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The Obama Watch
The Pre-School President
Obama will offer instructions on everything from tires to hygiene, but abortion is still above his pay grade.
Public life in America resembled a pre-school classroom this week: the President informed citizens to “wash your hands” and “cover your mouth when you cough,” while alleged adults at CNN hoisted up letter-grade placards at the prompting of Anderson Cooper and Wolf Blitzer: “What grade would you give President Obama for…?”
What grade would you give President Obama for financing the killing of unborn children at home and abroad, Gloria? That question never came, but he deserved at least a few gold stars from Begala, Borger and Gergen. Indeed, one would have to give him an A+ for corroding “the character” of the country, to borrow his phrase from Wednesday night’s press conference. (George W. Bush did that, Obama implied, by treating terrorists like swine.)
Meanwhile, Joe Biden, concerned about the spread of the swine flu virus, told NBC’s Matt Lauer on Thursday morning, “I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places now.” Apparently Biden has finally found the crisis within six months he promised during the campaign.
Change your tires regularly, wear a condom, avoid Puerto Vallarta — this administration is certainly looking out for the American people. But President Obama remains diffident about giving advice on the issue of abortion, at least advice that could save lives.
Cover your mouth when you cough, he tells citizens, but ask your doctor if you should kill your baby, for “doctors” somehow are in a better position to judge the justice of it than “members of Congress or a president of the United States.” Who knew Obama was capable of such a modest understanding of the federal government’s authority and wisdom?
Did his answer to the abortion question at Wednesday’s press conference contain a single honest word? I wonder about even the thes and the ands. The more garbled his syntax, the more you know he is lying through his teeth: “You know, the — my view on — abortion, I think has been very consistent.”
Then he proceeded to offer a slew of inconsistencies. The “Freedom of Choice Act is not my highest legislative priority”; he had told Planned Parenthood during the campaign that signing FOCA was the “first thing” he wanted to do. “I think abortion is a moral issue and an ethical issue”; a few moments later he treated it primarily as a medical issue. “The reason I’m pro-choice is because I don’t think women take that — that position casually”; moments later he said he is pro-abortion because he considers it a right. Whether women view abortion casually or not is, therefore, irrelevant to him. “I think that those who are pro-choice make a mistake when they — if they suggest — and I don’t want to create straw men here, but I think there are some who suggest that this is simply an issue about women’s freedom and that there’s no other considerations.” Some who suggest? Yes, they are on your staff.
Obama considers the waterboarding of murderers an evil beyond debate, but regards the aborting of pre-born children as “an issue that people have to wrestle with and families and individual women have to wrestle with.” As far as I can tell, there is no wrestling over the issue in his mind at all; babies are down for the count. No Geneva Convention protections for them.
CNN’s Happy Jack Squirrel time aside, Obama’s first 100 days have been despicable, a long opening stride towards tyranny. And millions of Americans just don’t care. It is no wonder Obama talks to them like propagandized pre-schoolers.
About the Author
George Neumayr, a contributing editor to The American Spectator, is co-author, with Phyllis Schlafly, of the new book, No Higher Power: Obama’s War on Religious Freedom.
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Appleby| 5.1.09 @ 7:12AM
Have you noticed that not even King Zero ever mentions handkerchiefs? Sneeze into your sleeve, cough into your hand? What price a clean hankie in your pocket (or in your sleeve where you used to carry your cigarettes)?
Obama is stupid; that is abundantly clear to anybody who has listened to him speak without a script. He is addressing you from the platform of the President of the Grade 6 Student Council.
Considering the collective IQ of those who voted for him, this is just about all his constituency can understand. Wait til they find out he is not going to make it rain Snickers Bars and he cant actually extend Recess to two hours a day or fire all the teachers except the Basketball Coach.
GED| 5.1.09 @ 7:39AM
Hello Dave
get a J.O.B.
SLG| 5.1.09 @ 7:56AM
Obama & his Marxist friends are virtually nationalizing/socializing banks, private companies and car-makers, making a total mockery of Free Enterprise…
But abortion is at the top of your priority list?!?
Our borders are Wide Open and we have 12-20-MILLION Illegal Aliens – and their families appear to be invited by the present pandering bunch in Washington, which will probably double that number. Or more.
And you’re worried about “Choice.”
Corrupt tax-cheaters in government running Treasury and IRS (and another just left under charges of cooking the books of another financial institution, as congress commits TRILLIONS to bail-out banks….
And “abortion” tops your priority list?
Oh, those trillions will supposedly be paid for someday by our grandchildren and their kids, all with the Social Security and Medicare broke – out of money - - -
And you scream at people defending Choice?
Our congress is crowded with corruption and whores catering to “special interest” groups, unions, ACORN and just getting themselves reelected - - -
But you think that the subject of abortion is more important?
Our new Attorney General defended Puerto Rican terrorists, and wants extreme Gun Control measures enacted where each round of ammunition would be bar-coded…
Yet, you have the audacity to call “Choice” advocates pro-abortion? With a sneer…
The extreme left wants Politically Correct talk and threatens Free Speech with more Politically Correct restrictions on what can/cannot be said….
And you object to people disagreeing with you about “Choice”?!?
Obama’s Marxist administration is cutting ‘way back on Defense, Interrogation and Intelligence, which opens the door to terrorist threats designed to kill many, many civilians - - -
While you want the government to step in against Planned Parenthood.
High School graduates read at the third grade level while the drop-out rate hit 50-percent or more, while 40-percent of children are being born to single women – 70-percent of blacks births to fatherless homes…
But you’re more interested in stopping abortions and/or shutting up we who might disagree.
The ACLU and Trial Lawyers insist on more taxpayer-supported “Legal Services” while filing tons of frivolous lawsuits that cost us billions…
- while staunch anti-abortion folk try to equate the word “choice” with a terrible no-no…
Congress won’t allow oil exploration offshore, as it pushes for “Green Energy” while placating the “environmental” community with wind-farms and solar non-solutions.
While you spout an abundance of hot-air about overturning Roe versus Wade.
The socialist breaks his promise about “95-percent of Americans” getting a tax cut – another lie, along with pending tax increases in capital gains, small businesses and hard working producers - - -
But you’re more concerned with folks who suggest that the word “choice” actually means CHOICE…
Sierra Clubbers and Greenpeas block necessary ANWR and oil-shale work as Global Warming kooks parade and make unsubstantiated claims effecting us all in very adverse fashion…
But abortion still tops the list, critics slandering “Pro-CHOICE” people calling them pro-abortion…
Congressional nutcases pack spending bills with stupid stuff like tattoo removal while cutting restrictions on Welfare Reform (which was so successful in getting a few million lazy people back-to-work in ’96) - -
But those things don’t seem to matter to you – abortion, however, apparently matters more.
The extreme left insists on broadcasting restrictions like some kind of “(UN)fairness Doctrine” in order to shut up broadcasters who don’t agree with their socialist agenda - -
And your readership insist that those who disagree with your priorities on the abortion issue Shut Up?
My sporting goods store is out of ammo because of Obama’s pathetic Attorney General and the future fascism so quickly taking over our country…
But, guess that doesn’t matter - - not if you can get away with calling Pro-Choice people “baby-killers.”
Obama and his socialist congress are taking over private industry and clobbering our Constitution….
And Neumayr - - - never mind… I give up.
ConservativeAnchor| 5.1.09 @ 8:05AM
Obozo is a stupid and unprincipled person. His honeymoon is fading and he will destroy the Democratic Party and end up ahead of Buchanan and behind Carter as the three worst Presidents in history.
Bobbi| 5.1.09 @ 8:14AM
SLG-Some of us are quite disturbed (to put it lightly) by the 40+ MILLION Americans slaughtered since Roe v. Wade. We are also saddened and angered by a president who actually voted to allow infanticide to be practiced in Illinois when he was a state senator. I don't think anyone is choosing one issue over another. It's just another (of many) issue that Barack Obama is on the wrong side of for me. Another reason to be a strong voice of patriotic dissent.
Bill| 5.1.09 @ 8:49AM
Well stated Bobbi.
Hey Davey you are up and still giving us a laugh with our morning coffee. Missed ya...... lol
saberZedge| 5.1.09 @ 9:23AM
Does the trollman David (middle initial "I") Mathews as in DIM (get it David) get up real early every day and continue to hit his refresh button so he can be the first to post his "witty" remarks when a new artical is posted?
Big J| 5.1.09 @ 9:29AM
SLG: ALL of the items you list are of equal importance (to me at least). Right or wrong, when one writes an article, it's best to pick a topic and stay with it. The topic in this article just so happens to be Obama's radical pro-abortion stance. It would literally take a novel to list all of his radical and socialist views.
It drives me nuts when people accuse conservatives of caring about only 1 or 2 issues. That is certainly not the case. I would remind you, however that the unalienable rights endowed by our creator start with LIFE: liberty and the pursuit of happiness follow the first. I believe that is because without the first, the others are not possible.
Furthermore, I don't recall anyone telling you to "shut up", unless I missed a post. I certainly wouldn't. Free speech is one of the most valuable rights we have. Remember, it would not exist in your world had your mother made a choice other than the one she made.
I think the article is a good one. Sadly, the liberals in this country prefer to offer more rights to convicted murderers and terrorists than they would offer an unborn human being. That is a true statement. I welcome your rebuttal to it, but please provide proof.
I think I'll call my mother now and thank her for making the "choice" she did :)
DougN| 5.1.09 @ 10:11AM
Dave, give it up. You won't be able to trademark or copyright "politically irrelevant extremist minority" even if you do repeat it over and over and over and over and over and...
Little t| 5.1.09 @ 10:19AM
Well, it's actually worse than that.
In his opposition to the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, Obama showed his unwillingness to extend basic protections to babies born alive during an attempted abortion.
JJ JR| 5.1.09 @ 10:21AM
Y'all,
Three cheers for Mr. Neumayr's intellect as aptly displayed in this article. The paradox and grotesqueness of Obamanation providing Constitutional protections to terrorists who would incinerate us all in second while doing EVERYTHING imaginable to increase abortion is too much to fathom. He's a fascist monster!
Sheryl| 5.1.09 @ 10:56AM
I haven't quite figured out what got SLG in such a lather, but this article never says that nothing matters besides abortion. I think it should be pointed out, though, that while many other issues are very important, if we do not have the right to life, the most basic right of all, we have no rights at all. No one has a right to be "pro-choice" regarding the taking of someone else's life. Mr. Obama imagines every other issue in the world to be well within his "pay grade." I'm not sure why figuring out that people have a fundamental right to not have their lives stolen from them is above that "grade."
JP| 5.1.09 @ 11:14AM
SLG,
In 1945-46 when much of the world was literally starving, and dieing in horrific fashion, the Supreme Command of Europe and the State Department began an very lengthy and expensive investigation of the murder of 6 million Jews. While this was going on, Communist riots and insurrections were occuring in France, Italy, and Greece. Palestine was in civil war, Indo-China had a full blown revolution as did China and parts of North Africa.
In the US, a very sharp recession was taking hold as millions of vets were returning and the DOD was dis-arming.
With all of these problems, why in the world would the US and Great Britain care if a few million Jews were murdered? The Soviets at the time refused to stand-down thier 320 combat divisions in Europe (roughly 3 million men, 25000 tanks, and 100,000 guns). With the Soviets poised to "finish the job", why do you think Truman and his State Dept risk diplomacy investigating Nazis atrocities?
In 3 years some 50 million babies were violently butchered. I think a nation that can do that has more problems than what you describe. Truman knew that Justice is the foundation of any civilization. What we are doing now is not only unjust, but barbaric. A nation that can slaughter its own children is capable of any sin.
Son Of Sam | 5.1.09 @ 11:59AM
Hello SLG,
If our President doesn't give a frogs fat ass about the right to life of the most innocent members of our society, why should he care anything about YOUR rights? The same lying politician who believes that children who survive an abortion should be left to die also believes that terrorists who slaughter Americans should be allowed to live...do you really think that this same slimeball is going to care about your rights to free speech or self defense? Do you think he cares whether illegal aliens steal your job, sell drugs to your kids or cancel out your vote? For that matter, do you notice there are NO Dems or libs out there arguing that the President should stop "obessing" with abortion and get on with socializing the banks or sucking up to the bomb throwers in Iran?
The libs understand that all these issues are inextricably linked; that's why they proceed forward on all issues and all fronts at all times. We conservatives must do no less.
stay strong until freedom dawns
Son Of Sam
http://www.geocities.com/samadamssos
dissident66| 5.1.09 @ 1:46PM
This Administration has shown the nation and the world just how incredibly ignorant and inept they are. If I were not a native citizen of this land... I would think this is all great comedy....but being who and what I am I can see it as nothing short of catastrophic tragedy.
If we had a parliamentary form of government.... I am willing to bet my left gonad that we would be having a vote of no confidence / recall election within 90 days..... sadly we do not have this option.
ds80| 5.1.09 @ 2:38PM
Copperhead David Matthews regales us with ever-so-insightful wisdom. Here's the executive summary: "Blah blah blah". Turn the page, David. We've heard that same blather for eight years.
Here's the real point: David, you didn't address a single point in the article or anyone's post. By any measure, that qualifies your post as just "background noise". Is that your escape from the reality of the evil of abortion? Come on, David: answer up: which babies are okay to kill?
David| 5.1.09 @ 3:43PM
SLG, Big J has it right. A person's right to life IS the most important issue. Protecting the lives of the weakest among us should be our number one concern. There are many issues important to conservatives, but somehow, my pocket book and how full it is just doesn't seem quite as important as taking innocent life.
Carpenter| 5.1.09 @ 4:25PM
SLG, I can almost sympathize. A few weeks ago George Will, a very well known columnist with some conservative credentials, wrote an article bemoaning the predominance of blue denim trousers in American society. I felt a small piece of the lather you seem to be in at that time, considering the grave issues that are all around us. Of course, some might argue that an obsession with other people's garment choices at a time when the world is smouldering and our great nation is stumbling towards socialized ruin is unworthy of a serious political writer. Well, SLG, George Will may be heading in the direction of Maureen Dowd or Paul Begala, Olberman or Matthews, but this matter is really worth having a clear opinion about, as well as many of the issues you have raised. As Mark Steyn puts it, "the future belongs to those who turn up for it" . If we continue to countenance our genocidal abortion policy, and allow it to be sanitized by referring to it as "choice", we really don't need to wonder what the future will look like. It will be ugly.
Carpenter| 5.1.09 @ 4:32PM
And speaking of lightweight, intellect-free irrelevance, it is great to see David Matthews' comments again.
Michael Tomlinson| 5.1.09 @ 4:43PM
Is anyone surprised that an arrogant liberal suffering from NPD would treat Americans like pre-schoolers? How soon do you think he'll be lecturing us on why its in our best interest to wipe his ass with our laws and Constitution?
As for BO's mindless drones (Tom Paine, Dave Matthews and all the other mind numb Democrats who defend BO's excesses) they can kiss my oh so fit derriere.
Pete| 5.1.09 @ 5:07PM
Americans are just relieved and overjoyed to watch a president speak smoothly after eight years of mush-mouth Dubya.
We marvel at the wine-like flow of rhetoric and the handsome visage of Obama.
Something doesn't seem right.
Jon
San Diego
Jon
Katie| 5.1.09 @ 5:20PM
Great article. Anything and everything to deconstruct any semblance of a family-based society will in the end be its downfall. At least Mr. Obama is consistent in that!
Neumayr sucks cocks| 5.2.09 @ 2:48AM
Public life in America resembled a pre-school classroom this week: the President informed citizens to "wash your hands" and "cover your mouth when you cough," while alleged adults at CNN hoisted up letter-grade placards at the prompting of Anderson Cooper and Wolf Blitzer: "What grade would you give President Obama for…?"
I'm going to be laughing my ass off when your family gets the pig flu, George.
George Neumayr sucks dick| 5.2.09 @ 2:50AM
He told me to wait... No, now he wants cocks. But no pig germs please. He wants clean cocks. No pig or swine flu please. But they have to be "big".
Ok George, go for it.
WoW| 5.2.09 @ 2:52AM
George Neumayr loves dick.
George's Preschool Teacher| 5.2.09 @ 2:58AM
George didnt gradute pre-school, forgive him. He does get a bit obsessed over his betters.
Back to your corner George.
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the-gunslinger | 5.2.09 @ 12:51PM
Obama is nothing more than a "Marxist Grad Student"
I didn't say it, but I wish I had. A more perfect description would be hard to find.
Lance Boyle| 5.2.09 @ 12:54PM
Righteous indignation? Preaching to the choir? Knocking y’r head against the wall in masochistic fashion? WASTING EVERYBODY’S TIME - - except the zealots who thrive on anti-abortion ranting?
That sure seems to be the response to SLG’s earlier comments. Face it, with the present Marxist bunch, you’re sure not going to get any laws changed. With the courts’ compositions, ditto. So, that’s much akin to Whistling In The (proverbial) Dark, AKA Wasting Everybody’s Time.
With, as he/she illustrated rather eloquently, so many other more critical problems facing our poor country, the zealotry of the extreme “social conservative” faction is almost unfathomable. Almost.
Like, let’s agree, nobody (with the exception of a few deranged wackos) really likes abortion, right? Hence SLG’s point: Misplaced priorities. Get the tough stuff fixed and maybe win a few elections. Then try going after your arch-nemesis, abortion. Or “choice.”
But, there again, there have been bombings, a few arson attempts and even shootings – so, let’s hope that those who object so vehemently are just going to continue ranting and not exert themselves further.
the-gunslinger| 5.2.09 @ 1:07PM
Get the feds out of housing, mortgages, education, medicine, farming, welfare, pork-barrel spending, the market, the economy, etc...and they could concentrate on the ONE job they're supposed to be doing: defense & borders.
Every problem we've got can be traced to Big Government. Time to cut it down to size. Bickering about individual issues can make us lose sight of the big picture, the big problem...which is big government.
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Charles Martel| 5.2.09 @ 8:48PM
SLG, what you seem to be failing to grasp is that we are all working together to defeat the Community Organizer and his minions on ALL of these subjects, and that we can reverse his murderous policies on abortion at the same time. That is what we will be doing in the next two elections: replacing first his enablers in Congress, then replacing him. And we will do this with candidates who are pro-liberty, pro-capitalism, pro-defense, and pro-life all at the same time.
It's voters like you who have me worried, though. November will roll around, and you'll be saying how much you want to strip Obama of power, but those fool Republicans have sided with the unborn again, so you just can't bring yourself to pull the opposition lever. And then you'll blame us. Reflect, and persuade yourself that that would be a grave error.
As for our friend David Mathews, he says "You voted for George W. Bush, right? You loved Sarah Palin, right?" as though those are bad things. Looking back, I see George W. Bush winning two elections, presiding over nearly seven years of prosperity (brought down in the end only by the machinations of the Democrats), and keeping the country safe and strong, even to the point of finally persuading our often reluctant allies, who responded by electing new conservative governments more in line with our own. Looking ahead, I see Sarah Palin or someone like her picking up the pieces of our wrecked republic once we have chased this mistake-in-chief out of office.
Come on, SLG, let's all do this together. The weeping from the David Mathewses of the world alone would make it worth it.
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stmichrick| 5.2.09 @ 10:05PM
In the world view of some yuppie liberals I know well;
Regarding the dichotomy of O's position on abortion contrasted with waterboarding of mass murderers: so anti-intellectual of us to point it out.
Rome is burning.
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ds80| 5.3.09 @ 7:12PM
So... with Lance Boyle's arguments, no-one should have paid any attention to the plight of slaves in America, at that time, either.
That dog don't hunt, Lance.
Dennis White| 5.3.09 @ 7:33PM
Sorry to be so late in responding to Abbleby's rant of 5.1.08. The reason King Zero (and every other health care provider/commentator) doesn't menition handkerchief is that after sneezing or coughing into one, you handle it and put the virus on your hands. Of course idiots like you could always just blow snot into it and toss it on the floor.
Steel Cstings | 5.4.09 @ 3:40AM
That's probably why you are a politically irrelevant extremist minority.
Appleby| 5.4.09 @ 6:44AM
Dennis, have you ever heard of Kleenex? Or dont they sell those where you live? How is blowing your nose into a disposable tissue and then keeping it until you cross paths with a trash can NOT a better option than sneezing into your hand and then wiping your snot all over the stair rail, the subway pole or strap, the door handle or the next person you feel impelled to shove out of your way so you can finish the job on the ATM keyboard?
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