Posted by
Daninreallife on Monday, August 18, 2008 6:35:55 AM
I thought Obama did a poor job on Saturday, but I think Carpenter's assertion that Obama's pay grade remark was unacceptable is completely pathetic. Perhaps Carpenter herself is God and knows when life begins. If you are, please enlighten us all as to what the truth is. But you can't Amanda because you don't have a clue yourself. So why does a potential president need to know the right anwser to such a speculative question? Do you think he God's cell phone number just because he is running for president?
Carpenter has no basis to say whether or not Obama's anwser was unacceptable because she could not possibly know that anwser herself. If she truly did, she would be God. She's no God. Look I'm no Obama supporter and I am a Republican. In fact, I can't stand Obama, and have rarely, if ever, supported his stances. But aren't we getting too nitpicky when we start judging a person's anwser on when he thinks life begin's? I think he gave a very appropriate anwser... He doesn't have a clue, just like I don't, and just as the annointed God Amanda Carpenter doesn't.
I think people who try to give anwsers of when life begins are doing nothing but speculating. Instead we should focus on the policies surrounding the issue of abortion, and not judging people for giving reasonable anwsers to trivial questions. We can develop policies that are based on our best judgments, and with the case of abortion, it truly is impossible for us to really know 100% the exact time life begins. So we do our best to decide what is best in our minds, and that is what both the pro-life and pro-choice sides of this issue do. That is where the real fight is, because one side is clearly wrong (Pro choice), and one is clearly right.
However, ripping on someone who says, its beyond my pay grade as unacceptable, not only does nothing to fight against pro choicers, it is also unacceptable in itself because Obama's response was the best one he could make. None of us knows when the moment of life begins. He was brave enough to say he doesn't know. I don't think he should be criticized for making a reasonable statement, and such critical comments of his lack of knowledge as to the timing of the creating of life do nothing to promote the pro life movement. I appreciate his honesty, as do I appreciate McCain's good faith belief of when life begin's.