[Vision2020] Palin Heightens Rhetoric on Abortion

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the witness to a crime than protect it.

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On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 6:33 AM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
> Sarah Palin, who would make it illegal for your raped 13 year old daughter
> to terminate her pregnancy, is calling out Obama for his "extreme views on
> abortion".
>
> >From CNN at:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/3jj3h8
>
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>
> Palin Heightens Rhetoric on Abortion
> Story Highlights
> Sarah Palin, Barack Obama both campaign Saturday in Pennsylvania
>
> Palin hammers Obama on the abortion issue in Johnstown
>
> Obama acknowledges McCain's efforts to "tone down the rhetoric"
>
> JOHNSTOWN, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin charged into the
> culture wars Saturday in Pennsylvania, painting Sen. Barack Obama as a
> radical on abortion rights.
>
> The stop comes amid news that Palin violated Alaska ethics law by trying
> to get her former brother-in-law fired from the state police, a state
> investigator's report for the bipartisan Legislative Council concluded
> Friday.
>
> Ethics woes aside, Palin focused her attention on abortion -- an issue
> that rallies the conservative base but some say alienates independent and
> women voters.
>
> "In times like these with wars and financial crisis, I know that it may be
> easy to forget even as deep and abiding a concern as the right to life,
> and it seems that our opponent kind of hopes you will forget that," Palin
> told a crowd in Johnstown. "He hopes that you won't notice how radical,
> absolutely radical his idea is on this, and his record is, until it's too
> late."
>
> Palin has mostly avoided raising her opposition to abortion rights on the
> campaign trail since she was tapped as Sen. John McCain's running mate, a
> fact she readily acknowledged in her remarks. Watch more of Palin's views
> on abortion »
>
> But Palin said Obama's record on the matter is too extreme to be ignored,
> and she spent 10 minutes of her 30-minute speech discussing abortion.
>
> "A vote for Barack Obama is a vote for activist courts that will continue
> to smother the open and democratic debate that we deserve and that we need
> on this issue of life," she said. "Obama is a politician who has long
> since left behind even the middle ground on the issue of life."
>
> Obama opposes any constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's
> decision in Roe v. Wade and disagreed with Supreme Court ruling to uphold
> the "Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act." He did not cast a vote on
> Prohibiting Funds for Groups that Perform Abortions amendment in 2007.
>
> Palin opposes abortion in all cases, including rape and incest, except
> when a mother's life is in danger, and said she believes Roe v. Wade
> should be overturned and the decision given to the states.
>
> McCain voted for the Prohibit Partial Birth Abortion bill in 2003
> and "yes" for Prohibiting Funds for Groups that Perform Abortions
> amendment in 2007. He believes Roe v. Wade is a flawed decision that must
> be overturned, and also supports the Supreme Court ruling upholding the
> Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act.
>
> Palin also talked about a remark Obama made about sex education while
> campaigning in Johnstown in March, when he told a voter he didn't want his
> daughters "punished with a baby" or "punished with an STD" if they were
> not educated about sex and made a mistake.
>
> "So I listened when our opponent defended his unconditional support for
> unlimited abortions and he said he said that a woman shouldn't have to
> be 'Punished with a baby,' " Palin said as the audience jeered at
> Obama. "Ladies and gentlemen, he said that right here in
> Johnstown. 'Punished with a baby.' It's about time we called him on it."
>
> Obama is also in Pennsylvania Saturday -- campaigning in the heavily
> Democratic city of Philadelphia.
>
> During his four-stop swing around the city, Obama acknowledged McCain's
> efforts to "tone down the rhetoric" on the campaign trail.
>
> "I appreciated his reminder that we can disagree while still being
> respectful of each other. I've said it before, and I'll say it again --
> Sen. McCain has served this country with honor, and he deserves our thanks
> for that," Obama told an early morning crowd assembled in the northern
> part of the city. Watch more of Obama's comments »
>
> Ever since last weekend, when Palin first accused Obama of "palling around
> with a terrorist," referring to 1960s radical William Ayers, rowdy crowds
> have called Obama a liar, terrorist and worse.
>
> At an event Friday in Lakeville, Minnesota, McCain referred to Obama as
> a "decent person" and praised him as a "family man" after two voters
> expressed fear over Obama being elected. Watch McCain tell voters not to
> be afraid of Obama »
>
> But the Arizona senator was met by a sea of boos when asking the crowd to
> be more respectful toward Obama.
>
> When the crowd began to boo, McCain told them "No, no. I want everyone to
> be respectful."
>
> Obama later dispensed with polite talk and pivoted to his main campaign
> trail argument that McCain is out of touch on the economy.
>
> "Sen. McCain's campaign manager actually said that Sen. McCain wasn't
> talking about the market because there's just not much a candidate for
> president can say -- and they aren't sure what he'd say each day even if
> he did talk about it," Obama said.
>
> "But here's the thing Philadelphia. They can run misleading ads, and
> pursue the politics of anything goes, they can try to change the subject.
> They can do that what they want to do because the American people
> understand what's going on -- but it's not going to work. Not this time."
>
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>
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> "We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college
> students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."
>
> - Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)
>
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