At the Saddleback event where Obama made his stupidly fatuous statement, McCain referred to his pro-life stance of 20 years. This was before his selection of Palin as VP. As a conservative, I thought it was an important statement to make, and one of the most striking differences between the two candidates.

When Obama was confronted with his vote in favor of infanticide, he lied twice: the first time about his vote, and the second time about his challengers. When his campaign finally admitted that he lied, I thought that McCain had an issue that made a difference. At least, I thought, McCain could have made an issue of character and lying, of attacking those who disagree with him on such a critical issue.

I know, us gap-toothed Evangelical types are all over the top about the issue. However, the issue is important enough to the Catholic Church publicly disciplined members for misrepresenting Church doctrine and for supporting abortion: Sebilius, Pelosi and Biden. The Catholic Church publicly stated that the Democrats are in danger of becoming the Party of Death.

And yet, the only time that I can remember abortion being an issue is when Palin raised it, once in her acceptance speech and more recently in a campaign speech. With all of the talk about Palin’s controllers, I have to wonder if that was not a conscious decision on the part of the McCain campaign.

Obama’s liberal hollow shell of an ideology is very apparent when he’s asked questions of substance. One can see the wheels turning in his head as to how he can appease the most people (but mostly liberals) when answering a question. He runs an internal straw poll in his mind and tries his best to equivocate.

Sen. Obama suffers from ‘premature evacuation syndrome.’ http://offeringcommonsense.blogspot.com/2008/10/premature-evacuation.html

I still can’t believe the American people are ready to elect this man. It makes me want to cry.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/163896/page/1

“According to his own Web site, Obama supports the federal Freedom of Choice Act [FOCA], which would eliminate all state and federal regulation of abortion (such as informed consent and parental notification in the case of minors seeking an abortion); these regulations have demonstrably reduced the absolute number of abortions in the jurisdictions in which they are in effect. FOCA would also eliminate, by federal statute, state laws providing “conscience clause” protection for pro-life doctors who decline to provide abortions. Obama (along with the Democratic Party platform) supports federal funding for abortion, opposes the Hyde amendment (which restricts the use of taxpayer monies for abortion) and has pledged to repeal the “Mexico City policy” (initiated by Ronald Reagan and reinstated by George W. Bush, which bans federal foreign-aid funding for organizations that perform and promote abortion as a means of family planning). According to the pro-choice Web site RHRealityCheck.org, Obama also opposes continued federal funding for crisis pregnancy centers.”

I seem to recall Obama clearly stating during a debate that he supported parental notification. Oops.

Any actuaries here know the odds of both Scalia & Kennedy making it another four years?

Though I have traditionally voted Dem, I am an ardent pro-lifer. I personally think abortion is most effectively attacked on the demand side, but I have no problem with legal limits. I would consider abortion an important voting issue if I believed that the GOP could actually make a difference on the issue. But the SCOTUS has been 7-2 (or better) appointed by prolife Republicans for a long time now, yet Roe stands. Even if McCain gets to make sufficient appointments, it is not even guaranteed that the right case will come up (was it South or North Dakota who tried and failed recently?). And, if it is overturned, the odds are that not many states will actually pass anti-abortion laws, and many already have pro-abortion laws on the books (including Alaska of all places). So, why should the GOP get the pro-life vote? I cannot trust that they can really get it done.

Cue the “troll” accusations.

to discuss with myself, let alone with a bunch of online bloggers I don’t know.

For many people the question of “When does life begin” is not the same as “when does a glob of cells become a human being.” For a lot of people, the latter is a harder question to answer. For others, it’s as simple as the former: life begins at conception. But for most of us, it requires deep and spiritual soul searching to come to a decision on this most serious issue. For Obama to say that “it’s above my paygrade” to have an opinion on these questions is just flippant and it trivializes a subject that is gravely serious to most thinking Americans.

If he had said that he has a sincere moral, ethical and spiritual struggle with those questions he would have appeared to be at the least, genuine. But as has been shown in the above essay by Robert George, Obama has no internal struggle with any of this. That in itself, makes him nothing like the majority of Americans.

That, and the fact that the only thing genuine about Obama is his struggle for self perservation and advancement.

This man continues to make my skin crawl.

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