“The disappearance of Obama’s abortion reduction plan: one theory”
This blog post by Obama-leaner Steve Waldman, founder and editor-in-chief of Beliefnet.com, may signal the end of serious attempts by Obama to woo moderate Evangelicals by portraying himself as pro-abortion reduction despite the fact he is radically pro-abortion.
By trying to straddle the issue, Obama has apparently been gaining no ground with religious folk and may have been losing more ground with Hillary supporters. Recent actions indicate Obama may be abandoning the ploy. I submit the release of the BornAliveTruth.org Gianna ad has had something to do with it….
At the Saddleback Forum, Obama boasted, accurately, about how he’d stuck a sentence into the Democratic platform encouraging support for women who wanted to take a baby to term instead of having an abortion. Pro-life progressives hailed that sentence as a great victory and sign that he might be able to win over moderate evangelicals and Catholics with this new “third way” approach.
Then, the first abortion ads put out by the Obama campaign, didn’t mention abortion reduction….
Last week, they put out a second abortion ad, this one trying to deal with the charge that Obama supports infanticide. They had two different (not mutually exclusive) ways they could have gone: Show themselves to be abortion moderates by emphasizing abortion reduction, or show McCain to be an anti-abortion extremist by emphasizing the Republican platform. The Obama campaign chose the second path. Again, no mention of abortion reduction.
Meanwhile, I picked up a copy of the Obama campaign’s “Plan to Renew America’s Promise.” Though it mentions reducing unintended pregnancies, it dropped the sentence about helping women carry babies to term.
My uninformed theory on what’s happened – there was always a tension for them between two goals: 1) appealing to pro-choice moderate women and 2) appealing to pro-life moderate evangelicals and Catholics. They’ve now concluded:
Winning moderate evangelicals is hopeless and, it turns out, centrist Catholics just don’t care all that much about abortion. Given that, it makes more political sense to reach out to those pro-choice women.
Of course this obviously leaves them open to charges that they didn’t believe in abortion reduction all that much in the first place.
Finally seeing the light, Steve?
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.
Steve’s not paying attention to the essential details.
Most people now think the question was “When does life begin?” (And Tom Brokaw as well as much of the MSM did a good job of helping the Obama camp reset this as the question.)
So that’s what Steve now remembers:
But Warren’s question was really “When does a baby get human rights?”
We (those who know the Born Alive Truth) know why Obama couldn’t answer him and made that ridiculous statement, but Steve is either a) intentionally avoiding the true question, or b) hasn’t looked into the abortion issue and Obama’s stance that would reveal why his response was ridiculous.
In the end Steve, despite a faith (in what?), seems to be okay with saying most Americans think that killing human beings should be safe and legal.
Here is a link to an article mr. o’bama wrote on politics and religion.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-07-09-forum-religion-obama_x.htm
I gotta lotta laughs writing commentary to his arrogant and condescending platitudes.
When you are dealing with someone who practices deceit, who elevates it to an artform, you can not take at face value anything he writes, or says, or even does. Because mr. o’bama has to deceive himself first, then even he no longer recognizes what is truth and reality. mr. o’bama’s sentiments are weighty. They would not be any less so if he really believed them. I agree with much of what he wrote. It is a pity he does not.
yor bro ken
One cannot possibly “lean” Obama and have an ounce of “belief” in the One true God.
Obama’s radical and vile stance on abortion precludes anyone who is Chrisitan from supporting this man for dog catcher, (poor dogs,) never mind POTUS.
Those who do will share in his guilt on that day, and will then truly know what it is to tremble.
Is Obama a true Christian or a Muslim?
Does he really believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ? Can Obama pass the Jesus Test?
Take the Jesus Test to find out if you are a true Christian at http://www.sentforlife.com/jesus.html
Here’s an editorial on Obama’s “change” strategy, in just a few words and a photo:
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j214/yodavater/Change_Obama.jpg