Part 3
8. Q: Even more so, when someone "Would never do abortion themselves" but is "pro-choice" it doesn't make sense to me. Explain it.
A: Okay, I’ll sound of on this one. Just because President Elect Obama would never choose to commit to an abortion in his family, that doesn’t mean he can’t support the idea of there being a choice. Once again, having the ability to choose is the American way.
9. Q: When people think that genocide is wrong, but don't think we should try and stop it when it is within our power, I don't understand it. Explain it to me.
A: Where the hell did this come from? When making political points, remember to make them clear and understandable, especially when you want someone to explain it to you.
10. Q: When people say we need alternative energy, but are opposed to nuclear energy, I don't understand it. Explain it to me.
A: Where nuclear power doesn’t have a direct impact on the environment while producing energy, it has serious dangers involved. Before jumping head first into thinking it’s our saving grace, please go back and re-read history in regards to 3 Mile Island and Chernobyl. Compound that with storing of the spent fuel rods inside of a mountain in the Sierra-Nevada range and transportation to get it there, you have a possibility for an ecological crisis the likes of which are only seen in video games.
11. Q: When you talk about running out of oil, but we have many, many years worth ON OUR OWN SOIL that you won't let us drill, I don't understand it. Explain it to me.
A: President Elect Obama never said he was opposed to drilling in the US. If you were to actually read his plan, you would see that he does want to drill, but the impact on the environment dictates where we will and will not drill. Would you say that it’s okay to drill in an area that depends on salmon fishing when it’s a decent likely hood that building a rig there would have adverse effects on that eco-system and possibly irrevocably influence the ability to fish? On top of that, it would take over 10 years for the country to see any kind of positive benefit from drilling locally. We need a stop-gap solution now just to get us out of the fuel crisis we’re in, but we need a long term so that we can wean ourselves off of oil, not just foreign oil, completely.
Comments
Secondly there _are_ people that advocate genetic testing then abortion for things like Autism. This is a hot button for me because I am myself mildly/medium-level Autistic. (Asperger's Syndrome) The point of view in question raises all the nasty eugenics issuse that a certain German group tried to put into play.
Third he might possibly be referring to Darfur because there _is_ genocide going on there though I don't have a data point at hand to tell you. It's Googleable.
Regardless he was considerably unclear about the whole thing.
That was my whole point. Had he made a clear statement on a specific instance of genocide, I would have been more than willing to discuss it. With as vague of a statement as what was presented, I had no choice but to ask for clarification.