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They Sure Don’t Make Bob Caseys Like They Used To

By W. James Antle, III on 4.2.08 @ 11:09AM

The lion lays down with the lamb. Man bites dog. Britney Spears does something that enhances her reputation. And I agree with a Michael Gerson column. Barack Obama would be the most pro-abortion Democratic nominee in history. Perhaps Bob Casey and other pro-life Democrats endorsing him know what they are doing; Sen. Casey certainly has leverage. But one does have to be struck by the contrast between the younger Casey’s embrace of Obama and his father’s friction with Bill Clinton.

topics:
Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Abortion

About the Author

W. James Antle, III, author of the new book Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped?, is editor of the Daily Caller News Foundation and a senior editor of The American Spectator. You can follow him on Twitter @jimantle.

http://spectator.org/blog/2008/04/02/they-sure-dont-make-bob-caseys

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