Posted on 09/15/2008 5:41:14 AM PDT by Kaslin
This is a stunning election season that is ablaze with drama. Regardless of what happens in November, we will either have the First Black President or the First Woman Vice President. It is also a stunning season of contrasts.
On the one hand, we have a true American War Hero. John McCain was tortured, maimed, and kept in a virtual box by a ruthless enemy. He suffered for years, refusing special treatment that would place him ahead of fellow prisoners of war. He came out of this experience a physically broken man, but with an enormous gratitude and devotion to his country.
On the other hand, we have an educated, polished, talented orator. A man who has proven to be unaccountable as a state legislator, voting “present” rather than yes or no on nearly a hundred controversial issues. As Newt Gingrich put it so eloquently, this is a man who has really done nothing but talk and write.
If the differences in Presidential candidates were not enough, we have two potential first ladies that offer stunning contrasts as well. They hold no constitutional power, but there is no doubt that the “better half” dynamic has a significant influence on the man who stands at the Bully Pulpit.
On the one hand, we have Cindy McCain. She is a lovely woman, educated with a Masters degree in Special Education from USC. She comes from a hard-earned family legacy that has left her with a good fortune; a resource she manages with a servant’s heart, sharing large sums for the benefit of those who are in need.
Cindy McCain is deeply concerned for the plight of children, especially in parts of the world where circumstances are desperate, and where life hangs by a slender thread. She even brought two of them home, one to adopt as her own and the other by close friends. Cindy’s views on abortion are not perfect in my opinion, but at least she limits her tolerance to cases of rape and incest. I hope that she and others will see that rape and incest are not crimes that should condemn an innocent child to death.
On the other hand, we have Michelle Obama. She is also a lovely woman and a Harvard educated lawyer. She comes from a regular middle-class family. Although she has mothered two children, her affection for children ends apparently at the birth canal. Michelle campaigned hard to fight the ban on partial birth abortion procedures and is a fervent advocate for abortion rights.
Michelle Obama advises and is proud of her husband and the causes he champions. One such cause was his opposition to the passage in Illinois of the “Born Alive Infant Protection Act”. Babies who somehow managed to survive abortion procedures were simply left to die alone, cold, and unloved with no medical attention whatsoever. Mind you, these are not quivering blobs of tissue, but are human children who are essentially killed by intention after they have been born.
Thankfully, the “Born Alive Infant Protection Act” was passed by the U.S. Senate in 2002, but I dare say that such may be at risk for reversal if Barack and Michelle have any say in the matter.
Michelle Obama seems to believe that parenthood is a “sacred” matter, having said this about Barack… “He’ll protect a woman’s freedom of choice, because government should have no say in whether or when a woman embraces the sacred responsibility of parenthood.”
Infanticide and the word sacred, gathered together in the same thought strikes me as bizarre and repulsive.
I am not certain why Barack Obama has such a callous view of infant death. Perhaps, it is a genetic holdover from the culture of his father’s Kenyan goat-herding legacy. I suppose defective baby goats were routinely cast onto the rocks and left to die. That way, only the best qualified would grow to become members of the goat-herd community.
We have seen such an attitude before in history, regarding who is deemed worthy to live. It seems to me that this election season is a moment in time that will define us beyond the norm. This election decision is all about life and death in so many ways. Please, listen to that little voice so often ignored, and choose wisely.
Hussein’s shining star is quickly being brought down.
I have talked to liberals about the issue of infants being born alive, they say oh well, they aren’t viable anyway, so it is ok that they are left without medical attention. The left is far gone from humanity.
Murderers or wouldbe murderers have no conscience.
People are the same as they have always been and some ways they are getting worse. We like to think that WWII was a victory for righteousness. Truth is, all we did was overthrow regimes. The Nazi ideology is very much alive and lives among us.
There is absolutely no hope for tomorrow.
Is this about 60-70% of the population? We are indeed a fallen species.
I see, in the left’s love affair with abortion, daily evidence of where we are in history. Not just here in the United States, but also the world. Evil actions are not recognized for what they are. Human reasoning is used to justify the murder of the most helpless among us. The murder of the unborn or almost born infant, as well as a creeping acceptance for the murder of the sick and elderly citizen and of the disabled. Euthanasia, either directly or through the withholding of basic sustenance.
My mindset, as a Christian, always seeks Biblical reference to explain and understand what is happening, at an accelerated pace, these days:
“Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; 1 Timothy 4:2”
If a nation, a society can lie to themselves enough, trust in their own wisdom above anything else, well, the conscience does become seared, deadened, hardened to pity and mercy. Life no longer is seen by many as a ‘sacred’ right....... We live in scary times, in so many ways. You’re right, it’s sick and depraved.
Of the two candidates running.... well, there is such a CLEAR choice. One man....total darkness. The other, well, I’m not happy with him in some ways, but at least there is SOME light there. And Sarah?? Wow, bright, shining light!
pattyjo
And these same women, who consider themselves much smarter and much more educated than we knuckle-dragging, troglodyte conservatives, don't understand that reversing Roe v. Wade does not do away with abortion. It just removes the federal protection of abortion. Abortion would become another medical procedure to be regulated by the individual states. If your state legislature wrote laws approving it, you could abort babies in your state with impunity.
But never let facts get in your way. Especially if you are the smartest people in the room.
Molech is alive and well today, and still wants to be fed.
If you can fill in this blank:
"All it takes for evil to triumph is____________________"
Then you need to rethink your statement.
I am apalled at the left's barbarity, but I am not surprised. I encourage you to stand firm and fight the good fight.
The question of cold bloodedly murdering babies [abortion] has never been put to a vote, so we will never know the exact percentage of murdereres living amongst us.
I don’t know how to fight it. The only thing people care about is comfort and pleasure. The human being is regarded as a disposable asset (though they won’t admit it even to themselves). It was bad enough when people only cared about their immediate family with themselves. Now they care about NOONE at all but themselves. There is absolutely nothing that anyone has ever done, is doing, or ever will do that can stop the growing tide of ignorance and evil in this world. On a second thought, our extinction will do that in time.
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