Patricia Smith, the mother of a Benghazi victim, insists that Hillary Clinton is “a proven liar” after Clinton called her “absolutely wrong” during the Univision debate.
I’m still confused at how a Catholic can vote for someone who continues to praise the “wonderful” work of Planned Parenthood – except for when it comes to abortion. Except for when it comes to abortion, they distribute contraceptives to kids and do STI testing. Are contraceptives and testing for sexually transmitted infections now acceptable practices for Catholics? I have a much clearer conscious voting for Clinton knowing abortion rates decreased during Bill’s presidency.
It can be legitimately debated whether her voting for the Iraq War initially was a misjudgment. But there really isn’t any doubt that her supporting the pullout when all segments of Iraqi society, the Joint Chiefs, and the CIA were advising the administration to stay longer to keep the peace that had been won. They predicted exactly what has happened.
Abortion rates continue to decrease; partly because of state curbs on abortion, opposed fiercely by Clinton and other Democrats, partly because an aging population has fewer pregnancies, and partially because of the increasing availability of abortifacient drugs, which this (her) administration insisted the taxpayers have to pay for.
I have let some time pass since I first read this post to reply.
Does it matter if Hillary, Obama, or even Trump are strongly pro-choice? Those of us who have been educated about Catholic morality and have been taught the sanctity of life would not consider having an abortion under any conditions.
If a Catholic is going to base his or her vote solely on the abortion issue, then I think Cruz is the only candidate he or she could, in good conscience, vote for.
When does a human become a human? On a purely natural level, and looking at genetics and the programming that’s within it, it’s clearly at the time of conception. Is it when the child is visibly recognizable as a human, physical? Well, that’s pretty early on. is it when she demonstrably experiences pain? Pretty early too. Is it when he self-moves? Pretty early. Or is it when she begins to observe, to think? Well, many would say that’s well after birth, but is it? I’m not alone in being one of those who can remember being born, and just a bit before it. Probably even more could if they followed the clues in what was, at the time, a non-verbal world for them. So, was I unique? When I experienced concern in the birthing process, was that peculiar to me and a few others? I mightily doubt it.
Thank you for your response. I, too, believe that a human being is fully human, with body and soul, at the time of conception.
You may be missing something here and that another reason why fewer people may be seeking abortion is because more people are pro-life.
The combination of Obama and Hillary is the worst combination.
If her vote was a huge mistake, it’s one that more than three fourths of all the members of congress and the Bush administration made. Everything you’re saying about it being obvious that the invasion would be a complete fiasco is based on hindsight, not what was known beforehand. If she had voted against the invasion and it had been a resounding success, everyone here would probably now be saying she was a coward and not fit to be president.
Those members that voted against the war were seen as unamerican.
True. Some people will say anything to villify Hillary, even if it makes no sense and they are shown it makes no sense.
Have you heard that terrorist attacks on innocent people isn’t something that has just begun? In fact the US (not a part of Europe) was itself indeed attacked on 9-11-2001. Hillary Clinton was not SoS. Barack Obama was no where even near Washington. He was an IL state senator at the time. Republican George W Bush was President. Dick Cheney was VP. Colin Powell was SoS and the House of Representatives was under Republican control.
According to Rudy Giuliani, Hillary is a founding member of ISIS. “She helped create ISIS,” Giuliani said. “Hillary Clinton could be considered a founding member of ISIS.” Asked how that makes her responsible by Bill O’Reilly, Giuliani elaborated: “By being part of an administration that withdrew from Iraq. By being part of an administration that let [former Prime Minister Nouri al-] Maliki run Iraq into the ground, so you forced the Shiites to make a choice. By not intervening in Syria at the proper time. By being part of an administration that drew 12 lines in the sand and made a joke out of it.”
It is not astounding at all to me. Here’s how I do it. I start out with the realization that there is no perfect candidate and then I look at a whole host of issues across a wide spectrum, domestic, social, and foreign, then weigh my options and I and others arrive at a very different place than do you and other Republicans and conservatives on CAF and elsewhere. For me personally, when my choice is Hillary, the reality TV star Donald Trump with his temperament, or Ted Cruz, it actually is one of the easiest voting decisions I’ve had to make in my life.
