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  • July 2008
    • VP Picks Lieberman, Hagel: Disasters for Party Bases

      VP Picks Lieberman, Hagel: Disasters for Party Bases

      (Newser) - With talk that John McCain and Barack Obama could pick Joe Lieberman and Chuck Hagel, respectively, to round out their tickets, liberal and conservative stalwarts tell Politico the aisle-crossing VPs would likely wreak havoc with the parties’ bases. While each has broken with his party on Iraq, Lieberman is far too socially liberal for Republicans, Hagel too far right for Democrats. More »

    • Abortion Activists Split Over Obama Comment

      Abortion Activists Split Over Obama Comment

      (Newser) - A brief budge from a purely pro-choice position by Barack Obama last week drew a heavy round of responses from the reproductive-rights crowd, Politico notes. The blowback came after Obama said to a Christian magazine that health exceptions to a late-term abortion ban shouldn’t extend to women merely “feeling blue.” NOW’s president criticized Obama for playing into the "wingnut argument"—that women have abortions for frivolous reasons. More »

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      Barack Obama   abortion   flip flop   reproductive rights   NARAL   NOW

  • January 2008

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