GOP Lawmaker Clarifies Remarks Critical Of Obama; called President Obama an "enemy of humanity"...

[Purveyor]

WASHINGTON — A Republican congressman who called President Barack Obama an "enemy of humanity" said Tuesday through a spokeswoman that he should have made clear that he was referring to the president's policies related to abortion.

Trent Franks of Arizona said in a speech to conservatives Saturday in St. Louis that given Obama's decision to fund international family planning organizations that support legal abortion, "we shouldn't be shocked that he does all these other insane things."

"A president that has lost his way that badly, that has no ability to see the image of God in these little fellow human beings, if he can't do that right, then he has no place in any station of government and we need to realize that he is an enemy of humanity," Franks said to the "How to Take Back America" conference.

Bethany Haley, spokeswoman for Franks, said the congressman was referring to "unborn humanity" and should have clarified his statement. She also said that Franks meant to say that Obama's abortion-related policies have no place in government, rather than that Obama has no place in government.

Haley said she spoke to Franks early Tuesday before he boarded a plane from Arizona to Washington.

"He was just referring to the way President Obama has set himself up as the most pro-abortion president in America's history," Haley said. She ticked off a list of the president's policies and appointments she said were favorable to abortion rights.

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AP: http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/sep/29/us-franks-obama-092909/

[rfranklin]

1. That does not make it any less threateniing...in fact,

knowing the reoord of the anti-abortion extremists, this is an exhortation to murder.

[Lerkfish]

3. exactly, and someone should report him to the secret service

[David__77]

7. All this hand wringing about commentary is doing no good.

When people called Bush "enemy of humanity," it was hardly an exhortation to murder. It was a plain fact. Now the rightists are saying this, but they are lying and most know it, so it is even less potent as a statement. The conspiracies to murder will not be promoted through this or that statement.

[rfranklin]

9. Disagree...there has been recent evidence of the right wing nuts...

acting on all this crazy talk. You have to go back about 40 years to find people on the left who were setting off bombs.

[Lerkfish]

2. oh, well that's better then

:sarcasm:

[kestrel91316]

4. Mr Franks is projecting. It is he and those of his ilk who are

"enemies of humanity".

All projection, all the time from these people.

[Thrill]

5. And this one of the guys Obama invited to watch the Super Bowl. LOL

When will he see these people hate him??

[LTR]

6. Franks is also a birther

Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) accidentally walked into the world of “birther” conspiracy theories last month, when a local newspaper seemed to report that Franks was considering a lawsuit against the president. Franks cleared the matter up immediately: He had merely considered suing for proof of the president’s citizenship before and after the 2008 election, but balked after becoming convinced that the president was born in America.

http://washingtonindependent.com/61111/rep-trent-franks-obama-should-release-long-form-birth-certificate

[Thrill]

10. See what Obama's Super Bowl Party invitation got him?

This guy is scum.

[wicket]

8. Sorry bastards, but abortion is LEGAL

:eyes: