I had to read it 3x to know what the hell he was saying. It sounds like he’s arguing that since he couldn’t pass laws outlawing all types of abortions that threaten a viable fetus, he wouldn’t vote for a law that banned one type. If this is what he’s saying, it sounds like a stinking pile of shit to me. Is this McCain’s best bud and future VP?
JiangxiDad on August 20, 2008 at 6:44 AM

Lieberman’s the guy who was regarded as pro-life before he got the VP nomination in 2000. Then he conveniently reversed himself.

Note also that partial birth abortion is not horrific to Joe, just the “description” of it.

I think Lieberman has more in common with Obama on this issue — certainly PBA would come in handy in Illinois, where a near-term viable fetus would have to be kept alive, unless you murder it as it emerges from the birth canal. Which is why Obama voted against banning it there.

Note: Even if you’re pro-choice, you owe it to yourself to read up on Barack Obama’s extreme position on abortion as well as infanticide and his failed attempts to distort his voting record. I realize I’m not going to change anyone’s views on abort…

Well, yeah. But they want them both to be safe and “rare.”
wise_man on August 19, 2008 at 10:50 PM

You mean that they want children to be safe and rare…very rare.
Tim Burton on August 20, 2008 at 4:06 AM

Well ……. medium rare.

Thanks for the link. The facts outlined in the NRLC article should be turned into a 60 second McCain ad. I think this has tipping point potential–lies and infanticide–think at a minimum Willie Horton or tank commander Dukakis. Obama simply cannot hide from this. All the documentation refutes his contentions and those of his surrogates. I hope McCain presses him on this critical issue.

This is Senator Joseph Lieberman on Larry King Live on August 8, 2000 on why he voted FOR partial birth abortions:

J. LIEBERMAN: Yes, I have — I did not vote to prohibit that procedure, because as horrific as the description of it is, the law of the land clearly is that you cannot ban any procedure at all stages of a pregnancy. In other words, the Supreme Court has said and I think the moral consensus in our society is that up until the point of viability the decision about terminating a pregnancy, no matter what we think personally, has to be between a woman, her doctor, and her own moral standards and God.

KING: No matter what?

J. LIEBERMAN: Yes, no matter what. So the problem with the partial birth abortion was that it banned that one procedure at every stage of pregnancy. Some of us put in an alternative amendment that said, OK, let’s not only ban it, let’s ban every other form of abortion post-viability unless the life or the serious health damage to the mother was in danger.

KING: That got turned down?

J. LIEBERMAN: And that got turned down. And it’s too bad, because I think that’s the kind of common ground approach that could actually pass the Senate. KING: Wouldn’t most Orthodox Jews be pro-life?

J. LIEBERMAN: It’s much more varied. A lot of times people say that, but Jewish law generally on this says that what begins at conception is potential life. And frankly, depending on which rabbi you talk to, some say that the fetus at viability, when it can at least theoretically sustain itself on its own, outside the body of the mother, that’s when life begins. Many other rabbis say that it begins at birth. So it’s a matter of personal judgment.

And like everything else in Judaism, ultimately, it’s up to each of us to decide what we think is right.

I had to read it 3x to know what the hell he was saying. It sounds like he’s arguing that since he couldn’t pass laws outlawing all types of abortions that threaten a viable fetus, he wouldn’t vote for a law that banned one type. If this is what he’s saying, it sounds like a stinking pile of shit to me. Is this McCain’s best bud and future VP?

If we had a real NEWS media, Obama would be back in Chicago by now, wondering how he would pay all the bills for his now defunct campaign.

Yep… the watchdog has turned into a lapdog; America is the loser.

1.Obama’s the One 2. Obama – Raise taxes, kill babies. McCain – Kill taxes, raise babies. h/t carbon_footprint……

Well, yeah. But they want them both to be safe and “rare.”

wise_man on August 19, 2008 at 10:50 PM

You mean that they want children to be safe and rare…very rare.

http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008/05/obamaayers-update-didnt-mayor-daley.html

………. I will leave the dark lighting, blood stains, and primal screams of a human being being cut into pieces in it’s most vulnerable state to the rest of you…..

Yeah………. go ahead, trust him with National Health Care, or anything else outside the corrupt politics of Chicago.

Don’t be so prissy with your words, just come right out and say it: Obama refused to support a bill that would have outlawed the practice of killing unwanted newborn babies in abortion clinics.

50 million dead people, and counting.

God help us.