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McCain-Obama for the Presidential Dream Ticket That Will Unify the Country

 

By Patrick Johnston, (Aug. '08)  

Want a Presidential dream ticket that will unify the country?  I propose that Obama pick McCain as his Vice President and McCain pick Obama.  That way, if one loses the election, at least he'll be Vice President!  Think about it: Obama's largest deficit from a purely pragmatic basis is his youth, his lack of political and foreign policy experience, a deficit that McCain would dramatically rectify.  McCain's most significant problem with the average voter is that he looks and sounds old, his presence doesn't resonate well with the younger generation, and he associates with warmonger G.W. Bush - a problem that would certainly be remedied by picking Obama as his Vice President.  Why not?  Of the two candidates, McCain would still be the lesser of two evils even with Obama as his V.P., and V.P. Obama could not be any worse that prime V.P. potential Lieberman.  If each picked his opponent as his V.P., would that help repair the partisan division that's tearing at our country?  Besides, McCain and Obama actually do agree on so many things: on gay rights, on tax cuts, on illegal immigration, on gun control, on the environment, and on abortion - they agree more than they differ, all election-year conversions and poll-directed rhetoric aside.   

Obama's extremist liberal positions are no secret to anyone not seduced by his delicious charisma about which the media never ceases to remind us.  He is for amnesty for illegal immigrants, taxpayer-funded abortion on demand, more government control over every aspect of our lives, gun control, and gay marriage.  However, my die-hard Republican detractors will quote McCain's campaign trail rhetoric to prove that McCain's stances differ dramatically from Obama's, and that McCain is a proven pro-life conservative.  Unfortunately for them, McCain's actions speak louder than his words, and his words since he was elected Senator almost a decade ago speak so much louder than his words today.   

1. John McCain supports the killing of some innocent preborn children by abortion.  

John McCain claims to be pro-life on the campaign trail, but has repeatedly justified abortion in cases of rape or incest or to protect the life of the pregnant woman. That is, he thinks it is okay to murder some innocent children by abortion.  In what way is that pro-life?  If abortion is wrong because it kills an innocent human being, how can it be justified on the basis of the father's crime or the circumstances of conception?  How many people must a murderer murder before he's committed a crime that disqualifies him to live freely in society?  How many murders must a politician justify and tax-subsidize before they are disqualified for government office? 

As recently as his 2000 Presidential election campaign, he said "Certainly in the short term, or even in the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade, which would then force women in America to undergo illegal and dangerous (abortion) operations."  In a South Carolina debate with George W. Bush before the 2000 election, John McCain expressly opposed the pro-life plank of the Republican Party platform. ...

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Elizabeth's Letter to the Editor About Missionaries to the Preborn Abortion Protest in Zanesville, Ohio

I want to personally thank all those who came to Zanesville on Aug. 7 to show the painful but powerful pictures of what abortion does to innocent American children.  I am sympathetic with the concern of the two mothers who wrote letters of outrage at the Maple Ave. display, but I couldn't help but wonder if they thought about the suffering of those helpless babies in the womb.  My young children saw the pictures as well and were not traumatized in the least.  To them it is simple - "Mommy, why would people do that to their own baby?" 
I heard another local mother who saw the display while riding in the car with her children say that it gave her a wonderful opportunity to speak to her children about the horror of abortion and the importance of abstinence. 
Do I like those bloody pictures being shown?  Of course not.  Oh, for the day when it will no longer be necessary!  But people had to come from around the nation to remind us what "choice" looks like, because the media has censored the preborn child from the abortion debate.  Notice that the Times Recorder did not even utter a word of the group's display, except letters in opposition to it!  You can't argue with the pictures can you?  The lies about the baby just being a "blob of tissue" crumble upon sight of those pictures. 
Do you remember seeing the pictures of the corpses of Nazi Holocaust victims and how outraged you were...not at the one showing you the picture...but at the ones who slaughtered those innocent Jews?  Where are our tears on behalf of these modern holocaust victims?
I am sorry Zanesville had to see those pictures, but not for the same reason as the outraged mothers who wrote letters to the editor last week.  I am sorry because my heart breaks for the 50 million innocent Americans who have died a cruel death because of our apathy and silence.  When something is so gruesome that we can't stand to look at it, perhaps we shouldn't be tolerating it.