New Stanek WND column, “2 points of truth among Obama’s ‘wild word fraud'”
I was at the Grotto on the Notre Dame campus Sunday afternoon when President Barack Obama received his honorary doctor of laws degree and gave his commencement speech.
At the same time, Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life officiated an alternative service for those who couldn’t bear to see such a prominent enabler of child murder lauded at a Catholic university.
Whoops, was “prominent enabler of child murder” the sort of “demonizing” Obama preached against in his homily?
I did indeed think at first it was a homily. While listening to Fr. Pavone with one ear, I listened to Obama with an earpiece in the other ear thanks to a friend who placed her cell phone by her television.
Obama kept fading in and out. I only caught…
Your generation must decide how to save God’s creation. … We too often seek advantage over others. … Too many of us view life only through the lens of immediate self-interest. … The strong too often dominate the weak … admirable conviction about the sacredness of life … women who do carry their children to term [emphasis mine] … co-exist with … civility … to give future generations the same chance that you had … the Golden Rule – the call to treat one another as we wish to be treated. The call to love … realize the dream of civil rights for all of God’s children … all children of God … the same love of family, the same fulfillment of a life well lived …
Wow, I thought, maybe Notre Dame President John Jenkins was right: Exalting Obama had indeed provided an opportunity to dialogue about abortion. They must have had one powerful conversation during the mile-long limo trip from the South Bend airport to the Joyce Center. Obama had been converted!
Continue reading my column yesterday, “2 points of truth among Obama’s ‘wild word fraud,'” in WorldNetDaily.com.
[Photo attribution: Washington Post]
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.
What’s so wrong about “demonizing” supporters of abortion?
Whose idea was it to implant the notion that killing unsuspecting and innocent unborn babies can be called “choice”?
Who do you think warped the concept of “This is my body..given out for you” to “This is my body and I can do with it as I please..even kill the living being growing in it” ?
Who else but the father of lies…the devil himself. So the term “demonizing” is actually true for this scenario. Is he afraid of the Truth??
Brilliant article, Jill.
Why thank you, Bobby!
Jill, I could not stomach hearing or watching the Obama ND speech, so thank you for your column. I enjoyed it very much and appreciate your effort in preparing it.
I am saddened that ND is no longer a “Catholic” university, in my opinion. Slowly, we are losing a once great nation.
Excellent insightful article addressing Obama’s pro-abortion psyche.
May I ask you to look a tad bit deeper into it and his agenda? There is no way this man is or has ever been a Christian. It’s a front for getting votes.
I firmly believe, without a shadow of a doubt, that he is a Muslim. We have got to quit giving this man so many chances to make us think he is a good guy. He just ain’t!
If you can bring your mind to think in terms of his being Muslim, you will also see that his agenda is so anti-America. So why wouldn’t he be anti-AMERICAN. Hence his strong desire to kill, by abortion, those who are would-be Americans.
There will be radical jihad in this country in the future. How soon is unpredictable, but this is how Muslims work. They will do whatever it takes to con us by “be our friend” then turn cold-blooded on us quickly. How ever it all plays out, you can bet his hand will be in the thick of it.
Pat, very interesting theory, one I hadn’t considered before.
Your articles have been such a breath of fresh air, Jill…so encouraging. Thank you!
Hi Jill,
I’ve known who you are since interviews with you appeared some years ago on the Coral Ridge Hour with the late D. James Kennedy (who is no relation to me).
This is a GREAT article! You’ve got a stronger constitution than I to even listen to this fraud, so I thank you for doing what I don’t have the stomach for, reading the speech he wrote (or had written for him), and making the very strong points for the world to see showing up his hypocrisy and narcissistic disdain for truth and morality!
I signed the on-line petition asking the president of Notre Dame to withdraw the invitation for BO to speak, but clearly it had little impact.
It occurred to me at the time that it would have been a most impressive demonstration of opinion had the graduates and friends who objected to BO stand up en masse and walk out of the commencement just as he rose to speak, but I had no line of communication to put the idea out there. And I suppose the address came before the handing out of diplomas, which would have complicated that process as well, which is what the students and families were really there for.
I’m glad, then, that Father Pavone officiated at the alternative service so that the objectors had a refuge.
Please continue to stand strong in your support for life! May God be with you.
Thanks, Bethany! Now that I’ve been reading your posts, ditto (except the one missing James, which was sad but so touching and loving). Love your beautiful photos, too. And congrats on the new kitten!
“I firmly believe, without a shadow of a doubt, that he is a Muslim.”
Is that better or worse than being a Christian?
Also, I thought Muslims are pro life:
“The fetus is regarded by all schools of Islamic law has having the right to life, as indicated by the fact that the death sentence on a pregnant woman can be carried out only after she has given birth.”
http://caae.phil.cmu.edu/cavalier/Forum/abortion/background/islam1.html
I was thoroughly outraged at ND’s decision to honor the O-Man this week. We can only hope and pray that this man’s true image as a plastic phony will become more obvious to more open-minded people as the weeks go by.
I wrote this verse last night while sitting on my deck by the Ft. Lauderdale Intercoastal, a great place to pray and meditate.
BLACK & BLUE GRADUATION-2009
SHAME, SHAME ON OLE NOTRE DAME
OUR LADY’S TEARS HAVE ALL BEEN IN VAIN
THAT JOYOUS THUNDER FROM THE SKY
HAS NOW BEEN MUTED TO A SIGH
THE ONLY ECHOES CHEERING HER NAME
ARE BABIES’ SAVED FROM FOCA’S PAIN.
THE GROTTO’S HOLY GROUND SURVIVED,
AND UPON THIS ROCK OUR FAITH WILL THRIVE.
Right, Hal, which is why Susan has an interesting theory.
Jill,
Are you suggesting that induced abortion flunks the Golden Rule test? Methinks president’king fish’ Obama has never been asked aboutthe Golden Rule and abortion.
Talk about contradictions, our opponents tend to be in the “oeace” camp, but have never been asked if they favor peaceful pregnancies from conception till the end. Their evasive answer to such a question would put them in a bad light.
For peaceful pregnancies,
Brent
Jill, I think you mean Pat W. And please, for your sake, don’t join the fringe. Pat says this:
“There will be radical jihad in this country in the future. How soon is unpredictable, but this is how Muslims work. They will do whatever it takes to con us by “be our friend” then turn cold-blooded on us quickly. How ever it all plays out, you can bet his [Obama’s]hand will be in the thick of it.”
And you think that’s worthy of any serious consideration?
I don’t think that Obama is a Muslim, but even if he were a Muslim, there’s nothing wrong with a Muslim becoming president. It really shouldn’t be required to be a Christian to become president.
But, I have no idea what he says about his religious affiliation. Could anyone give me a link to an interview? That could educate me a little better on his opinions. Thanks. :)
But, I have no idea what he says about his religious affiliation. Could anyone give me a link to an interview? That could educate me a little better on his opinions. Thanks. :)
Posted by: Vannah at May 21, 2009 2:59 PM
“I am a Christian, and I am a devout Christian. I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I believe that that faith gives me a path to be cleansed of sin and have eternal life. But most importantly, I believe in the example that Jesus set by feeding the hungry and healing the sick and always prioritizing the least of these over the powerful. I didn’t ‘fall out in church’ as they say, but there was a very strong awakening in me of the importance of these issues in my life. I didn’t want to walk alone on this journey. Accepting Jesus Christ in my life has been a powerful guide for my conduct and my values and my ideals.”
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/januaryweb-only/104-32.0.html?start=2
His actions speak louder than his words, Hal. And Vannah.
This site has a lot of info about PBHO and his background in Islam
http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaIslam.htm
My personal opinion is that he presents an illusion that he thinks will receive the best reception from the audience at hand. In foreign countries, the US is not a Christian nation. At ND we almost sounded Christian again.
Here’s another interview with PBHO on religion
http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/2008/06/06/barack-obama-the-2004-god-factor-interview-transcript/
His definition of sin is being out of alignment with his values. That doesn’t sound like either Christianity or Islam to me.
I never knew you, turn and depart from me you worker of iniquity
Posted by: Hal at May 21, 2009 3:02 PM
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HAL,
pbho is a sectarian humanist. He picks and chooses passages from the ‘book’ to support his liberal political agenda, but he does not know the ‘author’.
His ideology informs his theology.
If pbho did know this ‘Jesus’ of whom he speaks, when he thinks it will garner him favor with men, he would not have resisted a law to protect and care for infants born alive as the result of an unsuccessful attempt on their life by an abortionist.
He would not have opposed the ban on killing viable prenatal infants.
pbho is a captive of liberation theololgy and the social gospel and he is better suited to being a liberal Jesuit theologian than a political leader.
(With apologies to Jesuits who really know and really love Jesus, but absolutely no regrets to those Jesuits who have rejected Jesus and embraced a ‘god’ fashioned in their own liberal, humanist, image.)
I have yet to see one evidence in pbho’s life that would lead me to believe he has been changed in any significant way from the man he was before he met the everRant Jeremiah Wright.
pbho is an accomplished impostor and interloper who can only fool those who share his afflictions. He is ‘gifted’ in speaking what people want to hear in the way they want to hear it, but his words are of no value.
‘religion’ measures spirituality by church attendance and even by that measure pbho is lacking.
Out of the overflow of a his heart, pbho speaks and acts. pbho speaks religious words, but he does not even have semblance of spirtuality, much less the demonstrated effective power to ‘change’ his own life or anyone elses for the better.
yor bro ken
kbhvac, that was beautifully said.
Here’s what Obama says about his own faith:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-yUCg0TASc
I’ve drawn my own conclusions, but I’m curious what other’s will say.
Thank you for the links. I need to educate myself more…
Joan D. @ 2:39,
Thanks for posting your lyrics. Very moving.
Very good article and yes, he’s pro death to the core.
Very impressive, Jill! I hate that our president has no regard for life when it comes to a child growing in the womb. We as Prolifers need to amp up the fight!
Ken,
well said.
Jill,
Right on as usuall.
S
Also, I thought Muslims are pro life…
Posted by: Hal at May 21, 2009 2:37 PM
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Depends on the Muslim. Just as it is with some who call themselves “Christian,” not everyone holds to that ideal. Working at a pregnancy center, one day I got a call from a Muslim woman seeking an abortion. I asked her, to be clear, if it was in fact against her religion to abort. She said it was. That doesn’t mean she didn’t consider it. I don’t know what her final decision was.
“His ideology informs his theology.”
Ken…this seems to be a common problem, doesn’t it? Great post.
ken,
once again, excellent post.
The Obama kool aid drinkers just cannot let go. Though their hero bows before the King of Saudi Arabia, he glad hands a South American thug president, he sits passively as the commie Daniel Ortega rants against the USA, he uses the power of the presidency to destroy two thirds of the American automobile industry, he burdens future generations of Americans with a mountain of debt that makes Bush’s contribution to same look puny in comparison, he talks about the right to conscience even as he takes steps to dismantle those protections, he brazenly breaks campaign promises on eliminating ear marks, he sends Tim Geithner out to impose wage controls in the banking and securities industries, he puts our security at risk by his dangerous naivete on world affairs, he has presided over the loss of a couple of million of jobs with no end in sight, he has no clue as to the real dynamics of private enterprise himself never having worked a real job and living more than half his life in academia–all of this and more–and here we are only at the four month mark. And yet his supporters, like starry eyed adolescents gazing upon the Flawless One, are not to be dissuaded in their devotion to him.
This friend of a bombastic anti-american preacher and terroist anti-american bombers, is now our president. As a state senator he voted against a law that would mandate medical attention be given to babies surviving unsuccessful abortions, as a candidate he lied about his votes on that matter, and then went so far as calling the person who brought it to light a liar, even as the next day his campaign had to release a correction. But of course Obama did not apologize directly to the person he had slighted.
Did someone suggest “word fraud?” It goes well beyond that.
Posted by: Kel at May 21, 2009 8:42 PM
“His ideology informs his theology.”
Ken…this seems to be a common problem, doesn’t it? Great post.
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Kel,
Yes, unfortunately this is one ‘sin’ which is common to all people of all faiths.
A prayer I like to pray is: “Lord, disabuse me of false knowledge.”
Not that I can be ‘right’, but that I may do right.
yor bro ken
Great post Ken.
IMHO, Obama’s words posted by Hal are painfully hollow, an intellectual statement lacking passion or emotion.
“Accepting Jesus Christ in my life has been a powerful guide for my conduct and my values and my ideals.”
Wouldn’t a born-again Christian use the words “Accepting Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior“?
Obama is not the brightest bulb in the box.
He bows to the Saudi king which is so ignorant.
It is not done in Muslim culture.
Muslims do not bow before men.
Muslims bow only to God.
Also in his ignorance, he does not say that he accepts Jesus as Lord and savior which is the usual statement of belief and religious Christians expect to hear it.
He shows himself ignorant of both Muslim and Christian culture.
Posted by: Hal at May 21, 2009 3:02 PM
[pbho speaking]
“I am a Christian, and I am a devout Christian. I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
“I believe that that faith gives me a path to be cleansed of sin and have eternal life.”
“But
‘most importantly’,
I believe in the example that Jesus set by feeding the hungry and healing the sick and always prioritizing
the ‘least of these’
over the powerful.”
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HAL,
pbho SAYS he is a ‘devout’ christian.
pbho’s actions declare otherwise.
pbho is NOT devoted to christianity and he is NOT devoted to CHRIST.
pbho says he sees more value in Jesus’ example to feed the hungry, and healing the sick, than he does in Jesus’ redemptive self sacrifice on the cross.
In thirty two years of ‘being saved’ I have never met or read of a single believer in Jesus who set “feeding the hungry or healing the sick and always prioritizing
the ‘least of these’ over the powerful”
above Jesus’ dying to purchase our redemption.
[Think in terms of going to the pawn shop to redeem that which was once yours, but which you previoulsy exchanged for something of lesser value, and the only one who is authorized (has the pawn ticket) and who has the ability to pay the price of redemption is Jesus.]
The evidence of their changed lives was that they fed the poor, clothed the naked, cared for the sick and protected and provided for the ‘least of these’ among us.
They did not steal, or advocate stealing from others, to meet the need. They relied on God to provide however HE chose. Sometimes HE used their own God given talents and resources and sometimes those of others who freely contributed their time and resources. Sometimes GOD just provided supernaturally, but in all instances HE provided.
[pbho speaking]
“I believe that that faith gives me a path to be cleansed of sin and have eternal life.”
Most believers would find this statement problematic.
It illustrates a misunderstanding of who Jesus was/is and what HE did once and for all people and for all times.
Jesus said eternal life is being intimately familiar with God and with Himself, to know God and to be known by God and the Son.
Followers of Jesus would have experienced the forgiveness of GOD through faith in Jesus and would know that it was a continuing work, but not a path to be cleansed of sin and have eternal life.
Being saved, ‘born again’, was a unique life changing experience, but ‘salvation’ though it includes being ‘born again’ is a continuing process to transform and conform us to the image of a son of God.
This is not our work, but HIS.
Though the process may be incomplete, we are no less ‘saved’. It was and is HIS continuing work that ‘saves’ us continually.
1 John 1:5-2:1
5 And this is the message [the message of promise] which we have heard from Him and now are reporting to you: God is Light, and there is no darkness in Him at all [no, not in any way].
6[So] if we say we are partakers together and enjoy fellowship with Him when we live and move and are walking about in darkness, we are [both] speaking falsely and do not live and practice the Truth [which the Gospel presents].
7 But if we [really] are living and walking in the Light, as He [Himself] is in the Light, we have [true, unbroken] fellowship with one another,
and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses (removes) us from all sin and guilt [keeps us cleansed from sin in all its forms and manifestations].
8 If we say we have no sin [refusing to admit that we are sinners], we delude and lead ourselves astray, and the Truth [JESUS] is not in us [does not dwell in our hearts].
9 If we [freely] admit that we have sinned and confess our sins, He is faithful and just (true to His own nature and promises) and will forgive our sins [dismiss our lawlessness] and [continuously] cleanse us from all unrighteousness [everything not in conformity to His will in purpose, thought, and action].
10 If we say (claim) we have not sinned, we contradict His Word and make Him out to be false and a liar, and His Word is not in us [the divine message of the Gospel is not in our hearts].
Maybe this is what pbho meant when he said,
“I believe that that faith gives me a path to be cleansed of sin and have eternal life.”
I hope it is so, but I do not believe it is so, yet.
It would be illuminating to ask pbho to complete this sentence, ‘If we walk in the light as HE is in the light……’
I do not believe pbho’s teleprompter would be of much help to him unless he has someone on the other end that has some familiarity with Jesus and the ‘book’.
This is not a religious test that must be ‘passed’ in order to qualify to hold a political office.
It is test to determine if ‘pbho’ is what he claims to be, a ‘devout and committed’ christian.
But then there is that problem of pbho saying he prioritizes the ‘least of these’ over the powerful.
Evidently, pbho does not include prenatal infants born alive in the course of an abortion procedure in Jesus’ definition of the ‘least of these’.
Evidently pbho does not include viable prenatal infants who are pulled to within inches of birth and then killed by an abortionist, before withdraws their now dead body from the birth canal in the ‘least of these’.
I tend to side with Keyes on this one. Jesus would not vote for bho for political office, though HE did give HIS life to redeem him.
The question, yet to be determined, is whether bho has endorsed and cashed the check which Jesus has written.
yor bro ken
“I am humble and I am the humblest person I know.”
yor bro ken
“I am humble and I am the humblest person I know.”
yor bro ken
Posted by: kbhvac at May 23, 2009 12:56 PM
You know ,”bro” – it might do you good if you came out from the hole that you seem to dig for yourself on a daily basis. Your sense of reality, perspective and creepy spiritual omnipotence would be well-served by occasionally breathing oxygen instead of a steady diet of your own hot air. I think you’re over-heating in there.
YLT, I think Ken was just saying that President Obama’s statements of faith don’t carry a whole lot of weight. See his comment at 10:20 p.m. on May 21.
OMG! I hate everyone and everything too! I’m so glad I found a Catholic just like me on the internet. I never thought the internet would be a place for accurate quoting, thorough and clear attribution, disclaiming and disclosing, and e-conversion. What an age we live in.
Posted by: Jon at May 28, 2009 1:51 PM
Coming from Ken those words have the theological heft of a bible written by the incoherant cat lady on the Simpsons and spoken by a naked emperor.
YLT, which words? why?