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Obama Blasts McCain on Abortion Rights in New Radio Ad
The Page by Mark Halperin — ... New spot, airing widely in at least seven swing states, says McCain “will make abortion illegal.” “We can’t let John McCain take away our right to choose. We can’t let him take us back.” Read script here. ...

Goodbye Evangelical Outreach
The Corner on National Review Online — [image] [image] NRO BLOG ROW | THE CORNER | ARCHIVES SEARCH E-MAIL PRINT RSS [image] [image] Tuesday, September 02, 2008 [image] Goodbye Evangelical Outreach [ Mark Hemingway ] Obama ad slams McCain on abortion rights . 09/02 10:23 PM [image] [image] [image] © National Review Online 2008. All Rights Reserved. Home | Search | NR / Digital | Donate | Media Kit | Contact Us This page loaded in 0.012378 seconds. ...

McCain "will make abortion illegal."
The Corner on National Review Online — [image] [image] NRO BLOG ROW | THE CORNER | ARCHIVES SEARCH E-MAIL PRINT RSS [image] [image] Wednesday, September 03, 2008 [image] McCain “will make abortion illegal.” [ Kathryn Jean Lopez ] The RNC could just air this new Obama ad instead of a McCain speech and it would help rally. 09/03 12:41 AM [image] [image] [image] © National Review Online 2008. All Rights Reserved. Home | Search | NR / Digital | Donate | Media Kit | Contact Us This page ...

The Issue That Haunts Us
RIGHTWINGSPARKLE — ... thinks that an unborn child deserves the right to live, but doesn't blink an eye when the Democratic nominee doesn't even think a baby born alive from a botched late term abortion should be kept alive. Such is what the culture of death has brought us. It has brought us a Democratic party that cannot break free of it's dedication to destroying unborn life. It has brought us a party who will not even listen to the other side. Obama has now put together an ad touting his abortion rights position and slamming McCain for his pro-life stance. ...

Obama Launches Pro-Baby Killing Attack Ad Against McCain
Pirate's Cove — ... This is disgustingly humorous. A guy who will never be in the position himself but is the #1 supporter of all approved baby killing methods, including if a baby lives through an abortion, is attacking McCain for not wanting to kill babies (The Politico) ...

Obama Launches Pro-Baby Killing Attack Ad Against McCain
Stop The ACLU — This is disgustingly humorous. A guy who will never be in the position himself but is the #1 supporter of all approved baby killing methods, including if a baby lives through an abortion, is attacking McCain for not wanting to kill babies ( The Politico ) Barack Obama has launched a broadside against John McCain’s opposition to abortion rights and moved one of the most divisive issues in modern American politics to the airwaves on a large scale for the first time in this presidential campaign. Obama’s new radio ad, airing widely in at least seven swing states, tells voters ...

Goodbye To All That?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Obama attacks McCain over abortion in a new radio ad. Brendan Nyhan is disappointed.

Abortion
Eschaton — Maybe I'm wrong, but my memory of Democratic politicians is that they approach the abortion issue with euphemisms and hints (choice! judges!) and do their best to shun the word itself. ...

Confronting Choice
Opinionator — Abortion is another issue Democrats have generally tried to play down, at least in general elections. No longer, writes the Politico’s Ben Smith : Barack Obama has launched a broadside against John McCain’s opposition to abortion rights and moved one of the most divisive issues in modern American politics to the airwaves on a large scale for the first time in this presidential campaign. Obama’s new radio ad, airing widely in at least seven swing states, tells voters McCain “will make abortion illegal.” It’s airing as McCain courts female voters with the addition of the ...

Around the Web: 2008
The Corner on National Review Online — ... Earmarks from Palin Los Angeles Times [image] Effort to Woo Conservatives Is Paying Off The New York Times [image] Judgment Called into Question Chicago Tribune [image] Vetting of Palin is Raising Questions Los Angeles Times [image] Lashes Out at Press over Palin Politico [image] Palin Queries Push To Skip CNN THe Wall Street Journal [image] [image] Obama Biden's Solo Campaign Tour Follows Workaday Path The Wall Street Journal [image] Ad Slams McCain on Abortion Rights Politico [image] Gains Among Former Clinton Supporters ...

Whither "Reducing Abortion"?
Weekly Standard Blog — ... Politico reports that Barack Obama has a new radio ad challenging John McCain on abortion that’s running in at least seven states—Florida, Virginia, Iowa, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Colorado. I’ve not heard it, as I’m not in any of those states. But here’s the ad as Politico has it: ...

Townhall.com Staff: What's Hot Wednesday
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — What are the most popular stories around the web this morning? Townhall does the surfing so you don't have to. CNN: Democrats Attack Lieberman, Saying he Lied to Delegates Politico: Obama Ad Slams McCain on Abortion Rights Slate: No Experience Necessary ABC News: Palin: Bad Parent or Conservative Feminist? Washington Post: Aides Say Team Interviewed Palin Late in the Process New York Times: What the Palin Pick Says Wall Street Journal: Why McCain Still Has a Chance to Win Time Magazine: In Wasilla, Pregnancy Was No Secret ...

Could or Would John McCain Ban Abortion?
Matthew Yglesias — ... A new Barack Obama ad tries to get pro-choice voters alarmed about John McCain’s steadfastly anti-choice record. An announcer argues that “as president, John McCain will make abortion illegal” then shows a snippet of Meet The Press where McCain tells Tim Russert that he favors “a constitutional amendment to ban all abortions.” The ad concludes: “We can’t let John McCain take away our right to choose. We can’t let him take us back.” ...

Obama targets McCain-Palin on abortion
The Reaction — ... hammered the Democrats for being anti-life, but now, with the balance on the Supreme Court tilting right, and with Roe in danger of being overturned, Democrats have discovered, at long last, that they can hammer Republicans for being anti-choice. Indeed, with the extremist fringe coming to control much of the GOP, including its latest platform, abortion is now essentially a Democratic issue. And Obama gets it. As Le Politico is reporting: [He] has launched a broadside against John McCain's ...

New Obama radio ad slams McCain on abortion rights
The Latest on Air America — By GottaLaff Slam and slam and slam, by all means: Barack Obama has launched a broadside against John McCain’s opposition to abortion rights and moved one of the most divisive issues in modern American politics to the airwaves on a large scale for the first time in this presidential campaign. Obama’s new radio ad, airing widely in at least seven swing states, tells voters McCain “will make abortion illegal.” It’s airing as McCain courts female voters with the addition of the staunchly anti-abortion governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, ...

New Palin 'Maverick' Ad Slams Obama
The Caucus — ... of the time and not in the Senate for many votes. On another front that has unfolded with the Palin candidacy: The Obama campaign seemed to anticipate how Ms. Palin would represent a page-turner for a new chapter in the culture wars. Given Ms. Palin’s staunch opposition to abortion rights, a new Obama radio ad warns that Mr. McCain, if elected president, would make abortion illegal. “Let me tell you: If Roe vs. Wade is overturned, the lives and health of women will be put at risk,” a woman announces .“John McCain’s out of touch with women today,” she continued. “McCain wants ...

Obama ad slams McCain on abortion rights
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... be put at risk. That's why this election is so important,” says the nurse-practitioner who narrates Obama’s ad. “John McCain's out of touch with women today. McCain wants to take away our right to choose. That's what women need to understand. That's how high the stakes are.” An announcer then claims that “as president, John McCain will make abortion illegal,” before playing an exchange on "Meet the Press" in which McCain told moderator Tim Russert that he favors “a const Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13103.html

Thank You, John McCain
Comments from Left Field — ... Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to introduce you to a normal human being with at least an ounce of political sense. His name is Barack Obama. ...

How to attack her
Classical Values — ... of attack than ridiculing her hair and her shoes. But is it true? I don't know, and as a small l libertarian who believes in the possibility of an alliance between libertarians and social conservatives , I want to go there right now. But if I did, I'd have to ask, if she's such a crazed right-wing extremist, why is she so popular with the voters of Alaska, where a substantial majority believe in abortion rights ? So, my question right now is this: will Barack Obama's abortion ad campaign work? Time will tell.

Democrats Misplaying the Abortion Issue
Sound Politics — ... ). Indeed, being pro-choice is not a winning issue outside of urban-influenced political environments. And American electorates tend to greet candidates of both sides of the aisle who emphasize abortion as a major campaign issue as a bit too fervent a cultural warrior. Thus, it is more than a little peculiar to watch Democrats jump up and down declaring insistently that Palin's pro-life views disqualify her from receiving the votes of women. The Obama campaign's choice to run radio ads specifically pushing the abortion issue in some of those aforementioned swing states ...

Palin v. Biden on Abortion
Weekly Standard Blog — Vice presidential candidates were asked about their views on abortion during the 1992, 1996, and 2000 debates, but PBS's Gwen Ifill broke that streak when she moderated the 2004 Cheney-Edwards debate. That year the flashpoint of the abortion debate was partial-birth abortion, an issue, needless to say, that did not help John Kerry on Election Day. Now, the Obama-Biden campaign thinks abortion can be a winning issue for them. I wonder if Ifill will bring this topic up tomorrow night. If she does, it will be interesting to see how she frames the ...

Glenn Hurowitz: Mondale's Revenge
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Obama's embrace of progressive values went into the social arena as well. Even though he was trying to win swing states that are traditionally regarded as socially conservative, Obama upended conventional Democratic wisdom by running a very explicit pro-choice campaign, featuring unvarnished pro-choice messages in many ads. ...

How To Tell The "Culture Wars" Are Not Over
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... , in both cases the polar opposite of McCain's actual position. Obama ran, in some jurisdictions, ads about abortion, as did many Democrats nationwide (even in ...