PaLIEn adjusting the attacks. Now focusing on abortion distorting Obama's comments!!

[Roland99]

about "punishing" someone with a baby.

She's using words, taken out of context of course, as yet another attack to avoid talking about the most pressing issues facing America today. They are steering back to a typical wedge issue, abortion and distorting Obama's words.

These are the words spoken by Barack:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200804010001?f=s_search

SNOW: Welcome back to CNN's edition of Ballot Bowl. This is a chance for you to hear directly from the candidates. I'm Mary Snow in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where Senator Barack Obama is holding a town hall meeting right now, taking questions from the audience. Let's go straight to Senator Barack Obama; he just was asked a question about how his administration, if he's elected, would deal with the issue of HIV and AIDS and also sexually transmitted diseases with young girls. Here's Senator Barack Obama.

OBAMA: -- or we give them really expensive surgery and we don't spend money on the front end keeping people healthy in the first place. So, when it comes to -- when it comes specifically to HIV/AIDS, the most important prevention is education, which should include -- which should include abstinence only -- should include abstinence education and teaching that children -- teaching children, you know, that sex is not something casual. But it should also include -- it should also include other, you know, information about contraception because, look, I've got two daughters -- 9 years old and 6 years old. I'm going to teach them first of all 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 the age of 16.

You know, so, it doesn't make sense to not give them information. You still want to teach them the morals and the values to make good decisions. That will be important, number one. Then we're still going to have to provide better treatment for those who do have -- who do contract HIV/AIDS, because it's no longer a death sentence, if, in fact, you get the proper cocktails. It's expensive. That's why we want to prevent as much as possible.

Hmmm...I don't see the word 'abortion' in there, do you?

I don't. I only see what amounts to the best approach for sex education in our schools from someone that actually shows LEADERSHIP qualities!

[FrenchieCat]

1. Liars who are guilty of breaking the people's trust don't care about the truth....

now do they?

[Bicoastal]

2. I'm sure Bristol Palin wasn't punished by Mom AT ALL when she revealed she was preggers.

Right, guys?

[glowing]

3. Is anyone even listening to them anymore? After listening to the Clintons and the Bidens.

and after the last debate, Obama will seal the attacks shut.. he'll do it in a way that forces their hand.. and then its all over.

[elkston]

5. Both of them are becoming increasingly irrelevant. (eom)

[ShortnFiery]

4. Yes, Palin states, 'Obama would let LIVE babies DIE!"

:wow: :crazy: :grr:

[Epiphany4z]

6. well that should win her the middle

NOT...all bringing up abortion can do is help them keep who they already have...and its just not enough.

[gravity]

7. I don't know about you, but these abortion attacks are refreshing

I mean republicans are suppose to say this crap every single election. After all the fear mongering and terrorist associations, I am glad that they are pushing their old tired talking points.

[lady raven]

8. WTF!?

What is wrong with someone not wanting a baby to become a punishment? I have the feeling that a lot of women whose children were treated as a punishment have ended up abusing, neglecting, or abandoning those children.

What is wrong with wanting EVERY CHILD to be loved and considered a GIFT rather than as a "consequence"?

Some people are fucked in the head.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

9. Palin's voice could cut through steel

Maybe I could hire her to give a speech in my attic. It would drive away the termites and mice up there, better than that plug-in pest remover Riddex would.

[Fleshdancer]

10. Doesn't that lose them the 3 or 4 PUMA votes they were hoping to get?

It's a bit late in the game for them to start catering to the religious right. I don't see how they get the undecided and independents with this tactic.