Trivial Pursuits

I had an epiphany. I never realized how much liberals trivialize human life until I listened to Barry Obama’s response to a question posed to him last Saturday by Pastor Rick Warren of the Saddleback Church. Pastor Warren asked Obama when he thought a baby has “human rights”. Barry was about as graceful as a one-legged tap dancer when he said that giving a specific answer was “above his pay grade”.

This answer is at the same time empty as well as insightful. It is empty in the fact that it displays a deep lack of compassion for the unborn. The left affords more sympathy to lab rats than it does to unborn children. They lessen the human element by turning it into a “woman’s choice” to do with her body what she wants. This puts the slaughter of an unborn child on the same level as getting breast enlargements or a facelift.

It is insightful because it reveals the true character of Barry the politician. Popular sentiment often dictates political positions. Candidates like to position themselves on the popular side of arguments. And so it goes with Barry. For example, the popular sentiment on the war in Iraq is that it was a mistake. Hence, Barry wants us out of Iraq.

Abortion is different. There is a great divide between those that oppose it and those that support it. Barry the politician realizes this and tries to steer clear of firmly planting his flag on one side or the other. However, he is being disingenuous. He has a clear position, but he doesn’t want the masses to know it.

In 2001 the Illinois state legislature introduced the Born Alive Infant Protection Act. The bill was inspired by Jill Stanek, a Chicago nurse who personally witnessed babies that survived late term abortions being left to die alone in soiled linen closets. Barack Hussein Obama was the only legislator to speak against the bill. He argued that the bill was flawed because it could interfere with a woman’s right to choose. This argument was rendered moot when the federal government passed a nearly identical bill a few months later. However, this did not deter Barry. The bill was killed in 2003 by a committee that he chaired.

When Barry was running for the U.S. Senate in 2004, his opponent brought up his vote on this bill. Barry responded by saying that he would have voted for the federal bill because it contained an additional meaningless clause that stated the law would have no effect on abortion policy. Now he wants us to swallow this BS again. Not me. I’m going to do what I can to make sure he doesn’t go up a pay grade.