good morn __PUNCT__ thi is john mccain __PUNCT__ speak to you at the end of an event week in the presidenti campaign __PUNCT__
all the talk todai is about my oppon select of hi run mate __PUNCT__
to hi new run mate __PUNCT__ my congratul and i get back to you real soon on your debat oppon __PUNCT__
the week began with a debat of sort between senat obama and me at saddleback church in lake forest __PUNCT__ california __PUNCT__
in case you miss it __PUNCT__ the discuss yield the line of the week __PUNCT__ and mayb even of the campaign __PUNCT__ when pastor rick warren ask my oppon a veri seriou question __PUNCT__
he want to know at what point __PUNCT__ in my oppon view __PUNCT__ doe a babi have human right __PUNCT__ senat obama thought about it for a moment __PUNCT__ and came back with the repli that the question wa __PUNCT__ quot __PUNCT__ abov my pai grade __PUNCT__
here wa a candid for the presid of the unit state __PUNCT__ ask for hi posit on on of the central moral and legal question of our time __PUNCT__ and thi wa the best he could offer __PUNCT__ it abov hi pai grade __PUNCT__
he went on to assur hi interview that there is a __PUNCT__ quot __PUNCT__ moral and ethic element to thi issu __PUNCT__
american expect more of their leader __PUNCT__
there seem to be a pattern here in my oppon approach to mani hard issu __PUNCT__
whether it the surg in iraq that ha brought us near to victori __PUNCT__ or the issu of campaign reform __PUNCT__ or the question of offshor drill __PUNCT__ senat obama speech can be impress __PUNCT__
but when it time for straight answer __PUNCT__ clear convict __PUNCT__ and decis action __PUNCT__ suddenli all of these respons ar __PUNCT__ well __PUNCT__ as he put it __PUNCT__ abov my pai grade __PUNCT__
as motto of leadership go __PUNCT__ it doesn't exactli have the ring of __PUNCT__ the buck stop here __PUNCT__
often __PUNCT__ too __PUNCT__ senat obama carefulli hedg answer obscur more than thei explain __PUNCT__ and thi wa the case in hi convers with rick warren __PUNCT__
listen to my oppon at saddleback __PUNCT__ you would never know that thi is a politician who long sinc left behind ani middl ground on the abort issu __PUNCT__
he is against parent notif law __PUNCT__ and against restrict on taxpay fund for abort __PUNCT__
in the illinoi senat __PUNCT__ a bipartisan major pass legisl to prevent the horrif practic of partial __PUNCT__ birth abort __PUNCT__
senat obama oppos that bill __PUNCT__ vote against it in committe and vote __PUNCT__ present __PUNCT__ on the senat floor __PUNCT__
in __NUM__ congress unanim pass a feder law to requir medic care for babi who surviv abort __PUNCT__ live __PUNCT__ breath babi whom senat obama describ as __PUNCT__ quot __PUNCT__ previabl __PUNCT__
thi merci law wa call the born aliv infant protect act __PUNCT__
illinoi had a version of the same law __PUNCT__ and barack obama vote against it __PUNCT__
at saddleback __PUNCT__ he assur a report that he have vote __PUNCT__ ye __PUNCT__ on that bill if it had contain languag similar to the feder version of the born aliv infant protect act __PUNCT__
even though the languag of both the state and feder bill wa ident __PUNCT__ senat obama said peopl were __PUNCT__ quot __PUNCT__ ly __PUNCT__ about hi record __PUNCT__
when that record wa later produc __PUNCT__ he drop the subject but didn't withdraw the slander __PUNCT__
and now even senat obama campaign ha conced that hi claim and accus were fals __PUNCT__
for a man who talk so often about __PUNCT__ hope __PUNCT__ senat obama doesn't offer much of it in meet thi great challeng to the conscienc of america __PUNCT__
hi extrem advocaci in favor of partial birth abort and hi refus to provid medic care for babi surviv abort should be of grave concern to reason peopl of goodwil on both side of thi issu __PUNCT__
there is a grow consensu in america that we need to overcom narrow partisanship on thi issu for both women in need and the unborn __PUNCT__
we need more of the compass and moral ideal that my oppon own parti __PUNCT__ at it best __PUNCT__ onc stood for __PUNCT__
no on is abov the law __PUNCT__ and no on is beneath it protect __PUNCT__
uphold these principl __PUNCT__ and bring american togeth on the side of life __PUNCT__ is the work of leadership __PUNCT__
and i can assur you that if i am presid __PUNCT__ advanc the caus of life will not be abov my pai grade __PUNCT__
thank for listen __PUNCT__
