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On Immorality

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  June 28th, 2011 at 10:53 AM  | 

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The Democrats, in particular Joe Biden and Barack Obama, are out to make the moral case for tax increases. They claim the Republican position is immoral.

This is what happens when we debase morality in our American political culture.

For perspective, when Barack Obama was a state senator in Illinois, he was the only state senator to speak in opposition to the Born Alive Infant Protection Act. He stood up and made the case that if an infant is born alive in the process of an abortion, the doctor who botched the abortion should be able to finish off the kid, even though the child had exited the womb alive.

That, my friends, that is immoral.

Republicans arguing that the government should let hard working Americans keep their own money is not an immoral argument to make — particularly given how ineffective and inefficient government use of that money would be compared to private enterprise and non-profits.

For Barack Obama and Joe Biden to make this a case of morality is a reflection of their weak moral compass.

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  • acat

    A Democrat President arguing in court about what the meaning of the word “is” is should have tipped us off …

    Mew

  • http://theminorityreportblog.com Repair_Man_Jack

    In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life’s prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly?only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs! – Karl Marx (Critique of The Gotha Program)

  • earlgrey

    If you took a poor person from a developing country and put them in the same circumstances as a lifetime or near lifetime welfare beneficiary, who do you think would have a better economic and quality of life outcome? The lifetime welfare person or the poor from a devleoping country that has already had to fend for him/herself.

    I realize that some people may find my comments harsh or unfair and I welcome their comments.

  • BigRedConservative

    The people in India and Africa and other 3rd world countries work twice as hard as average welfare bottom-feeders and spongers, yet are nowhere near as well off. Not because of any inherent inferiority, because of Uncle Sam handing out money. Welfare as a whole is immoral-it creates a class of entitled people

  • BA Cyclone

    that dependents of the State “cannot provide for themselves”.

    So we get a do-loop of people believing this, and them voting for people who will make sure the “support system” doesn’t stop.

  • BigRedConservative

    Genius, aren’t these Dems?

  • Next93

    Which is more immoral, demanding to keep what you’ve earned, or demanding that your neighbor pay your bills for you?

    Here in Wisconsin, we have a recall election going on for my state senator; a pretty reliable conservative vs. a union fanatic (who teaches on the side). I was driving down one of the nicer streets yesterday and passed a beautiful Victorian home with a sign out front for the socialist Democrat. I was tempted to knock on the door and explain to the residents that, since they have a house nicer than mine, and I’m currently unemployed, “fairness” demads that they give me thier house.

    Wonder how well that would have gone over?

  • morostheos

    Isaiah 5:20

    Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

  • Goldwater_Conservative

    This is the type of thing that gets my blood boiling. Here they are killing babies, changing marriage, and bailing out corporations because they are unionized and then they have the audacity to say this is where morality stands on?

  • rightwingmom52

    And those who still think Obama is a decent man and a good father and husband should read his testimony on PBA every day until it sinks in.

    I read or heard a quote recently (don’t recall if it was here or at church), that “Christianity does not ever teach that the end justifies the means.” Then I read another article (linked below) in which the author made the following statements that aptly describe what we are facing with modern liberalism:

    “Situation ethics is a voguish belief in a world of immoral rebels who are determined to cast off divine restraints and ‘play God.’?

    “If situation ethics is valid, there is no act under heaven that cannot be justified!”

    My political interpretation of those statements is that Democrats will stop at nothing to destroy any concept of morality in their quest for power and control, and as long as Republicans acquiesce and citizens are complacent, Dems will have no problem convincing the American public that their actions are justified.

    http://www.christiancourier.com/articles/297-did-jesus-endorse-situation-ethics

  • YnotNOW

    And Obama is not alone – he reflects an increasing segment of our society that totally wants to reject God so that they can be their own god.

  • YnotNOW

    who are forced to live under the rule of such.

  • dmacleo

    make sure his children and family know what he felt, when he felt it, and how close they came to being in the grinder.
    this bastard speaking of morality is one of the sickest jokes i have ever heard.

  • earlgrey

    as they accuse Christians of doing.

  • gkendall

    Throw out the trash November, 2012.

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    column on the way….The GOP needs to start playing the moral card. We have the truth on our side. Has it been moral to declare war on small business and job producers, thus causing more people to be unemployed and poor? no

    The Dems don’t care about the poor.

  • http://www.scragged.com petrarch

    Obama has a highly strong moral compass that steadfastly points always in the same direction.

    His trouble is that the compass points are painted on the wrong way round.

  • arthurmanger17

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_W75zh1j2I

  • durhamvoter

    are just such folks – they were young, from immigrant families, had from $5 to $500 dollars in their pocket at the start, that was it. The relative used his $500 to pay college tuition, worked through school, earned a PhD, made a significant scientific discovery, and spent his career teaching third world countries how to teach their own people to feed themselves. The friend arrived in N.Y. with ~$5, became a technology expert, and just recently started his own technology company after finishing a successful corporate career.