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September 6, 2007
WHO IS BARACK OBAMA (Part 6)
Filed under: Politics — The Truth Sleuth @ 4:19 pm
Although Senator Obama had invited his pastor to pray the invocation at the formal announcement of his candidacy for the presidency last February, the prayer was cancelled at the last moment. Rev. Wright blamed the cancellation of his prayer on Senator Obama’s political advisers, who he felt wanted the senator’s campaign to get out of the starting gate without being saddled with the kind of controversy Mr. Obama’s close association with him would undoubtedly create. Despite the cancellation of his public prayer, Pastor Wright still prayed privately with the Obama family just before the senator’s public presidential announcement.

In an interview in March, Rev. Wright admitted that his constant criticizing of the establishment would not aid Senator Obama in his auditioning for the ultimate establishment position. “If Barack gets past the primary, he might have to distance himself from me,” Rev. Wright conceded. He even admitted that he had “said [so] to Barack personally” and that the senator had responded, “Yeah, that might have to happen.”

While none of us should look for the good reverend to be sharing a public platform with his presidential-aspiring parishioner, there’s no reason for any of us to doubt that the good reverend will continue to have the ear of our would-be president. The Obama campaign may steer clear of the good reverend in public, but one cannot help but wonder how much the campaign’s candidate will be steered by his controversial clergyman in private.

We all know that the old adage “What you see is what you get” is not applicable to today’s politicians. When it comes to present-day politics and the public persona of political candidates, what we see is hardly ever what we get. Being constantly told by their political handlers what positions to take, what words to say, and even what clothes to wear, today’s politicians are nothing more than actors and actresses acting out roles that the latest opinion polls suggest should be played.

If ultraliberal Barack Obama can persuade voters that he is a moderate capable of uniting all Americans between the two extremes of liberalism and conservatism, he deserves an Oscar. His theatrical performance will place him among the greatest political thespians of all times, since he’s really no moderate at all, but an unconscionable liberal who has actually staked out positions to the left of NARAL (National Abortion Rights Action League). For example, let’s consider Mr. Obama’s unconscionable opposition in 2002 to Illinois’ Induced Infant Liability Act.

Jill Stanek, a registered delivery-ward nurse, became a leading opponent of “live-birth abortions” after witnessing the dastardly deed firsthand at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois. In this abominable practice, a newborn that survives a botched abortion is left abandoned until it dies. When Nurse Stanek brought this unconscionable practice to the public’s attention, she was met with stern opposition from a little-known Illinois state legislator by the name of Barrack Hussein Obama.

In 2002, the Illinois State Legislature attempted to outlaw this abominable practice with its Induced Infant Liability Act. Although one would think that no decent human being could possibly oppose such legislation, Barrack Obama did so. His indefensible opposition to a bill designed to protect the lives of newborn babies and his shameless support of abandoning newborns to die should come as no surprise, however, since Mr. Obama twice attempted to kill similar legislation in committee. The first time he did so by voting against a bill brought before a committee upon which he served; the second time he did so by keeping a bill from even coming up for a vote before a committee that he chaired.

Jill Stanek actually appeared before the committee that Barack Obama chaired, the Illinois Senate’s Health and Human Services Committee. Despite photographs of premature babies she presented to the committee and her own eyewitness testimony of how newborns were being left to die after surviving botched abortions, Mr. Obama blocked his committee from even voting on outlawing “live-birth abortions.” In the end, Nurse Stanek chillingly concluded that her words and pictures “didn’t faze him [Obama] at all.”

What kind of a man is Barrack Obama? How can anyone be so calloused and cold toward the most innocent and vulnerable among us? I don’t know about you, but I’m extremely uncomfortable with someone living next door, much less at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, who remains unfazed in the face of something as reprehensible as “live-birth abortions.”

In the same year that Mr. Obama voted against a state law outlawing “live-birth abortions,” the United States Senate voted unanimously for a federal law to do so. Even the U.S. Congress passed the legislation with only fifteen dissenting votes. What’s more, President Bush signed the legislation into law with the support of N