John McCain gets grilled about his choice of Sarah Palin for VP
John McCain hit up The View today, and they discussed various topics, ranging from Sarah Palin to their houses to the separation of church and state.
First, resident Republican Elisabeth Hasselbeck asked McCain if he planned to try to get Roe V. Wade overturned.
After some political word-peddling, he answered: “I believe Roe v. Wade was a very bad decision.” If president, he would appoint Supreme Court justices who “strictly interpret” and “enforce” the Constitution. (In other words, kiss your ovaries goodbye, ladies!)
Next, Whoopi Goldberg chimed in saying, “Do I have to be worried about becoming a slave again?” (reminding that the Constitution made slaves three-fifths a person)… “because certain things happened in the Constitution that had to change.”
After a few laughs, McCain went on to clarify his position, saying, “I believe life begins at conception, but I respect the views of those who don’t.”
For some comic relief, he vowed to appoint Democrats and independents to his administration, saying I’ll appoint Joy (Behar) to be the director of communications.”
Finally — someone with experience!
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I live in NYC and in not the best of neighbourhoods (well must of NY has bad neighbourhoods) and you are telling that of I got raped I would have to keep the baby??? Give me a fucking break!!! Why are we going backwards instead of forwards in this country??? I am disgusted by McCain/Palin’s views!!! Love you Whoppi!!! You are real, honest, truthfull!!! OBAMA ALL THE WAY!!!!
Breaking news: Cindy McCain got a bunch of people fired to hide the fact that the DEA was investigating her for prescription drug abuse in the 1989. She was addicted for three years and hid it from her husband for a while. These people are so currupt it is disgusting.
Sarah Palin knows nothing of international policy. She prooved that last night. Bring on the debate between her and Biden. He will wipe the floor with her stupid ass comments.
I agree with you 100% Jules!!! I am shocked that if these people get elected they plan on turning over Roe vs. Wade!!! I have a friend who was raped and I can’t imagine what she would have done if she had to keep the baby! McCain and Palin are SCARY for not just women’s rights but the advancement of this country.
ah, but st johnnie the tortured sure has a different attitude if his daughter got pregnant. but then his flip-flopping, lying assholery is irrelevant to the american public.:
McCain struggles with sensitive abortion question
By Jonathan Karl/CNN
January 26, 2000
Web posted at: 1:19 p.m. EST (1819 GMT)
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (CNN) — Republican presidential candidate John McCain, when asked Wednesday what he would do if his 15-year-old daughter Meghan became pregnant and wanted an abortion, said it would be a “family decision.”
“The final decision would be made by Meghan with our advice and counsel,” McCain said, speaking of himself and his wife Cindy.
“I would discuss this issue with Cindy and Meghan, and this would be a private decision that we would share within our family and not with anyone else,” McCain told reporters in New Hampshire on board his campaign bus nicknamed “The Straight Talk Express. “Obviously I would encourage her to bring, to know that baby would be brought up in a warm and loving family, but the final decision would be made by Meghan with our advice and counsel.”
He will appoint a supreme court justices that will make sure that gets overturned???? HOLY SHIT!, this is the first time I said SHIT on here, and this is the first time that I actually feel scared about the outcome of this election.
IMMA LOVING IT!
Run you chicken headed Liberals, RUN!
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Obama should make a new comment today about putting lipstick on four pigs for all the world to View.
Talk about throwing a pearl ‘McCains’ into a pig-sty ‘The View’.
McCain is a straight talker. The Pigs on the View are real oikers.
Still. putting lipstick in Bahar, Walters, Goldberg, et.al. excluding Hasselback, still makes them useless sows.
I’d LOVE to see Sarah Palin get on The View and verbally beotch-slap a few of the cackling libs.
All over the country, women in their homes would be giving Sarah a standing ovation.
Whoopie scared!
Another gnat brain who wanted to know if American Exceptionalism means she will be returned to slavery.
Considering the Views audience, that makes Whoopie a MENSA.
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….I’m wondering if these loons who were so sure that they had him elected are going to go berserk when he goes down in November.
Are we going to see rioting? Any opinions?
Your Obedient Servant,
George Washington
Read and ponder.
Barrak Obama:
From Dreams of My Father: ‘I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.’
From Dreams of My Father : ‘I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race.’
From Dreams of My Father: ‘There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.’
From Dreams of My Father: ‘It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.’
From Dreams of My Father: ‘I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa , that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.’
And FINALLY the Most Damming one of ALL of them!!!
From Audacity of Hope: ‘I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.’
Obama now claims that McCain is unqualified to be President because - get this - he doesn’t have computer skills! Is he grasping at straws or what?
I can just see McCain’s next campaign ad: “Barack Obama evidently has a low opinion of senior citizens. How can you trust such a man to protect your Social Security?”
Joe Biden has suffered from foot-in-mouth disease for years. It must be contagious, because Obama hasn’t taken his foot out of his mouth since Biden joined his campaign.
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ROFLOL!
Subject: for george washington Post 9
george washington asks:
“Are we going to see rioting [if Obama loses]? Any opinions?”
I think the Secret Service must guard Sarah Palin and her family as heavily as possible.
The entire black community is going to blame Sarah Palin, not McCain, for Obama’s loss. They will realize it’s her candidacy that stole Obama’s mojo.
And some of them, are black Muslims.
According to Chicago Police/Incident report 93-03965 dated February 17, 1993:Then Chicago Sun times editor Spectorsky returned to his car approximately 11:45PM. As he approached his car he became rather perturbed to see one side of his vehicle dented and severly damaged, then he breathed a sigh of relief , as he noticed a figure standing next to his car writing a note. As he arrived next to where the man was standing, the man folded the note and handed it to him, and said all my information is in there, and hurridely ran back to his battered car and sped off. When he opened the note he was immediately shocked. The note read: I have just run in to your car and made a hell of a mess of it. As a few people looked over I decided to appear as if I was writing you a note to apologize and to leave my name, address, and insurance info. As you can see this I have NOT done. Signed, a Well Wisher. He described the man as a black man about 6ft tall and that he drove off in a Mazda 323. About a week later he contacted dectives and told them he was convinced the man he had seen that night was Barack Obama. Strangely, that same week Obama had his Mazda 323 repaired after stating that his wife had scraped a concrete poll at the mall. Even more strangely, within days of Spectorsky’s positive identification of Obama, he called dectives and told them he was “mistaken.” A simple coincidence or a covered up story? You decide.
#11 - he’s going to the lows that mccain has gone. mccain made a big stink about the lipstick comment. he’s the fucking whiner with no chance in hell of running a country.
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we will the thrown into the stone age if mccain is elected. we already have a conservative supreme court, he’ll finish it off.
THIS JUST IN!!! A subpeona has been issued for Sarah Palin’s husband (Todd Palin) to appear in court for his involvement in the firing of the state trooper. Without a doubt Sarah Palin is next to be ordered to court. If this happens she will have to withdraw from the nomination. WOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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you didnt answer #11 at all.
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I can just see McCain’s next campaign ad: “Barack Obama evidently has a low opinion of senior citizens. How can you trust such a man to protect your Social Security?â€
What website is stating that Kain?
Because I surely dont see it.
Get a life, and get over it.
Branchflower said he wants to interview Palin herself, but did not ask for a subpoena for her.
ANd he wont.
As a German I have been following your elections closely and I am mistified at the women of the United States who have not been outraged by what the McCain?Palin team is implying on your rights. You are allowing the government to choose for you. Meaning if a women or young child is raped or molested she will have to bear that child!!! How can you women of the US allow such talk??
CNN is reporting from Alaska. Turn it on. And you better believe she will be ordered in. The investigation has just begun. FUCK SARAH PALIN!!!
so, blacks are going to be slaves and jmac’s gonna take your ovaries!
nobody does fear mongering like deodorant commercials and liberals.
and that’s yet another new term for ‘baby’ that liberals have invented to help girls get over the idea!
ovaries! fetus, cluster of cells, parasite, cell tissue, zygote, ‘MY BODY,’ ‘MY WOMB.’ ‘rapists leftovers.’
most of you know i’m pro-choice, but let’s be real here. there’s a reason abortion patients won’t watch an ultrasound.
btw, the right to kill a fetus is tied to the right to privacy. that’s what mccain is talking about. and i’d bet he’d like to see it as a federalized issue.
handled by the states.
as it was designed.
Okay, first off I saw the interview today and that was not all that was said, when Cindy came out she said that they are for abortions for rape, incest or the life of the mother is in danger. But, not just for people to use as birth control. I read today that up to 40% of all women who suffer from sever nausea and vomiting when they are pregnant abort the baby, what the hell, something needs to be put into place to protect these children. When I was six weeks pregnant, I had an ultra sound and the heart was beating at 138 beats a minute, you mean to tell me that isn’t life? Also, most women unless they are trying to get pregant don’t even know they are pregnant until then, I was only 1 week and like 5 days late. This is life. Abortion causes horrible emontional problems for young girls they need to be taught to abstain first and birth control second. After all to abstain is the only thing that works 100%. I mean with HIV and everything else out there they need to know what sex involves. Education, not a easy bail out!
oh please..baraba walters and the other cows were so darned rude, when Obama was on there they were kissing his ring and mccain, even if you don’t like him, deserves respect and he got none. they wouldn’t let him answer..talking over him…I felt bad for Sen. McCain
Hum……….I dont see it on CNN……Kain get off of the damn dope.
Hey Me…I agree with a lot of what you have to say. However, sex education would NOT be allowed in schools according to Mrs. Palin. So please tell me how can anyone support (and I’m not saying you) a politician who believes that there should be NO sex education schools??
SEX ED is not what would keep me from voting for the McCain ticket.
Its the parents job to teach kids - -NOT THE GOVERNMENT.
Dufus
Yeah I just saw the Todd Palin subpeona thing on CNN too. It was just released like an hour ago and hurricane Ike is obviously the lead story. I am sure we will hear more shortly about this. This is not good for Palin because if she gets called in, she will have to drop out. I am sure she will get called in though, apparently the investigation is really breaking now.
Hey Study…Yeah like Sarah Palin did a good job educating her kids about sex!!! AHAHAHAHAAH!!! What a load of Alskan bear shit!!!
I laugh at the parents that leave it up to the schools systems to teach something so “special” to the kids.
Its your damn job!
TAKE RESPONSIBILITY OF YOUR OWN KIDS!
Losers.
Hey my parents taught me…………didnt stop me.
Im sure you stayed pure for your spouse to?
Dont be throwing bricks in glass houses.
Wonderbar - I agree with you.
Me - That is your viewpoint, and everyone is allowed to have their own viewpoints. The debate is over giving WOMEN the choice over their LIFE! Nobody can tell a person they HAVE to keep the baby. And if those statistics are true, which they are totally not, then its NONE of your business why they had it, ist better then sending the kid into social services, or having a mother that’s not ready party during the pregnancy and end up with birth defects. Maybe instead of making up statistics, you should go to http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/abreasons.html
The highest percentage for reasons for abortion was “unready for responsibility”
Do you honestly believe if somebody is unready for the pregnancy they are going to give the fetus what it needs to be a healthy baby? The answer is no.
Maybe you enjoy the government taking your rights away, but I personally do not. We have fought TOO HARD and TOO LONG to let it be taken away by ignorant religious manics. Not everyone in the states is religious, so why should we all be treated as such? Isn’t this supposed to be a country of freedom? Well its not if this goes through. Maybe you should learn to be more tolerant on other peoples opinions, you can have your own but don’t tell people what you think is right for them, because you will NEVER know what is right for anybody else but yourself.
Meaghan…That was perfectly put!!!
Here is the link for the subpoena for Todd Palin:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jOTk11gvqDAgD0cY3i4WjI_2YOxwD935BSAG3
By the way it has been granted since this and look for one to go out next week for Sarah Palin.
I had an abortion when I was 14.
And I have paid for it all of my life.
Beit mentally or the fact that it lead to a complete hysteritomy at the age of 22.
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I think IF (and it will you stupid people) stays legal - They need to make it MANDATORY for counseling.
The long term affects are horrible.
Then, adopt the baby out for a “price”
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Abortion in my mind is nothing but murder.
Yawns - - You liberals tried to hash this out what…………..2 weeks ago and nothing.
This is nothing but a ploy of being SCARED LITTLE BOYS!
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Thank you, Barbara, for clarifying the TRUTH of this ridiculous ‘lipstick’ debate… McCain has used that term, Cheney and Bush have used it… and ‘the liberals’ didn’t try to twist their words. McCain, you’re a liar and a sellout and your choice of VP is the WORST this country has ever seen. You are scary, but she is even scarier. No way, no how, NO MCCAIN.
McCain is far from being a sellout!
I would like to see your whimp ass golden boy even go thru HALF of what McCain has in his lifetime.
Your golden boy is just out and out a PUSSY
I wish they had asked McCain about calling his wife a CUNT! All of this nonsense about lipstick, and John McCain thinks it’s a-okay to call his wife a CUNT!
And to the anti-abortion person who posted above; you’re making the mistake of assuming other people experience abortion the same way you did. I know women who have had abortions who feel grateful to have had that option. These women are not sad or depressed, and none of them regret theri decision. In fact, because they were not saddled down with a kid they didn’t want, they were able to finish school and get good jobs. Some of them have kids now and they are excellent mothers. They waited until they were educated, married, and could provide a stable home.
#34, I am so sorry for you. It is a decision that you made and you have to forgive yourself. Megan, go to babyzone.com and look there for the artical on morning sickness. Also, what about the babies choice, there is adoption, you don’t have to keep the baby, but you don’t have to kill it either. There are tons of couples, lots of gay ones now that would love to put that baby in a loving home. Have you ever seen the move silent scream, it shows abortions at all different stages and the baby, you know the one with the same heart beat you have, was seen crying out in pain. It is horrible. That isn’t a choice to me, your choice was to have sex or not! Sorry. There as so many options to prevent pregnance! Use them, that is your choice, not killing your own flesh and blood. Get off your high horse on womens choice, you have at least 50 ways to prevent getting pregnant. Also, I wouldn’t vote for or not vote for a canidate based on weather or not they are for sex education in schools, although I am for it, if the parents approve. But, I still feel that as a parent, it is my job to teach my child how to be safe. I know I wasn’t a pure when I got married, but, I have emotional effects of having sex before I was ready. I wish with all my heart I would have waited! But, I made that choice and I got pregnant at 19, and I love my child with all my heart! I have done my best to take care of her and to teach her about sex and abstaning and remaining pure, but we also discuss, birth control, and HIV and that that comes with the choice of waiting or not waiting, so I guess in some sense I am pro-choice. You chose to have sex you chose the baby, the chance of an STD and all that comes with it!
Thanks post 39.
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I just wish that I didnt have a heart like post 38 friends that seem to enjoy killing a baby.
been almost 20 years and it still haunts and hurts my heart.
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all of these woman, including myself, would DIE to have a child - - but selfish bastards would rather kill them, instead of adopting them out to people like myself, that have “everything” but the most important thing.
A child.
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this country deserves every bit of blowback it will experience if st john the tortured and the lying alaskan welfare queen take the white house.
we’re on the verge of an economic collapse; a vulnerability inconceivable a decade ago due to staggering corruption, the degradation of our military and the evisceration of our once cherished constitutional rights. this country is at its lowest point in international standing; china owns your ass; russia is resurgent and eager to humiliate the idiot son who looked into the former kgb operative’s eyes and saw goodness — and got his stupid, texan ass played like the punk bitch he is.
yeah. four more years of republican misrule — and guarantee this country is destroyed.
Nothing like a good fishing expedition/witch hunt to try to blacken a candidate’s image. Remember how loudly the Democrats complained when Ken Starr was “investigating” Bill Clinton. I guess it’s OK when they do it, though.
I think the Democrats and Liberals biggest complaint against Palin is only that she’s not a Democrat. Change her party affiliation and they’d be falling all over themselves to praise her. I bet Obama wakes up every morning, thinks about Joe Biden and says to himself, “I could have had a Hilliary.”
whatever……
obama/biden 08!!!
Don’t complain people, fight, go to my.bo.com and register people to vote!!!!!
F-E-A-R … I think that Obama supporters must be in panic mode… Why has every Obama supporter out there all of a sudden have this desire to defend their man… think about it… democrats out there (media, hollywood types, celebrities, talk show hosts, musical artists, etc) all decided at the same time (this past week), that it is their job to attack anyone that doesnt support Obama. It’s obvious that Obama can’t defend himself (some of you even want Clinton to help- you know that couple you hated 2 months ago). Reality is that 90% of us know who we are voting for already… about 45% each candidate, that only leaves about 10%, the panic is that some of those 10% are already moving to McCain because of Palin and you people can’t handle that. The thought of losing an election that you should have won is keeping you guys up at night.
F-E-A-R … I think that Obama supporters must be in panic mode… Why has every Obama supporter out there all of a sudden have this desire to defend their man… think about it… democrats out there (media, hollywood types, celebrities, talk show hosts, musical artists, etc) all decided at the same time (this past week), that it is their job to attack anyone that doesnt support Obama. It’s obvious that Obama can’t defend himself (some of you even want Clinton to help- you know that couple you hated 2 months ago). Reality is that 90% of us know who we are voting for already… about 45% each candidate, that only leaves about 10%, the panic is that some of those 10% are already moving to McCain because of Palin and you people can’t handle that. The thought of losing an election that you should have won is keeping you guys up at night.
I just wish that they would put Obama in the damn hotplate.
But they wont.
Because if they did, they would be hunted down and killed off.
Gee, and just in time for an election, too. Sounds politically motivated to me.
Why are you hippies so afraid of the VP pick? You need to be engaging and debating the old guy on the TOP of the ticket.
Post #40: “blahblah …that have “everything” but the most important thing. [dramatic pause]
A child.”
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Ladies and gentlemen! We have a drama major on our hands. Round of applause now: the oscar goes to…
Post #21.I agree with you Barbara Walters wouldn’t even let him finish a sentence,The View sucks they must be hurting for ratings to belittle their guests this way.I can’t stand any of them bring back Meredith.
The lowest point for McCain when he defended his dishonest ads by blaming Obama for not doing town hall style events. Is he serious? How sad is it that the toughest questions he’s been asked this entire election season is by the women of The View? He very explicitly said that he favors strict construction of The Constitution and a such he would appoint justices like Thomas, Scalia, Roberts, and Alito. Goodbye reproductive rights and goodbye civil liberties. Hello deregulation (remember the mortgage crisis). He fully intends to overturn Roe v. Wade. He said he thinks it is bad law and it is a states rights issue. That is political code for the end of Roe v. Wade. It doesn’t matter what Cindy’s opinions on abortion are, she’s not running for President. And there is a video of Sarah Palin saying explicitly during the gubernatorial debate in 2006 that she favors the complete banning of abortions even in cases of rape and incest. The statistics are horrifying about the number of women and girls raped every day in this country and if you believe that they should be forced to carry the children of their rapists or their relatives, well vote for McCain/Palin but stop telling the rest of us that he didn’t really mean it. He does mean it. The maverick of 2000 is long gone and he has sold his soul to the extremists on the right.
is the ultimate pandering manchurian candidate going to dump biden?
It’s a woman’s body, and thus HER choice. Taking away this right is disregarding the rights we, as women, have. It’s true, abortion is definitely a moral issue; however, not everyone is in the same position to care for and take care of a baby…not everyone comes from a stable, supportive family. In fact, some women didn’t even have the choice to say no to sex (because of being raped). Think of it in these womens’ perspectives; why the HELL should they be responsible for the product of one of the most horrifying crimes NO woman should ever experience? Additionally, not everyone has the same morals…morality is one of those things that is extremely subjective…not everyone considers life to start at the moment of conception. Regardless, the OPTION should still exist–especially during special circumstances, such as rape. And in regards to people claiming that pregnant women should give their children to adoption agencies (post 40)–there are already MILLIONS of children waiting to be adopted…we are not by ANY means short of orphans.
Its so fkn amazing that republicans center their doctrine of bull-crap min how much they care about all the fetuses of the world, when denying education to the kids that are already full grown humans, and sending to war the ones that adolescents, and then breaking the back and creating an economical hell for the parents! WTF? Republican doctrine and of course those that sustain it by failing to see the other 99% issues of the fail republican policies are the worse type of useless idiots ever! keep up the fight about abortions fkrs! while the rest of the issues send this american life to hell!