Being against partial birth abortions is particularly agregious because anyonew with a lick of sense knows women don't put up with the strain of pregnancy on thier body for months on end and then out of nowhere chose to abort. Women that choose abortions late term general do so due to health concerns either for themselves or the fetus. I find it disgusting that women now are forced to undergo a more dangerous route simply because the Democrats are too craven a cowards to address this issue. Virginia fails when it comes to reproductive rights and Kaine has done little to fix that so you'll forgive me if I don't jump up and down and clap at his selection.

As a Virginian, I'll tell you Kaine managed to eke out a victory because of folks like myself. I won't be repeating that process and I doubt that he'll deliver Virginia for Obama.

Promote abstinence; ban partial-birth abortion

I will reduce abortion in Virginia by enforcing current Virginia restrictions, passing an enforceable ban on partial-birth abortion, ensuring women's access to health care (including legal contraception), and promoting abstinence-focused education and adoption. We should reduce abortion in this manner, rather than by criminalizing women and doctors.

Source: Campaign website www.kaine2005.org, "Issues" Nov 8, 2005

I have a faith-based opposition to abortion

I have a faith-based opposition to abortion. As governor, I will work in good faith to reduce abortions by:

   1. Enforcing the current Virginia restrictions on abortion and passing an enforceable ban on partial birth abortion that protects the life and health of the mother;

   2. Fighting teen pregnancy through abstinence-focused education;

   3. Ensuring women's access to health care (including legal contraception) and economic opportunity; and

   4. Promoting adoption as an alternative for women facing unwanted pregnancies.

Too often politicians are interested in scoring political points, rather than in reducing the number of abortions. Many of the legislative proposals introduced in the General Assembly, like the ones to require unnecessary building standards for doctor's offices that perform abortions, are just political grandstanding. They encourage division and lawsuits rather than contributing to the goal of reducing abortions.

Who cares where McCain graduated in class rank? I'm not defending the man's policies, but really, no one cares. And I don't think the comparison is usually made between the presidential candidate of one party and the VP candidate of the other party.

As far as Clark is concerned...there were many reports that Clark pondered running as a Republican, and even said at on May 11, 2001, where he delivered a speech to the Pulaski County Republican Party in Arkansas saying he was "very glad we've got the great team in office, men like Colin Powell, Don Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Paul O'Neill -- people I know very well -- our president George W. Bush."

obama is losing a good portion of his supporters, especially in the AA community

If Obama expects every prominent supporter to just spout his nonsense all the time, I find that simply oppressive.  The convention hasn't happened yet so perhaps this vision will not materialize.  But isn't the freaking point of hordes of non-keynote speakers to hear about other parts of the platform?  Pluralism, dangit.  Deal with it Obama.  

YELLIN: You know what, Anderson? People are afraid to not mention her [Hillary] on the list, but I would give it a 0.0001 percent chance. They just don't have that kind of fit that Barack Obama keeps saying that he wants and that the team says he's looking for, that Obama wants somebody he can work down the hall from for many years, that he wants to be that close with. And they just don't have that kind of mutual trust.
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YELLIN: Yes. You know, I hear that despite the fact that some of, for example, Obama's aides really like the idea of seeing a Tim Kaine with Barack Obama, the image of change together -- it's the young governor from Virginia -- or an Evan Bayh, also young -- it looks like a new America, that Barack Obama keep going back to people like Chris Dodd, the senator from Connecticut, who is a Washington insider, but Barack Obama has enormous personal respect for him and just likes the guy, from what I'm told.

And then also Joseph Biden stays in the running, senator from Delaware, even though he's another Washington insider, because of his years, because Obama has this fit with him.

COOPER: Yes. YELLIN: So, it might not necessarily be what the picture should be. It's, you know, where the candidate just feels his gut taking him.