I haven't forgotten Osama. I also haven't forgotten that we are also at war with any country lending aid and sanctuary to terrorists. I guess you didn't hear about the yellow cake that was shipped out of Afghanistan (?) to Canada. Our military found it. I heard the news about that last year. Oh but CNN, NBC and MSNBC probably didn't report it. And please leave Bush alone. His administration and the Democrats that voted in support of the war, all looked at the same information and draw the same conclusion. The Bush administration is merely the whipping boy because the liberal media and the Democrats that are trying to save face are making it that way.

Anyway, "why this year and this president", because he's proposing trillions of dollars in spending in a stimulus package with countless earmarks (which Democrats supposedly hate) that will drive up TAXES for US to pay. That's why. His skin color has nothing to do with it. I think it helped him get elected and even my own black family members that are AGAINST abortion voted for him and the Black vote was up substantially. Why is that okay and not racist but opposing him is? By the way, a former BLACK congressman of Oklahoma opposes Obama's plans. Is he a racist? And Michael Steele is Black and is Chairman of the Republican National Committee; he speaks out against Obama all the time. Is he a racist?

Just because we vote them into office doesn't mean they can do what they want when they get there. They should stick to their platform and when they stray, we should be able to have better recourse against them than simply not re-electing them.

Yes I have heard horror stories about abortion before it was legal and I've also heard horror stories about abortion since it's been legal. If you've never had an abortion, you really can't understand what a woman goes through emotionally afterward. I used to be pro-choice like you. Then I realized that Abortion IS taking the life of an innocent human. If the baby is in the womb, the baby is here now. FYI, Federal law states that if you destroy the egg of the American Bald Eagle, you can face up to one year in a federal prison and a $100,000.00 fine. Yet we can Is that fair? n If a woman decides to terminate her own pregnancy and kill her own baby, that is totally on her. But with legalized abortion, it's on the government and the doctor as well as the woman. Planned Parenthood is one of Obama's pet's and their entire adjenda is to eliminate as many babies of ethinic origin as they can. Margaret Sanger was totally in favor of murdering unborn babies of ethnic women as well as poor women and if there was a suspected birth defect. As a 'mixed' American, according to her, I should have been killed before I was born. Even Obama fit the criteria for being aborted in her mind.
But yes we agree on the fact that Obama is human and he isn't perfect. Clinton leaving Bush better off financially came at the price of bringing down our military to the point that it took a great deal of money to bring it back up the the level it needed to be to protect us. Bottom line is this. We can all play armchair quarterback, but until you face the challenge of that office, it's not fair to lay all blame on the president. Congress does have to give up or down votes like they did in FAVOR of the war. I'm glad that our president isn't a stand alone authority. That's how we stave off a dicatatorship here in the U.S.
Conservative vs contemporary. Well, I'm traditional indeed in my morals and values. And since morals and values are time honored, I feel good about being conservative.
The best thing about this exchange between us, is that we have disagreed some and agreed some. But neither one of us has stooped to the level of Janeane Garofalo. So I guess we're mature people and maybe she isn't. I don't like to see people viciously attacked and I'm sure you don't either. :)

Since times change and we certainly agree that they do, should morals change? Is it right to persecute someone because they have different beliefs and opinions? I'll tell you this, eventhough we disagree on abortion, no one would dare persecute you if you were with me. The persecutor would be dealt with and would walk away with tail between legs. No one has the right to persecute anyone. But morals should not change with the times. Adultery is always wrong, murder is always wrong, lying is always wrong, stealing etc.

As far a Planned Parenthood goes, I know that they do more than abortions, but they are the largest abortion provider in the world. They also falsify documents and deliberately cover up statutory rape cases. This happend in Memphis Tennessee recently. Just because they do some good, doesn't mean they don't also do great harm. Did they give this person you're talking an ultrasound so that she could see her baby? The ability to see that you have a human life growing inside you has been shown to change minds. There are too many couples that can't have children naturally and they seek to adopt babies. They can't if we keep killing the unborn. The woman's mistake shouldn't mean a death sentence for the innocent baby. Less than 2% of abortions come about because of rape or incest. Just saying because people usually throw that one out there. Anyway, we disagree on this and I hope no one else treats you badly because of your opinion. That's just the wrong way to handle it. I respect your right to have your own opinion. :)