Posted on 01/17/2007 2:10:07 PM PST by wagglebee
The fix may have been in on Barack Obama's opposition as state senator to Illinois' Born Alive Infant Protection Act, aka support of infanticide.
I've always wondered what compelled Obama not to just vote against Born Alive but attempt single-handedly to thwart its passage, not once, not twice, but three times.
In 2001 and 2002, Obama was the lone senator speaking against Born Alive on the Senate floor. In 2003, Obama killed the bill altogether by burying it alive in a committee he chaired.
I asked former state Sen. Patrick O'Malley why he thought Obama went so far. O'Malley introduced Born Alive and served with Obama on the Judiciary Committee both years the bill was argued there.
"I think he was internally struggling with it," said O'Malley. "His dilemma was obvious. On one hand he holds himself out to be a constitutional scholar, and, of course, our Constitution makes clear that persons born are entitled to all the rights and privileges of full citizens. He consistently characterized the issue before us as being about abortion, but the legislation had nothing to do with Roe v. Wade. It focused on persons born alive. It was so easy to be on the right side of the angels here, but he wasn't."
He was on the wrong side of politics, too. By the third time Obama tried to snuff Born Alive, he was running for the U.S. Senate. The federal version had passed the year before unanimously in the Senate and almost unanimously in the House. Even NARAL went neutral. Pro-aborts agreed to let it pass without a fight lest they appear extreme.
Except Obama. He decided to battle alone further left than any other senator – Boxer, Clinton, Kennedy, Kerry, et al. Risky. Odd.
I might have agreed with O'Malley that Obama fought his internal battle externally, realizing to accept preterm live aborted babies as legal persons weakened his private justification of abortion.
But something in this scenario smelled. The first Mayor Daley once said, "There is nothing so wholesome as a fish," which was his way of defending Chicago politicians, who always smell fishy. Obama is one.
So with the new information out about Obama these days, I re-examined the evidence and found some interesting facts:
So, which explanation makes more sense, that the fire rose in Obama's belly to fight for what he nobly but foolishly thought was the sacred right to infanticide, that he decided, by golly, this was why he was elected, and even if he stood alone, looking like a left-wing extremist, he was going to protect that right?
Or that Advocate got to Obama through its UCC contacts?
Am I inferring faith has no place in legislative decision-making? No. To assert laws should be written, passed or failed in a moral vacuum is to assert the impossible, since laws are expressions of morality.
No, the question Obama must answer is whether his church or Advocate influenced him. Obama has a shady history. Was there quid pro quo?
Advocate recently fell from grace with Obama, Wright and TUCC. They believe Advocate is ignoring their community's poor.
I'm surprised they are surprised Advocate might be mistreating the least of these.
I also think they have a lot of nerve.
I totally disagree with the premise of your fourth paragraph. However, I don't think this is really the thread to debate it on.
So, I will leave it alone and suffice to say that we are in substantial agreement that it is secularists (or whatever other term you prefer) from outside Christianity that have infiltrated Christianity and are seeking to destroy it from within.
Thank you for focusing on our area of consensus, and not pursuing our obvious disagreement!
I googled the term, pursuit of middleclassness, and what I found is disturbing. What Obama believes is the ultimate of moral relativity, and arrogance, they are telling Blacks that they shouldn't strive for the white ideal of middleclass happiness, that they should be happy with the Black culture and way of life. In other words, Black gangsta rap, ebonics, fatherless families, poor education, is all part of the Black culture and it's just as good as the white ideal, so don't strive to be like the whites because the gov't will take care of you.
this is the article I was telling you about
Jill is too much of a Lady to say it, but the truth is democrats like clinton and Obama believe a woman is entitled to a dead baby if she goes to an abortuary. Murder, Inc. must be supported at all cost now. When you realize that that was what the born alive act was meant to expose, it changes the perception and is precisely why the sycophantic media has worked to obfuscate that fact for their beloved democrats.
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