Why Does McCain Hate Children?
Evidently, McCain has the lowest score in Congress for supporting legislation that helps children. The Children’s Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children. He voted against the children’s health care bill last year, then defended Bush’s veto of the bill. Actually, it turns out that the score is calculated by tallying how many out of 10 bills the politician supported, and McCain missed 8 of the votes. Out of the two that he voted in, he voted for a minimum wage increase (get 10%), but voted against SCHIP (stay the lowest-rated legislator on Capitol Hill).
This post isn’t seriously trying to accuse McCain of hating children. Maybe he does, and maybe he doesn’t. How can anyone sift through the mountains of negative ads and false accusations? Most people can tell that this campaign is already shaping up to be incredibly negative, even though the two frontrunners try to keep up an image of above-the-belt campaigning. Most of these attacks will probably come from the DNC and RNC, as well as from many different 527-type groups. If you are looking for a good site that compiles and dissects the various attacks, then check out PolitiFact’s Attack File.
Politifact has a growing list of attack ads made against the three remaining candidates, as well as some truth meter to rate the accuracy of the attack. Some of these attacks come from the other candidates, but a lot of them are already coming from third party organizations like moveon.org, the DNC, the RNC, and Focus on the Family Action.
I have to say, most of my favorites from the list come from James Dobson’s Focus on the Family Action. On March 26, the group published an article that accused Obama of supporting “hate-crimes expansion … potentially putting churches at risk if they preach the truth about homosexuality.” They also sent out an e-mail that claimed that “among his pet projects is a bill … which would commit the U.S. to spending 0.7 percent of gross national product on foreign aid.” The last Focus on the Family Action attack was the one that said Obama supports “teaching schoolchildren — in 2nd grade, no less — about homosexual relationships.”
Of course, none of those things is actually true in any way (Is anyone surprised at the amazing disregard for the truth that this “values” organization has?) . I am sure that sites like this will be full of funny and baseless attacks by the time we are done with the general election, which is still 188 days away. I’m adding it to my bookmarks.
It seems like McCain should get at least a little credit for supporting legislation like the partial birth abortion ban. Or does helping a partially delivered LIVE baby from having its skull punctured and brains sucked out not count? What about giving babies who survived an abortion – the same constitutional rights of other human beings? But no, your ‘child loving’ Obama, as an IL state senator wouldn’t even vote for THAT! He refused to give rights to a LIVE baby that survived an abortion. How do you justify supporting a man who is so extreme he is okay with infanticide?
Hilarious
The Federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban passed through the Senate several years ago, so that is one reason why it was not included in this year’s analysis of how “child friendly” McCain is, but hopefully you realize that it wasn’t my intention to seriously question McCain’s love of children. This post was really about referring a site that deals with attack ads that I found helpful and humorous.
You refer to two specific pieces of legislation, the Federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban (2003), and the Illinois Induced Infant Liability Act. Overall, I would say that the issue of abortion does not strike me as being very relevant at all to selecting a presidential candidate, since the issue has already reached a good equilibrium between the two extremes; however I can still address these two pieces of law.
The Federal PBA Ban does nothing to protect fetuses; it only eliminates one way that fetuses can be aborted in late term. I would have no problem with such a law as long as it contained a health and life exception for the mother. As it is, the ban only includes a life exception, which I believe violates the Supreme Court’s own good precedent.
the Illinois Induced Infant Liability Act is irrelevant now because Congress passed the Born Alive Infants Protection Act (2002). I have no problem with either of these laws, and I think Obama read too much into it when he opposed the Illinois version, but I would be stupid to think that I am morally obligated to abandon my support for a candidate the moment I find a single point of disagreement.
i hate mccain becuse he hate children and i i a question does he like or hate his 7 children
I HATE YOU AND CHILDREN DO WHEN I TELL THEM WHAT KIND OF PERSON YOU ARE OK I VOTED FOR OMBAMA OK BYE BYE
…What?