Posted by
Always To The Right on Thursday, October 16, 2008 4:30:45 PM
The first was subtle, and unless you paid attention to the split
screen, you may have missed it. John McCain, after being asked about
William Ayers, noted that Obama had launched his campaign in Ayers’
living room:
MCCAIN: Well, again, while you were on the board of the
Woods Foundation, you and Mr. Ayers, together, you sent $230,000 to
ACORN. So — and you launched your political campaign in Mr. Ayers’
living room.
OBAMA: That’s absolutely not true.
MCCAIN: And the facts are facts and records are records.
OBAMA: And that’s not the facts.
Unfortunately for Obama, those are the facts, both about
Ayers and ACORN. Obama paid ACORN over $800,000 this summer for GOTV
efforts, which Obama now denies, although he did finally admit that he
represented ACORN as an attorney in a lending-practices case. Obama
did launch his career at a party hosted by Ayers, which is such a
matter of public record that I’m frankly surprised he bothered to deny
it.
The next big lie came during the debate on abortion. McCain pointed
out Obama’s radical positions on the issue, including his repeated
opposition to the Illinois version of the Born-Alive Infant Protection
Act. Obama responded with a series of lies:
There was a bill that was put forward before the
Illinois Senate that said you have to provide lifesaving treatment and
that would have helped to undermine Roe v. Wade. The fact is that there
was already a law on the books in Illinois that required providing
lifesaving treatment, which is why not only myself but pro-choice
Republicans and Democrats voted against it.
During that period, the Attorney General reported that the practice
of abandoning infants born alive during late-term abortions was not
covered by the law. Jill Stanek and others testified to the practice,
and the Illinois Senate heard testimony that suggested that as many as
20% of all late-term abortions resulted in a live birth. Obama lied
about the circumstances of the bill; the reason it was being proposed
was because existing law was ineffective at protecting infants born
alive.
And the Illinois Medical Society, the organization of
doctors in Illinois, voted against it. Their Hippocratic Oath would
have required them to provide care, and there was already a law in the
books.
There wasn’t a law on the books, and who would be surprised that the
people performing the abortions and leaving the children to die
wouldn’t want more oversight to prevent that practice?
You can read my previous posts on the subject:
Obama voted against the bill that would have protected infants born
alive even after the “neutrality clause” he demanded was added to
protect abortion in Illinois. That is the truth in this case, and
Obama lied last night to the American people in an attempt to hide his
radical position on abortion.