Editor's note. You'll love both Part One and Two. Please drop me your thoughts to me at daveandrusko@hotmail.com

Unfortunately the only video I can find of pro-life Gov. Sarah Palin's remarks last Saturday at a speech delivered in Johnston, Pennsylvania, is on CNN, which cuts off early. Please read the transcript of her remarks below on life which have appeared in several places.

I've also included some of the spontaneous comments she made that so endear her to our Movement and which did not make it into the excerpts I ran across on the web. In Part Two I will talk about what Gov. Palin said and how defenders of pro-abortion Sen. Barack Obama continue to flat-out lie about his anti-life positions.

"Something else we haven't talked a lot about in this campaign but I think it's important. As governor what I've been able to do is manifest my commitment to life. In this same spirit, as defenders of the culture of life, John McCain and I believe in the goodness and potential of every innocent life. I believe the truest measure of any society is how it treats those who are least able to defend and speak for themselves. And who is more vulnerable, or more innocent, than a child?

Now, when I learned that my son Trig would have special needs, to be honest with you, I had to pray that my heart would be prepared for the challenges to come. It was a shock I wasn't ready for this. I had to ask for this strength. At first I was scared, and Todd and I had to ask for strength and understanding.

But let me tell you a few things I've learned already.

Yes, every innocent life does matters. Everyone belongs in the circle of protection. Every child has something to contribute to our world, if we give them that chance. Now there are the world's standards of perfection and then there are God's standards, and these are the final measure. Every child is beautiful before God, and dear to Him for their own sake.

And as for our beautiful baby boy, for Todd and for me, he is only more precious because he is vulnerable. In some ways, I think we stand to learn more from him than he does from us. So when we hold Trig and care for him, we don't feel scared anymore. We feel blessed.

It's hard to think of many issues that could possibly be more important than who is protected in law and who isn't – who is granted life and who is denied it. So when our opponent speaks about questions of life, I listen very carefully. {You can hear a baby begin to cry in the background.] I love that sound. Please let that baby keep on crying. [Crowd cheers.]  We love that sound. …. Not crying, just giggling.

I listened when he defended his unconditional support for unlimited abortions. He said that a woman shouldn't have to be – quote – "punished with a baby." Ladies and gentleman, he said that right here in Johnstown –"punished with a baby" – and it's about time we called him on it.

The more I hear from Senator Obama, the more I understand why he is so vague and evasive on the subject. Americans need to see his record for what it is. It's not negative or mean-spirited to talk to about his record. Whatever party you belong to, there are facts you need to know.

Senator Obama has voted against bills to end partial-birth abortion. In the Illinois Senate, a bipartisan majority passed legislation against that practice. Senator Obama opposed that bill. He voted against it in committee, and voted "present" on the Senate floor. In that legislature, "present" is how you vote when you're against something, but don't want to be held to account.

Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Democrat, described partial-birth abortion as "too close to infanticide." Barack Obama thinks it's a constitutional right, but he is wrong.

Most troubling, as a state senator, Barack Obama wouldn't even stand up for the rights of infants born alive during an abortion. These infants – often babies with special needs – are simply left to die.

In 2002, Congress unanimously passed a federal law to require medical care for those babies who survive an abortion. They're living, breathing babies, but Senator Obama describes them as "pre-viable." This merciful law was called the Born- Alive Infants Protection Act. Illinois had a version of the same law. Obama voted against it.

Asked about this vote, Senator Obama assured a reporter that he'd have voted "yes" on that bill if it had contained language similar to the federal version of the Born Alive Act. There's just one little problem with that story: the language of both the state and federal bills was identical.

In short, Senator Obama is a politician who has long since left behind even the middle ground on the issue of life. He has sided with those who won't even protect a child born alive. And this exposes the emptiness of his promises to move beyond the "old politics."

In both parties, Americans have many concerns to be weighed in the votes they cast on November fourth. In times like these, with wars and a financial crisis, it's easy to forget even as deep and abiding a concern as the right to life. And it seems our opponent hopes that you will forget. Like so much else in his agenda, he hopes you won't notice how radical his ideas and record are until it's too late.

But let there be no misunderstanding about the stakes.

A vote for Barack Obama is a vote for activist courts that will continue to smother the open and democratic debate we need on this issue, at both the state and federal level. A vote for Barack Obama would give the ultimate power over the issue of life to a politician who has never once done anything to protect the unborn. As Senator Obama told Pastor Rick Warren, it's above his pay grade [at the Saddleback Forum at which both Obama and Sen. McCain spoke].

For a candidate who talks so often about "hope," he offers no hope at all in meeting this great challenge to the conscience of America. There is a growing consensus in our country that we can overcome narrow partisanship on this issue, and bring all the resources of a generous country to the aid of both women in need and the child waiting to be born. We need more of the compassion and idealism that our opponent's own party, at its best, once stood for...

Part Two -- "We Don't Feel Scared Anymore. We Feel Blessed."