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McCain Throws Women Under the Bus plus Reinstating DraftThu, 08/21/2008 - 11:38am
By: Main Stream
McCain puts his ambition first, before his personal beliefs, and declines to push to change the Republican platform for 'abortion exceptions' in cases of rape, incest, and/or danger to the life of the mother. Another McCain flip-flop which should send a signal to women that he will put his own ambitions ahead of a woman's right to control her own body, even in cases of rape, incest, or health. "McCain's plan to take a hands-off approach with the abortion platform stands in stark contrast with the position he took during his first presidential run. Back in 2000....McCain implored Bush to join him in wanting to add exceptions for rape, incest, and danger to the life of the mother. McCain's decision to leave the platform untouched follows a warning from a prominent social conservative. "If he were to change the party platform," to account for exceptions such as rape, incest or risk to the mother's life, "I think that would be political suicide," Tony Perkins, the president of the conservative Family Research Council...(source: ABC News)" And in a town hall meeting yesterday, an attendee stated: (Attendee) "If we don't reenact the draft, I don't think we'll have anyone to chase Bin Laden to the gates of hell." (McCain's response) "Ma'am, let me say that I don't disagree with anything you said." And asked about the draft last September, McCain said, “I might consider it, I don’t think it’s necessary, but I might consider it if you could design a draft where everybody equally could serve.” A draft would be necessary most likely because he is rattling his swords at Russia and needs some additional warm bodies to wage another war. And he may get his chance. This is the man who may have his finger on the button at 3:00 a.m. and I don't believe the word "diplomacy" is in this mans vocabulary. This is the man who has voted with Bush 95% of the time and will continue with the same misguided foreign and domestic policies. Scary times, folks. His dream of actually bombing Iran, and now Russia, could come true. Alright all you Repub's, neocons and Right-Wingers.... here's your candidate and he is one scary guy. He is sounding even scarier, and definitely more senile, than Bush. And then there's this comment from McCain yesterday in front of the VFW, regarding Obama's ambition: “Behind all of these claims and positions by Senator Obama lies the ambition to be president." Hypocritical statement, really, when you read the passage from McCain's own book... (wow, talk about "blind ambition"): "I didn’t decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president. . . . In truth, I’d had the ambition for a long time.” (McCain in his own words from his 2002 book) login to post comments | previous forum topic | next forum topic |