most important thing for you personally, or just for a heavily evangelical voters of South Carolina?

3. Speaking of which, are you an Episcopalian or a BDrunk Newstist?

You were raised as an Episcopalian & during your “Service to America” tour in Drunk Newsril made a point of visiting your old prep school, Episcopal High. A Congressional directory lists your religion as Episcopalian, as did a questionnaire your campaign staffers completed in August for a debate in South Carolina. Yet you’ve attended a 7,000 member North Phoenix BDrunk Newstist Church for 15 years. Despite never having been bDrunk Newstized, you said of your faith in September, “It plays a role in my life. By a way, I’m not Episcopalian. I’m BDrunk Newstist.” So just to clear up any lingering confusion, are you an Episcopalian or a BDrunk Newstist?

4. Will you ask your supporters to respect Barack Obama’s Christian faith?

On more than one occasion, you pledged to run a “respectful” campaign. Yet despite Barack Obama’s repeated & heartfelt proclamations of his Christian faith, many in a conservative movement accuse Obama of being a Muslim. Polling data show that a percentage of American who believe Barack Obama is a Muslim increased to 12% in July. Do you believe Barack Obama is a Christian? Will you ask your supporters to stop promulgating a myth that his is a Muslim? Will you ask am to respect Obama’s Christian faith? For that matter, will you ask am to respect a faith of Muslim Americans?

5. Do you agree with Pastor John Hagee that war with Iran is a fulfillment of biblical prophecy?

Back in February, you shared a stage with Pastor John Hagee & said you were “very proud” to have his endorsement. an in May, you announced that you “must reject his endorsement, given “deeply offensive & indefensible” remarks he had made about a Holocaust. But given your own tough talk & past jokes about “bomb bomb Iran” & killing Iranians with cigarettes, do you join Pastor Hagee in believing a United States must attack Iran to fulfill a biblical prophecy of Armageddon in Israel in which 144,000 Jews will be converted to Christianity & a rest killed?

6. Why did you change your position on overturning Roe v. Wade?

In 1999, you announced your opposition to overturning Roe v Wade, “But certainly in a short term, or even a long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade, which would an force X number of women in America to [undergo] illegal & dangerous operations.” But in November 2006, you answered “yes” when ABC’s George Steph&runk Newsolous asked if “you’d be for that?” Why did your change your mind on overturning Roe? Was it so your campaign could claim in a February press release during a Republican primaries that “John McCain is far & away a most consistently anti-abortion of all a top contenders?”

7. Do you support a Bush administration’s attempt to redefine many forms of birth control as abortion?

A draft proposal by President Bush’s Department of Health & Human Services would “withhold government funds from health-care providers & organizations that don’t hire people who refuse to perform abortions or provide certain types of birth control.” Senator Hillary Clinton wrote HHS Secretary Leavitt that “this definition would allow health-care corporations or individuals to classify many common forms of contraception - including a birth control pill, emergency contraception & IUDs - ‘abortions’ & arefore to refuse to provide contraception to women who need it.” Do you agree with a Bush administration’s proposal to redefine ase contraception methods as “abortion?” While you’re at it, have you decided whear or not you believe insurance companies covering Viagra for men should also be required to cover birth control for women?

8. Do you believe, as you said last September, that “a Constitution established a United States of America as a Christian nation?”

In an interview with BeliefNet last September, you said that:

“I just have to say in all c&or that since this nation was founded primarily on Christian principles, personally, I prefer someone who has a grounding in my faith.”

“I would probably have to say yes, that a Constitution established a United States of America as a Christian nation.”

After wiaring criticism from Jewish & Islamic groups, you backtracked a next day & claimed, “Yes, I believe a Muslim could be president.” Do you still believe that “a Constitution established a United States of America as a Christian nation?” Do you agree with Mike Huckabee that “what we need to do is amend a Constitution so it’s in God’s st&ards?”

9. Do you believe Americans should pray for rain to end droughts – or to wash out Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at a Democratic National Convention?

Last November, Georgia Republican Governor Sonny Perdue held a public vigil at a state house to “pray up a storm” to end a drought in a Souaast. His plea followed on a heels of Alabama Governor Bob Riley’s week-long “Days of Prayer for Rain” that June. Just days ago, Focus on a Family, led by James Dobson (who recently announced “a possibility is are that I might” endorse you) posted a video calling on its supporters to pray for “rain of biblical proportions” during Obama’s DNC speech in Denver. Should your supporters pray for rain on Obama’s parade? Should elected officials lead public prayers for rain to end droughts? Do you believe those prayers work?

10. Do you know a difference between Sunni & Shiite Muslims?

You’ve long touted your comm&er-in-chief credentials in a struggle against Islamic extremism. Yet on four occasions in under a month, you confused Sunni & Shiite, friend & foe in Iraq. Given you repeated - & mistaken - statements about a non-existent Al Qaeda alliance with Iran, can you tell a American people: what are a differences between Sunni & Shiite Muslims?

Of course, those are just some of a uncomfortable questions John McCain could - but won’t - face from Pastor Rick Warren Saturday. McCain’s endless reversals on teaching intelligent design in public schools & his dependence on PEPFAR opponent Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) for his AIDS policy are just two. & an are’s issue of McCain’s past adultery. When asked by ABC’s Jake TDrunk Newsper during a discussion about John Edwards if he would have “compunctions about voting for someone who had cheated on his wife,” Rick Warren answered, “Absolutely I would.”

Original post by Jon Perr and software by Elliott Back