Maybe This Is Why Kaine Wasn't Picked As Veep

[Me.]

As he and Obama are such good friends I thought he was a sure bet. I wonder if his views on abortion took him out of the running.

...“Sure enough, when Kaine's Republican opponent attacked him for his opposition to the death penalty as Election Day closed in, Kaine invoked his Catholicism in explaining his position. In the process, he ripped a page from the GOP/Christian right playbook: implying he would not tolerate attacks on his faith and tying his position to the pro-life cause, saying, "My faith teaches life is sacred."

After Kaine won, the Democrats tapped him to give the party's response to George W. Bush's first State of the Union address after the Virginia election. The Old Dominion State governor opened with this line: "I worked as a missionary in Honduras when I was a young man, and I learned to measure my life by the difference I can make in someone else's life."

When word spread last summer that Kaine was on Barack Obama's shortlist for running mates, the governor went on the Charlie Rose Show and discussed his support for state-level abortion-rights restrictions, like parental consent laws, a "partial-birth" abortion ban, and requirements for abortion providers to furnish women with information about alternatives to abortion.

All of which suggests the Democratic National Committee's "Faith in Action" team, born under Howard Dean and growing to comprise nearly half a dozen staffers, may be about to get even bigger and more powerful.”

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/god-and-country/2009/1/5/why-tim-kaine-is-likely-to-expand-democratic-faith-outreach-as-dnc-chair.html

[camera obscura]

1. I posted this earlier, but Kaine is virtually the same as Obama and Biden. esp Biden as they're both

Catholics.

[Me.]

3. Hah, Didn't See The Earlier Posting

I didn't realize Obama was for doctors having to instruct patients about alternatives. Thanks for the R.

[napi21]

5. I'm very strongly pro-choice, but I think it's a good idea that dr's

and other medical professionals instruct their patients about all alternatives, including abortion. THAT'S what choice IS!

[Me.]

7. I Understand Your Thinking

But I think most women are aware of other choices and wouldn't make take this one lightly.

[elleng]

8. Yes, and THAT's what DOCTORS SHOULD DO.

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[David Dunham]

2. It was his complete lack of foreign policy experience

[Jennicut]

4. Yup. Kaine had no fp experience to offer Obama and Biden had tons

Obama was being criticized at the time for being so unexperienced and so new. Obama made the right choice.

[ShortnFiery]

6. At least Kaine's no hypocrite.

I stopped attending Mass over a month ago but I'm personally "pro-life."

WAIT! Please don't judge me harshly? I'm against abortion and state sponsored execution BUT I don't profess to speak for anyone but myself. I hold no illusions that my faith should be imposed on even my daughter much less society. If she holds the same values it's because of her free will decision to do so.

My point: Kaine is "walking the walk" for Pro-Life ALTHOUGH I don't believe we should inject our religious values into law.