yes, there s always been money in politics, but look at the explosion of it over the course of the past couple of election cycles, in particular 2012. lesley, do ordinary people still have a voice when there s this much loud spending going on? i think you mentioned a point about the 915,000 political ads. what wasn t added to that is it s a 44% increase from 2008. you wake up in the morning, your twitter feed is full of political ads. the truth is, all your mailings and everything else, i do want to reiterate it is on both sides. there s transparency that the public skepticism about this is because for many years there was not balance anywhere those dollars were. now i think the healthy part of this conversation is we re going to step out of this election and need to talk about american democracy, the influences that are in it. and see if there is a fair way
i have four mothers who found themselves pregnant with children. somehow through the angst and misery of that experience, some of those women found a way to love and adore the children they bore from rape. i don t doubt the compassion or judge the choice of a survivor who carries a rep pregnancy to term. the whole point is choice, consent. mr. mourdock, the violation of rape is more than physical. rapists strip women of our right to choose, of our right to say no, of our right to control what is happening to our bodies. most of our assailants tell us it s our fault. they tell us to be silent. and sometimes they even tell us it s god s will. that is the core violation of rape. it takes away choice. now, richard, you believe it s fine to ignore a woman s right to choose because of your interpretation of divinity. does that sound familiar?
a certain way, even if it s the loving embrace of my husband. i can t stand to watch tv shows where rape is the central plot line. and even some seasons of the year are harder for me. those of us who are sexual assault survivors call these triggers. and we spend our lives, the lives that we lead after the attack avoiding and managing these triggers. a congressional debate shouldn t have to come with a trigger warning. but apparently, richard, yours should because in tuesday s debate for indiana s u.s. senate seat you said this. i believe that life begins at conception. the only exception i have for to have an abortion is in that case of the life of the mother. i just i struggled with it myself for a long time, but i came to realize that life is that gift from god. and i think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that god intended to
but there was something you had to say that young voters are looking for in 2012, what is it? it s interesting to see the lead-in with president nixon to say the words moral courage. that was the ushering of young people in and the collapse of the idea that moral courage was part of our politics. my biggest frustration with this campaign is this is a race about president obama. it s not here is what i m going to do in my second term, i m going to put every young person to worker is ving their country by massively expanding americorps. or i m going to get every kid free community college so they can take a ticket to social upward mobility. by the way, if there s obstructionists, i ll print the names of the senators obstructing everything so every young person would call them. on the one hand, i love that.
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