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weeklystandard.com - 8/21/2008

Audio from 2002 of Obama Defending Opposition to the Born-Alive Bill

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Erick Erickson links to some audio purportedly of Barack Obama on the floor of the Illinois State Senate in 2002: Erickson says "I cannot vouch for the authenticity of it, but I trust the friend who sent it to me." According to the State Senate's online transcript database, the quote is real . While the database is password protected to prevent cut-and-paste, here's a screenshot of ...

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Betsy's Page — ... health committee when the bill came up again in 2003 and easily could have offered such an amendment. He didn't. Regardless of the reasons for his vote, Mr. Obama cannot say that his critics are lying. He did oppose a bill virtually identical to the one unanimously passed in the U.S. Senate. And now, five years later, he might end up paying a political price for that decision. Meanwhile, audio has now surfaced of Obama speaking out against the bill on the Illinois Senate floor. The Weekly Standard links to the ...