The Smear Gap

Washington, D.C. ??? Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, said the organization is sending a copy of Sen. John McCain's voting record on women's health issues to Carly Fiorina, an adviser to the anti-choice candidate, who yesterday made a statement in direct conflict with McCain's position on birth control.

According to the Washington Post, during a discussion with reporters about women and health insurance, Fiorina said, "a real, live example which I've been hearing a lot about from women: There are many health insurance plans that will cover Viagra but won't cover birth-control medication. Those women would like a choice." [Washington Post, July 8, 2008]

Fiorina's comments are in direct contradiction with McCain's record. In fact, McCain voted against a proposal that would have required insurance companies to cover prescription contraception in the same way they pay for Viagra. [Clinton/Reid amendment to FY'06 Budget Resolution, S.Con.Res.18, 3/17/05.]

"If Carly Fiorina is so concerned about making sure women have choices that include coverage for birth control, then she should support the only presidential candidate who actually supports health insurance coverage for birth control... Barack Obama," Keenan said. "Women are concerned about health-care inequities???and that's why we are working to elect Sen. Barack Obama as the next president. Unlike McCain, who has voted against family planning 22 times, Sen. Obama supports legislation that would ensure fairness in insurance coverage for birth control, which represents one of the best ways to prevent unintended pregnancy and thus reduce the need for abortion. That's a clear difference between these candidates."

pss Did I miss your apology to KellyB? You would regain a tad bit of respect if you did so. Some Clinton fans might even be swayed enough to vote for barry. Isn't that you goal? To make true your prediction in '06?

Mr. Alter, emblematic of the MSM, shows himself not to be the non-partisan he wants us to think he is. For example, he writes, "Obama had cancelled the visit [to injured troops] when it was clear that the Pentagon viewed it as political. The charge [that it was cancelled by Obama because he could not bring the press along] was simply untrue." In fact, Obama could have visited the troops if he didn't bring along his CAMPAIGN STAFF. As the NYTimes' Jeff Zeleny reported on their "Caucus" political blog on 7/25/08:

"Geoff Morrell, the Pentagon press secretary, issued a statement emphasizing that the Pentagon did not cancel Mr. Obama???s visit.

'Senator Obama, in his official capacity, is always welcome to visit Landstuhl or any other military hospital. But it is not permitted to bring with him campaign staff. His team was notified of that, and they made a decision not to visit the hospital. But we were ready and willing to host him there. In fact, we had made arrangements for his campaign plane to land at Ramstein, and to take care of the campaign staff and press in a passenger terminal there, while the senator and senate staff, if he liked, went on to visit wounded warriors. They made a decision based on their own calculations not to visit. Senator Obama, like any other member of the senate, is always welcome to visit our wounded warriors or our military hospitals around the world. But they do so in their official capacity, and not as a candidate. He can come in and bring senate staffers as well, if he likes, but campaign staffers and press are not permitted to accompany him. That would be a violation of DoD directives.' "

Stop clinging to your clinged on guns and Bibles you clinging clingers. Vote Democratic.

Barry. I am worried. That old frog has caught up with you. My dad says that you did not do well last Saturday on that religious guy's program. That you came accross as hesitant, unsure, aloof, eggheaded, unemotional, detached. Why are your answers so vague? Why all the hemming and hawing? When are you going to start showing more passion? Right now, I can't believe that you are not running away with this election. What with your superior secular and spiritual education. Why can't more Americans see that like Ms. Pelosi said that you are God's gift to America?

Hmmm. I am beginning to think that blogger chindognyc might be our long lost blogger (not really, maybe from her disappearance over the past few weeks or more) might be posting in disguise given this bloggers focus has always been on Carly Fiorina and the whole Pro-choice vs. Pro-life conversation she used to post for discussions in that past. I could be wrong. If so, so be it. But for anyone who cares, you might want to track her blogs.

Barack Obama Commander in Chief. Repeat this ten times as you step into the polling booth.

We shouldn't be focusing on the Office of the President, but the do nothing Congress. The Dumbocrats really did a great job when they gained control.

Oh yeah Zogby Himself said yesterday that his polling is some what antiquated due to the fact that he only uses land line phone interviews and it really leaves out a vast majority of younger and newly registered voters in which both groups have not opted for land lines. Which brings me exatly where I have always been on polls. They are only as good as who is paying to have them conducted and the only real poll that matters is the the one in November on the fourth of.

And next month the bullsh!t polls will have Hillary in front,....LMFAO

McCain lost me when he lied to Warren's forum with his cross story. He stole that from Solzhenitsin's "Gulag Archipel". For me that finishes him and brings him down to the level of Hillary's sniper fire. Why do politicians think they have the right to lie? I can never trust a person who lied once, because the next time I may not believe him, even when he is telling the truth.