What Happened to Family Values?

I am so tired of the intellectual dishonesty displayed in so many of these "analysis" pieces regarding abortion. The values of ending abortion and upholding the traditional nuclear family are most certainly not in tension. The availability of legal abortion is most certainly not necessary to accomplish the achievement of healthy, self-sustaining two parent families. Valuing the inherent sanctity of human life in its proper context, and valuing the inherent sanctity of marital love that facilitates healthy, self-sustaining families is what is necessary. We need to teach our children that cheapening human life through the wanton destruction of abortion further destroys the fabric of our society. Part of becoming a responsible adult is mastering sexual desires just as much as we need to master all of our other emotional and physical desires. We are human beings with complex and highly developed intellectual, emotional and spiritual capacities. We are not mere animals driven to breed. Opposing abortion and promoting healthy, self-sustaining two parent families are two inseparable values, not incompatible ones

I will vote for McCain/Palin because of their verbalized values and their example by actions. I do not like Obama, he is a racist. He is not honest and he is empty! I am so sick of liberal people. You are the most disgusting creatures on earth! Why don't all of you leave and create your own nation instead of trying to ruin this one! Leave!!!!! Leave!!!! Leave!!!!!

I'm with you Payne - I've no idea why McCain apparently thinks five year olds don't deserve education on being safe from sexual predators.

I sure hope people are paying attention to this, our children are our most important asset for the future. Ignore them and we put the future of our country at risk.

I'm voting Obama for the children's sake.

Family values means, and I summate, being able to nurture and care for the children you facilitate bringing into this world. It would be ideal if all children have this environment but many don't. To deny this fact is stupendously naive or grossly self serving, i'm not sure which. Abortion is a terribly weighty thing for any one to decide and often there is no good choice but as much as we would like all children to grow up in fields of gumdrops and lollipops there is at least 25% of the time when that is impossible. It might have been possible wity more sex education but that is taboo also. To claim that teaching kids to recognize or at least question a sexual predator as sex education as a bad thing is the most selfserving political nonsense I have heard since the Lee Atwater days. But before I digress anymore; as soon as their are no more starving children in the world and none having to work for a dollar a day at 9 years old then bring out your righteous indignation and we can talk about abortion. Till then you have no argument.

Per Latino newspaper in California, there is a growing alliance of Latinos and Asians working together to ensure that McCain gets elected. The reason for this is that they think McCain is more willing to work with all...not just those Obama has worked with in Chicago lower east side.

Family Values? Wow - Per his book, Obama used cocaine. Per his admission, he took money from convicted felons to fund his mortgage. He has abandoned his children for 2 years given his running for office. He was abandoned by his dad...and for the most part his mom....and felt like an orphan. He supports explicit sex education for 5 year olds. He supports racism given Jeremiah Wrights, his pastor,racist comments.

Ms. Bush's favorite show was desperate housewives, a show that everyone cheats on everone, thats where our morals went!

McCain ??? Palin and The Oil Industry
In 2006 , Bp Alaska, Exxon Mobile, Chevron and Conoco Phillips gave over 1.7 Million dollars to AK First Org. Inc. and to Alaska Oil and Gas Association to repeal Measure 2 of the Alaska Constitution. They succeeded with the help of Palin. By spreading the wealth their 1.7 Million dollar Investment created a windfall of profits only rivaled by Mr. Buffet himself.

With Palin???s help and under the watchful eye of the Bush. Cheney and Mc Cain administration the Oil Emirates will also receive credits against future taxation worth even more billions of dollars. It appears that Palin and the Bush administration are paying the oil companies back all the taxes they have paid since the inception of Measure 2.

What do we know about Palin? Not much according to the Media. We do know Governor Palin is the Public Member for the Alaska Oil and Natural Gas Conservation Commission. What you should know is that the mission of Alaska Oil and Natural Gas Conservation Commission is to work hand in hand with the oil industry to help maximize production, improve resource recovery and to reduce the rights of land owners through its correlative rights mandate. They are task with overseeing the disposal of all toxic waste produced by companies such as Alaska Oil, Chevron, Exxon and BP Alaska.

According to the ??? Inlet Keeper??? these companies are ???legally??? pumping 2 Billion Gallons of toxic waste into the fisheries of Cook Inlet annually. Governor Pain is one of three controlling members of this group comprised of One Geologist, One Petroleum Engineer and one public member, ie Palin.

Wow! its no wonder they picked her for VP. The media chooses to ignore or not care about these facts. Just as with the mis-information they brought us with Iraq they have again been bought and paid for by special interest. Yes afraid of going against the powerful political machine of the Bush administrative and detrimental to the public of the United States and rest of the world; our news media is again not reporting the facts! Surprised; no I???m not but you should be!

The oil companies are once again putting their own candidate into office. They are selling us a Miss America candidate with her cute little smile in a business suit. A candidate who is in charge of and has been responsible for saving oil companies billions by letting them pump two billion gallons of toxic waste into the Cook Inlet and Ice Fields of Alaska annually . You wonder why the Ice is melting maybe it???s the Billions of Gallons of toxic waste compliments of our own greed and unwillingness to reduce our dependence on oil!

Vote for Real Change vote against the Emirates of Alaska and their Palin Pawn, the Mavericks and Cowboys of Arizona, Texas and beyond!

If the Republicans were really for small government, they would keep their noses out of the affairs of families and their doctors.

The family values crowd would not be so bad if they could only come up with a competent candidate for president. They brought us Bush and now McCain..... Family values and smarts are not mutually exclusive

The GOP is what happened to family values. xD

John McCain knew that Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac would collapse, and thereby unjustly burden the American public!

In 2005, Senator John McCain cosponsored the Federal Housing Enterprise Reform Act to regulate the powers and procedures of Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac.

These 2 massive federal finance agencies had been operating without controls in a blatant irresponsible manner, and had been found guilty in court of falsifying financial records and statements in order to provide supposed justification for bonuses to be given to their higher echelon administrators.

These 2 organizations had been coerced by Democrats, who because of political opportunism, wanted them to grant mortgages to individuals who would be unable to make their required monthly payments. That would be in accordance with the irresponsible Democrat belief that everyone should be entitled to have their own home, irrespective of their actual ability to afford that luxury.

Both of these mortgage lending institutions have contributed massive financial sums to support the political aspirations of Chris Dodd and Barack Obama.

Senator John McCain realized 3 years ago that fraudulent transactions were rampant within these 2 enterprises, and that they would soon collapse if remedial action was not undertaken.

Their bankruptcy would result in the American taxpayers having to go into debt to resurrect or ???bail-out??? these fraudulent Congress protected entities.

As was to be expected, this proposal to institute meaningful financial reform measures was obstructed by the Democrats in the Senate, and the proposal failed to be adopted.

This year, due to the Democrat furor over the collapse of Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac, the American taxpayers are burdened by having to pay a minimum of 450 billion dollars to ???bail out??? these 2 recklessly managed lending companies.

John McCain exposed and opposed the corrupt lending practices of Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac.
Barack Obama ???milked the system??? and profited by obstructing reform of their corrupt lending practices.

Democrats have demonstrated that they can wreck the mortgage industry.

Are you willing to vote them into office, and give them a blank check to mismanage the American economy, security, and health care?

i remember when hilary tried everything to knock obama down even the kitchen sink and it did not work! now the obama camp is trying everything including the kitchen sink on palin and its not working ! she gets bigger crowds at her rallies and he gets small ones his ego is crushed and he is worried that he will lose the white house ! and he should be ! McCAIN / PALIN 08 ! >>>>>>>>>> OBAMA / BIDEN BACK TO THE SENATE !
as history suggests issues of policy will ultimately trump the politics of identity. obama is all about who he is and nothing about what he has done ! McCain is all about what he has done not who he is ! the choice is clear !

Her and others are flawed because you don't commit abortion period. Full stop. You give your life for the baby's life, no excuses, period. Full stop. Thou shall not kill, period. Full stop.

Paying taxes. Give unto Ceasar what is Ceasar's(taxes), period. Full stop. Don't try and cheat the government, period. Full stop. Thou shall not steal. Period. Full stop.

Don't lie. Period. Full stop. Dont' bare false witness. God's law, these are you Christians.

What a well thought out article. Maturity, reality, focus and so totally right. Having known someone who was raped by her father, forced to have a child at 15, who everyone knew was her fathers and dead by suicide by 21. So much for family values, supportive government and christian values. By the way he was a christian minister everyone was afraid of.

End of story until the next tragedy in 30 seconds.

"Quality of a child's life doesn't mean much when they don't have life at all! Very few people who have encountered some bumps in the road growing up would say that they would have chosen not to be born at all.
Hardly an "ethically flawed" stance!