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.
