How liberal bloggers are helping stop abortion
A September 29 Politico story identified liberal bloggers as the “professional left” President Obama, VP Joe Biden, White House chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel, and WH spokesman Robert Gibbs have been complaining are kneecapping Obama and his agenda by their constant complaints.
Politico linked to a September 27 post by liberal blogger Peter Daou entitled, “How a handful of liberal bloggers are bringing down the Obama presidency.”
“The essence of their critique is that the WH lacks a moral compass,” wrote Daou.
We could have told them that. A man who supports partial-birth abortion and allowing abortion survivors to die has no moral compass. But since liberals have that same amoral compass they, of course, wouldn’t see that.
One evidence of a missing moral compass in the mind of liberals is, according to Daou, that “the Obama administration appeared to collude with BP to bury the Gulf spill, squandering a historic opportunity to reverse the anti-green tide… a moment of truth for environmentalists.”
Even more egregious to them is Obama’s authorization of the assassination of US-born citizen Anwar al-Aulaqi, a suspected terrorist now believed to be hiding in Yemen, without a trial. Daou quotes a commenter:
Obama’s extraordinary claim he has the power to order the assassination of any American, anytime, and anywhere puts him on a par with King George III, Ivan the Terrible, and other tyrants throughout history that held the power of life and death over their subjects.
Obama has set himself above the Constitution, as an American Barrack The Terrible, with the power to detain us indefinitely, torture us, and assassinate us at his will.
Obama is not like Bush, he is far worse: he is a tyrant and a threat to the American people.
Wow.
I find the aforementioned terribly fascinating, even if slightly off topic. But it all leads to a germane point for social conservatives, which is, as Daou wrote:
[I]t’s the merging of left-right opinion that is so damaging to Obama. In other words, Obama could sustain relentless attacks from the right, it’s what everyone expects, but when the left joins in, the bottom drops out. That’s why opinion-shapers in the liberal blogosphere exert inordinate influence over Obama’s fortunes. And from the growing alarm at the WH, it’s clear they know it….
The single biggest reason Obama’s hope bubble burst is because of the unintended convergence of left and right opinion-making. The cauldron of opinion that churns incessantly on blogs, Twitter, social networks, and in the elite media generates the storylines that filter across the national and local press, providing the fodder for public opinion. Stalwarts of the left, dedicated to principles not personalities, hammered the administration; couple that with the partisan criticisms from conservatives and libertarians, and the net effect was to alter conventional wisdom and undercut Obama’s image and message.
Add to that the Tea Party, a conservative movement Obama and the Left can take full credit for creating by forcing their liberal agenda down the center-right American throat, which is simultaneously…
- correcting the Left-veering Republican ship
- getting conservative candidates elected
- ousting so-called “moderate” and liberal politicians
… and you have a Democrat/liberal Three Mile Island.
Included in the meltdown is liberal feminism and abortion. Daou gave 16 examples in a September 1 piece entitled, “The demise of the left and the new (un)reality: a center-right America,” which are all worth reading, but I’ll just post those of interest to pro-lifers:
Let’s face it, these are dark days for the left. As we barrel toward the November elections and an almost certain triumph for the GOP, we are losing the national debate and making giant strides backward on key issues. It’s the new (un)reality…
- Feminism is being redefined and repossessed by anti-feminists.
- Women are facing an all-out assault on choice.
Pro-lifers may complain the Tea and Republican Parties aren’t placing enough emphasis on the Life issue. But apparently it is being brought along as part of the center-right tsunami.
This may or may not be a window of opportunity that closes. But we should treat this moment in time as such and push ever harder. We are in a very real war to save the lives of innocent babies and need to quickly develop a surge mentality.
One other point to reiterate that I made last week: Keep blogging and keep commenting. Obviously we’re making a difference.
[Graphic via Zazzle.com]
This is encouraging. Strange bedfellows. I commit to keep blogging.
Assault on choice? They ain’t seen nothin’ yet. I have a dream: As more and more young people wake up to the effects of abortion, looking around at the empty chairs in their classrooms in jr high, high school, and at the universities, “choice” will become irrelevant. We don’t need to worry about physical assaults on choice: the youth will simply leave it behind, shaking it off their feet like so much dust. Keep working to wake them up, shine the light on the holocaust that is abortion. Press on! Press on!
I love this part:
“Obama is not like Bush, he is far worse: he is a tyrant and a threat to the American people.”
Hoo-boy, if this comment was made by a liberal…then the kool-aid has really worn off.
On to November !!
Fighting the good fight!!
Cranium, when was the last time you walked into a school? Go walk into a few and see. Some schools have been closed and turned into other things, like stores. Other schools are boarded up and abandonned. My extended family includes children in several school districts that we attended when we were young: many of those schools are closed, and the kids are bussed on slightly longer routes to consolidate them into fewer buildings. Enrollments are down, and the statistics can’t be explained away by homeschooling. Population autumn is already here, and population winter is either imminent or on its way. Many parts of Europe and Eastern Europe are already in the midst of population winter. Look it up, see for yourself.
Obama is a two-faced jerk. I’d tell him to his face, politely and in a soft voice.
Obama will never deign to talk to us little people. But that’s fine with me. Remember, pro-life people have more children. So if the pro-aborts want to continue aborting themselves out of existence, the rest of us normal people will be happy to help women recover from the horror perpetrated on them by abortion. Then we’ll re-populate the world with real humans.
Jill said: “We are in a very real war to save the lives of innocent babies and need to quickly develop a surge mentality.”
Jill – we can’t forget the suffering many women endure after having an abortion. The fight is for them also. Not to downplay the efforts of so many in the pregnancy center movement, but the truth is most young women have little to no real choice if they are not supported in their decision to carry their children, by their families and men who do not hold solid values of loving women through enduring commitment.
And to abortion-choicers: no – taking a young woman who wants to carry their child to an abortion clinic is not a solid commitment.
Population Autumn? Are you serious? What lack of people? Are you aware that the world’s population has more than doubled in the last 50 years? What lack of people in America?
Also, an enormous number of people from all over the world have come here to become citizens.Legal aliens,that is.
The notion that the human race has to start making babies on a massive scale to avoid catastrophe is beyond ludicrous. This canard is routinely used by anti-choicers as a n excuse to advocate making abortion illegal.
But these anti-choicers just don’t realize that you can’t expect people to just keep reprodiucing if they are too poor to provide for their children,because all this does is
cause more poverty,unemployment, and death of those children from malnutrition and starvation.
Saying that the entire world poplation could fit into a tiny area and using that as an excuse to advocate unchecked growth of population is not only totally unrealistic but grossly irresponsible.
Yes,the entire world population could fit in a tiny area,but this ignores certain inconvenient facts. First of all, the world has only a limited amount of inhabitanle space. There are vast areas of the world which are totally uninhabitable. There is absolutely no way to settle large numbers of people here.
Second, any one who thinks that the world has unlimited resources of food,water,living space,fuels and energy is hopelessly deluded.
Already, spreading populations are starting to interfere with animal populations, and this is causing serious problems with bears, coyotes and other animals losing land and causing harm to people and themselves.
I’m not sure about global warming, but no one should allow this controversial issue to
cause complacence about environmental problems.
The world already has too many children growing up in abject poverty,malnutrition, filth,
and disease. We can’t afford to bring a huge number of more children into the world who are doomed to a life like this.
Oops. Should read “inhabitable space”.
The world already has too many children growing up in abject poverty,malnutrition, filth, and disease. We can’t afford to bring a huge number of more children into the world who are doomed to a life like this.
Hi Robert,
What are you doing to help these children? Besides advocating for their murders before they are born?
Your bigotry against the poor is truly sickening.
FYI
My family sponsors two children through Compassion International. A letter a couple of years ago let me know that one of the families had ANOTHER baby born into poverty in Haiti. Darn. If I would have only known, I could have told this mother to abort, cause that would have helped.
::eyeroll::
Carla, exactly. Got a hard-to-solve problem? By all means, start the killin’! I mean, really, is that the best pro-aborts can come up with?
And overpopulation is the biggest myth and lie ever. I don’t buy it now. Go to France or to Eastern Europe, or Russia and tell me about overpopulation.
And this brings up something else. Atheists, you can tune out now. God told Abraham to look up at the sky and observe the stars. Just so shall your descendants be. Our space program has been stalled and crippled by apathy. People would rather buy things and be selfish than embrace space exploration. Do we not have the intelligence and the means and the will to get off this rock? It’s a beautiful rock, yes, but it isn’t the only one in the solar system, the galaxy, or the universe. Look up at the stars… now reach for them.
Ninek,
Why not just kill all of the poor people and put them out of their misery?
No more poverty, malnutrition, filth or disease, right Robert??
Win Win.
I’m bigoted against the poor? How can you make such a foolish assumption? On the contrary,I’m very concerned for them. Unless we can greatly decrease poverty,there is absolutely no way to expect poor women to give birth.This is why abortion is so common.
You anti-choicers just don’t realize that you cannot force women to give birth against their will, especially if they are too poor to provide for them. That’s why I’m so opposed to conservative politicians in America.They scream endlessly about the “right to life” and the “sanctity of life”, but they consistently vote against providing more government help to the poor,and especially poor pregnant women. They are nothing but the rankest hypocrites.
The late Henry Hyde, some one I despise, was one of these.Because of his opposition to abortion, many poor women have been forced to give birth to children they could not provide for, and abortions still remains common in America.
Ironically,under the despied “baby killer” Barack Obama, the abortion rate could decrease greatly,because he favors more help for poor pregnant women. It’s Obama who should be your hero, not the REAL baby killer Hyde and other hypocritical republican politicians.
I did not use “derogatory language with any one here,and never have.I use harsh language to try to make you anti-choicers realize how misguided you are. You cannot try to force women to give birth against their will.This cannot be done. It has never been done and never will.
To make abortion illegal again in America will not only not stop it but greatly increase them and cause the deaths of many women or leave them with ruined health and severely disabled.
Like all pro-choicers,I don’t like abortion and don’t want abortions to happen.
I just realize that all you can do is to provide much more help to poor pregnant women.
And we don’t have remotely close to enough of this in America to prevent abortions.
Much more has to be done, and only the government can provide enough help to rememdy the situation. The private sector can only do so much.
Cranium, my response to Hal was listed as such because the rule Hal was talking about applies to commenters.
And you know what? You are SO freaking far off-topic that I’m going to delete your and Hal’s comments. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. How’s that for enriching?
And btw, the fact that those comments were posted on another THREAD and you chased me down here quoting them proves you are wholly and completely a troll with no reason to be here other than to harass pro-lifers on a pro-life website.
I responded on a newer thread to ensure that I would get your attention as I found your response to the situation to be somewhat less than salubrious.
Disagreeing with you and arguing a point, and responding when inaccurate information is given hardly qualifies as harrassment.
And shall I start using the monicker ‘Cranus’ as given to me by someone one of the other threads?
” Stalwarts of the left, dedicated to principles not personalities…”
Huh???