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Posted on 01/21/2009 10:56:46 AM PST by NYer
Edited on 01/21/2009 1:00:46 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
It's President Obama's first full day in office, day 2 of the first 100 days, and he already has protesters giving him grief.
About 50 people from a pro-life organization held crosses, each with a year written since Roe v. Wade.
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Keep the ‘heat’ on him.
“The protest leader also got some facts wrong, saying that when Obama was born, he could not ride the same busses as white people, or “stay in the same hotels.”
Depends on where you are: Maybe that’s true in Kenya, who knows?
The new WH occupant doesn’t give a rip....he’s come to steal and to kill.
The protester is correct but Obama will not end abortion, he can't. Just as Reagan. Bush and Bush could not end abortion.
Obama's father died in a car wreck in fact ~ a very rare occurence in Africa!
Was this an editorial? It certainly was presented with a certain ‘tone’, was it not? I sensed some denigration toward the protesters—some irritation, even—on the part of the fair and balanced journalist. Or is it just me? Did the writer try to give the reader the feeling that the protester was being ridiculous?
“he already has protesters giving him grief.”
Giving him grief, huh? Unlike those Bush protesters exercising their first amendment rights ... patriotic dissidence and all.
Obama was born in 1961. Jim Crow Laws were abolished in 1964. The author is not mathematically inclined.
Your right.
They weren’t pointing out that Bush protestors got facts “wrong”.
If I were president, I would declare a state of emergency, then close the abortion mills by executive order. The resulting legal meltdown would last for a year or more, during which time the damned things would be padlocked. Meanwhile, I would use the power of the bully pulpit and an all-out media offensive to back a constitutional amendment guaranteeing every person the right to life. The Congressional passage and ratification by the states of this amendment would become the focal point of my entire presidency. Every press conference, photo op, and State of the Union speech would begin with the words “The Right To Life Amendment must be ratified”.
Of course, I could never be president. I’m far too abrasive a personality to be a PR frontman. Next to me, Pat Buchanan looks like Martha Stewart. Reporters would leave my press conferences in tears.
The problem is cultural. We are not a Christian nation — we are a liberal nation, a nation heir to the “enlightenment” and the Revolution. The people of our nation worship individual Liberty, including the liberty to kill our unborn children, above all — and they will not surrender their “freedom to choose” easily. I suspect that the only way legal abortion will ever be eliminated in the US is by means of a military coup, a civil war, or the return of Christ.
I don't think Hawaii ever had Jim Crow laws.
Actually, Bush ENDED many abortions...
thru executive orders controlling federal funds, many abortions were not 'provided' for, thus he reduced the availability and numbers.
Bush believed in the sanctity of life and acted on that principle,
'O' does not, and there will be an increase in funding and preformed abortions globally, under his rule
Sadly, an 'END' to abortion will be achieved through a slower process of reduction, rather than a complete prohibition of the butchery.
That said, even one avoided is something to rejoice greatly about.
One of my fave girls at our church ran up to me this morning and said the bus was leaving for Washington at 8 tonight. This will be the second year she gets to ride on the bus with the other kids. It’s her family’s four year going for the march.
Next year my older girl can ride the bus and all of us will be there.
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