The Paducah Sun Newspaper Takes On Barack Obama.
WAY LEFT
Obama’s abortion record at far edge of the aisle
“(A)nswering that question with specificity is, you know, above my pay grade.”
The question Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Warren asked Barack Obama was straightforward: “At what point does a baby get human rights, in your view?”
Obama’s answer was anything but straightforward: “Whether you are looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity is, you know, above my pay grade.”
Obama’s flippant answer gave opponents a ready sound bite to use against him. More importantly, it invited closer scrutiny into his record on an issue he has clearly spent a great deal more time thinking about than he lets on.
Asked in another interview about the National Right to Life Committee’s assertion that he had opposed the Illinois Legislature’s version of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, Obama accused the organization of misrepresenting his position. “I hate to say that people are lying,” he said, “but here’s a situation where folks are lying.”
The legislation would simply have required medical providers to care for infants who survived abortions. Obama said the legislation did not contain a clause that ensured the act would not be used to undermine Roe v. Wade, and he insisted he would have supported the federal Born Alive Infant Protection Act because it included the clause.
But Obama was the one who was lying. The state version contained the Roe clause, and he did indeed vote against the act on the Illinois Senate Health and Human Services Committee, which he chaired. The vote split along party lines, and the act didn’t get out of committee. His campaign has since admitted Obama’s error, which is a matter of public record.
Moderate Democrats who imagine the national party is moving away from its extremist views are naive. The party has now added the adverb “unequivocally” to its platform support for abortion rights, as if it weren’t already absolutist enough, prompting Wall Street Journal columnist Naomi Schaeffer Riley to write: “Democrats have accomplished the impossible: they have moved to the left on abortion.”
But even among Democrats, Obama is extreme. He earned a 100-percent rating from the National Abortion Rights Action League for his voting record in both the state legislature and the U.S. Senate. He voted against a ban on partial birth abortion. He voted against a bill requiring parental notification for minor girls transported across state lines for abortions.
Obama doesn’t always equivocate. He has been uncharacteristically direct about what kind of jurists he would appoint to the federal judiciary. He openly criticizes the strict constructionists on the Supreme Court, with particularly harsh words for the court’s only African-American justice. “I would not have nominated Clarence Thomas,” he told Warren. “I don’t think that he ... was a strong enough jurist or legal thinker at the time for that elevation, setting aside the fact that I profoundly disagree with his interpretation of a lot of the Constitution.”
What, then, is Obama’s interpretation of the Constitution? “I have to side with Justice Stephen Breyer’s view of the Constitution,” he said, “that it is not a static but rather a living document and must be read in the context of an ever-changing world.”
Rather than base law on the clear words of the Constitution, Obama prefers an activist approach that “interprets” the words to support whatever a justice — and the president who appointed him — want it to mean.
Terrence Jeffrey, editor of Human Events: “Pro-abortion absolutists should be pleased with Obama. There has never been a presidential candidate more demonstrably committed to their deadly cause.”
Obama’s documented views on abortion mirror his extreme views on virtually every issue. Voters should consider the consequences of combining the likely veto-proof Democratic majority in the next Congress with the administration of the man who has proven in both the Illinois Legislature and United States Senate that he is a committed leftist.
Obama promises to bring unity and change. If he is elected, America will have to settle for the latter half of that promise.
Obama’s abortion record at far edge of the aisle
“(A)nswering that question with specificity is, you know, above my pay grade.”
The question Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Warren asked Barack Obama was straightforward: “At what point does a baby get human rights, in your view?”
Obama’s answer was anything but straightforward: “Whether you are looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity is, you know, above my pay grade.”
Obama’s flippant answer gave opponents a ready sound bite to use against him. More importantly, it invited closer scrutiny into his record on an issue he has clearly spent a great deal more time thinking about than he lets on.
Asked in another interview about the National Right to Life Committee’s assertion that he had opposed the Illinois Legislature’s version of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, Obama accused the organization of misrepresenting his position. “I hate to say that people are lying,” he said, “but here’s a situation where folks are lying.”
The legislation would simply have required medical providers to care for infants who survived abortions. Obama said the legislation did not contain a clause that ensured the act would not be used to undermine Roe v. Wade, and he insisted he would have supported the federal Born Alive Infant Protection Act because it included the clause.
But Obama was the one who was lying. The state version contained the Roe clause, and he did indeed vote against the act on the Illinois Senate Health and Human Services Committee, which he chaired. The vote split along party lines, and the act didn’t get out of committee. His campaign has since admitted Obama’s error, which is a matter of public record.
Moderate Democrats who imagine the national party is moving away from its extremist views are naive. The party has now added the adverb “unequivocally” to its platform support for abortion rights, as if it weren’t already absolutist enough, prompting Wall Street Journal columnist Naomi Schaeffer Riley to write: “Democrats have accomplished the impossible: they have moved to the left on abortion.”
But even among Democrats, Obama is extreme. He earned a 100-percent rating from the National Abortion Rights Action League for his voting record in both the state legislature and the U.S. Senate. He voted against a ban on partial birth abortion. He voted against a bill requiring parental notification for minor girls transported across state lines for abortions.
Obama doesn’t always equivocate. He has been uncharacteristically direct about what kind of jurists he would appoint to the federal judiciary. He openly criticizes the strict constructionists on the Supreme Court, with particularly harsh words for the court’s only African-American justice. “I would not have nominated Clarence Thomas,” he told Warren. “I don’t think that he ... was a strong enough jurist or legal thinker at the time for that elevation, setting aside the fact that I profoundly disagree with his interpretation of a lot of the Constitution.”
What, then, is Obama’s interpretation of the Constitution? “I have to side with Justice Stephen Breyer’s view of the Constitution,” he said, “that it is not a static but rather a living document and must be read in the context of an ever-changing world.”
Rather than base law on the clear words of the Constitution, Obama prefers an activist approach that “interprets” the words to support whatever a justice — and the president who appointed him — want it to mean.
Terrence Jeffrey, editor of Human Events: “Pro-abortion absolutists should be pleased with Obama. There has never been a presidential candidate more demonstrably committed to their deadly cause.”
Obama’s documented views on abortion mirror his extreme views on virtually every issue. Voters should consider the consequences of combining the likely veto-proof Democratic majority in the next Congress with the administration of the man who has proven in both the Illinois Legislature and United States Senate that he is a committed leftist.
Obama promises to bring unity and change. If he is elected, America will have to settle for the latter half of that promise.
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