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I feel as though liberals are quickly running out of reasons to vote for Barack Obama. He seems to be flip-flopping on one issue after another in an attempt to appear more to the so called “middle America”. Not that I even really know what that exactly is.
First he backed away from the rock solid 16-month time table for pulling out of Iraq by saying that he was holding on to the right to “revise” (flip-flop) his Iraq plan if he received new information from commanders on the ground. He then “revised” his promise to oppose giving retroactive immunity to telecommunication companies by stating that he would vote for a bill that did just that.
When he caved on Iraq and then FISA, I figured the only thing that was left was the idea that liberals had to vote for Obama, or McCain would stack the Supreme Court with judges that would take away a woman’s right to an abortion.
Now I’m not even sure of that.
In an interview this week with “Relevant,” a Christian magazine, Obama said prohibitions on late-term abortions must contain “a strict, well defined exception for the health of the mother.”
Obama then added: “Now, I don’t think that ‘mental distress’ qualifies as the health of the mother. I think it has to be a serious physical issue that arises in pregnancy, where there are real, significant problems to the mother carrying that child to term.”
Not only does is sound as though Obama doesn’t respect a woman’s right to choose, it sounds like he doesn’t respect the seriousness of mental illness. Both physical illness and mental illness are very serious issues. Nether should be taken any less serious then the other.
To put this into context, it seems that Obama would not allow Andrea Yates, the Texas woman that drowned her five children to recieve a late-term abortion. That’s a position I would expect John McCain to have.
I’ll be honest. The biggest reason I will vote democratic in Novemeber, be it Hillary, Obama, or anyone else is that who ever is President in the next four years will probably name three justices to the Supreme Court. If the court loses one more Liberal justice it will be game over for Roe v Wade. It will turn into a “States Rights” issue rather than a privacy issue.
Would it really? I know what you are saying, but sometimes I wonder if the last think the GOP wants it to revoke a woman’s right to choose. I think if that were to happen, it would create a huge backlash against the Republicans.
If Obama keeps on running to the middle, he might not know when to stop.
Even someone like me, who has been beating the Obama drum since 2004 when he was running for Senate, I am getting really frustrated with his move to the center. Kerry did it and look what good it did him, ditto for Gore in 2000. For people like me it infuriates me because it makes people who I disagree with (like you) right.