Barack Obama

quotes from Barack Obama, senator from Illinois and 2008 Democratic primary presidential candidate

Monday, March 31, 2008

I don’t want them punished with a baby.

“Look, I got two daughters — 9 years old and 6 years old,” he said. “I am going to teach them first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby. I don’t want them punished with an STD at age 16, so it doesn’t make sense to not give them information.”—Senator Barack Obama

Editor’s note: babies are a punishment, Senator?  If your child became pregnant out of wedlock, you’d ‘abort’ your own grandchild?  And for the record, condoms don’t stop most STD’s (sexually transmitted diseases).

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