Posted on 08/11/2008 9:44:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In the Pennsylvania primary, Barack Obama rolled up more than 90 percent of the African-American vote. Among Catholics, he lost by 40 points. The cool liberal Harvard Law grad was not a good fit for the socially conservative ethnics of Altoona, Aliquippa and Johnstown.
But if Barack had a problem with Catholics then, he has a far higher hurdle to surmount in the fall, with those millions of Catholics who still take their faith and moral code seriously.
For not only is Barack the most pro-abortion member of the Senate, with his straight A+ report card from the National Abortion Rights Action League and Planned Parenthood. He supports the late-term procedure known as partial-birth abortion, where the baby's skull is stabbed with scissors in the birth canal and the brains are sucked out to end its life swiftly and ease passage of the corpse into the pan.
Partial-birth abortion, said the late Sen. Pat Moynihan, "comes as close to infanticide as anything I have seen in our judiciary."
Yet, when Congress was voting to ban this terrible form of death for a mature fetus, Michelle Obama was signing fundraising letters pledging that, if elected, Barack would be "tireless" in keeping legal this "legitimate medical procedure."
And Barack did not let the militants down. When the Supreme Court upheld the congressional ban on this barbaric procedure, Barack denounced the court for denying "equal rights for women."
As David Freddoso reports in his new best-seller, "The Case Against Barack Obama," the Illinois senator goes further than any U.S. senator has dared go in defending what John Paul II called the "culture of death."
Thrice in the Illinois legislature, Obama helped block a bill that was designed solely to protect the life of infants already born, and outside the womb, who had miraculously survived the attempt to kill them during an abortion. Thrice, Obama voted to let doctors and nurses allow these tiny human beings die of neglect and be tossed out with the medical waste.
How can a man who purports to be a Christian justify this?
If, as its advocates contend, abortion has to remain legal to protect the life and health, mental and physical, of the mother, how is a mother's life or health in the least threatened by a baby no longer inside her -- but lying on a table or in a pan fighting for life and breath?
How is it essential for the life or health of a woman that her baby, who somehow survived the horrible ordeal of abortion, be left to die or put to death? Yet, that is what Obama voted for, thrice, in the Illinois Senate.
When a bill almost identical to the one Barack fought in Illinois, the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, came to the floor of the U.S. Senate in 2001, the vote was 98 to 0 in favor. Barbara Boxer, the most pro-abortion member of the Senate before Barack came, spoke out on its behalf:
"Of course, we believe everyone should deserve the protection of this bill. ... Who could be more vulnerable than a newborn baby? So, of course, we agree with that. ... We join with an 'aye' vote on this. I hope it will, in fact, be unanimous."
Obama says he opposed the Born Alive Infants Protection Act because he feared it might imperil Roe v. Wade. But if Roe v. Wade did allow infanticide or murder, which is what letting a tiny baby die of neglect or killing it outright amounts to, why would he not want that court decision reviewed and amended to outlaw infanticide?
Is the right to an abortion so sacrosanct to Obama that killing by neglect or snuffing out of the life of tiny babies outside the womb must be protected if necessary to preserve that right?
Obama is an abortion absolutist. "I could find no instance in his entire career," writes Freddoso, "in which he voted for any regulation or restriction on the practice of abortion."
In 2007, Barack pledged that, in his first act as president, he will sign the Freedom of Choice Act, which would cancel every federal, state or local regulation or restriction on abortion. The National Organization for Women says it would abolish all restrictions on government funding of abortion.
What we once called God's Country would become the nation on earth most zealously committed to an unrestricted right of abortion from conception to birth.
Before any devout Catholic, Evangelical Christian or Orthodox Jew votes for Obama, he or she might spend 15 minutes in Chapter 10 of Freddoso's "Case Against Barack." For if, as Catholics believe, abortion is the killing of an unborn child, and participation in an abortion entails automatic excommunication, how can a good Catholic support a candidate who will appoint justices to make Roe v. Wade eternal and eliminate all restrictions on a practice Catholics legislators have fought for three decades to curtail?
And which Catholic priests and prelates will it be who give invocations at Obama rallies, even as Mother Church fights to save the lives of unborn children whom Obama believes have no right to life and no rights at all?
The osamas are evil people.True Catholics detest these vermin.
It is good that Buchanan is critical of Obama. Unfortunately, he has also been pushing Ron Paul as a fringe candidate, thus helping Obama’s electoral chances.
“It is good that Buchanan is critical of Obama. Unfortunately, he has also been pushing Ron Paul as a fringe candidate, thus helping Obama’s electoral chances”
Not lately. I’ve even heard him say a few good things about McCain. He’s changing his tune now that the actual election is getting closer and votes count.
True Christians of all faiths detest B. Hussein and Michelle Osama-Obama.
Even Ann Coulter is voting for McCain now that Hillary is out of the running.
It's all heinous, but the partial birth and the full birth of those who manage to survive abortion - then left to die on a cold steel shelf - or, more probably, helped along to expire - is so horrific that most people simply cannot get their minds around it and so block it out, thinking it just can't be.
Well, it is. And if we don't stop it NOW - we will loose this country of a free people. God will be patient only so long.
“Thrice, Obama voted to let doctors and nurses allow these tiny human beings die of neglect and be tossed out with the medical waste.”
good posting, and hopefully, all Americans will be made aware of it between now and Nov. 4th (I guarantee that most of them don’t currently know this). It’s such an unspeakable practice that MOST pro-choice people are against it, even more, the latter regarding surviving babies.
And yes, the Obamas are very evil people.
Uh, Pat:
Bob Casey Jr. won in Pennsylvania even though he was known to be in lockstep with Reid on the abortion issue and was running against a well-spoken Catholic abortion foe in Rick Santorum.
People are voting Democrat because the RINOs running the Republic party now haven’t given them an alternative.
The conservatives who stay home in Pennsylvania are no match for the Philadelphia drones amd Pittsburgh union types who vote Democrat without even knowing who is running. The votes in Pennsylvania that Obama didn’t get went to another Democrat, Clinton, not a Republican. They ain’t going to McCain in November.
Reid portrays himself as a pro-lifer. Anyway, n Pa. a lot of voters tought/think Casey Jr. is pro life. Giving yourself a label often is all it takes regardless of how accurate it may be.
"How can a man who purports to be a Christian justify this? "
They don't teach these guys ethics and Christian moral reasoning like they did at Gonzaga and Georgetown in the 1950s. The thought may never have even occurred to him. Who at Harvard Law or Columbia could teach Obama about the sanctity of human life? And then amidst the yelling, hollering, and jumping around in the congregation in Chicago, who taught him about grave matter? His father didn't. The candidate was not even raised as a Christian. Columbia and Harvard Law are...ahem...not exactly bastions of traditional Christian morality. These are cultural issues which will not play well among Christian voters, whether they be Catholic or Evangelical.
There is a culture gap here. Culturally, Obama is from outside of mainstream American culture.
It may be time to go a little psychobabble:
Faith of the Fatherless by Paul Vitz.
Voted NO on defining unborn child as eligible for SCHIP. (Mar 2008)
Voted NO on prohibiting minors crossing state lines for abortion. (Mar 2008)
Voted YES on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines. (Apr 2007)
Voted NO on notifying parents of minors who get out-of-state abortions. (Jul 2006)
Voted YES on $100M to reduce teen pregnancy by education & contraceptives. (Mar 2005)
Sponsored bill providing contraceptives for low-income women. (May 2006)
Rated 0% by the NRLC, indicating a pro-choice stance. (Dec 2006)
McCain's Voting Record
Voted YES on defining unborn child as eligible for SCHIP. (Mar 2008)
Voted YES on barring HHS grants to organizations that perform abortions. (Oct 2007)
Voted YES on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines. (Apr 2007)
Voted YES on notifying parents of minors who get out-of-state abortions. (Jul 2006)
Voted NO on $100M to reduce teen pregnancy by education & contraceptives. (Mar 2005)
Voted YES on criminal penalty for harming unborn fetus during other crime. (Mar 2004)
Voted YES on banning partial birth abortions except for maternal life. (Mar 2003)
Voted YES on maintaining ban on Military Base Abortions. (Jun 2000)
Voted YES on banning partial birth abortions. (Oct 1999)
Voted YES on banning human cloning. (Feb 1998)
Rated 0% by NARAL, indicating a pro-life voting record. (Dec 2003)
Rated 75% by the NRLC, indicating a mixed record on abortion. (Dec 2006)
Well, it is a convenient recap of why not to vote Obama.
(Foudn through PickAFig)
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Yes, it is.
It also indicates why it makes sense to vote for McCain, since there are no other viable candidates in this election.
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