one love wrote:soulsearcher wrote:I have zero hearing regarding alternative anything from a man who supports the "right" to kill an unborn child.
you know it is kinda insane to support alternative energy with the premise of clean air , saving the environment etc. and support abortion at the same time.
How could the environment take more importance then a human life that is defenseless and innocent

If he gets elected we have the choice to reduce his every action and thought down to abortion and be as obstructionist as we can against his policies, or we can take each policy on its own terms and support it or not on its own merits for the good of our country in those areas. I knew people who refused to give the Bush administration credit for its accomplishments in North Korea because of his failure in Iraq. They wouldn't give him credit for anything because through their lens everything was about Iraq. I think that is a mistake.
I do not understand Barack Obama when it comes to his support for not only abortion but also allowing children who survive abortion to die. It is most highly disturbing to me. If he gets elected, though, I am not going to spend the next four or eight years blind to every other of his policies that may be good for our country.
Many Republicans didn't and don't care that our bombs kill fetuses and children. If there is a perceived security threat, or even just a national feeling of patriotism to protect, that "collateral damage" is justified (i.e., those collateral unborn children--too bad for them.) Likewise with most Democrats, they perceive their agenda of irresponsible sex and throw-away life a matter of a woman's right to choose. In my book, it's not the woman's body; it's the fetus's body. A woman has a right to her body not having sex, but she shouldn't have a right to kill the man her body had sex with or the child she conceived with it.
But there is a warping of mind that happens when Republicans and Democrats frame the bombing, maiming, and aborting of children around their self-interested concerns. Humans have an amazingly scary capacity to justify the needless taking and maiming of human life when it is framed just right to them. That goes for Obama; it goes for me; it goes for you. I could just kill over it! But there wouldn't be many Republicans or Democrats left if I did. And I hope I never let my anger over our self-gratifying murders so debilitate me that I choose to obstruct every good policy a Republican or Democrat ever puts on the table.
"And just when you think you've got me figured out, remember, No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man." --Heraclitus