On abortion, Obama is the Left’s Akin

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OK, no more Mr. Nice Conservative.

Ever since Missouri Rep. Todd Akin made his now infamous gaffe about “legitimate rape,” liberals and Democrats have gone out of their way to accuse every Republican in the nation of thinking the way Akin does. President Obama was the first to hint — and not very subtly, I might add — that Republicans were the ones guilty of, in his words, “qualifying forcible rape versus non-forcible rape,” even though the distinction is made by the Associated Press Stylebook.

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