By fortressdayton

January 13, 2010 12:50 PM | Link to this

Hand out birth control free of charge, ban pregnancy for folks on assistance (or revoke assistance), and all the anti-abortion folks can line up and sign up to pay for all the children that end up in foster care. MY BLEIEFS say it is immoral to care for others before my own needs are met. Step up and pay for the kids and let the rest of us keep our money for our families. Pay for charity (extortion) out of your pockets and keep your hands out of mine.

By mom and grandma

January 12, 2010 3:12 PM | Link to this

Gee Leslie, you’re right, 3 kids do cost more than a vasectomy. So you must be saying that my daughter’s friends should have aborted one or more of her other children. As for assuming I am on Medicaid, you would be assuming incorrectly. I am not. My daughter’s friends do not live in Ohio, so I do not know what the regs are regarding Medicaid coverage in their state. She said they don’t have coverage, so I accept her statement. She did not say if her kids were on Medicaid or not and I did not ask. It’s you who does not know how to add Leslie.

By Brad

January 12, 2010 2:07 PM | Link to this

Any health insurance policy that includes coverage for elective abortions is unacceptable…whether it be a republican or democratic policy. If heathcare is so important for everyone, then let’s get real about it and stop using it as a means for pushing forward other agendas.

By greatly concerned

January 12, 2010 12:27 PM | Link to this

For those of you that were not aware…the Republican National Committee’s own health insurance policy “includes” coverage for elective abortions. Do as I say, not as I do?

By Brad

January 12, 2010 10:33 AM | Link to this

It’s really sad that someone would consider ending a beating heart because it may add a little more expense to the budget. Some things are more important than the almighty buck. Whatever happened to the idea of sacrificing for your family? I would give up a $120/mo. cable bill if it meant keeping my child from being slaughtered.

By Leslie

January 12, 2010 10:28 AM | Link to this

Mom and Grandma you story does not add up. Both parents work, but don’t have health insurance, have 3 kids but can’t afford a vasectomy, how did they afford to have 3 kids? The pregnancy of 3 kids costs more than a vasectomy, so one would assume you are on medicaid.

By kiramatalishah

January 12, 2010 10:23 AM | Link to this

Anyone experience anything about the easy google profit kit? I discovered a lot of advertisements around it. I also found a site that is supposedly a review of the program, but the whole thing seems kind of sketchy to me. However, the cost is low so I’m going to go ahead and try it out, unless any of you have experience with this system first hand? www.onlineuniversalwork.com

By mom and grandma

January 12, 2010 8:26 AM | Link to this

One of my daughter’s friends from high school married at 19 and now has 3 kids at 29, the last one unplanned. They do not want another child. They feel they can not care for another child or afford another child. They both work, but don’t have health insurance. They checked the price of a vasectomy. They can’t afford the $1800. If their birth control fails again, an abortion is a lot cheaper than raising another child and than the wife losing pay from her job. If they had health insurance, the husband would get a vacestomy and they would not have a reason to consider abortion.

By Leslie

January 11, 2010 4:14 PM | Link to this

I clearly agree with education, but in this day and age how can you not know. There are so many avenues for information that don’t being informed has got to be a small minority. Ignorance is no excuse. I also don’t understand how you can afford an abortion, but cannot afford birth control.

By mom and grandma

January 11, 2010 3:50 PM | Link to this

In the US, rape and risk to the mother accounts for only about 1% of abortions. 75% of women having abortions cite finances as the main reason for having an abortion. Abortion is much higher among women with household income of under $30,000. If we really want to greatly reduce abortions (and we should), we need to reduce unwanted pregnancies and help women get out of poverty. We need to educate women about pregnancy prevention and provide better access to effective, affordable contraception. Affordable health care for all would be a great step in the right direction.

By brain freeze

January 10, 2010 7:54 PM | Link to this

Obama, Palin, somebody tell what to do and think. I’m starting to think for myself and I am FREAKING OUT. My thoughts are so rational and apply to how i run my life. Please make the horror of controlling my own thoughts and actions stop.

By earl

January 10, 2010 7:50 PM | Link to this

I am sure that if I could hear some of these posters speak instead of reading what they type, they would be slurring their words.

By J

January 10, 2010 7:16 PM | Link to this

D, try watching something other than Fox news to get your information.

By J

January 10, 2010 7:16 PM | Link to this

D, try watching something other than Fox news to get your information.

By Sassy

January 10, 2010 6:55 PM | Link to this

D, You are just another Palin groupie. She has the nerve to speak on family values and her own house is in disarray. She really needs to keep her eyes on her teenage daughters, she already has one turn up as pregnant and battling the father for custody.

By Tripp

January 10, 2010 6:33 PM | Link to this

J, Bristol has filed for sole custody while providing visitation rights to Levi Johnson. Levi has failed to show up at prearranged visitations, and has initiated little or no effort to see his son. No where is the word educate defined as just making something up to be disagreeable. Your attitude is pathetic.

By J

January 10, 2010 5:45 PM | Link to this

D, the father has filed for custody and has been denied visitation numerous times, get educated before you post.

By D

January 10, 2010 4:55 PM | Link to this

Sarah Palin’s daughter made the decision to have her baby. Not Sarah Palin. Dad ditched, get over it! Typical of punks today! As for Sarah not having a J.O.B. She is laughing all the way to the bank and probably will make a bid with the proceeds in the next election. She has my vote! Finally, someone with intelligence and backbone! The media may even cover it if they can get unglued from Obama.

By Jim B

January 10, 2010 4:01 PM | Link to this

Everyone should go back and read these comments. The “readers” who have written the truly disgusting a and hateful comments must be very self-hating individuals. To be able to spew such hatred for an individual that has done no harm to them reminds me of writings for many self loathing extremist groups that offer absolutely no hope and will only preach hate. To those writers, please try and pull yourself out of your basements, tell your parents you are moving out and get a job.

By J

January 10, 2010 3:29 PM | Link to this

Why did Ms. Palin have her daughter bring a child into the world and then deny that child his father?

By earl

January 10, 2010 3:11 PM | Link to this

It is gratifying to have an illustration to follow one’s comment.

By Sassy

January 10, 2010 2:33 PM | Link to this

How much Palin pimping her groupies to hear her lip-service? We know she needs the money…she has no J.O.B.

By earl

January 10, 2010 2:02 PM | Link to this

Surly the liberal posters know their insults about Sarah Palin serve only to illustrate the weakness of their character. On second thought, maybe they really are that obtuse.

By Ethel S.

January 10, 2010 1:30 PM | Link to this

“Pimp my retard” is so rude and disgusting. I hope that supporters of the Dem party would also call that out as very inappropriate. And speaking of photo ops, BO never missed any. Someone is keeping very close track of Sarah’s schedule and wonder if they kept good track of the President when 300 citizens on an airplane became under a terrorist attack on Christmas Day. Oh, yes, BO was on vacation.

By Jim

January 10, 2010 12:45 PM | Link to this

Palin’s as smart as a bag of self absorbed hammers.

By Midnight Writer

January 10, 2010 12:38 PM | Link to this

Let’s see—she was the scheduled guest of honor at the Republican National Coalition for Life in Sept. 2008. She canceled. She was supposed to discuss energy policy at a National Governors Association in Feb. 2009. She canceled. She canceled an appearance before the Republican Women Federated of Simi Valley for their 50th anniversary celebration in August, 2009, backed out of the Values Voters summit the next month, and dropped out of a charity 5K race in Kennewick, Washington, and ended a book signing event early in Noblesville, Indiana in November. So, just what are the odds that the four college drop out, less than a year Alaska Oil and Gas Commission Chairwoman, former half term governor will actually show?

By earl

January 10, 2010 11:56 AM | Link to this

Why is it that when liberals are confronted with conservative ideas they they don’t address the ideas… they shoot the messenger?

By cartoon critic

January 10, 2010 11:41 AM | Link to this

Rut-row Scoobydo. The bone you are chewing is plastic. Check how the study was done that claims 45,000 die each year in the US because they have no health care. Check Sen. Ben Nelson bribe about fed funded abortion. It is amusing watching you chase your tail. Maybe if you stop barking you can pick up the real scent.

By cartoon critic

January 10, 2010 11:30 AM | Link to this

Rut-row Scoobydo. The bone you are chewing is plastic. Check how the study was done that claims 45,000 die each year in the US because they have no health care. Check Sen. Ben Nelson bribe about fed funded abortion. It is amusing watching you chase your tail. Maybe if you stop barking you can pick up the real scent.

By Ethel S

January 10, 2010 10:48 AM | Link to this

A Dem, Rep. Stupak, tried to put an amendment to not use federal funds for abortion. That was not included in the Senate bill and that provision is consistent with the Hyde amendment. Why did the Dem controlled Senate not include the Stupak amendment? Sarah Palin is here to stay and on the move. Her supporters are proud of her because she is sincere about her stances. Obamacare needs to be scrapped. Cutting $500 billion from Medicare takes away coverage for many seniors so the statement that if you like your healthcare, you can keep it, not so for millions of Medicare seniors. And we have yet to see the Obamacare deals on C-Span. But the biggest tale is that Obamacare will be revenue neutral and even reduce the debt when Obamacare will cover more people but still leaves out million more. This massive, expensive, and ineffective Obamacare is a political spin at its worse!

By scoobydo

January 10, 2010 9:14 AM | Link to this

Only people I feel sorry for is her supporters, they are the ones stretching out her 15 minutes, and making her money. As for the standard lies from the GOP I see they are still in vogue, “Obamacare will use money from my paycheck for abortions”, in 1976, Congress passed the Hyde Amendment, which forbids federal funding for abortion, never get close to the truth it may hurt your mind. What is amazing is the “pro-choice” sheep that are fine with: killing at least 849,845 people killed in Afghanistan and Iraq since the U.S. and coalition attacks, nearly 45,000 people die in the United States each year — one every 12 minutes — in large part because they lack health insurance and can not get good care, letting babies suffocate and die in hot cars. Like the tar baby ‘they say nothing’.

By Sassy

January 9, 2010 11:07 PM | Link to this

Simple Sarah will continue to grab any spotlight she can…and the groupies will fade over time!

By bill

January 9, 2010 9:32 PM | Link to this

WELCOME MS PALIN. THE NAME CALLERS WILL BE OUT IN FORCE. HA|HA|

By c'mon man

January 9, 2010 8:12 PM | Link to this

The mere mention of Sarah Palin’s name gives liberals a wedgie that nearly cuts their brains in half.

By Sassy

January 9, 2010 7:48 PM | Link to this

Sarah Palin isn’t geniune about anything except that she likes the spotlight…folks can’t help but laugh at Simple Sarah!

By ralph

January 9, 2010 7:35 PM | Link to this

WELCOME MS PALIN. I TOOK NOTE WHEN OBAMA ALLOTED 460 MILLION FOR ABORTIONS ABROAD THREE DAYS INTO OFFICE.EVERYTHING IS NOT ABOUT MONEY.

By joe

January 9, 2010 2:36 PM | Link to this

WRG, you failed to provide clear, concise, verifiable examples of ‘how off base I am’ Why? You can’t, because I’m absolutley right on all counts. CONSERVATIVE VICTORY 2010!

By Ethel S.

January 9, 2010 1:37 PM | Link to this

What I think is so admirable about Sarah Palin is that she “walks the walk.” It would have been so easy for her to quietly have an abortion or arrange one for her daughter, but she does have a strong character. If you were paying attention at her debate with Joe Biden, she said she was tolerant of others with different views than she has. Actually, Sarah Palin is very open and genuine. And those qualities seem to missing in our current administration. BO and the Dem Congress are not transparent and work hard to spin their images. Look out, Sarah Palin and Hillary were close in polling where Oprah and Michelle were behind. That tells me that she has a great future.

By c'mon man

January 9, 2010 12:59 PM | Link to this

Sarah Palin is wonderful because she is unabashedly conservative. It is also fun to see libs exposing themselves revealing that there ain’t much there. You libs don’t stop speaking your minds, you are telling the world a lot.

By Sassy

January 9, 2010 12:01 PM | Link to this

really, Sarah Palin keeps comedy central making money. If she didn’t keep her lame self in the news, then folks wouldn’t have anything to talk about. Yeah the repubs want her to go away, because she makes the demos laugh out loud.

By greatly concerned

January 9, 2010 12:01 PM | Link to this

I am not taking sides on this issue, but did want to point out that “pro-choice” is not necessarily “pro-abortion”. I think you will find a lot of people will think the same way. Also, all of our tax dollars (including pro-choice taxpayers) pay for the stepped up security that protects Mrs. Palin’s right to speak about whatever topic she wants to, even when she is just signing books.

By greatly concerned

January 9, 2010 11:54 AM | Link to this

I am not taking sides on this issue, but did want to point out that “pro-choice” is not necessarily “pro-abortion”. I think you will find a lot of people will think the same way.

By c'mon man

January 9, 2010 11:16 AM | Link to this

Obamacare will use money from my paycheck for abortions. If I oppose this I am labeled an extremist right wing nut and most likely a racist. If I voluntarily give money to a group that defends life, I become a “moron”, a “fool” or whatever term that provides the most hurt for the hate. Now you liberals, explain to me who is choosing fascism?

By Leslie

January 9, 2010 10:48 AM | Link to this

Palin has not and did not force her beliefs on anybody. There is absolutely no truth or fact to any of these lies. WRG your statement, “By supporting the ‘right to life’ group, she’s supporting a group that wants to dictate how others live their lives.” Then by supporting the pro-abortion group you are supporing a group that wants to dictate how others live their lives. Actually by supporting the liberals you are doing exactly what you accuse Palin of. You are supporting the very people that want to dictate every aspect of our lives. They want to control how thermostats, what we eat, even our waist lines. You scream about your right to have an abortion, while you take my rights away. You feel you have a right to abortion yet support taking my rights away by putting me in government controlled health care.

By really

January 9, 2010 9:30 AM | Link to this

How does one force their belief’s on another? One would state their belief’s and another would agree or disagree. Why are the Democrats so afraid of this lady and some republicans I might add. Because if she runs for President in 2012 she will win. Judging from what I see at the top right now. I can can hardly wait.

By greatly concerned

January 9, 2010 6:35 AM | Link to this

Just two points: 1. Double digit IQ. 2. Drill, drill, drill. Enough said.

By Concerned

January 9, 2010 3:06 AM | Link to this

“And God spoke all these words, saying: ‘I am the LORD your God… ONE: ‘You shall have no other gods before Me.’ TWO: ‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.’ THREE: ‘You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.’ FOUR: ‘Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.’ FIVE: ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ SIX: ‘You shall not murder.’ SEVEN: ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ EIGHT: ‘You shall not steal.’ NINE: ‘You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.’ TEN: ‘You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.’

By Alan

January 9, 2010 12:56 AM | Link to this

Get Informed. Abortion kills a life. And for every 80 that die in India, I can find 8000 women in the USA that kill their babies because of convenience.

By mdizzie

January 9, 2010 12:04 AM | Link to this

In one month alone, over 80 women died in India because the law doesn’t allow for abortions, even for medical reasons. You are denying the potential mothers right-to-life by forcing her to continue through with the pregnancy, and perhaps losing her life in the process. It’s not any one persons place to tell another what they can do with their body. Abortion is not just for slum girls or hookers, its not fun or pretty and there are instances where the baby could very well kill the mother if the abortion was not preformed. Get Informed.

By scott

January 8, 2010 11:55 PM | Link to this

All I know is that I, like many that have never voted for a democrat, would have voted for McCain, until someone decide to stick this nutjob Palin, one heartbeat away from the Presidency. As much as I am disappointed with Obama, I’m still glad this lady isn’t our VP, that still would scare me to death.

By WRG

January 8, 2010 10:55 PM | Link to this

Joe… Nothing I could offer will ever demonstrate how off base you are or convince you otherwise, but it’s good to see that their are still people who enjoy living in their own private Idaho.

By WRG

January 8, 2010 10:55 PM | Link to this

Joe… Nothing I could offer will ever demonstrate how off base you are or convince you otherwise, but it’s good to see that their are still people who enjoy living in there own private Idaho.

By WRG

January 8, 2010 10:44 PM | Link to this

c’mon man… She can be what ever she wants as long as she doesn’t try and force her beliefs on the rest of us. What I see is a woman that will stop at nothing to fulfill her own self interests. She will lie to and manipulate anyone she has to in order to push her agenda. I mean, come on man, she’s still pushing the whole ‘death panel’ canard even though its been proven repeatedly to be a lie. If you don’t believe me, I suggest you watch the interview with Steve Schmidt (McCain’s Campaign Manager) on 60 minutes this weekend. Maybe you’ll see who she truly is and why I have no respect for her.

By joe

January 8, 2010 10:24 PM | Link to this

Speaking of the health care bill. Much of it involves ‘shared responsibility’ Tell me libs, why should I have to pay (through higher taxes, and fines)for someone else’s poor lifestyle choices? Like the dummy that continues to smoke cigarettes after a heart attack, or the very obese, lazy slug that refuses to stop gorging on fast food, even after open heart surgery? How about the woman that has multiple babies by multiple men, with no means of financial support? Or those that flat out lie about their condition so they can receive money and benefits they’re not entitled to?Should I or others have to help pay for these and many others poor choices? Why?

By joe

January 8, 2010 10:13 PM | Link to this

A year later, we all see what the Obama change is all about: Looting the treasury to pay off those that got him elected, the building of a political slush fund to buy and bribe congressional holdouts on this monstrosity of a health care bill. Saying the debates would be on C-Span, than balks.(Or lies!)Giving miranda rights to terrorists, after his ‘apologizing for America’ tour. Giving KSM constitutional rights, and a civilian trial a few blocks from ground zero.(Unbelievable!) The push for cap and trade-wihch will result in a zap and fade economy. Saying that the Cambridge police acted “stupidly” before knowing the facts, yet says not to jump to conclusions about the terroristic attack on Ft. Hood. What? And the list goes on and on and on…Obama, yeah that’s the change we can believe in. Well maybe if your a pro gay, pro unborn baby killing, pro entitlements for life, anti- American, anti- responsibilty,anti-capitalist person.

By Joe

January 8, 2010 9:57 PM | Link to this

Did nothing about abortion, Ajax? Congress passed the partial birth abortion ban, and George Bush signed it into law. Bush also signed an executive order prohibiting federal tax dollars to countries that provide state funded abortions. On Jan 23, 3 days after Obama’s inauguration, he signed another exe. order, rescinding Bush’s, thereby giving YOUR tax dollars to nations that pay for abortions.

By tac

January 8, 2010 9:28 PM | Link to this

lover of life? then ask her if we sould pull are troops out of them two wars then youll see

By c'mon man

January 8, 2010 8:10 PM | Link to this

WRG, You seem either clairvoyant or paranoic. Could it be that maybe she is simply a lover of life?

By WRG

January 8, 2010 8:00 PM | Link to this

Sarah Palin may not hold any power over us directly but that’s what her aspiration is. By supporting the ‘right to life’ group, she’s supporting a group that wants to dictate how others live their lives. Everything she does is for power and personal gain.

By c'mon man

January 8, 2010 7:53 PM | Link to this

What I meant Mr. Ajax, is that you create your own reality.

By c'mon man

January 8, 2010 7:34 PM | Link to this

Why such hostility toward Sarah Palin? She has no power over you.

By WRG

January 8, 2010 7:00 PM | Link to this

Palin only believes in the ‘right to life’ as long as you live that life the way she wants you to.

By disappointing

January 8, 2010 6:53 PM | Link to this

it is disappointing that a WOMAN would want to encroach on the rights of other women. my womb is my business, and if men have the right to step away from a pregnancy/child then why don’t women? i never see banquets to stop the horror of dead beat dads, absent fathers, and overworked and under-appreciated mothers.

By Sassy

January 8, 2010 6:31 PM | Link to this

Sarah Palin enriching herself, is this a surprise?

By Ajax

January 8, 2010 6:19 PM | Link to this

My world has a place for all gods creatures unlike the one you wingnuts want to promote

By c'mon man

January 8, 2010 5:57 PM | Link to this

You live in a very ugly world, don’t you Mr. Ajax?

By Ajax

January 8, 2010 5:42 PM | Link to this

Enriching herself at our expense you moron, What can’t you figure it out???

By c'mon man

January 8, 2010 5:24 PM | Link to this

Ajax, What really is going on?

By Ajax

January 8, 2010 5:07 PM | Link to this

You fools are paying her all the money you take in I bet. Repubs had congress for 6 yrs uncontested, they did nothing about abortion, what makes you think she going to change abortion now??? Y’all better get tuned into what is really going on