What a WHOPPER!


MCCAIN: "Sen. Obama, as a member of the Illinois state Senate, voted in the Judiciary Committee against a law that would provide immediate medical attention to a child born in a failed abortion. He voted against that."OBAMA: "If it sounds incredible that I would vote to withhold lifesaving treatment from an infant, that's because it's not true."Talk about audacity! If you say something long enough and loudly enough, some people will believe it. Obama is relying on this, and on the blinders that many Democrats and Independents are wearing in this campaign of “hope” and "change.”It is a clearly documented fact that while representing Chicago in our Illinois State Senate, Obama at least three times voted against bills that would have assured that an infant born alive as a “mistake” in an attempted abortion would be given medical treatment. His position on those bills was that the infant should be allowed to die.He tries to spin his vote this way: if the state bill had contained language saying it was not an attempt to undermine Roe v. Wade, like the Federal version of such legislation, he would have voted for it. But that is another lie! For in his committee, he had that very bill in front of him and voted against it. The committee, including Obama, unanimously voted to add his required language to the bill. Then the committee voted on whether to recommend the bill—which now contained the language he demanded and has since said was needed in order to gain his support—in this second vote, he voted “no” and the bill died in committee.Listen to what even the AP (no conservative source, nor even Fair and Balanced!) says about his whopper:“As a state senator, Obama opposed three legislative efforts, in 2001, 2002 and 2003, to give legal protections to any aborted fetus that showed signs of life. The 2003 measure was virtually identical to a bill President Bush signed into law in 2002 - a bill that passed before Obama was in the U.S. Senate, but one that Obama said he would have supported.” http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081016/D93REPH00.htmlBut the logic Obama uses in public debate now is essentially this: “It is incredible—unbelievable—to think anyone would vote to withhold lifesaving treatment from a baby, so don’t believe my opponents who say I did.”Never mind the facts. Yes, he certainly has audacity.Posted by Curt Ferguson on Thursday, October 16, 2008 9:00:00 AMIf you recognize the truth of this post, please take a moment and leave Curt a comment at http://truthis.blogtownhall.com/default.aspx. The more comments he gets, the more his post will get noticed, and more people will read it. We want to spread this truth! Thanks, L.B. Ferguson

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