It would be funny if the subject matter wasn't the destruction of unborn children in the womb. Time magazine's Amy Sullivan asked in a Swampland blog post headline from February 4: "Barack Obama, Pro-Life President?"
Sullivan's evidence? Well, the president has picked a Pentecostal preacher -- who once worked for a New Jersey Congressman with a 100% score by NARAL Pro-Choice America -- to head his faith-based initiatives office and "abortion reduction" is one of the major stated goals of one of the president's advisory boards:
We already know that Obama plans to officially announce Joshua DuBois' appointment to be director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships tomorrow, as well as the unveiling of his newly-formed Presidential Advisory Council of the same name. But I'm told by a religious leader who will be part of the Council that the president also plans to lay out four priorities for the Council. They will include focusing on global poverty (not surprising), the impact of economic recovery plans on low-income Americans (ditto), the faith-based initiative (OF COURSE), and...abortion reduction.
Now that's interesting.
No, what's, interesting, to say the least, is how Sullivan can honestly suggest that the NARAL-endorsed Obama -- who promised to sign a Freedom of Choice Act should it reach his desk -- is pro-life merely because he'd like to see abortions reduced, or, in the words of former President Clinton, "rare, safe, and legal."
You don't have to be pro-life to hope that abortion is "rare," but true pro-lifer advocates do not settle for the notion that abortion shall always or should always sanctioned by the state as a "right."
—Ken Shepherd is Managing Editor of NewsBusters
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Just another slobbering Obama suitor
February 6, 2009 - 18:10 ET by needleNo, what's, interesting, to say the least, is how Sullivan can honestly suggest that the NARAL-endorsed Obama -- who promised to sign a Freedom of Choice Act should it reach his desk -- is pro-life merely because he'd like to see abortions reduced, or, in the words of former President Clinton, "rare, safe, and legal."
Exactly!!!
This completely disqualifies for TIME any claim on objectivity or balanced perspective. TIME is just another slobbering Obama suitor, no more and no less.
Impunitas semper ad deteriora invitat.
misnomer
February 6, 2009 - 18:28 ET by SickofLibs'Abortion reduction' to this crew really means you're in and out of the office faster.
In the words of Abraham
February 6, 2009 - 18:35 ET by motherbeltIn the words of Abraham Lincoln: Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one.
Just like Her Speakerness calling herself an "ardent, practicing Catholic."
I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson
Evil IS as EVIL does
February 6, 2009 - 19:06 ET by MotherObama was the ONLY senator to vote "NO" for allowing medical treatment to babies that survive late-term abortions. THE ONLY ONE.
A man that usually votes "present" as a senator votes pure EVIL for one of the few times he gets off his ass to make a statement and everyone looks away?
Obama is not only retarded and narcissistic but evil incarnate.
Get used to it.
This is just the beginning of the end unless people really start making waves and speaking up.
The chameleon candidate is
February 6, 2009 - 19:18 ET by ReaverThe chameleon candidate is trying to be the chameleon president, with a little help from his friends.
DuBois
February 6, 2009 - 20:16 ET by GothampcHow is a 26 year old with an undergrad degree in political science and a masters in public affairs considered a Pentecostal pastor? I guess I'm a doctor because I drink Dr. Pepper.
actually goth
February 6, 2009 - 20:31 ET by porpoiseboyaccording to the commercials.....you're actually a "pepper" if you drink dr pepper. ;-)
"Here comes the orator! With his flood of words, and his drop of reason" Ben Franklin
Ecclesiastes 10:2 The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left
Be a pepper
February 6, 2009 - 20:44 ET by CobraManWouldn't you like to be a pepper too?
Obama: My job is above my pay grade
Bush, Pro-Choice President?
February 6, 2009 - 20:41 ET by lotrSigh. I take it that this flunkie never wrote such a column during Bush's tenure.
And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. -- Edgar Allan Poe
LOTR
February 7, 2009 - 02:06 ET by thebutlerdiditThe articles that old Andy "bareback" Sullivan wrote during Bush's time, and about Gov. Palin, have to be some of the most bizarre, troofer crap I have ever read. For a gay guy, he is obsessed with female reproduction parts. If he was allowed, he would be on a flight right now to Alaska, flashlight in hand, to examine the Palin women's wombs. But, on the plus side, he has really, really tight glutes.
Bringing the government in to run Wall Street is like saying, "Dad burned the dinner, let's get the dog to cook." PJ O'Rourke
mystery
February 7, 2009 - 08:36 ET by lotrHow is such a nutcase still gainfully employed?
And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. -- Edgar Allan Poe
LOTR
February 8, 2009 - 04:53 ET by thebutlerdiditI have my suspicions. I take it that you haven't seen his personal ad, have you? I have always wondered if that was how he kept his job. That, and the fact he is a nutty lib.
All a Democrat needs is the upper-story window of public attention and the chamber pot of rhetoric. How else to explain the rise of Joe Biden? P.J. O' Rourke
Not a bother
February 6, 2009 - 20:47 ET by CobraMan"We already know that Obama plans to officially announce Joshua DuBois' appointment to be director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships tomorrow"
So I guess that separation of church and state thing that the liberals keep complaining about is no longer a problem?
Obama: My job is above my pay grade
Label inversion
February 6, 2009 - 22:01 ET by Pilgrim1949....and by that same criteria and line of "thinking" (in this case, the word is only most tenuously used here) Herr Adolf was therefore a full-blown kosher-keeping supporter of Jewish rights....
Somehow it's consistent liberal illogic, though ---- when in debt to 12 maxed-out credit cards the best thing to do is to get 12 more and max them out in an orgy of stimulus/spending (but not to pay off any of the other balances)....surely that will negate and solve the previous finanacial difficulties.
Uh huh...and if you believe that, have I got a lovely congressional/senatorial seat you might be interesting in buying..... It comes with a free bridge...
silly logic
February 6, 2009 - 22:39 ET by TN MomBy this logic, Time's Sullivan must also believe that obama has 'the most ethical adminstration in history' because he bans lobbiest from working in the WH (yet lets one dozen lobbiest in thru the back door).
btw, I bet Rev Wright, Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton and their many followers across the nation are a bit peeved they didn't get the call to lead obama's faith based initiative offices. oops!
More Obamanations
February 7, 2009 - 09:22 ET by Sergeant ROCKJustice nominee's porn agenda raises alarms
At an appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week Ogden said he belives child pornography laws are important, even though he's previously argued against them. He also said he regretted his previous pro-porn arguments. And he said that despite his previous positions, he doesn't think foreign law should prevail in the U.S.
"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason
Bolton/KEYES 2012
Sarge - I can't believe this is happening
February 7, 2009 - 09:37 ET by Dee Bunkand all with the help of a Trojan horse designed by Obama and built by the media. I get more and more upset every day.
'Change' you can believe in!
February 7, 2009 - 09:44 ET by Sergeant ROCKObama is the biggest fraud ever to occupy the Whitehouse for any number of reasons. But what can you do? Thinking people are outnumbered by the MTV-educated, celebrity-worshipping socialists that put this idiot in office.
If the GOP doesn't stand firm and thwart his efforts and make gains in 2010, Obama will destroy much more than the economy. At that point, I believe it will come to blows.
"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason
Bolton/KEYES 2012
I agree Sarge and if the GOP doesn't make HUGE gains in 2010
February 7, 2009 - 12:15 ET by Dee Bunkwe can kiss Freedom goodbye for good. Obama and the Dems have much of their power due to the brainwashing media but there are still half the people not buying the bull. Unfortunately the Dems don't need 50% support for anything because they have institutionalized fraud with judicial activism, voter fraud, and Gerrymandering districts. Obama isn't just adding to those evils, he's growing them exponentially and he's also coming up with new ones like unconfirmed cabinet level power and politically manipulated Census taking.
I fear it's too late already, because our candidates need to win so substantially to overcome the fraud. I've seen it here in IL. Obama and the Dems have nowhere near the support in this state as it appears from voting totals. That's why Mayor Daley can win with almost Saddam Hussein percentages and Our infamous Governor Blago could win reelection convincingly despite extremely low approval ratings.
Mayor Saddam Hussein (D)
February 7, 2009 - 12:23 ET by Sergeant ROCKYou hit all of the good points. I would only differ, call it 'blind opitimism', in that we still have the 2010 elections as a possible turnaround. That's assuming the Republicans don't join hands with democRATS in destroying the country on some of these insane bills like this 'stimulus' nonsense.
That said, I'm with you. Myself, I'll be moving to Ruby Ridge, if push comes to shove.
"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason
Bolton/KEYES 2012
You and I both, Dee...I'm
February 7, 2009 - 10:15 ET by motherbeltYou and I both, Dee...I'm about ready to bail.
It's getting to the point where I can't even read NB without my head beginning to pound.
Apparently "pro-life" just means he doesn't want every baby aborted.
That is such a piece of crap argument. I'm sick to death of those who want abortion to be "rare" claiming they are pro-life!! They are in favor of the "life" that they deem worthwhile!
And if there's nothing wrong with it, why worry about making it "rare"?????
Every time I hear one of these idiots, I remember Her Speakerness, that "ardent, practicing Catholic" <gagging sounds> saying that "when life begins" shouldn't impact a woman's decision to have an abortion.
<sound of duct tape ripping off roll>
I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson
I'm ready to bail also MB
February 7, 2009 - 11:48 ET by Dee BunkI already don't watch the MSM and I still can't take them. Just watching clips of Obama's commie lecture on Fox when I got home last night made me so sick.
I can't believe the media are letting him get away with this crap. If they ever wake up, I fear it will be too late. I also can't believe that his sheep followers fall for his phony baloney.
He's not just steeling our money, he's steeling our dignity. There's not much separating us from animals in Obama land. Many will have to grovel for scraps and kill their children to survive under him. The era of self determination and family values is over. Very disturbing.
Dee
February 8, 2009 - 04:57 ET by thebutlerdiditThe media knows exactly what it is doing. Ergo, there's nothing for them to "wake up" from.
All a Democrat needs is the upper-story window of public attention and the chamber pot of rhetoric. How else to explain the rise of Joe Biden? P.J. O' Rourke