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June 30, 2008 Obama's Callous IndifferenceBy Peter KirsanowThis hasn't always been the case. Until early February, I tended to agree with all the news stories that contained the obligatory man-in-the-street quotes proclaiming him "decent," "likeable" and a "nice guy with a beautiful family." According to the hagiography that passes for reporting about Obama, my attitude is rare. And, admittedly, unsophisticated. After all, I'm black so I shouldn't just like Obama, I should love and praise him. Sure, I'm conservative, but according to a recent AP story the Obama magic is so powerful that even black conservatives are in a swoon. But then, I'm also one of those bitter guys from flyover country. I disagree with nearly all of Obama's positions, ranging from energy policy to the Iraq war. The National Journal's determination that he's the most liberal member of the Senate is a serious understatement. There may not be a more liberal elected official in all of Washington. But like most people, I like lots of folks with whom I have major policy disagreements. Put another way, if Barack Obama came up to me tomorrow, took my hand, looked me in the eye and said "when I'm president, I'll fight to win in Iraq, beat hell out of terrorists, appoint Supreme Court justices like Thomas and Roberts, cut taxes, secure the border, enact free market health care reform, honor our military and use the bully pulpit to prevent cultural decay,'' I'd still dislike him. Maybe more than I do now. To be sure, Obama displays horrible judgment, surrounding himself with the likes of Wright, Pfleger and Ayers. He has a lot of close friends who seem to hate America. That's pretty unusual for the average person, but it's highly peculiar and troubling for someone running for Commander-in-Chief. It alarms me and makes me suspicious, but it's not why I dislike him. Nor is it because he's an empty suit. He's gone further saying nothing than almost anyone in recent history. He's done nothing, yet he's poised to become the most powerful man on earth. He looks like he's never broken a sweat, furrowed a brow or dirtied a knee. That's not something to dislike. In today's culture it's something to admire-even envy. These all may be reasons for voting against Obama, but they're not, to my mind, reasons for disliking him. No, I dislike Obama because of his personal qualities. Wait a minute. Aren't we constantly regaled about all of his endearing qualities? He makes people faint and write songs about him. Hardened journalists get tingles up their legs just thinking about him. Yet certain discrete actions can provide instant insights into a person's character. They can betray vivid flaws in a seemingly gleaming persona. And they compel one to make judgments about the actor. The acts may vary by degree, in turn prompting different degrees of reaction: the pillar of the community seen pilfering from the collection plate; the co-worker who uses a racial epithet behind a colleague's back. Indeed, people recoiled from the once popular Michael Vick when they found out he'd abused dogs. I began to dislike Obama when I discovered that while in the Illinois state legislature in 2002, he voted against the Induced Birth Infant Liability Act. The bill was designed to extend the same medical care to babies who happen to survive an abortion attempt as is enjoyed by all babies born alive. I couldn't believe anyone would vote against such a bill. In fact, when a similar measure-- the Born Alive Infant Protection Act-- was brought before the U.S. Senate, not one Senator voted against it. Even NARAL Pro-Choice America didn't oppose the bill. Admittedly, I'm a bit of a curmudgeon. It's difficult for me to like someone who's eager to extend a panoply of constitutional rights to terrorists but who refuses to provide the most fundamental rights to a living, breathing infant. Perhaps it's a failure to comprehend Obama's exquisite intellectual nuance. He rationalized his vote in language that evokes Dred Scott. Obama challenged the constitutionality of the bill,contending that conferring equal protection, i.e.,personhood, upon a "pre-viable fetus" would render the bill an unlawful anti-abortion statute. At what point after birth does Obama call a baby a person and not a fetus? One day? Six months? To be clear: I don't hate Obama as those suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome hate President Bush. I just have a hard time generating warm, fuzzy feelings for someone who voted against helping newborns struggling to live. But that's just me. I suspect most people don't know about Obama's position on babies who survive abortion attempts and it's unlikely that they'll ever find out. The media seem more interested in reporting on the cultural implications of fist-bumps or the racial animus of those who question Obama's policies. I would wager, however, that if more people knew about Obama's disregard for babies who have the audacity to survive an abortion, there would be more scrutiny and less adulation. Peter Kirsanow is a member of the U.S.Commission on Civil Rights.These comments do not necessarily reflect the positions of the Commission.
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Yes, this is more than problematic for me. It seems ironic for a black man to even dare suggest that another human being is not a "person". But then, you put this bit of happy news together with the fact that if elected, he'd nominate just the types of activist justices and judges that would support his abortion at any time position, then we'd all be complicit in this most heinous sin.
Posted by: Marshall Art | June 30, 2008 01:48 AM
Right on!
Posted by: RT | June 30, 2008 02:03 AM
Thank you, American Thinker, for your series of great articals about this dangerous sophist "Barack Hussien Obama." I particularly enjoyed the artical in which BHO was actually revealed to be a muslim...As far as other muslims may be concerned, ("Mustard fitti" for lapsed muslim (non-practicing) by fathers heratige was the term I believe) and especially by those muslims who embrace sharia law. Keep the hard hitting veritas coming, damning though it may be. Cheers!
Posted by: David A. Dawson | June 30, 2008 02:10 AM
" the Induced Birth Infant Liability Act. The bill was designed to extend the same medical care to babies who happen to survive an abortion attempt as is enjoyed by all babies born alive."
Why do we get the feeling that there is MORE to this story than you are telling the reader??
Posted by: NobodyImportant | June 30, 2008 03:26 AM
I dislike Obama too, on many levels. For example: If I grant that Obama is not a Muslim, will you grant that he's not a Christian? Ask yourself: what Christian would - could - belong to Trinity Church for 20 years? I'm not a regular churchgoer, but I know that Christ teaches to turn the other cheek. Christ is loving and kind. What did you see at Trinity? And no one should try to sell me that it was only occasioned. It was the titular head of the church - its pastor - performing those distinctly un-Christian rants. Christ was nailed to a cross, and even then forgave his enemies. By contrast, Rev. Wright looks well-fed and comfy to me - how interesting that the most ugly, vilest, language and thoughts came to me from a "pulpit." Obama a Muslim? Well... that would explain how he was comfortable chosing THAT church for a cover: There are none so blind as they who will not see.
Posted by: Anonymous | June 30, 2008 06:13 AM
How is it that the Clinton machine was unable to get this out? If O Hussein is so flawed, how did they not get the message out? It just blows my mind that this person is a breath away from the whitehouse. I am so afraid for this nation. We seem to be imploding from within. God help us because we surely need our blinders removed...well some of us do anyway. Thank you for your article. Keep up the good work.
Posted by: Sue Stringer | June 30, 2008 06:28 AM
Here, here.
Posted by: sdharms | June 30, 2008 06:46 AM
..while in the Illinois state legislature in 2002, he voted against the Induced Birth Infant Liability Act. I agree with you. The more I think about what that actually means, the more I too dislike Obama.
Posted by: ZachJonesIsHome | June 30, 2008 06:49 AM
Again, excellent article. I will post on my blog today. I would also recommend an Op-Ed piece for your consideration. It's long but you will like the last paragraph. A Step Towards Respect of Our Laws and The Social Mores by Legalizing Drugs - this is actually a conservative position. It can be found at:http://zachjonesishome.wordpress.com/a-step-towards-respect-of-our-laws-and-the-social-moray-by-legalizing-drugs/
& at
http://www.australia.to/international/0,25197,23040467-318,00,00.html
Posted by: ZachJonesIsHome | June 30, 2008 06:59 AM
This bothers me as well. I can't imagine how someone can twist his mind around the idea that a child who is born alive is not a "real" child.
It's like people who used to justify slavery by saying that Black people were not "real" persons.
Posted by: Ellen | June 30, 2008 07:42 AM
'I couldn't believe anyone would vote against such a bill. In fact, when a similar measure-- the Born Alive Infant Protection Act-- was brought before the U.S. Senate, not one Senator voted against it. Even NARAL Pro-Choice America didn't oppose the bill.'
Polls don't prove anything, but why did Gallup polls say that 47% of US Catholics plan to vote for Obama (vs 43% poised to vote for McCain) remains a mystery.
This (Obama) is the same man who falsely claimed ties to the RCC. He has none. No one who voted against abortion bans is an associate of the RCC or has any ties to the Church.
I'm glad that the majority (53%) is against Obama, but still, there are too many pro-Obama Catholics.
Posted by: Zbigniew Mazurak | June 30, 2008 07:50 AM
"Why do we get the feeling that there is MORE to this story than you are telling the reader??"
Why do I get the feeling that there is LESS to your question than you are telling the reader??
Posted by: 3Case | June 30, 2008 07:50 AM
The same thing bothers me about Obama. Voting against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act is an amazingly cold act that betrays an complete lack of human compassion. It smacks of the kind of monstrous eugenics theories floated by leftists during the 1930's (including major players in both the Roosevelt Administration and in Hitler's inner circle).
Posted by: Mojo | June 30, 2008 08:22 AM
There IS more to this story - it gets worse. Please check out "Barack Obama and the Comfort Room" written by the nurse who testified against this bill.
Posted by: Paula Davidson | June 30, 2008 08:24 AM
His behavior of expediency apply to political policy, 20 year friendships, and human life. One minute supported, the next gone.
Posted by: EyesOpen | June 30, 2008 08:43 AM
You are exactly right about Obama.The question is can you,me and millions of others who LOVE America defeat the media's campaign to get him elected.J.T.Foster Roebuck,S.C.
Posted by: J.T.Foster | June 30, 2008 08:47 AM
Nobodyimportant, I can't tell if you're accusing the author of twisting the story to make it sound worse than it is or what. The truth is that the author's description is a milder version of the truth. See: (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_200104/ai_n8933816)
Babies being unsuccessfully aborted by inducing premature labor were being left in dirty linen closets to die because the law prevented them from being saved.
The term,"...better for them that a millstone were hung about their neck." comes to mind regarding the offenders.
Posted by: Brian Smith | June 30, 2008 09:09 AM
Anon,
To we Americans, BHO would be considered a Christian. He, as an adult, chose that faith and that place of worship.
To those that follow Sharia, those same actions make him an apostate, due to the fact his father was a Muslim at one point in his life. Since BHO's father could be considered a Muslim, then BHO is a Muslim.
Do not have the time to reference the sura that contains that rule, but it is there. Islam is a bit like the mafia, in that way, if you are ever in you don't get out alive.
Posted by: Nate | June 30, 2008 09:16 AM
An extraordinary article by a very credible witness. The 2002 Induced Birth Infant Liability Act, Illinois Senate with not be mentioned by the NYT. The only "free" press these days in on the world wide web.
Posted by: LDC | June 30, 2008 09:24 AM
Mister Kirsanow cuts straight to the bone; when a man fights against the most innocent, most helpless of human beings, then anything else that the man says or does is utterly meaningless.
The Obama creature is totally warped and very clearly has an agenda which is opposed to all things Judaeo-Christian, and even most things merely decent and human.
Posted by: julian | June 30, 2008 10:26 AM
Please keep up articles like this so we can trip him up. People want change--I want improvement!
Posted by: Virginia Hoyns | June 30, 2008 10:41 AM
A likeable Communist is still a Communist.
Posted by: bill-tb | June 30, 2008 10:49 AM
With regards to whether or not Obama is a Christian. I say no. Trinity church is concerned with collective grievance. Christianity is all about individual salvation. Trinity does not meet the basic requirements for a christian church it is in fact marxist. Read the excellent article written last week at American Thinker concerning liberation theology. Two reasons no Catholic should vote for Obama - his support of abortion and liberation theology.
Posted by: Rosie | June 30, 2008 10:51 AM
I think Obama is a not so closet Marxist. I think he is the first true socialist to run for president of the U.S. although FDR was surrounded by communists and communist sympathizers (Harry Dexter White, Harry Hopkins, et al.) I don't think FDR was one himself. I think Obama is the most dangerous man to possibly be elected president since Huey Long. If this man becomes President it will be a tragedy of epic proportions. His group of supporters reminds me of a cult. My only question is will he wait until his second term to be declared president for life or try it in his first. Socialism is in fact a secular religion and in actual practice just another form of slavery. I find it ironic that a black man may be the one to throw the last shovel full of earth on the grave of individual liberty.
Posted by: GXM | June 30, 2008 11:16 AM
With regard to whether BO is Christian, I think it pretty clear that the vile combination of Marxism and Liberation Theology spewed to the wiling and adoring TUCC congregation, including the Obamas, as Black Liberation Theology is in fact racism.
If all are equal before a loving God, how can a faith based on tearing down God if he doesn't favor that group over another be a Christian faith?
On every other level I dislike what BO stands for. His unsavory friends and associates point to a closely held belief not in the exceptionalism of America, but toward actual hate of America. Add to that his vast tax increase schemes and inclination toward regulation and compulsion via law or judicial activism, and a picture emerges of an autocratic putsch in the offing using an empty suit promising vacuous hope and ambiguous change as the front man.
Posted by: CSM | June 30, 2008 11:50 AM
It doesn't surprise me in the least he voted against this bill. Hard left liberals are all closet sociopaths who do not believe the rest of the world actually "exists". Case in point: I read an article online from a U.K. paper where they interviewed this young couple who aborted their baby. Are you ready for the reason?... BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO KEEP THE EARTH GREEN, AND NOT LEAVE A CARBON FOOTPRINT BY BRINGING ANOTHER MOUTH TO FEED INTO THE WORLD. I wanted to throw up. Especially after reading all the comments posted by people who agreed with her.
Humanity....? What humanity?...
Posted by: Pam L | June 30, 2008 11:57 AM
To begin with, Richard Cohen is all wet. Robert Kennedy was not charismatic. He could not begin to match the charisma of his brother, John, who had natural wit and personality. Those who knew Bobby Kennedy personally, found very unlikeable characteristics. As for Mr. Kirsanow's comments on Obama's liberalism, that is what is going to bring his defeat in November. RF
Posted by: RF | June 30, 2008 12:03 PM
If he is not a Muslim, and he is a Christian, then he is an infidel (according to Muslims). Then please tell me why he associates with Louis F (black Muslim) and Nigerians, Lybians, Syrians and Iranians all consider him to be a Muslim? If he was a Muslim and became a Christian, then he would be targeted for assasination, but since they accept him as Muslim, then he therefore must be Muslim.
Posted by: Barry Schumann | June 30, 2008 12:45 PM
I'm 58 years old, and had never heard of babies surviving abortions until relatively recently (a couple of years or so). I thought the procedure involved in Partial Birth Abortion (where they puncture the skull, suck out the brains, then remove what's left) was bad enough.
But during an abortion, once the baby is removed from the mother and is still alive, what do they do next? Obviously, they kill a living baby outside the mother's womb (and there is nothing that will EVER convince me this isn't Murder), but how do they "terminate" it? Who could actually do that?
This is something that Obama and everyone else who supports killing the baby should be taken to task for in the press. However, we all know the MSM supports stuff like this, so it won't likely see the light of day.
And Weasley Clark says Obama is running on his "character and judgement". To quote Bill Clinton, "Give me a break".
Posted by: Nick in Virginia | June 30, 2008 01:05 PM
I started disliking Obama a long time ago when he told the NAACP, before Bush was about to speak to them, not to be "bamboozled" by Bush.
How, exactly, is that supposed to unify people, Mr. Obama?
Posted by: Jerry King | June 30, 2008 01:32 PM
What is most freightening, is that he would have Nancy Pelosi's House and Harry Reid's Senate with him. thankfully, there are at least four conservatives on the Supreme Court.
Posted by: Bill Bowen | June 30, 2008 02:33 PM
On a similar note, I find very troubling O!'s definition of sin: "being out of alignment with my values". Knowing as we do his elastic definitions of anything he says or believes, this basically means that he believes himself incapable of making mistakes.
Posted by: JimK | June 30, 2008 02:44 PM
I am Catholic and didn't know about this until recently. Now I am passing out copies of the article to friends and family.
CitizenLink: Obama Blocked Born Alive Infant Protection Act
http://www.citizenlink.org/content/A000007034.cfm?eafref=1&eafref=1
Posted by: Travlnfeet | June 30, 2008 03:07 PM
The article cited above (at
http://findarticles.com) is very interesting, but all those who condemn the induced-labor abortion procedure fail to answer:
1. Who is to "care for" (i.e., "own") the defective offspring that "lives" (briefly) after the induced-labor abortion fails?
2. Are these bleeding hearts going to "adopt" the child themselves and care for it?
3. Are they merely insisting that the aborting-parents care for their defective offspring rather than having the procedure result in a deceased offspring, as was intended?
4. Who decides and who takes on the responsibility for a Mongoloid child or kid with spina bifida when the parents/mother has decided this is not in accord with their/her abilities, resources, or will? YOU?
The only "real" solution to this dilemma seems to be to find EARLY TESTS that are truly dependable in revealing BIRTH DEFECTS so that parents can abort these fetuses VERY EARLY ON--and totally avoid this ordeal of fetuses that survive abortion. (Of course, the anti-abortion crowd will object to that too, but at least it would avoid the ugly atrocity of "live" babies that need to die from neglect because they were too viable for these late "induced" abortions.)
Posted by: Interesting | June 30, 2008 03:46 PM
I still questions concerning just who is Obama. He was initially anti-Sematic and anti-American having been a member of Rev. Wright's church. He has even stated that our constitution was "alright for those who lived 200 years ago" but needs changing. What are the amendments for?
Obama says he wants change but what are we changing to? The things he mentions as goals have a very distinct air of Marxism about them.
I am 71 years old, a retired pharmacist. I am also a veteran who has loved and served his country. It seems to me if Obama IS elected, the best we can hope for America is to become just another Socialistic European State.
I was taught by my dad years ago to beware of smooth talkers and wolves is sheep's clothing. This is what we are dealing with now from my view point.
Posted by: Horace D Steadman Jr | June 30, 2008 03:55 PM
The problem is to Obamabots these Character flaws makes no difference or are actully regard as virtues
Posted by: Charles | June 30, 2008 03:57 PM
Peter...excellent essay...mega dittoes. One of the deciding factors in my slow conversion from radical hippy/socialist to Conservative Reagan Revolutionary was this odious self-censuring PC garbage. Words! They feared words! It's ALL in the symbolic terminology. Semiotics. Used cars became pre-owned. Swamps became wetlands. Unborn babies became fetal tissue. You were harshly corrected by the Socialist Thought Police for misusing words in shallow Starbucks conversations.
My wife pointed out the fact that if a microscopic one-celled being were found on Mars by NASA, it would be the scientific discovery of the millenia, on Earth it would be aborted as an inconvenient benign growth, and flushed into the sewer. I linked over to 'L.E.A.R.N', a pro-life web-site from the black spiritual community. Yikes! What revelations! Margaret Sanger was a vicious racist, who referred to black Americans as 'weeds', and Planned Parenthood's avowed mission was as genocidal as Himmlers...with abortions and forced birth control, as opposed to gas chambers. They have a sobering gallery of pictures...not for the faint hearted...of the remains of tiny aborted infants. An itsy-bitsy human arm on top of a bloody quarter. I'll say no more. I never in my 60 yrs. ever saw such a thing. ("Look out kid, they keep it all hid." Bob Dylan) I was deeply disturbed and outraged. No Obamamatic chill up my leg on that one...your info on BHO did chill my heart, though.
Posted by: Ranger Joe | June 30, 2008 04:36 PM
OMG, what is the great nation turning into. We have a Supreme court grant the same rights as American citizens to foreign enemy combatants, but yet sees nothing wrong this barbaric act!!!!!
Posted by: ed | June 30, 2008 04:41 PM
Why do people act like Obama becoming President would CHANGE (pardon the term!) EVERYTHING, including the Checks & Balances system in the U.S.? Just because a person becomes President does not grant him DICTATOR status! (Well, in the case of Bush, that might not be so easily said, LOL!)
Anyway, for people to keep hysterically claiming that Obama in the White House would strip the U.S. of all our rights & traditions is nonsense. We will STILL have a Congress & a House of Reps and a Supreme Court, and hopefully, an electorate with some common sense (ooops, there I go again!) LOL...
You get the point.
NO PRESIDENT of U.S. has ever become a DICTATOR and never will--and if they do, it's our own da*ned fault!
Posted by: DictatorsNeedNotApply | June 30, 2008 05:18 PM
Mr. Kirasnow, please. You're just part of the Right Wing Noise Machine looking to divide us; telling us about babies being left to die while the Europeans are just starting to rethink their attitude about us after we nominated Obama. For shame.
Posted by: George S | June 30, 2008 05:47 PM
Being such a deliberate and heinous act, I did not know babies would actually survive something like that, much less need a bill to protect them. What barbarism. If were ever unlucky enough to actually witness such an event, I think I would lose my mind.
Posted by: Chris Carpenter | June 30, 2008 06:33 PM
Obama's sense of moral equivalency is out of balance. Much like the Born Alive Infant Act you mention, Mr. Obama was the sole legislator in Illinois to vote against a bill that would seal the court records of victims of child molesters and rapists. His argument was that it would be a violation of the First Amendment to shield the records of children who had been raped from the public.
His ideas of what is constitutional or not are certainly extreme and inconsistent and utterly lacking in common sense. For instance, in one of his recent flip-flops, the death penalty, he suggested that child rape was a heinous enough crime that the perpetrator deserves execution. So, the rapist can be executed, but the child who was raped cannot have the court records sealed?
We should all value our rights under the First Amendment, but rights are not absolute. Even those that merit the strictest of scrutiny may sometimes be regulated if the government has a compelling interest and the regulation is necessary. One would think that the protection of infants and the protection of child victims of rape would be a compelling interest in the mind of Mr. Obama.
On a similar note, this week in Chicago a young African American boy was killed when part of an iron wall fell on top of him. This boy, you lived in the slums, died as an indirect consequence of Mr. Obama's policies as an Illinois state senator. During his time in Illinois, Obama presided over the privatization of public housing. He was able to get hundreds of millions of federal dollars as grant money which he then distributed to his three prized benefactors, Rezko, Davis and Davis. These three took over the management of the most decrepit public housing in the city and rather than maintain the buildings so they could pass an inspection, Obama's friends pocketed the money and live in enormous mansions. Even Obama was able to get a huge mansion out of it. The people living in these developments live among rats and roaches, they often have no electricity or running water, walls are rotted. The last time an inspector came, the buildings scored only 11 out of 100 points, failing the inspection miserably. This is another reason to dislike Obama. Throughout his campaign, any person critical of his policies or personality has been branded a racist. However, I would argue that what is truly racist is that unscrupulous and greedy people are allowed to steal with the assistance of Obama and other politicians because the victims of their greed are voiceless African Americans living in what remains of the projects in Chicago, and nobody bothers to listen to their stories or see how their lives have been impacted for the worse because of Obama.
Posted by: Sophie | June 30, 2008 06:45 PM
B.O. is a Marxist Linenist and murderer. His support for abortion reneders all his word useless for any purpose. I know everything about him I need to know. His honey words don't hid the facts that his sole purpose is to kill people like me. I meet people like him everyday. George S. there is nothing you can say or do to change my mind. No lie you tell will be belived. No truth you tell will be listened to. I know that you are trying to kill me personaly. I can see that everyday. Yes George S. You.
Posted by: Houston | June 30, 2008 07:27 PM
Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
I didn't dislike them. I just didn't trust them. Clinton showed me I was right to feel that way about him. I can only hope I never have the same experience with Obama.
And if you'll pardon the nitpicking: please stop saying that Obama is running for Commander-in-Chief. NO ONE runs for CIC. The man is running for president of the United States. Whoever takes the oath of office will swear to uphold the office of President of the United States, not the office of Commander-In-Chief.
Posted by: pmk | June 30, 2008 07:38 PM
Obama has already signed on to the "Freedom of Choice Act". This law removes any state restrictions on abortion. It superseceds all current state laws on abortion. He has already signaled he will sign it into law, with executive pen if needed. Do we have to be reminded that Bill Clinton did the same with RU-486, Partial Birth Abortion, Abortion on Military Bases, Fetal Tissue Research all with the stroke of an Executive Order over-riding the will of the people. This is what is in store for the nation if Obama is elected.
Posted by: Rose | June 30, 2008 07:49 PM
Obama has already signed on to the "Freedom of Choice Act". This law removes any state restrictions on abortion. It superseceds all current state laws on abortion. He has already signaled he will sign it into law, with executive pen if needed. Do we have to be reminded that Bill Clinton did the same with RU-486, Partial Birth Abortion, Abortion on Military Bases, Fetal Tissue Research all with the stroke of an Executive Order over-riding the will of the people. This is what is in store for the nation if Obama is elected.
Posted by: Rose | June 30, 2008 07:49 PM
As I understand it, he did not just vote against the bill. He chaired the committee and through parliamentary procedure, personally killed it, to prevent a passing vote. Anyone have the details?
Posted by: Rufus | June 30, 2008 08:08 PM
I WANT Obama to be president. I WANT this country to slide quicksilver-like into anarchy...then I want a revolt and reckoning that has no equal in history against his views...his supporters...and anyone who ever shared or supported his horrid philosphy.
Posted by: Kaz | June 30, 2008 10:41 PM
this article is a joke and an egregious offense to good taste
Posted by: Anonymous | June 30, 2008 10:55 PM
Bless the Europeans. Apes now have civil rights in Spain. Superior French cheese is allowed to properly breathe at room temperature. What next? Civil rights for dairy mold? It's bizzare, surreal PC lunacy cloaked as enlightened compassion. Look at what the cowards are doing to Brigitte Bardot for loving her country. They're prosecuting her for hate speech, because she criticized the barbarity of an Islamic sheep throat slitting ritual. (Hmmm... sounds pretty freakin' holy to me.) Don't these dirtbags do that to their daughters for not covering their heads and wearing lipstick? Brigitte! You're a national treasure! A cultural icon! Embrace multi-cultural diversity or else! That's an order! Freedom is on life support in dying Eurabia...but infanticide is legal. How progressive! ENOUGH ALREADY!
United 93! They're in the cockpit! Let's roll!
Posted by: Ranger Joe | June 30, 2008 11:38 PM
Can't you see? Obama is MSM antidote against Bush' first latino, first black, first woman, and so on.
THIS TIME, OBAMA IS MSM'S FIRST MAJOR BLACK NOMINEE.
I am eyeing a Republican good candidate for President someday. He will be elected someday... not because he is Black... but because he is really that good leader and person! And besides, he is really 100% Black Republican. And had very good Purely American parents who are really funny and NORMAL Afro-Americans - who enjoys their freedom to be wealthy not just in material things but in loving their American heritage who really believe that Race is a thing of the past. I think he would a good VP for Palin as President. Then he will be fully experienced Republican President - 100% Black all the way.
By the way, I'm white who happens to give a great respect for Black conservative community.
Freedom of Speech not Freedom of MSM Imperialism.
Posted by: seeker | July 1, 2008 04:38 AM
I'm not an american (sadly) , I still can't understand why so many american fell for Obambi. I see only an empty suit who will do anything to be elected. MAny of his followers say that for ex. health care in the US should be like the one in Europe...I live in Italy, we have universal health care but i can tell you if you need an exam you are put in a waiting list and you wait, if you want it fast you pay and go private.
IMHO Obambi will be the ruin of the US, he's a giant flip floppers
Posted by: Countrygirl | July 1, 2008 04:46 AM
George S. why the hell would you care what the world, even Euros think of the US? l am a Cdn and rather you have a strong country than one weakend by Obama's policy's. come over and see our health care.. we are dying waiting for treatments!
Posted by: Louise | July 1, 2008 07:39 AM
It goes to show what I have suspected all along. Obama exhibits dictatorial characteristics all along. His voting against the bill continuous to confirm it. Wake up America. Listen to his speeches and what he asks you to give up. Look at his record and that he accepted money from people who openly call for the insurgency against our soldiers to continue. How blind can people be?
Posted by: Schirete | July 1, 2008 07:52 AM
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that hasn't fallen for Obama's fraudulent act.
To me, Obama represents the worst characteristics of a politician magnified. It's as if he has studied the most consummate of his breed (like Bill Clinton and Huey Long), and distilled their essence. His timing is superb as well. Never in our history have so many Americans been more shallow, more acquisitive, more jaded, and more shameless in their behavior. A huge number of today's Americans act as if everything around them has to entertain them first and foremost. To such people, Senator Obama IS entertainment. They are willing to elect him for his showmanship alone.
Posted by: Roderick Reilly | July 1, 2008 03:51 PM
I am pro-choice but this truly is disturbing. Why would he vote against this? Why is no one talking about it? Isn't there anything that anyone can do to get the right wing message about Obama out there? O'Reilly and Hannity must have been paid off or threatened. They backed off BIG TIME and there is no one else out there in television land to get the message out. We are doomed.
Posted by: Dem4McCain | July 1, 2008 06:02 PM
GREAT ARTICLE:
Re: Obama there is only plurel when my constant request has been for singular:
Name one - just 1 - redeeming quality relative to Barack "Barry" Hussain bin O'BoomBox (nee: Obama)?
So far those promoting BHO have given "Iraq" from a drug addled CA female, "he's not Bush" from an Ohio college brat and a disgruntled ex-Air Force officer whose Wing was never deployed; ergo, nothing substantative to justify this Barack "Barry" Hussain bin O'BoyToy (nee: Obama) running a 7/ELEVEN let alone the Oval Office.
Posted by: CONSERVATIVE NUDIST | July 1, 2008 07:37 PM
1. Who is to "care for" (i.e., "own") the defective offspring that "lives" (briefly) after the induced-labor abortion fails?
2. Are these bleeding hearts going to "adopt" the child themselves and care for it?
3. Are they merely insisting that the aborting-parents care for their defective offspring rather than having the procedure result in a deceased offspring, as was intended?
4. Who decides and who takes on the responsibility for a Mongoloid child or kid with spina bifida when the parents/mother has decided this is not in accord with their/her abilities, resources, or will? YOU?
Posted by: Again | July 1, 2008 09:05 PM
It is amazing how many people here see thru the Obama's.
Chick
Posted by: chickmcd | July 2, 2008 04:22 PM
Seems my post was taken the wrong way...it was sarcasm (drip, drip) The fact that it was taken seriously underscores the danger we face in where the priorities of the Left lie.
Posted by: George S | July 2, 2008 11:16 PM
Another American Thinker columnist trying to confuse the issue with facts. How evil of you.
Posted by: NB | July 3, 2008 03:41 AM
Obama is an evil man. It is just that simple. Lita Cosner has written a revealing article at www.creationontheweb.com.au
entitled, "Bioethicists and Obama agree,Infanticide should be Legal."
In 2002, BAIPA was signed into law at the national level. However, in the Illinois senate, a state version of the law failed to pass repeatedly, thanks in large part to then-State Senator Barack Obama (1961-). The Illinois BAIPA only passed after Obama left the State Senate. Stanek reports that when she testified before a committee of which Obama was a member:
'Obama articulately worried that legislation protecting live aborted babies might infringe on women's rights or abortionists' rights. Obama's clinical discourse, his lack of mercy, shocked me. I was naive back then. Obama voted against the measure, twice. It ultimately failed. In 2003, as chairman of the next Senate committee to which BAIPA was sent, Obama stopped it from even getting a hearing, shelving it to die much like babies were still being shelved to die in Illinois hospitals and abortion clinics.'
However, at least the atheistic bioethicists like Singer and Fletcher are being consistent--one may call their worldview evil and abominable, but not illogical. But Obama claims to be a Christian while embracing positions that are inherently antithetical to any Christian ethic. As inexcusable as it is to claim to be too humane to eat meat while advocating baby butchery, it is worse to be pro-infanticide while claiming to worship the God in whose image the babies are made.
Posted by: Jennifer Parfenovics | July 3, 2008 07:15 AM
Obama is not a Chriastian. ou cannot be on the wrong side of abortion, and homesexuality, and by on the right side with the Creator. He is simply using demagoguery to further his un-American agenda. Only the unaware fall for stuff like that.
Posted by: Anthony | July 3, 2008 12:58 PM
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However, I would argue that what is truly racist is that unscrupulous and greedy people are allowed to steal with the assistance of Obama and other politicians because the victims of their greed are voiceless African Americans living in what remains of the projects in Chicago, and nobody bothers to listen to their stories or see how their lives have been impacted for the worse because of Obama.
Sophie,I would wager that
the overwhelming majority of these people will, or would, cast their ballot for BHO despite their plight, simply because of him being black.
Posted by: Erik | July 5, 2008 09:50 AM
quote: And if you'll pardon the nitpicking: please stop saying that Obama is running for Commander-in-Chief. NO ONE runs for CIC.
pmk, they are one and the same-like synonmous ?
Posted by: Erik | July 5, 2008 10:25 AM
Frankly I'm shocked that YOU are NOT in the tank for Obama. Yes I say this ONLY because you are black. Sorry..just the truth here. However; with that said, I'm finding more and more blacks that are NOT in the tank for him either. I wondered why actually. I ran across a video of an Obama rally and a guy actually interviewed the people coming out of the rally. Have a look if you wish.
http://elect2009.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/obamas-change/
Posted by: Cindie | July 5, 2008 12:55 PM
It's nice to see a black man going to real lengths to give Obama a black eye on an issue that is taken out of context, and which then blows up on the comments board into an all out bigoted rant. This is what I suppose one should expect, especially with Obama looking like he has a real chance to gain the presidency: smear tactics, coming from those who proclaim legitimacy due to what? Their common skin color with Obama. There is not a rational argument that anyone need pay attention to here, but please remember that on this site there is a black man that doesn't like Obama, and because of that you should somehow see him as less legitimate to his fellow blacks, or some other such nonsense like this. I have decided that I don't like the writer of this article, my reason: slander.
Posted by: Matt | July 7, 2008 04:08 AM
It is amazing that so many people are all inflamed & up in arms over the FAILURE of a legal abortion!! It is the woman's right & choice to abort. If the abortion FAILS, what do you expect her to do--scrape up the barely living THING and hurry on home, with a stopover at K-Mart to pick up diapers & safety pins?? She already made the agonizing decision that this child should NOT be born, for reasons that are not your business. The law and the hospital are on her side. Leave her alone... And if your heart is bleeding so profusely over the defective, barely alive THING laying in the linen closet (because it is ILLEGAL to put it out of its misery other than via neglect), then YOU HASTEN ON OVER TO THE HOSPITAL AND PICK IT UP AND TAKE IT HOME! Hypocrites!
Posted by: LetFREEDOMRule | July 8, 2008 04:48 AM
Finally, I find others who feel the same about Obama as I do. I have always disliked this man. Every time I see him on TV, online, or in the newspapers, I feel a cold dread. I don't understand why so many people have fallen for him--do they not see how false, how plastic, how fake this man is? And it doesn't even matter what he says (or what he says he will do) or if he's a Muslim, or Christian, or Buddhist--I'll still dislike him.
In fact, one word comes to my mind when I see him: sociopath.
Posted by: Natalia | July 21, 2008 03:55 PM