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May 18, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 18, 2009, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I think some people are missing this whole Obama at Notre Dame commencement speech event yesterday.
Not everybody, but some people are missing this.
The real question's not what did Obama say?
I mean, Obama's who he is.
He was consistent as he can be.
The question is what happened to Notre Dame over the years.
I mean, that's the real question.
Obviously, Notre Dame is what's changed.
And I think, you know, in simplified terms, you'd have to say that Notre Dame is what?
A major American university and what has happened to major American universities.
They've all been overrun by the left.
And we all know the Catholic Church has its own liberal members who are trying to tell the Vatican and the Pope to leave them alone and modernize the church and so forth.
So it appears that that's happened at Notre Dame.
Greetings, folks, great to have you here.
We uh have another week of broadcast excellence.
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We're gonna parse it.
We got the audio sound bites of some of the uh speech that President Obama made yesterday.
In addition to his comments on uh abortion and what drew him to Christ.
I found it amazing he didn't mention Reverend Wright.
Uh and of course, the the the what's now becoming the obligatory message to these college graduates, don't go to work.
Go to a nonprofit, don't make any money, do not try to achieve, do not try to excel.
Focus yourself on service and giving back.
How can they give back if they don't have anything?
The only thing they've got is what their their spoiled rotten parents have given them, the baby boomer.
What do they got to give back?
Uh and it's it's it's not just Obama making these types of commencement speeches all over the country, every lib doing so is uh pretty much carrying the same message.
I don't know how many of you have read the book, 1984.
I'm sure you've all heard about it.
I'm sure many of you have heard of the book, but I don't know how many people have actually read it.
Have you read it, Snertley?
You read when did you read 1984?
You were forced to read it in high school.
You remember much about it?
All right.
George Orwell wrote 1984, and in the book he created New Speak using language to mislead to confuse and control.
Some of the examples from 1984, war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.
This is New Speak in 1984.
Now we have a real life addition to this given President Obama's speech at Notre Dame yesterday, and it is this.
Morality is immoral.
That's the message Obama delivered yesterday.
Morality is immoral.
Pro-life is a moral position.
Pro-life is an extremist position.
Rather, uh, instead of being a moral position.
Pro-life is an extremist position, according to President Obama.
The entire, the entire abortion debate is manipulated, they're two manipulations of the language.
It's not about abortion, it's about choice.
That's one manipulation of the language, and morality is not morality, it's extremism.
Pro-life is the extreme position.
Pro-choice is the moderate or normal position.
And this is how the liberal mind works.
This is how they work.
This is how they do it.
And the treachery here is uh is spreading.
They use it on abortion, and they're using it on union enrollment.
Uh what they call it the employee-free choice act, right?
Card check.
What it really should be titled is the Union Brass Knuckles Busting on Your Knees Act.
Because that's what it is.
There's no free choice whatsoever in the Union Free Choice Act, the Employee Free Choice Act.
And Justice Obama told us yesterday that abortion, or well, he said pro-life is an extreme position.
Pro-choice is the moral position.
They're now considering changing the cap and trade uh uh uh policy or legislation, they're that the it's not working.
So they're thinking of changing that to the clean energy jobs bill.
When the truth is, by any name, it is a massive tax increase on the neediest families in the country.
That's all cap and trade is.
Cap and trade is a is a stealth secret way to raise taxes to s to pay for all of this spending, and it won't work, by the way, that Obama's ginning up.
I had, you know, when I play golf a couple days over the weekend, and I have a chance to talk to a lot of people, it's amazing.
Um people who who brought up Obama's making his speech last week in which he said that this kind of spending, deficit spending and borrowing, uh selling our debt to China is not sustainable.
And of course, it's his spending and his borrowing that he is criticizing.
If in my mind, he threw himself under the bus.
And everybody's focusing on that.
My gosh, can you the press didn't even get it?
And I said, No, you guys are missing the point.
He wasn't talking about himself.
What he was doing was setting the stage for tax increases to pay for this.
This was all to set the stage for more tax increases.
After, in his first hundred days running up debt like we have never seen in this country, after spending like we have never seen in this country, he goes out and condemns it.
He knows that he's still in the honeymoon period with the drive-by media's concern.
He knows that it's only people like me who are going to point out the irony of him throwing himself under the bus.
The drive-by's have yet to make this connection.
Nobody in the mainstream media has yet to make the connection that Obama was ripping his own policy, that Obama was criticizing to shreds his own legislation.
No, they just Obama's responsible.
Obama cares.
He understands the the uh the future that we face and how to deal with it.
It was just setting the stage for tax increase.
So is it as we go through the audio sound bites from the speech today, you'll see what I mean when you uh when I when I tell you that morality is now immoral.
The pro-life position is not a moral position, it is an extremist position.
The New York Times uh in a story today headline at Notre Dame, Obama calls for dialogue on abortion.
Now, what exactly has been going on in this country for 40 years?
It's no different than the libs saying, you know what, we need to have that national conversation about race.
What have we been doing since the founding of this country, but having a conversation about race?
What have we been doing the last 40 years but having a dialogue on abortion?
And uh Obama appealed to partisans on each side to find ways to respect one another's basic decency and even work together to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies.
Now I have two thoughts about this.
I have often asked, where is the middle ground between good and evil?
Where is the where where do you compromise?
Where's the compromise between life and death?
Where's the compromise between killing and birth?
Where do you compromise on that?
So the assumption here is find ways to respect one another's basic decency.
Well, what's decent?
Can we the language still matters to me?
What the hell is decent about abortion?
What's decent about it?
That's the you know this is the first time I've ever heard abortion categorized as a form of decency.
Even the pro-choice crowd in in uh in trying to justify it, has tried to say abortion or pregnancy is a disease uh or that that pregnancy is a sickness that can prolong or rather uh threaten the life of the mother, or it's uh the fetus unviable tissue man,
but I've never heard them say that abortion is decency, but Obama has now just said that both sides of the argument feature people who are uh advocating decency.
And then he said, let's we need to work together to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies.
This is right out of Bill Clinton's mouth back in the 90s, where abortion needs to become safe but rare, or something like that.
Now, my question is if President Obama at Notre Dame yesterday says that everybody on this uh debate is decent and we gotta work together to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies.
Is he not admitting there's something wrong about it then?
If we've got to reduce it, if there's nothing wrong with an unwanted pregnancy, and if there's nothing wrong with abortion, why do we have to limit them?
Why why do we hope it's rare?
If there's nothing wrong with if it's really nothing more than an issue of liberty and freedom for women, then why do we have to make liberty and freedom rare for women?
So I I think I think he nails he bastardizes his own argument here while trying to sound triangulated.
Uh above the fray, understanding both sides.
Uh there's not one word in his space, and I wouldn't expect there to be uh uh in his votes as an Illinois State Senator three times for infanticide.
I went back to the archives.
Andrew McCarthy, who, as you know, is a friend of mine, and he writes at National Review Online, wrote a piece something in 2008, I think it was June.
I've got it here in the Snack, detailing Obama's votes, comments and so forth on the Illinois law that says if a baby intended to be aborted, aborted, is born alive, you gotta let it die.
And the reason what we we we we uh uh he sided with the doctors.
You know, we we we can't have the doctors be liable here for a botched abortion.
And the mother wanted a baby to be aborted.
So uh baby born alive is supposed to die, and voted three times this way, and then told try to tell everybody who characterized it this way, they're lying about its position.
But as McCarthy pointed out, going and getting transcripts of debates in the Illinois legislature, Obama participated in, it's far worse than that, even.
It's it's not it's uh it it's it's it's it's worse than just it's fantaside.
It's a purposeful decision that he made three different times here, and there have been all kinds of excuses made by the Obama people and himself to uh to to cover it up and to portray it as something uh other than what it is.
And in, you know, as all this is going on, we have the poll that came out last week for the first time in four years or however many number of years, the majority of the American people uh think abortion is wrong.
A majority of the American people, 51%, uh are pro-life or describe themselves that way.
Time magazine, Nancy Gibbs, in a story that's published today, attempts to explain all this to new pupil, finds that while a majority of independents said abortion should be legal in most cases as recently as October, only 44% do now.
This may inspire some introspection on the part of political operatives in both parties who attribute the Republicans' present frailty to its orthodoxy on social issues.
The GOP may have fielded some hapless messengers, but their message on abortion at least may be closer to the mainstream than Democrats care to acknowledge.
And if you go to page two of her story, it it passes off the shift as a response to Obama as president.
Not in not in other words, not because people are substantively pro-life, it's just a bunch of Republicans reacting to Obama, just opposing Obama.
That's the means to express it.
What's interesting to me, and I mentioned this last week too, and by the way, folks, the uh the the purpose of this discussion, I we're not gonna debate abortion, and Mr. Snerdley, when we go to the phones, we're not not gonna debate abortion.
We're gonna we're gonna treat this in a little different way.
We've we've been there and done that, and everybody here knows, everybody listening knows I'm I'm pro-life and have respect for life.
Uh it's not uh what what I want to discuss here today, rather, is a technique that uh Obama is using to make himself as a radical look like a reasonable guy when he is just Extremely radical, and he's calling people who hold positions of morality the radicals.
It's Orwell, it's it's it's new speak, it's double speak, uh, what whatever whatever you want to call it.
So let's take a break, we'll come back, we'll get some of the audio sound bites of the speech and other things too, plus your phone calls at 800-282-2882.
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All right, as we start with the audio soundbite excerpts of President Obama's speech at Notre Dame yesterday, I want you to understand what this is.
This is an outstanding demonstration of the low art of political seduction as practiced by the master.
And that master is Barack Obama.
He is good.
He excels at the low art of political seduction.
Here's our first soundbite.
How do we engage in vigorous debate?
How does each of us remain firm in our principles and fight for what we consider right without demonizing those with just as strongly held convictions on the other side?
And of course, nowhere do these questions come up more powerfully than on the issue of abortion.
Maybe we won't agree on abortion, but we can still agree that this heart-wrenching decision for any woman is not made casual.
It has both moral and spiritual dimensions.
So let us work together to reduce the number of women seeking abortions.
Let's reduce unintended pregnancy.
See how that gets across.
Why?
I ask again, why do we want to reduce the number of women seeking abortions if there's nothing wrong with it?
If a position of pro-choice is just as valid as the pro-life position, uh if we shouldn't demonize what's wrong with it.
Why, why, why, why, why limit it?
Why reduce unintended pregnancy?
What's wrong with it?
Even though the decision to have an abortion may be gut-wrenching in some cases, why what's wrong with it?
I've always thought it was a matter of liberty, a matter of liberation, a matter of independence.
So why in the world go through the farce here of wanting to reduce the number of pregnancies, unwanted pregnancies, and reduce the number of abortions.
See, this is how good Obama is at the low art of political seduction.
Because as I mentioned, several years ago he made the case for killing babies born alive and giving legal protection to the doctors that did it, and it did not cost him politically.
So Obama, after advancing his case for infanticide and the protection of the doctors, he went on to become United States Senator and then president.
He talks about the debate about abortion.
What's the debate?
Seriously, what's the debate?
Obama's position in the debate is that a baby that survives an abortion is fair game to be killed, and the doctor should have legal protection.
And his excuse at the time that he advanced this barbaric argument was that it was necessary to protect a woman's right to choose.
Okay, so now I want to know, folks, I want to know where it is that we compromise.
And I want to know why it is.
Why is this a difficult moral and spiritual decision for women to make why?
What's what I don't I don't understand the left's reasoning.
I don't understand why we should have to reduce the number of abortions if there's nothing wrong with it.
I don't know why we should have to reduce unwanted pregnancy if there's nothing wrong with it, and I don't understand why making the decision to go through with the abortion a moral and spiritual question if it's not a baby.
The only thing that can make abortion a tough decision is what's being aborted, correct?
And if it's so here's the low art of political seduction.
The low art of political seduction is both sides have legitimacy.
And we'll never gonna agree.
We will never, these are irreconcilable differences, but we must not attack personally.
And we must try to get along with one another.
What do we do in the process?
We blur something that's crucial, a definition of life.
We we blur morality.
Just as Orwell had his news speak, immorality is now morality.
Death is now freedom.
And this is a one of the foundations of liberal reasoning as a means to advance any of their beliefs, which you and I would find to be questionable, unjust, uh, or immoral.
And this is how they they justify it, the low art of political seduction.
But we look at Obama, he's such a nice man, he's got a great family, and he wants us all to respect each other.
Uh the same way he respected secured creditors for Chrysler.
The uh same way that he respects retention contracts.
Those are Fifth Amendment rights that Barack Obama stomped on at AIG and at Chrysler.
But we need to have an open mind and an open heart about that too.
And by all means, we must not we must not open up and uh and be critical.
Because you see, the extreme position here, according to Obama, is the pro-life position.
And it's extreme because liberals do not share it.
And anything not liberal by definition is extreme.
Just saw a poll out there.
It's I don't I didn't catch the name of the poll.
I'm not sure what poll it was.
Forty-three percent of Americans believe that the CIA likely lied to Nancy Pelosi.
Forty-one percent believe that she lied.
More people think the CIA is lying than Nancy Pelosi is lying.
And it's demonstrably true that Pelosi's lying.
The timeline of her statement is she's been all over the place.
Uh but this is the result of eight years of demonization, the Bush administration, the CIA lying about weapons of mass destruction.
What's being missed, and there are there are many things about this that I think being missed, Pelosi is just one person here, but is not Nancy Pelosi articulating the entire Democrat Party position.
It's not just Pelosi that's been lying about this.
It's not just Pelosi lying about the C. So many Democrats are too numerous to mention them all.
Now, right now she's the figurehead or the focus of uh of all this.
There are arguments over how to proceed against Pelosi.
Should we have an independent council?
Should we let her do the truth commission?
Should we let the politics of this play out because it's it's damaging her?
If this poll is right, the politics isn't damaging her.
If more people think the CIA lied to her than think she's lying, it's a statistical dead heat of 43 to 41.
But uh, you know, this this is I I haven't come down to what I think the right way to go is.
Some people think that uh go ahead and do the independent council.
Call for one, get this going, it'll drag it out a lot of years, which is what Pelosi would like.
But the argument is the independent council law's bad, use it against them.
Use it against them, and that's how you end it.
Uh then the Truth Commission, and that's some people say, let's go ahead and do the Truth Commission.
The truth the problem with all of this, folks, whatever strategy you come up with, the problem with it is that the Democrats run the politics of this country right now.
So whatever independent council is named, whatever truth commission is, whatever they put together to investigate Pelosi is going to end up exonerating her at the end of the day, and is uh uh is gonna again focus blame on the CIA or Cheney or Bush, which is what the left-wing radicals in the Democrat Party want the focus to remain on, as Bush and uh and Cheney.
Speaking of another poll here, 32% is a Rasmussen poll, 32% would pay higher taxes to provide health insurance for all.
Well, good.
Let's go find these 32% and raise their taxes then.
Find out who they are.
That should about cover the problem.
32% of American adults say they would be willing to pay higher taxes so that health insurance could be provided for all Americans.
In fact, let's go grab audio sound bites one and two here.
This is last week.
Last Wednesday on this program, I made this prediction.
There's no way that these health benefits are not going to be taxed.
One way or a couple of ways.
There's no way.
They're going to be taxes income to you, imputed income to you.
Or they're going to eliminate the tax deductibility, and maybe a combination of both.
It's too great a source of money, and they don't have any.
And they want national health care.
And they're going to tell everybody only the rich are going to be paying this tax anyway.
Not you.
As they lie to you again.
So yesterday, CNN State of the Union, the host John King talking to the budget director for Obama, Peter Orzog, one of the many uh Ivy League nerds and eggheads that populate his administration.
John King says, on the table in Congress, tack uh taxing the health insurance benefits that workers get.
I get from my company, many people get from their company saying if you're at a certain income level, we're going to tax those benefits.
The administration has said not our idea, but you haven't said no way either.
Yeah, it was not in the president's uh campaign plan.
It wasn't in our budget.
Clearly, there are some members of Congress who are putting it on the table.
We're gonna have to let this play out.
There are lots of ideas that are being put on the table, and that's exactly how it should be.
Well, notice he's not denying it.
He's just saying it wasn't our idea.
B.S. Then there's a Democrat's a Democrat.
I'm for the Democrats in the White House or in the House of Representatives of the Senate.
It's a Democrat idea.
Raise everybody's taxes.
They're gonna have to, folks.
That's what all of this talk last week about how it's unsustainable to spend money and borrow money this way is all about.
It's all about raising tax.
There you have it.
There you have it.
Well, it wasn't our idea.
Don't blame us.
Uh, but uh Congress has put it out there, and since Congress put it out there, we're gonna have to consider it.
Oh, tie our hands.
Tie our hands and put us in shackles.
Yes, we're going to have to uh we're gonna have to figure it out.
Obama back to the Notre Dame speech, said this.
I found myself drawn not just to the work with the church, I was drawn to be in the church.
It was through the service that I was brought to Christ.
And at the time, Cardinal Joseph Bernadine was the Archbishop of Chicago.
For those of you too young to have known him or known of him, he was a kind and good and wise man.
A saintly man.
I can still remember him speaking at one of the first organizing meetings I attended on the South Side.
He was congenial and gentle in his persuasion.
Always trying to bring people together.
Always trying to find common ground.
Uh Cardinal Bernadine.
Obama says the kind and gentle words of a cardinal in Chicago brought him to Christ.
Okay, so one of his first organizing meetings, he was gently persuaded by the cardinal in Chicago, and then he didn't join the Catholic church.
He went out and joined a church where the pastor was this guy.
Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people.
Hillary ain't never been called the nigger.
Bill did us just like he did Monica Lewinsky.
He was riding dirty in white America, US of KKKA, black men turning on black men.
I am sick of Negroes who just do not get it.
Not God bless America.
God d America that's in the Bible for killing innocent people.
God America!
And now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yards.
America's chickens are coming home to loose.
That's the elegant and eloquent uh Reverend Jeremiah Wright of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.
That's the church where Obama was a member for 20 years.
Now Obama said he didn't hear anything like this.
Obama said he didn't he didn't hear.
You know, a lot of people, by the way, folks, ask me, were you not upset at the president laughing at that comedian's jokes at the White House correspondent?
Woman was wishing for you to die.
And I said to him, I don't think President Obama heard them.
He sat in Reverend Wright's church for twenty years and never heard any of that, so I don't think there's any evidence to prove that he heard what the comedian or anybody was saying at the White House Correspondents Center.
But this is the low art of political seduction.
A Catholic cardinal warmed his heart with gentle persuasion and brought him to Christ.
And after he found Christ, Christ directed him to Jeremiah Wright.
Of course, we didn't hear about Jeremiah Wright in a speech yesterday.
We heard about the Cardinal in Chicago.
By the way, somebody sent me an email, and I I don't know how you pronounce Cardinal Bernadin's name.
Did he miss somebody said he mispronounced the Cardinal's name?
And I don't know whether that's true, because I don't know how you pronounce Carnin Bernardin Benerdon, uh never heard it pronounced, so I'm sorry, I don't know.
Just you gotta be careful of people that uh send you emails.
Here is uh let's see, let may as well grab number eight here, one more from uh Obama at Notre Dame on Sunday.
I stand here today as president and as an African American on the 55th anniversary of the day that the Supreme Court handed down the decision in Brown versus Board of Education.
Now, Brown was, of course, the first major step in dismantling the separate but equal doctrine.
But it would take a number of years in a nationwide movement to fully realize the dream of civil rights for all of God's children.
Except for the unborn.
Except for the unborn.
Uh the civil rights movement still hasn't made enough ground, uh covered enough ground to fully realize the dream of civil rights for all.
All of God's children.
The unborn.
Gee, we hope it's rare, but damn.
Why do you hope it's rare?
I still can't get past this.
Why do you hope unwanted pregnancy is rare if there's nothing wrong with it?
Why is it such a tough decision for women spiritually, emotionally, if there's nothing wrong with it?
If it's if it's not a big deal, why why what in the world's so tough of it?
Notice how they want credit for making all these tough decisions.
Oh, they're laboring hard to get through all this.
They're coming, they're coming to the right conclusions, doing everything they can.
It's so difficult.
Notice how they assign themselves the great hard work that they have um have overcome.
Quick time out.
We'll be back.
And continue after this.
Maybe I did not make myself clear.
And if that's the case, then I feel some guilt because I'm a professional communicator.
I had hoped I had made myself clear at the beginning of the program.
I just read an email.
There have been two or three of these that I have found.
Dear Rush.
All this talk about abortion.
Since the beginning of time, if a woman really wants an abortion, she's gonna get one.
Nobody's gonna stop her.
No matter how many politicians or commentators say she should or shouldn't.
These kinds of personal things will always be left to the woman when it gets down to it.
So with all the economic problems, the wars, nukes, don't you think all these senators, presidents, commentators talk about something they can really do something about?
Signed Martha in Texas.
Martha, I'm glad you wrote me this.
I mentioned at the top of the program, this is not about abortion.
This is about the low art of political seduction.
This is about new speak.
This is about turning what is immoral into the moral.
This is about Barack Obama persuading the people of this country to vote against their own very interests all the time.
This abortion discussion today is just an illustration.
It's just an example of it.
It's the most recent one since it happened yesterday.
We're not debating abortion.
Now you might think so since I'm asking some questions about what Obama said.
If there's nothing wrong with it, then why all this confusion?
If there's nothing wrong with abortion, why all this stress?
Why all this tension?
You know, why?
There's nothing wrong with it.
And where do you compromise here?
I don't know where the moderate middle ground is on life and death.
I just don't know where it is.
I don't know where I don't know where you compromise on victory and defeat.
I don't know where you compromise on good and bad, uh good and evil.
I don't know where you compromise on it, but we're supposed to see we're supposed to compromise on everything, and for that to happen, notice Obama's not changing his position.
We have to change ours because of his his successful practice of the low art of political seduction.
So I'm simply trying to illustrate how he does it with the most recent example.
I mean, if the truth be known, Way isn't the left up in arms.
He invoked Jesus Christ.
He invoked the name of Christ.
What's where's Separation of Church and State?
President of the United States at a commencement speech went out and talked about Jesus Christ and detailed how he was delivered to Christ.
Now, you let George Bush or somebody go to Notre Dame and make this speech.
I guarantee you that's what they're going to be focusing on.
How the Republican president should not enforce and impose his religious views on what did we get but Obama imposing his religious views or attempting to have us justify or accept his as justified.
It's the low art of political seduction.
I know full well, a woman who wants an abortion is going to go get one.
That's not, no matter what the law is.
We can have laws against murder, it's going to happen.
We have laws against robbing a bank, it's going to happen.
The law defines what is moral and just and right in a society.
It does not intend to get rid of all that activity.
Nobody is stupid enough to think that we're going to get rid of it.
But there is an effort to limit it.
Damn right, because it's wrong.
Pure and simple.
But I know this isn't this is a discussion that makes many of you uncomfortable.
I know it makes puts many of you at uh ill at ease, and I would only ask why.
Why what's so uncomfortable about it?
What is it about abortion?
Just you just don't want to hear it.
Well, okay, it's polarizing.
Why is it polarizing?
Why is it polarized?
Because we're talking about a baby.
Why is it polarizing?
All right, well, let's go.
Here's April 2002, Illinois State Senate.
And remember what we're doing here.
I'm illustrating the low art of political seduction practiced by President Obama.
How he just made a speech advocating a point of view or suggesting that we peacefully coexist here.
But he didn't detail his position here.
I want you to know what his position is.
His own words.
This is in the Illinois State Senate, April of 2002.
And that essentially adding an additional doctor who then has to be called in an emergency situation to come in and make these assessments is really designed simply to burden the original decision of the woman and the position to induce labor and perform an abortion.
Now here he is talking about the Born Alive Infant Protection Act and why he was going to vote against it.
And he voted against it three times, the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.
Because it'd be a burden to bring in another doctor.
Okay, the abortion doctor botches us.
You gotta bring in a third doctor to save the baby.
That's a burden on the first doctor.
It's a burden on the second doctor.
It's a burden on the mother who intended to abort.
Here's Obama, August 16, 2008.
This is uh Lake Forest, California, after the Saddleback Civil Forum with uh Rick Warren, uh, the Christian broadcasting network, David Brody talked to Obama, said real quick, the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.
They're basically saying they felt like you misrepresented your position on that bill.
Here is a situation where folks are lying.
I have said repeatedly that I would have been completely and fully in support Of the federal bill that everybody supported, which was to say that you should provide assistance to any infant that was born, uh, even if it was as a consequence of an induced abortion.
That was not the bill that was presented at the state level.
What that bill also was doing was trying to undermine Roe v.
Suede.
By the way, we also had a bill, uh, a law already in place in Illinois that ensured life-saving treatment was given to infants.
So for people to suggest that I and the Illinois Medical Society, so Illinois doctors were somehow in favor of withholding life-saving support from an infant born alive is ridiculous.
Well, then play number nine real quick again.
He's just ridiculous.
Well, let's listen to number nine again.
And that essentially adding an additional doctor who then has to be called in an emergency situation to come in and make these assessments is really designed simply to burden the original decision of the woman and the physician to induce labor and perform an abortion.
Now, if he's going to start calling people liars, we're going to have to ignore what he said on three different occasions in order not to call him one.
I just got an email.
Come on, rush, get with what's important here.
Season finale of 24 tonight.
Is Jack Bauer going to survive?
Yes, Jack Bauer is going to survive.
Kiefer Sutherland has two or three more years left on his contract.
So Jack Bowers survives on 24.
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