State Senator Barack Obama, consensus builder on infanticide?
An Associated Press article from late 2007… stated that his legislative career was “focused more on building consensus to improve the justice system and aid the poor” than fighting opponents on hot-button issues….
“That strikes me, from what I know of Barack Obama’s time in the state senate, as just being pure mythology and pure public relations invention,” [Eric] Kohn [former Cook County GOP Communications Director] told TheDC….
Perhaps Obama’s best-known and most controversial votes during his time in the state Senate were the ones he cast against the Infant Born Alive Protection Act, which would have mandated care for children who were delivered after an unsuccessful late-term abortion.
At the time, Obama argued that the bill was unconstitutional and would serve to undercut the Roe v. Wade decision, and questioned whether hospitals were actually allowing infants to die after failed abortions. He voted “present” on the legislation and changed his vote to “no” the following year.
Obama also voted “present” – and then, later, “no” – on bills that would have outlawed so-called “partial-birth” abortions in Illinois unless the life of the mother was threatened, and “no” on two bills that would have prohibited the use of state funds to pay for abortions. He voted “present” on a parental-notification law for minors seeking abortions.
The “present” votes, he later explained to Illinois Planned Parenthood CEO Pam Sutherland, were a strategy “to protect members… and women.”
“What it did,” Sutherland told ABC News, “was give cover to moderate Democrats who wanted to vote with us but were afraid to do so.… A ‘present’ vote would protect them. Your senator voted ‘present.’ Most of the electorate is not going to know what that means.”
Obama’s flawless pro-choice voting record earned him a 100 percent approval rating from Planned Parenthood, which remains one of the most powerful organizations in Democratic politics at both the state and local level.
~ The Daily Caller, September 25
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 is approximatley 12 inches in length and hangs in front of the terminus of an alimentary canal?
the obamateur’s tie…..that compliments his empty suit.
“What it did,” Sutherland told ABC News, “was give cover to moderateDemocrats who wanted to vote with us but were afraid to do so.… A ‘present’ vote would protect them. Your senator voted ‘present.’ Most of the electorate is not going to know what that means.”
If I am understanding this excerpt correctly, it is saying that some politicians are so unprincipled that they will vote present in order to confuse their constituents out of knowing their true positions. That’s pretty low. Furthermore, if you hold positions that you don’t want your constituents to understand, it may be time to rethink them.
If there’s one thing I hope Romney will zing Obama with during the debates, it’s our president’s abortion voting record.
That and the miserable presidential record of the last four years.
On election night of 2008, I wept when I saw he had won. I knew, I KNEW what having Barack for president would mean for us. His pro-choice record should have been enough.
But no. America would have to find out on its own. And boy, is it ever.
So keep hammering on it, Daily Caller. If the alphabet soup networks won’t report, someone has to!
Just noticed.
That photo of b o reminds me of Louis Armstrong, affectionately known as ‘Satchmo’ and ‘Pops’.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y3_kH9nYcA
“I hear babies cry, I watch them grow
They’ll learn much more, than I’ll never know
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world”
Satchmo made the world a little more wonderful.
the obamateur has made it more ‘hellish’
On the abortion issue, Obama is to the left of most abortionists.
Most of them don’t do abortions as late (post) in gestation as Kermit Gosnell did.