In a 2001 Illinois Senate floor speech about that bill, [Obama] argued that to call a baby who survived an abortion a “person” would give it equal protection rights under the 14th Amendment and would give credibility to the argument that the same child inside its mother’s womb was also a “person” and thus could not be aborted.

When the Illinois Senate bill was amended to make it identical to a federal law that included language to protect Roe v. Wade–and that the U.S. Senate voted unanimously to pass–Obama still opposed the bill, voting it down in the Illinois Senate committee he chaired.
http://www.crosswalk.com/news/religiontoday/11569732/

God forbid that a living baby would be defined as a person. This places him at the extreme left, squarely out of the mainstream morally, ethically, and popularly.

During a debate against Keyes in March 2004, Obama rationalized: “Now, the bill that was put forward was essentially a way of getting around Roe vs. Wade, which is why 21 other senators, Democrat and Republican, why the Illinois Medical Society objected to the bill. At the federal level, there was a similar bill that passed because it had an amendment saying this does not encroach on Roe vs. Wade. I would have voted for that bill.”
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53617

Except he DIDN’T vote for that bill.

On the topic of abortion, Obama said his support for keeping it legal does not trespass on his Christian faith.

“I think that the bottom line is that in the end, I think women, in consultation with their pastors, and their doctors, and their family, are in a better position to make these decisions than some bureaucrat in Washington. That’s my view,” Obama said about abortion. “Again, I respect people who may disagree, but I certainly don’t think it makes me less Christian. Okay.”
http://www.crosswalk.com/news/religiontoday/11569732/

Okay. Without questioning his Christian faith, we can at least classify him as a Christian who opposed a law that would classify a living baby as a person.

An Obama spokesman told the Chicago Tribune in August 2004 that Obama voted against Born Alive because it included provisions that “would have taken away from doctors their professional judgment when a fetus is viable.”

Obama told the Chicago Sun-Times in October 2004 he opposed BAIPA because “physicians are already required to use life-saving measures when fetuses are born alive during abortions.”

So he voted against it because he didn’t want to interfere with a doctor’s professional judgment, but also defended his vote three months later by claiming doctors were already required to save a live-born baby’s life regardless of their professional judgment. HUH?

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/mccain-repudiates-hussein-obama-remarks/

[McCain] called Mr. Obama a “man of integrity” and said he was someone he had come to know “pretty well and I admire.”

He also said that it was not appropriate to invoke Mr. Obama’s middle name in the course of the campaign.

“I absolutely repudiate such comments,” he said. “It will never happen again.”

Mr. Obama’s middle name, which is Muslim in origin, comes from his late father, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a Kenyan.

Mr. Obama’s campaign has been dogged by whispered rumors that he is a Muslim—he is actually a practicing Christian. Periodically, his full name has been bandied about by conservatives critics, drawing indignation from Mr. Obama’s campaign and others.

WHAT? Invoking a presidential candidate’s NAME is off limits? Using his full name is disparaging to his integrity? It’s something you have to APOLOGIZE for?

McCain is going to lose and lose big if this is the kind of nitpicky, touchy-feely stuff he feels compelled to apologize for.

I realize that people are trying to use Obama’s name to try to cast him as some kind of closet muslim. It’s stupid and pointless. There’s enough about Obama’s REAL religious connections to criticize. But you can’t go around apologizing for OTHER people calling your opponent by his full name.

And Obama better get over his thin-skinned whininess about people using his middle name or making fun of his ears. God shall not be mocked.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MzE2MzFmMGRmNTM1MDkwZWIwZjVhZWUxZjk4NWViZjk

TPA examined the World Health Organization’s latest-available data to contrast the NHS with the Dutch, French, German, and Spanish health systems, which are less government-dominated. Specifically, the pro-market group measured “mortality amenable to healthcare” — those deaths that a medical organization realistically should prevent. While those four countries averaged a 106.6 amenable mortality rate, Britain was almost 29 percent deadlier, with its rate of 135.3. TPA thus calculates that the NHS took the lives of 17,157 Britons who otherwise would have survived were they treated by doctors across the English Channel. This figure is more than two-and-a-half times Britain’s yearly alcohol-related deaths, and is quintuple its annual highway fatalities. Comparing 60 million Brits to 300 million Yanks, this is like a federally operated health agency eliminating 85,785 Americans in 2004.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=510764&in_page_id=1774&in_page_id=1774&expand=true

The elderly should be refused operations if they are unlikely to live long enough afterwards to enjoy the benefits, many doctors believe.

A third of medics questioned said the Health Service should think twice before carrying out hip and knee replacements and other routine operations on older patients.

So yeah.  Universal Health Care.  Great idea.  And we want to do all of this for what?  For 3% of Americans who are chronically uninsured?  97% of people living in America either have health insurance, can afford insurance but choose not to buy it, already qualify for government provided health care but haven’t signed up, aren’t even US citizens, or who are transitioning between jobs and will have insurance again within 4 months.  The 47 million number that Hillary and Obama toss around is bullshit.

http://www.businessandmedia.org/printer/2007/20070718153509.aspx

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8V13IMO1&show_article=1

“This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better,” he said. “This young man is capturing audiences of black and brown and red and yellow. If you look at Barack Obama’s audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed.”

Farrakhan compared Obama to the religion’s founder, Fard Muhammad, who also had a white mother and black father.

“A black man with a white mother became a savior to us,” he told the crowd of mostly followers. “A black man with a white mother could turn out to be one who can lift America from her fall.”

1.  What fall?

2.  People are being “transformed” by his very words.

3.  The hope of the entire world rests on the election of a boilerplate, extreme-left socialist? 

This shit is insane.