Without Googling, take a guess at who said this

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"When history looks back to this era it should recognize this generation as one which cared about human beings enough to halt the practice of war, to provide a decent living for every family, and to fulfill its responsibility to its children from the very moment of conception."

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Would that be our new president?

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Nope.

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"When history looks back to this era it should recognize this generation as one which cared about human beings enough to halt the practice of war, to provide a decent living for every family, and to fulfill its responsibility to its children from the very moment of conception."

What do I win if I know the answer?

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Oh well, I will toss it out there anyway: Ted Kennedy.

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Oh well, I will toss it out there anyway: Ted Kennedy.

Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner!

From the Wall St. Journal article, "How Support for Abortion Became Kennedy Dogma":

Caroline Kennedy knows that any Kennedy desiring higher office in the Democratic Party must now carry the torch of abortion rights throughout any race. But this was not always the case. Despite Ms. Kennedy's description of Barack Obama, in a New York Times op-ed, as a "man like my father," there is no evidence that JFK was pro-choice like Mr. Obama. Abortion-rights issues were in the fledgling stage at the state level in New York and California in the early 1960s. They were not a national concern.

Even Ted Kennedy, who gets a 100% pro-choice rating from the abortion-rights group Naral, was at one time pro-life. In fact, in 1971, a full year after New York had legalized abortion, the Massachusetts senator was still championing the rights of the unborn. In a letter to a constituent dated Aug. 3, 1971, he wrote: "When history looks back to this era it should recognize this generation as one which cared about human beings enough to halt the practice of war, to provide a decent living for every family, and to fulfill its responsibility to its children from the very moment of conception."

Other pro-choice politicians who were once fervently pro-life when they first ran for public office: Jesse Jackson (he used to refer to the disproportionate number of black babies being aborted as one reason) and Al Gore (when he ran for the House and later for the Senate).

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He was drunk.....that's what they will claim. He was drunk, and he killed that woman.

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Other pro-choice politicians who were once fervently pro-life when they first ran for public office: Jesse Jackson (he used to refer to the disproportionate number of black babies being aborted as one reason) and Al Gore (when he ran for the House and later for the Senate).

I only knew it because I had read an article making the same point. Personally, I could not care less about the issue of abortion at this current point, but I found the main point made to be rather amusing.

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You forgot the very telling adjacent sentence:

But that all changed in the early '70s, when Democratic politicians first figured out that the powerful abortion lobby could fill their campaign coffers (and attract new liberal voters).

Here's the article for those of you who'd like to read it:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123086375678148323.html

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My first guess, w/o looking anything up, would be JFK

*P.S.* - Hey I was 1/2 right! Do I get 1/2 credit ?

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I have thought for years that Pro-Abortion folks had money for their campaigns as THE over-riding factor.

Gore was a great guy back in 1988 as Senator. He is now some politically correct, invertebrate whore.

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When Gore first ran, he was a solid conservative Democrat. A social conservative that still looked out for the little guy. Now he's just a sellout liberal wacko all the way around.