Tag: Obama

Fight FOCA

Those of you who have been around for a while know my stance on the issue of abortion. It falls in the same column as the issue of murder – “don’t do it.” This isn’t a religious issue, despite how much the media (or the President) might want to play it off as such. This is a simple issue of whether or not the government should legalize genocide. The battle just became more difficult with Obama taking office and the Democrats securely holding both houses, so I was grateful when Prester Scott put out the call today to support, and made me aware of, Fight FOCA – an organized coalition dedicated to fighting the monstrocity that is the “Freedom Of Choice Act.” I’m going to shamelessly steal his assessment of the act:

FOCA, in the form in which it was filed in 2007, is a brief and sweeping bill that would eliminate, in one stroke, all federal, state and local laws and regulations that restrict or “discriminate against” abortion in any way. Among other things, this would:

  • End the ban on partial-birth abortion (which is really infanticide on a fully-developed child who just hasn’t left the womb yet).
  • Force taxpayers to fund abortion.
  • Spit in the face of (what’s left of) the Tenth Amendment’s protection of State powers. If a bulldozer measure like this were passed to preserve clearly enumerated Constitutional protections, that would be one thing, but abortion is not one of them. Roe v. Wade was patent judicial activism.
  • Eliminate parental-consent laws for minors seeking abortions. (If the States don’t matter, the rights of mere parents and families count even less.)
  • Potentially, strike down public health regulations and medical licensing on the practice of abortion. So much for keeping abortion “safe.”
  • Potentially, force medical personnel and/or hospitals that accept government-funded insurance (such as Medicaid) to perform abortions on demand. This is probably the most severe consequence. Doctors and nurses who don’t believe in abortion for religious or philosophical reasons could lose their licenses, or just find themselves practically unable to find employment. Catholic and other religious hospitals might have to close, all the charity work they do now to go undone. (What will this do to the economy, I wonder?)

President Obama told Planned Parenthood, “The first thing I’d do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That’s the first thing I’d do.” His record shows him to be arguably the most pro-abortion senator in the country, and he was infamously against Illinois’ Born Alive Infant Protection Act, a position which put him beyond pro-abortion and into pro-infanticide territory. His reasoning for opposing that act tottered somewhere between weak and absurd, to the point of directly stating that the inconvenience to doctors simply wasn’t outweighed by the fact human life was at risk. Now he has the opportunity to take his insanity to the national stage, having already slashed the regulations put in place by Bush (and Reagan, before Clinton had his way) to prevent our foreign aid money from being used to perform abortions.

Nancy Pelosi has also introduced a new expenditure in the montrous bailout plan being worked by Congress – an extra couple hundred million for “family planning” and contraceptives. She defends this by suggesting that children put an unnecessary burden on the goverment, and so by reducing births, they will reduce government costs, and stimulate the economy.

We are fighting an uphill battle here, and need to be on our toes at the very least until we can get some power back in 2010. Signing that petition would be a good start.

Shotgun Linking – Obama Day Three Edition

Day three, still no unicorn.

Because I don’t have the energy to come up with a full-size post for each of these, I give thee a bullet list:

Oh, the irony

From the new White House Dot Gov:

End Deceptive Voting Practices: President Obama will sign into law his legislation that establishes harsh penalties for those who have engaged in voter fraud and provides voters who have been misinformed with accurate and full information so they can vote.

Heh. Obama in October 2008 on allegations of voter registration fraud: “there’s been fraud perpetrated probably on ACORN if they paid these individuals and they actually didn’t do registrations… this is another one of these distractions that gets stirred up in the course of a campaign.”

Hopey. Changey. Come on man, it’s your first day, don’t mess it up already.

Obamanauguration

It’s official: Barack Hussein Obama is our President. Here’s hoping that he is a good president, and a wise leader. In these times especially, he needs prayer and support in the same way Bush and his predecessors did – there is no job tougher than the presidency. Please note that when I say support, I do not mean devotion, and I do not mean blind trust, and I do not mean that we should support all his beliefs or actions; however as President it is he who stands at the helm of this great ship called America, and wishing ill on the captain of the ship you’re riding on is at best foolish.

No, we can pray for our President. We can hope he succeeds in bringing America to new levels of prosperity and freedom. We can do that while opposing his policies and methods that he has laid out so far, hoping that he will become wiser in office and come to understand some of the harsh realities he has – at least apparently – so far avoided.

As for the ceremony itself, I didn’t watch it on TV, because I simply cannot stand watching the people who now constitute the broadcast media teams. Instead, I read the speech, and watched a couple of clips. While most of it is the typical fluff that has been the vast majority of his speeches so far, there were a couple comments that caught my attention as possibly betraying Obama as someone who has already learned a thing or two.

To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society’s ills on the West – know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.

This is harder, tougher talk than I have seen from him in the past, and hopefully it is a sign of a more realistic and mature leader, who is now realizing that there are much larger fundamental issues here than just what can be seen at the negotiation table.

That said, the rest of the speech left a lot to be desired. Sure, we have the typical grandiose promises every politician makes – but some of his rhetoric stretched beyond ambitious into the realm of absurdity. His promise to the third world that he would “make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow” sounded like the statement of a man who believes himself a prophet, and not the statement of a responsible political leader. My personal favorite quote was “We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories” – I think I saw a SciFi original movie about that one.

And of course, it would not be a modern political speech without a little bashing of the last president, with comments such as promising to “restore science to its rightful place,” and that we are finally ready to “lead once more” – as if it hasn’t been America doing the only thing even resembling leading in the last decade or so.

So, I see hints of some good, and reminders of the bad, all veiled in a lot of fluff. Here’s hoping we can get down to the meat soon with President Obama, and that when tested, he makes the wise choice – not just for his own good, but for the good of the country.

Good luck, Mr. President. I’ll be praying for you.

Obama isn’t even president and I’m sick of him already.

So apparently Obama is recreating Lincoln’s train route from Illinois to D.C., following in the late president’s footsteps as he continues to build himself up, complete with a vintage railcar to give him that “rustic” feeling.

I wonder if he knows that Lincoln took the route he did because he was afraid of being assassinated? Or that he was rushed under the cover of night from station to station to avoid assassins, avoiding the large crowds? Or that the whole thing caused him significant backlash in the eyes of the American public?

I wonder if he cares about little things like that. We know that, in his unicorn-infested world, the law doesn’t apply to him, so why should reality?

What shocks me most about this is how it shows he has totally bought into the hype surrounding him. I wonder if he truly considers himself a messianic figure, as so many of his followers do? The imagery, the throngs of screaming fans – it’s more than any rock star could dream about, and the last time we’ve seen this in history is a Godwin-invoking moment. People are already getting more excited and loyal to the idea of Obama than they are to America, and that is a very dangerous game to play.

Here’s hoping I’m wrong.