*(Via The Hill) – President Obama on Monday called Rep. Todd Akin’s remarks about rape “offensive” and sought to tie the Republican Senate candidate to the GOP presidential ticket.
“Rape is rape,” Obama said at a White House press briefing. He called Akin’s comments “way out there.”
Defining rape, he said, “doesn’t make sense to the American people and doesn’t make sense to me.”
“What I think these comments do underscore is why we shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, the majority of which are men, making decisions that affect health of women,” Obama said.
Democrats have pounced on Akin’s comments, which could make Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) a favorite in the Missouri Senate race overnight.
Akin said in an interview with a local Fox affiliate released on Sunday that, in cases of “legitimate rape,” pregnancy is rare because “the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”
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Watch the President Obama comment on Akin’s remarks:
I knew when I read that senator’s comments Sunday night, it was going to hit the fan. Good! This is beyond ‘ignorance’. It’s all about controlling women’s bodies. This man must think that women’s vaginas are like the clapper; clap on, clap off! This is guy is total jacka$$ and if voters in missouri allow this guy to get in, they are just as stupid as he is. The senator should name the ‘doctors’ who told him that crap about a woman’s body shutting down after a rape. And what in the hell is a ‘legitimate rape’, anyway?? That sounds just as moronic as the rest of his comments!
Ditto!!
Amen!!!
This is the kind of pseudo scientific bull shyt argument that the Republicans routinely gets away with making. When they talk the same crap about global warming, no Democrat seem willing to call them on it. I’m wondering if Obama only got some cajones this time because Republicans like Romney were also willing to call Akin out? Either that, or his ass must be feeling the heat in this election.