The American Spectator

ruth| 11.7.08 @ 5:08PM

Why is Kmiec such a Palin hater? Is it because she's pro-life?

BJC| 11.7.08 @ 7:26PM

I guess I'm about to be slurred as "very mean," too! I needed some time to get my thoughts wrapped around all the bedrock principles implicated in the right to life. One that eventually I could not get around was the integral principle that one class of human beings might legitmately under our Declaration and Constitution use superior access to declare a different class of human lives as suffering under lesser guarantees of rights. We fought a bloody Civil War over the faulty view that pale-skinned humans could assert ownership of darker-skinned humans. Nowadays pro-abortionists declare it's about "choice" and "privacy" when born humans kill unborn humans, and courts and Left-leaning legislators filled with born humans agree. I see the same "no difference" in both instances of flawed justifications for slavery and abortion. And further I see no satisfactory explanation whatsoever for Professor Kmiec's solicitation of support for Barack Obama, who as Illinois Senator has already been culpable for increased deaths of very young humans who survived their attempted killings through abortions ... only to be left to die according to the Obama regime of denying them medical care. Doesn't this really make Obama today's functional equivalent of yesterday's slavemaster? For the sake of argument, accept Obama's rationale that providing medical treatment for abortion survivors is an "undue burden" on abortions; does that not equally translate directly to a view that providing medical treatment for survivors of near-death beating of slaves is an "undue burden" on slavery?

Richard| 11.8.08 @ 10:46PM

I'm not a Tucker Carlson fan as a rule, but his response to Kmiec's treacly passive-aggressive complaint was, well, warm and satisfying in a way.

Maybe "useful idiot" is harsh. But Kmiec has gotten awful good over the last few months at rationalizing just about everything damaging about Obama's abortion record, no matter how implausible it seems to get.

Jane| 11.9.08 @ 2:47AM

"To suggest - as some Catholics do - that Senator Obama is this year's ''real'' prolife candidate requires a peculiar kind of self-hypnosis, or moral confusion, or worse. To portray the 2008 Democratic Party presidential ticket as the preferred ''prolife'' option is to subvert what the word ''prolife'' means."

So sayeth Bishop Charles Chaput, a bishop of the church of which Kmiec is supposedly an adherent. He mentioned Kmiec by name. Other U.S. bishops have echoed Chaput's words. Mean, all of them.

I think I am the meanest of all, since I believe that Kmiec should be excommunicated from his church.