Posted on 03/05/2009 6:07:01 PM PST by Kaslin
Will ending the culture wars be as difficult as repairing a broken economy?
If President Obama's primary task is to restore economic growth, he has also been waging a quiet, long-term campaign to ease the nation's divisions around religious and moral questions.
That venture, which has its roots in a 2006 speech that paid tribute to the political role of religious Americans, bore fruit in last year's election. Obama increased the Democratic share of the vote among Roman Catholics and younger evangelical Christians.
Since assuming the presidency, he has pressed this effort through persistent calls to personal and family responsibility, a pledge to continue social service partnerships between government and faith-based groups, and a promise to pursue policies to reduce the number of abortions.
But two of Obama's recent decisions underscored how brokering cultural peace will keep presenting him with ticklish challenges.
Last Friday, his administration signaled that it would alter the sweeping rules adopted at the end of the Bush administration allowing health care workers to decline to participate in actions that violate their moral or religious beliefs.
Such conscience protections have long applied to doctors, nurses and others who refuse to play any role in an abortion, and the administration has indicated it will maintain these safeguards. But it is likely to narrow the Bush regulation significantly so it doesn't get in the way of family planning services and fertility treatments.
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Yes, he does idiotic things from our perpsective as conservatives, but not from his point of view. Idiotic-no. Dangerous as hell- absolutely.
deined=defined
He is clever -- street smart. He has some book learning as well. And I agree that underestimating him is a big mistake.
Not due to his ability to analyze, but due to his extreme arrogance and quick desire for immediate and self-satisfactory revenge.
Remember, this is the first President-Elect who created a seal and issued edicts from "The Office Of The President Elect." That level of megalomania is not to be taken lightly.
We recently learned that an asteroid was hurtling towards earth threatening to devastate 800 square miles of our planet and George W. Bush did nothing. Fortunately President Obama was inaugurated in the nick of time, and the dangerous space rock narrowly missed Mother Earth and disaster was averted.
Catholics cannot cooperate with evil.
PERIOD.
He is a stuttering buffoon just like his henchmen Gibbs and Axelrod.
They can’t speak a simple declarative sentence without a teleprompter. They put 5 ahhhs and uhhs in every sentence.
I keep wondering how long the press in the White House pool will put up with Gibbs and his uhs and slow talk in respose to all their questions. Soon they’ll be begging for the reyurn of little Scott McClellan.
Reducing financial tax deductions for charitable contributions is evil. Obambi himself is evil for doing this among other things. Obambi is a real piece of work. Obambi is not just ruining this country he is in fact GOING OUT OF HIS WAY TO DESTROY IT!
E. J. Dionne is a leftwing propagandist. Nothing more. Even he himself doesn’t even believe the drivel he writes.
He is trying to give Joe Biden and his $300 a year charity some cover.
Is this lefty hitting the bottle heavily or what?
and I’m starting to think that obama is also playing a Georgre Costanza “game”-you know-it’s not really a lie if you believe it.
Happily clinging to my guns and religion....
Baloney! He signed the executive order for global abortion funding.
EJ Deonne is a tool
I am sure he has a final solution to the conservative problem in mind for a later date.
When all that is left is smoking ruins, Dionne will be standing beside Obama telling him what a great job he did.
Was 'Lady Macbeth' behind Barack Obama's snub of Gordon Brown?
Off to a great start.
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