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Pro-Life Bombers not Terrorists, says Palin
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by jaurez | October 25, 2008 at 05:06 am
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Palin has her own set of rules: one set for her and her own, another for 'other people not in my clique'.
Attacks on doctors who practice abortion and on family planning clinics in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s left several people dead and scores wounded.
Abortion clinic bombers not terrorists, Palin says15 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who has accused Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama of "palling around with terrorists," has refused to call people who bomb abortion clinics by the same name.
When asked Thursday night by NBC television presenter Brian Williams whether an abortion clinic bomber was a terrorist, Palin heaved a sigh and, at first, circumvented the question.
"There's no question that Bill Ayers by his own admittance was one who sought to destroy our US Capitol and our Pentagon. That is a domestic terrorist," Palin said, referring to a 1960s leftist who founded a radical violent gang dubbed the "Weathermen" -- and who years later supported Obama's first run for public office in the state of Illinois.
"Now, others who would want to engage in harming innocent Americans or facilities that it would be unacceptable to... I don't know if you're gonna use the word 'terrorist' there," the ardently pro-life running mate of John McCain said.
Eric Rudolph, the extreme right winger who planted a bomb at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, which killed one person, was sentenced three years ago to two life terms in jail for an abortion clinic bombing in Alabama in which a policeman was killed.
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at 06:18 on October 25th, 2008
Caution....You are about to enter....the twilight zone.....I'm amazed at the thought process of all of these criminals...Yes i called Palin a criminal...
at 06:42 on October 25th, 2008
jaurez, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 06:47 on October 25th, 2008
jaurez, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 08:33 on October 25th, 2008
Let's see, deaths directly attributed to Ayers? Zero! She also always seem to fail to mention that the reason Ayers not even tried was due to illegal activities by the Republican Nixon administration, illegal wiretaps for one.
Don't think I've seen any of the killers of doctors, the police officer and other innocents being terribly repentant. Too bad he didn't ask about Oklahoma City.
What a hypocritical, shallow person she is. I am not sure she has shown us yet how low she really can go.
at 08:57 on October 25th, 2008
What, then, would it take for someone to be a "terrorist" in Palin's book? I mean, what's the lowest benchmark for acquiring that term?
at 14:21 on October 25th, 2008
Two words - "other side"
at 09:08 on October 25th, 2008
She might agree to call them terrorists.
at 09:14 on October 25th, 2008
jaurez, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 09:55 on October 25th, 2008
How stunningly bizarre is her logic! Good stuff, Jaurez.
at 10:01 on October 25th, 2008
jaurez, I like this story. It's good stuff.
I keep telling people she's dangerous
at 12:21 on October 25th, 2008
jaurez, good comparison piece.
at 12:55 on October 25th, 2008
jaurez, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Oh well, is anyone really surprised? She says the media is the reason people do not trust her, but I think that the media has finally been able to dive into her and show all of her, and not just the talking points that she uses in her "folksy" speeches.
This is why she was elected in Alaska. All the people saw there were these talking point sound bites. Now look at her opinion polls in Alaska. Having seen a deeper probe into who Palin is and her real idealogy and political policies, her favorability has dropped in large numbers. She is once again proving that she really is more like Bush and Cheney almost on a weekly basis. I just read an article where she had a "Halliburton" style bidding process for a pipeline in Alaska written by AP. She is her own worst enemy.
at 14:51 on October 25th, 2008
at 12:57 on October 25th, 2008
Good stuff, I think she may have something seriously wrong with her brain
at 13:26 on October 25th, 2008
Have you seen this interview in full? Might be a good idea to see it. This is more Gottcha journalism and folks are too busy to really investigate her actual view on this subject. No one is for Bombing Abortion Clinics. Palin does NOT advocate boming abortion clinics. This is getting a bit out of hand
at 13:40 on October 25th, 2008
You are correct, Al. She did not advocate bombing abortion clinics. And she did say that type of behavior was "unacceptable" but, she veered off subject, back to Bill Ayers and would not state unequivocally that anyone who bombed abortion clinics, killing individuals in the process of doing so, were domestic terrorists.
She would not say that, which as I watched, seemed an interesting double standard for distinguishing terrorist's violent acts.
at 18:56 on November 10th, 2008
I agree that she should have been definitive. What would you do if at every turn the press was beating you down? She was going back to talking points.. Why did the interviewer as that question? The answer is called gottcha. McCain did state the McCain policy is that it is indeed terrorism.
at 14:13 on October 25th, 2008
Actually, McCain appeared at a fundraiser for the the ultra-right wing Oregon Citizens Alliance in 1993 where he shared the stage with Marilyn Shannon, who during her own speech praised a local woman who had shot a doctor because he performed abortions.
Shannon, said of the shooter -- as McCain sat there -- quote "she's a fine lady," A judge who later sentenced this fine lady for a campaign of yes, bombing women's clinics, said quote, “Though I am loathe to call anyone a terrorist, you are a terrorist."
Shannon was as a delegate for President Bush during the 2004 Republican convention, where she wore a purple heart band-aid to mock John Kerry, and at the 2008 convention, which she attended as a McCain delegate wearing a "Shut Up and Drill" T-shirt.
Arnold R. Weber is a McCain campaign contributor and a longtime Republican. He is an associate of William Ayers. John McCain has, by his own definition, accepted campaign money from a terrorist associate.
There is "palling around" and then there is direct friendship, support, and voting support for domestic terrorists.
– Voting against making anti-choice violence a federal crime. As the Jed Report notes, McCain voted in 1993 and 1994 against making “bombings, arson and blockades at abortion clinics, and shootings and threats of violence against doctors and nurses who perform abortions” federal crimes.
at 18:59 on October 25th, 2008
Given Senator McCain's record for voting in '93 and '94 against crimnalizing those actions, he seems to be in line with his running mate.
The bankruptcy vote is really disturbing, with the appearance of a kind of support for these actions.
Very informative, Iraqivetwifeforchange.
at 15:17 on October 25th, 2008
wow iraqivetwifeforchange you write some brilliant points of information concerning McCain's voting record vis-à-vis au domestic bombing by pro-lifers in the U.S. of A..