Rush on Robin “Aborting” Hood Obama
Rush Limbaugh, yesterday:
Rush: Isn’t it interesting, ladies and gentlemen, that Obama wants to take from the rich to give to the poor when it comes to money; when it comes to human life, Obama is willing to allow babies to be killed in order to get their mothers’ votes….
Obama says that he is for helping those less fortunate in a monetary sense, but he is not for helping those who are truly powerless. Those babies intended to be aborted who survive? That’s the essence of helpless.
It’s also the essence of innocence. But their lives can be exchanged for votes for Obama. Obama says, “Well, the reason I [don’t] support the infanticide bill…” Although he doesn’t use the word, the reason he doesn’t is because the mother’s intention was to have the abortion. “I don’t want to saddle her,” just like he said, “I wouldn’t want my kids to be saddled with a mistake.”
So to get votes from troubled pregnant women, Obama allows them to try to kill their babies. Supporting partial-birth abortion and infanticide is the ultimate act of bullying and cruelty to those less fortunate. There’s a constitutional lawyer by the name of Robert George. He’s a professor at Princeton. He’s very eloquent when it comes to pro-life. He wrote a piece called, “Obama’s Abortion Extremism — What kind of America do we want our beloved nation to be?”
“Barack Obama’s America is one in which being human just isn’t enough to warrant care and protection. It is an America where the unborn may legitimately be killed without legal restriction, even by the grisly practice of partial-birth abortion. It is an America where a baby who survives abortion is not even entitled to comfort care as she dies on a stainless steel table or in a soiled linen bin. It is a nation in which some members of the human family are regarded as inferior and others superior in fundamental dignity and rights. In Obama’s America, public policy would make a mockery of the great constitutional principle of the equal protection of the law. In perhaps the most telling comment made by any candidate in either party in this election year, Senator Obama, when asked by Rick Warren when a baby gets human rights, replied: ‘that question is above my pay grade.'”
When does a baby get human rights? It’s above his pay grade.
[HT: reader Carl B.; graphic courtesy of Rush Limbaugh]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
All the crickets will attack Rush and not what he expressed.
It seems clear that the pro death crowd use different definitions of words. Having a baby is punishment to the minnie Obama girls and to normal moms they are blessings.
PPC and Peach Pit – no more of that or you’ll be banned for a week
Amen. Mega Dittos.
I love rush.
Jill and Mods,
As a regular commentor/reader, would you mind adding adding a link to my pro-life writings on your sidebar blog roll?
Really nice racist picture of Obama.
Wow, sounds like Rush is back on the drugs.
Really nice racist picture of Obama.
Seriously. Maybe for her next post, she can use one of Obama with fried chicken and watermelon.
I see Nobama supporters here have to use the “racist” card as there is absolutely no way they can dispute what Rush says about the most pro abortion candidate ever.
No one is interesting in “disputing” that Joanne. Who cares?
Besides, as Obama said last night, “no one is PRO abortion.”
McCain had the chance to nail his butt to the wall last night on so many things. The door was open but the man just wouldn’t walk through it. I don’t understand why.
Did any of you in your younger stupid days play a little card game called BS? I’m calling BS on senator government on the issue of late term abortion. I posted on my blog about it.
How many more lies does he have to tell before they catch up with him? This is an outrage.
McCain within 2 points now!!!
http://www.drudgereport.com/
Great picture of Obama wearing a hood. He has money in his hand. On the topic of abortion, a currette or scalpel in the hand would alos be vivid.
I loved the Senator Government slip by McCain. Somehow I don’t think it was a slip. ;)
Jasper, what I see is Obama ahead by an average of 6.8% – and that’s in RCP’s group of polls (where RCP has been accused of skewing things toward McCain’s favor).
xppc: It seems clear that the pro death crowd use different definitions of words. Having a baby is punishment to the minnie Obama girls and to normal moms they are blessings.
Plenty of normal moms have abortions when they don’t want more kids.
The “minnie Obama girls” aren’t pregnant yet and we don’t know how they will feel at the time.
Actually, more than 20% of women who have abortions are women who are married with other children. I’d call that a ‘normal mom’ who just doesn’t want more children.
Tiffany, Reality,
You are joking about the picture being racist, right? It’s a take on Robin Hood. (Taking from the rich to give to the poor… with no concern for the poor unborn.)
Tiffany, Reality,
You are joking about the picture being racist, right? It’s a take on Robin Hood. (Taking from the rich to give to the poor… with no concern for the poor unborn.)
Posted by: Janet at October 16, 2008 6:47 PM
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Well, yes, because Robin Hood, a wealthy, landowner of noble birth is always used as a racist symbol of African Americans, right?
Seriously, get real. Is it just a knee jerk reflex now? “Oh, no, they criticized the Messiah!!! RACIST!!!”
At some point even the left should realize how dumb that sounds.
I am a “normal mom” who doesn’t want to have any more children. Rather than say, “Sorry little Billy or Judy, but you missed the baby boat, so now you must die.”, I got my tubes tied. I don’t care how many sweaters you buy for Christmas, or how many soccer games you attend, being able to kill one of your kids is something no “normal mom” could or would do.
X, what about normal moms who doctors refused to tie their tubes? It’s impossible to find a doctor who will tie the tubes of a woman under 30. What about the normal moms who don’t have the money? Most insurance companies don’t pay for tubal ligation.
Normalcy is a social construction, defined differently by different social groups.
I’m 27, and was 26 when I first brought up getting the operation with my healthcare provider (who said, “No problem”, btw). Other than that hole in what you just said, where’s the public outcry from women’s rights groups? Isn’t that a HUGE denial of women’s reproductive rights? Is it only cool to get huffy about that sort of thing when someone tells you you can’t kill your kids or something? Maybe if PP offered that kind of service more often at a reduced cost to those in need, I wouldn’t have such a problem with PP.
and, given the country’s reaction to Casey Anthony, I’m pretty sure a mom killing her kids willy-nilly is abnormal by society’s standards, for the most part. Abortion should be no different.
Amen xalisae.
HumanAbstract, not sure what state you live in but things are way different here in North Carolina. A girlfriend of my family member has one child and immediately after she had this child, medicaid paid for her tubes to be tied when she was 24 with no health problems. I too thought you couldn’t have this done at a young age until I talked to her- so not I am not making it up.
don’t waste your time, atm. if your message doesn’t suit their agenda, they’ll just ignore you, much in the manner Danielle did myself in a recent thread.
that is, if they don’t have anything to counter with.
@Xalisae- I asked my gynecologist about getting endometrial ablation or a partial hysterectomy because of my Periods From Hell (TM). BUT, because I am childless and I’m “merely” 20 years-old- I can’t make those types of decisions. Plus, I KNOW my insurance won’t cover it, I asked. Why? I’m too young and I may change my mind someday.
::facefork::
I hav totally lost all respect for anyone who claims to be moral and puts Rush Limbaugh on their blog.
Being an African American female, who reads this blog daily for encouragement, I am offended by not only the picture but by the fact that you use Rush. If you were classy and concerned you would not do this..
I am sorry , but my friends and I who found great encouragement have since become quite ill by this blog.. and the direction it has turned.
Amen to that… I saw the picture and figured out that now Jill is trying to portray Obama as a “gangster”.. give me a break, trying to explain it as “Robin Hood”–
If you had any idea what it is like to fight the stereo type than you are obviously not aware… I have fought hard and proud to not be pictured in this way..
I am not in agreement with Obama’s abortion issues..but I will say, he is a black man and he deserves respect.. just like John Mcain does.. Please take this picture off your site.
omfg…get a clue, and get over it. This is about SOCIALISM and WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION, not race. Talk about missing the freaking point…ugh. I’m sick of all this racism B.S. Just because we want improved boarder security does not mean we hate Mexicans, etc.
@Rae:
THAT is what pisses me off. Doctors treating grown women as if they were children, and denying us services we specifically request, as if we were stupid or irrational…I just want to know where the women protesting this kind of ACTUAL prohibition of women’s reproductive choice and freedoms on a large scale…this is ridiculous.
@Xalisae: Beats the hell out of me. Instead I got stuck with an IUD. It was either an IUD, the Pill, or nothing at all.
I chose the thing I wouldn’t have to remember day to day and had the potential to get rid of my period for at least 5 years. I’d prefer said period to be gone FOR GOOD.
You know, these allegations of racism that crop up with more regularity nowadays remind me of the time I heard someone on the radio stating that the term “Kool-Aid drinker” was a racist statement.
There was more than one person who called in to say, “I can’t believe you’d SAY such a thing!”
These must be people who have no idea about the Guyana tragedy and the Jim Jones cult, which is what “Kool-Aid drinker” means–the people there drank grape kool-aid which was poisoned, and they all died. It was a horrible tragedy committed on trusting, unsuspecting people who followed a charismatic man to their deaths, hanging on every word he said as gospel truth.
Can someone please tell me what exactly is racist about the photoshopped picture of Obama?
BTW, I thought that looked like a typical “Rush” photoshop, and apparently, it is. I just hadn’t looked at the photo credit.
Go John Go!!! I will fight with you!!!
Rae,
You can always go to another doctor you know. :)
P.S. To all those spouting racism, grow up, is that all you think about? Are you really THAT sensitive that anything you think MIGHT resemble racism automatically does?? I think you guys are the one with the racism here, you see black man in a hood with money in his hand, and you automatically think they’re trying to mock black men. Lol PLEASE!
If he had a gun in his hand and the police were chasing him, then I’d call it a racist stereotype, but do you really not get the whole “Obama Hood, Robin Hood” comparison?
Can someone please tell me what exactly is racist about the photoshopped picture of Obama?
Posted by: Kel at October 17, 2008 12:25 AM
Kel and Chris don’t understand the racism inherent in depicting a Harvard Law graduate and United States Senator as a street thug merely because he is African-American. Amazing.
I love how if anyone brings up racism…EVER…they’re immediately shut down as ALWAYS bringing up racism. Way to deflect and not deal with the issue.
I agree with what’s been said here already – the picture is offensive – and I am loathe to bring up the so-called ‘card’ very often.
The picture depicts Obama as a casually dressed, hooded ‘gangster’ flashing money and prominately displays the word ‘HOOD’ to punctuate the association. It’s a current and pervasive stereotype of black men in this country (as are references to Kool-Aid, fried chx and watermelon) and everyone here knows it but they just don’t want to have the conversation. So they scream in caps for everyone to ‘get over it.’ and move on. All the while, never addressing the concern that was brought up in the first place. Um, no. Avoidance is never really a solution.
If you want to debate the merits of a candidate, please do so, honestly and vigorously. There’s no need for caricature that ignites the ugliest of generalizations. It only makes you look ugly. If you support McCain because you admire the man’s character, then take a note from his handbook and remember to respect the opposition even when it would be easier not to.
Obama wants to forcefully steal the American people’s hard earned money and hand it over to those who don’t work, many of them by choice. I would say the gangster, thug, Robin Hood picture is a pretty accurate portrayal. If that is offensive, then perhaps Mr. Obama should realign his proposals to a more respectable vision for America.
It’s always the same old story with liberals. You have no problem whatsoever with abortion in and of itself, but a picture of an aborted baby disturbs you beyond reason.
Here, you take no issue with your messiah’s massive money grabbing, wealth redistribution scheme, but a picture portraying him as the thug he is sends you into frenzy.
If you find a piece of doggie doo doo lying on the sidewalk, does it cease to be doggie doo doo because you wrap a pretty picture of a rose around it?
There are many people of opposing viewpoints who are deserving of respect, but Obama is not one of them. He will be worthy of respect when he stops his persistent lying about who he is and presents the American people with an honest choice between two very different visions for America. As long as he continues to pretend he is a moderate centrist, he is nothing more than a thug dressed up in an expensive suit. And for as long as he choses to persist in his deceit, Jill is right in doing everything in her power to expose him. That’s not racist. It’s recognizing that doggy doo doo is doggy doo doo.
And when the simplest of jokes escapes your thin intellect, it makes you look stupid. There is a reason republicans don’t go around screaming “RACIST, RACIST, RACIST!”
It is because race is not an issue for us. It’s pretty fantastic, the progress which can be made when you’re not trying to exploit minority groups for votes.
Kel and Chris don’t understand the racism inherent in depicting a Harvard Law graduate and United States Senator as a street thug merely because he is African-American. Amazing.
Posted by: PPC at October 17, 2008 10:07 AM
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Um, he’s not dressed as a street thug. He’s dressed as Robin Hood. And it has ZERO to do with his being (half) African-American. It has to do with wealth re-distribution.
Perhaps a photoshop of him as Karl Marx would be better? (Kidding.)
Good post Danielle. I find it ironic that people on this site that regularly claim to want to stop the “Black Holocaust”- the disproportionately greater abortion rate among African-Americans, so casually endorse racial stereotyping offensive to anyone of conscience.
Kel, you live in a dream world. Rent the original Robin Hood movie with Errol Flynn, or the later version with Kevin Costner. You will be amazed to discover that they are not depicted as contemporary street thugs in “hoodies”, but rather in period costumes of the 15th century English countryside. Robin Hood was a mythical hero to the masses, and only a criminal to the corrupt rich, who he robbed to give to the poor.
Playing dumb to deny racism is not attractive.
Yes, PPC prefers his/her contemporary thugs to wear nice suits. That makes all the difference you know.
And those in the 15th century English countryside were poor because an out of control ruling class had confiscated their land and their wealth. That is exactly the vision Obama has for America.
And guess which side of the great divide he plans to be standing on. Hint: He’s not going to be plodding away in the poor American countryside.
Kel, you live in a dream world. Rent the original Robin Hood movie with Errol Flynn, or the later version with Kevin Costner. You will be amazed to discover that they are not depicted as contemporary street thugs in “hoodies”, but rather in period costumes of the 15th century English countryside.
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You mean like this? http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2007/04/11/robin_narrowweb__300x464,0.jpg
That would be the BBC version of Robin Hood, btw. Very popular show.
Ooo, Kel, I’ve always wanted to watch that show. I don’t get BBC, and it makes me very sad.
Me neither, Erin. :( I only catch little snippets on youtube occasionally. :D I’ve got a lot of friends who are fans of it, though.
Kel – It’s amazing that depicting Obama as Robinhood reveals the inherent racism of those who see it as such.
I think that reveals a lot more about them then it does us.
If it doesn’t glorify “The One”, it’s not only racist, it’s blasphemy!
Funny thing is, Chris, I KNEW I’d seen that cloak in the photoshopped picture somewhere–turns out it is the EXACT cloak in the BBC Robin Hood photo. Worn by a white male. Does that mean that the BBC is racist against whites?
Yeah – those BBC racist/sexists are at it again. They tend to hate those icky pale white folks from northern climates who have funny accents, and cling to their bow & arrows and religion.
Danielle,
I only write in caps certain words that I want to emphasize..not cause I’m yelling. I don’t know how to do those cool things with font on here like bold and italics, so caps is it for me.
As for the whole race thing, when I truly, truly believe racism or racial stereotypes are being used, I say something and I HAVE said something here. This just doesn’t happen to be one of the cases where I think it is being used. I can see where people might get so confused because we are a highly sensitive society when it comes to this sort of thing, but as a parent of a half African-American child, I do not see the actual racism within this. I see people taking things the wrong way and interpreting them incorrectly, but I don’t see racism.
Kel @ 12;36,
“Kel, you live in a dream world. Rent the original Robin Hood movie with Errol Flynn, or the later version with Kevin Costner. You will be amazed to discover that they are not depicted as contemporary street thugs in “hoodies”, but rather in period costumes of the 15th century English countryside.”
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You mean like this? http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2007/04/11/robin_narrowweb__300x464,0.jpg
The exact same robe! You are brilliant! LOL.
Chris A,
I hope you don’t mind my posting this link from your web site. It’s a very long video; I’m wondering if you know the approximate time Thompson says the comments you are referring to? Is it in the first half? Last half? Thanks!
From John’s website http://www.thrufire.org/
‘John McCain was left in a room to die…’
My wife couldn’t help but notice this particular point mentioned by Fred Thompson during last night’s speech.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/26518074#26518074
Yeah – those BBC racist/sexists are at it again. They tend to hate those icky pale white folks from northern climates who have funny accents, and cling to their bow & arrows and religion.
Posted by: Chris Arsenault at October 17, 2008 1:46 PM
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Yep, Janet. The exact same.
I thought Robin Hood was a fox with a bear as a best friend.
Gotta love Walt Disney’s Robin Hood.
X, what about normal moms who doctors refused to tie their tubes? It’s impossible to find a doctor who will tie the tubes of a woman under 30. What about the normal moms who don’t have the money? Most insurance companies don’t pay for tubal ligation.
Normalcy is a social construction, defined differently by different social groups.
Posted by: HumanAbstract at October 16, 2008 7:19 PM
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http://www.guttmacher.org/in-the-know/cost.html
According to this, the average cost of an abortion is a little over $300….
The hospital I work at does 4 to 6 tubal ligations a day, costing the patient $200.
I fail to see how an abortion is more cost effective than what we offer low income families (I work at the county hospital, inner city, mostly uninsured/underinsured/illegal alien population.)
As for impossible, it’s very possible. You just have to ask around. A few doctors have age cut-offs, but far from all doctors. Most of those are for patients who haven’t had children at all, because the doctor worries they will regret it later if they’ve never had a child.
Janet @ 3:25 PM
Janet – it’s when Fred is talking about John McCain being taken captive in N. Vietnam.
At 10 minutes 58 seconds in:
If John McCain were on top of it – he would have made that point about the infants being left in a room to die – and say that he was in a similar situation – but that the hope he held out for in his country then is the same kind of hope that’s needed now for those born alive as a result of abortion.
Chris,
Excellent analogy. Thanks!
“I hav totally lost all respect for anyone who claims to be moral and puts Rush Limbaugh on their blog.”
Janice,
Rush Limbaugh states facts on his show that can be verified with real documentation. He plays actual recordings of people in their own words. People who criticize Rush either do not actually listen to him — they listen to MSM soundbytes or they deliberately take him out of context when he is joking. You may not like his personality but he does not lie.
X, I have this thing. It’s called life. I have to do it sometimes. Excuse me if I don’t answer your posts immediately upon recipet, but earning a college degree and some money is more important. I’m not ignoring you, but there are more important things in my life than this blog.
To answer a posed question, I live in Texas. I got an IUD without a problem, but from experience (I’ve checked) no tubal will be forthcoming. Not until I’m 25. In the cases you and ATM have described, there were children involved: I have none, which I believe is the determining factor. Elisabeth hit it on the head: doctors are afraid women will regret it, and so refuse to do it. I’m 20, and no doctor would even give it consideration. I think it’s ridiculous, but an IUD is nearly as effective anyway.
Again, normalcy is a socially constructed ideal that doesn’t actually exist.
7th grader called racist for wearing Palin t-shirt…
OBAMA SUPPORTER STOLE MENTALLY-CHALLENGED MAN’S VOTE
Obama’s NH event scraps National Anthem, Pledge of Allegiance…
McCain Supporter Physically Attacked in NYC…
Obama vows to ‘change the world’…
http://www.drudgereport.com/
I read the one about the mentally challenged man. He wanted to vote for McCain but the aide made him vote for Obama.
please see this site for some perspective from an african american perspective re:abortion
http://www.blackgenocide.org
HA, I wasn’t specifically addressing you. My @$$ is still a little chapped from a thread the other day in which I said a bunch of stuff to counter Danielle’s points, she ignored everything I said, and then when I asked for her rebuttal outright, she said she already replied, which she most definitely did not. Being ignored is a pet peeve of mine. But, I know how life is sometimes. I usually just post from my blackjack while I hold/feed/play with my son and IM my husband.
I just want to know where the protests are for this problem, HA. EVERYONE should have a problem with women being denied their reproductive rights (which this actually is a case of, as opposed to abortion, which is killing someone that has already been produced). It really makes both sides look bad. Pro-life and pro-choice BOTH should be able to fight for easier access to long term or permanant contraception, because it serves BOTH causes.
Well, X, permanent contraception is a one-time purchase..so it makes them less money, so it makes sense they wouldn’t promote it. It’s not about women’s reproductive freedom, but about :gasp: making money. I know, I know, it’s shocking.
Wow, that’s a really interesting insight, Elizabeth. I never put those two together, but it doesn’t seem to unreasonable to me that that may be part of the motivation. Don’t get me wrong, I think any form of contraception is immoral, but it always seemed curious to me that you can take any kind of other contraception you want, you can even slaughter your child in the womb, but you can’t permanently sterilize yourself until what seems to be a much older age than one would expect (I could see not allowing this until maybe 18 or 21). All that has never seemed internally consistent to me. Very interesting, Elizabeth. God love you.
Elizabeth,
Yes, very interesting observation!!
Follow that thinking further… It makes sense money-wise for the corporate execs in the liberal medical community to promote abortion for younger women so when they finally decide they are ready to have a baby and can’t for whatever reason, they have expensive fertility treatments at their disposal. It’s the MONEY. Oh, but I’m being too cynical. Nevermind.
Janet,
Not to mention the hormonal BC that the girls have been taking for years screwing with their reproductive cycle, rendering them unable to get pregnant and THEN turning to expensive fertility treatments. Money, money, money! A lot of times, if you can’t find the logic in something, all you have to do is look at who profits from it, and money usually falls into play then.
http://wastetimethinking.blogspot.com/2008/10/for-your-own-sake_22.html