Yes I'm a Black man, and I won't vote for Barack Obama for President of the United States.
Today I saw on the Internet an editorial cartoon that was originally published in the Chicago Sun-Times. It had God, Senator Obama, and a baby. God was touching the baby's forefinger. Obama stands behind the baby and holds a sign that says "LIVE BIRTH ABORTION." Obama screams at God: "YOU KEEP OUT OF THIS!" Suddenly everything made sense to me, maybe not by words to God, but by actions -- actions which speak much louder than words. By his actions Obama says a lot, both to God and to Christians.
In a Human Events article "Obama More Pro-Choice Than NARAL" by Amanda B. Carpenter, December 26. 2006, she writes:
"In 2002, as an Illinois legislator, Obama voted against the Induced Infant Liability Act, which would have protected babies that survived late-term abortions. That same year a similar federal law, the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, was signed by President Bush. Only 15 members of the U.S. House opposed it, and it passed the Senate unanimously on a voice vote."Both the Illinois and the federal bill sought equal treatment for babies who survived premature inducement for the purpose of abortion and wanted babies who were born prematurely and given live-saving medical attention.
"When the federal bill was being debated, NARAL Pro-Choice America released a statement that said, 'Consistent with our position last year, NARAL does not oppose passage of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act ... floor debate served to clarify the bill's intent and assure us that it is not targeted at Roe v. Wade or a woman's right to choose.'
"But Obama voted against this bill in the Illinois senate and killed it in committee. Twice, the Induced Infant Liability Act came up in the Judiciary Committee on which he served. At its first reading he voted 'present.' At the second he voted 'no.'
"The bill was then referred to the senate's Health and Human Services Committee, which Obama chaired after the Illinois Senate went Democratic in 2003. As chairman, he never called the bill up for a vote.
"Jill Stanek, a registered delivery-ward nurse who was the prime mover behind the legislation after she witnessed aborted babies' being born alive and left to die, testified twice before Obama in support of the Induced Infant Liability Act bills. She also testified before the U.S. Congress in support of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.
"Stanek told me her testimony 'did not faze' Obama.
"In the second hearing, Stanek said, 'I brought pictures in and presented them to the committee of very premature babies from my neonatal resuscitation book from the American Pediatric Association, trying to show them unwanted babies were being cast aside. Babies the same age were being treated if they were wanted!'
"'And those pictures didn't faze him [Obama] at all,' she said.
"At the end of the hearing, according to the official records of the Illinois State senate, Obama thanked Stanek for being 'very clear and forthright,' but said his concern was that Stanek had suggested 'doctors really don't care about children who are being born with a reasonable prospect of life because they are so locked into their pro-abortion views that they would watch an infant that is viable die.' He told her, 'That may be your assessment, and I don't see any evidence of that. What we are doing here is to create one more burden on a woman and I can't support that.'"
This man who wants to be President of the United States would allow survivors of botched abortions to die when they could have been given life support. That is cold and heartless, isn't it? I ask Christians, is that the attitude that God is pleased with? Can God smile on that? Proverbs 31:8 says: "Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction." I would say that describes those babies left to die, those babies that Obama would allow to die. One woman said that God brought Obama this far not to let him down. Do you seriously think God anointed and appointed such a man like that with a heart and a character to let those deaths of infants continue? There is a word for it - infanticide.
Can God bless infanticide? Does God bless infanticide? Is it "Suffer the little children" or "Let the little children suffer"? Which one did Jesus Christ say? I forget. Help me out with that one.
On the subject of Jesus, I saw another article on World Net Daily called "Why Jesus Would Not Vote for Barack Obama" in which the above-mentioned nurse Jill Stanek wrote: "In February 2004, U.S. Senate candidate Barack Obama's wife, Michelle, sent a fund-raising letter with the 'alarming news' that "right-wing politicians" had passed a law stopping doctors from stabbing half-born babies in the neck with scissors, suctioning out their brains and crushing their skulls.
(What a lovely picture that makes. What did I say about "let the little children suffer"?)
"Michelle called partial-birth abortion 'a legitimate medical procedure,' and wouldn't supporters please pay $150 to attend a luncheon for her husband, who would fight against 'cynical ploy[s]' to stop it?"
Stanek continues: "As a nurse at an Illinois hospital in 1999, I discovered babies were being aborted alive and shelved to die in soiled utility rooms. I discovered infanticide.
"Legislation was presented on the federal level and in various states called the Born Alive Infants Protection Act (BAIPA). It stated all live-born babies were guaranteed the same constitutional right to equal protection, whether or not they were wanted.
"BAIPA sailed through the U.S. Senate by unanimous vote. Even Sens. Clinton, Kennedy and Kerry agreed a mother's right to 'choose' stopped at her baby's delivery.
"The bill also passed overwhelmingly in the House. NARAL went neutral on it. Abortion enthusiasts publicly agreed that fighting BAIPA would appear extreme. President Bush signed BAIPA into law in 2002.
"But in Illinois, the state version of BAIPA repeatedly failed, thanks in large part to then-state Sen. Barack Obama. It only passed in 2005, after Obama left."
That was a good thing.
The article "Obama's Abortion Extremism" in the April 2, 2008 edition of the Washington Post says:
"But Obama's record on abortion is extreme. He opposed the ban on partial-birth abortion -- a practice a fellow Democrat, the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, once called 'too close to infanticide.' Obama strongly criticized the Supreme Court decision upholding the partial-birth ban. In the Illinois state Senate, he opposed a bill similar to the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which prevents the killing of infants mistakenly left alive by abortion. And now Obama has oddly claimed that he would not want his daughters to be 'punished with a baby' because of a crisis pregnancy -- hardly a welcoming attitude toward new life."It really boggles my mind that people who say they are Christians will vote for him.
It is bad enough that Obama is "pro-choice," which is a euphemism for pro-abortion.
Ever since 1973, seventeen million Black babies have been destroyed in the womb and disposed of. In 1977, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. said that abortion is "genocide against the Black race." (FYI: Go to www.blackgenocide.org.) In 1984, he flip-flopped on that issue for some reason.
Every day over 1200 Black babies are being aborted, with no outcries from "Black Leadership," especially Barack Obama. Did you know that abortion is largest cause of death in the black community today? Is it any wonder that as a whole, that as a "minority" group, Hispanics have passed Blacks in population? Our numbers are dwindling. And who is allowing that to happen? (The Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nations are not complaining about that. They would complain if we were saving our babies instead of killing them. At the rate we are going we will put them out of business because we are doing their job for them, aren't we? They may picket and protest us for taking their jobs away.)
Let the little children suffer, right?
Many Blacks will vote for Obama simply because he is Black. They want to see a Black man in the White House which is fine and good. But what kind of Black man do we want there? It is the color of the skin or the content of character that is more important? Did we really believe what Martin Luther King, Jr. said or did we not? Let's be real. To Christians I ask is having a Black man in the White House more important than the lives of babies, including Black babies? Is having a Black man in the White House more important than moral principles based on God's Word? What is more important to you: Black Pride or God's Word? Which one would God want you to choose? (See Proverbs 31:8 again or remember Exodus 20:13 "Thou shalt not kill.") You know this world is under the influence of two entities: God and the Devil. If you choose Black Pride and reject God's Word, who have you really chosen by default? When Black Pride directly opposes God's Word, which one do you feel will win over the other? And rejecting God's Word is pure hell for Black folks, isn't it?
Here is what Rev. Wayne Perryman, author (Unfounded Loyalty and What the Media Failed to Tell American Voters), says about the subject:
"Most of the intelligent/informed blacks know that the entire abortion program was sold to the general public during the height of the civil rights movement. It was a time when both the general population and Congress were sensitive to the struggles of blacks and women, so it was the perfect time for the pro-choice advocates to play the race card. They did so by emphasizing that poor blacks did not have the funds to obtain abortions like many of their white counterparts; consequently many were forced to go to places that were unsafe and unregulated.Let the little children suffer."Congress ignored the fact, that as a race, African Americans were never interested in aborting their children. It was not unusual for blacks to have as many as ten or more children to work the family farm (often as sharecroppers). Other siblings found other odd jobs to help supplement their family's income. Large families meant more laborers to share the workload. Even during the hardship of slavery, blacks never aborted their children. Blacks also believed that abortions were biblically wrong. Nevertheless, by making abortions a woman's rights issue and a racial issue, the proponents of abortions gained public and congressional support.
"Their support also helped Margaret Sanger fulfill her dream of reducing the portion of the population that she referred to as: "the unfit," meaning African Americans. Sanger is credited with starting Planned Parenthood and the "Negro Project," a program to reduce the black population in America. The supporters of Obama who feel that the abortion issue is not that important, should consider the following:
- Isn't it strange that Planned Parenthood, the agency that supports abortions and birth control, is the same agency that was started by Margaret Sanger, the same woman who started the Negro Project; which was the same project designed to control the birth rate of African Americans - because she felt blacks were inferior?
- Isn't it strange that Congress seems to have unlimited funds to give to young black mothers to kill their babies (through abortions), but it struggles to find funds for pre-natal care if they decide to let their baby live? How can blacks support a candidate who is willing to provide unlimited funds to kill them (seventeen million black babies since Roe v. Wade), but is hard pressed to find health care funds to help heal them?
- Intelligent blacks present the question this way: Under the banner that a woman has the right to choose, why is it that the government has unlimited funds to help the black baby die, but has limited health care funds to help the baby live?
- It is estimated that the government has spent billions to kill the seventeen million black babies (since Roe V. Wade). This is why concerned blacks ask: Why did the government decide to fund abortions? Was it out of the concern for the poor black mother, or was it to slow down the birth rate of African Americans due to Afro-phobia? Had those seventeen million babies lived during the past thirty-four years and each had two children of their own, the black population in America would be close to ninety million, thus making it the largest ethnic minority voting group in America?
- How can blacks condemn Jim Crow and Klan for killing thousands of blacks, and yet support a candidate that defends a program that killed 17 million blacks?
- Do blacks find is strange that the same party that supported the slavery, Jim Crow and the Ku Klux Klan is the same party that supports the killing of black babies?
"In the debates on abortions, they often fail to mention that both Oprah Winfrey's mother and Jesse Jackson's mother were teens when they became pregnant, and because of their unique situation, they had every excuse to abort their child - but chose not to?"Blacks must always remember that all of their great leaders, from Jesus to Jackie Robinson, came through the womb of a woman. The womb of the woman is the only pathway to life. We must cherish it, protect it, and honor it, recognizing that it is the gateway that God uses to deliver His diversity of gifts to mankind. Therefore, African Americans should never support any candidate, whether they be black or white or Democrat or Republican, that endorses a system that has killed and will continue to kill over 17 million blacks."
Of course I would like to see a Black man as President of the United States. I'm African American. This is America. Blacks have made many strides American society. One of us should have the most important job in the United States as well as being a recognized leader on this earth.
However, this time around my vote will not go to Barack Obama. He has been weighed in the balance, character-wise, and was found wanting.
I just saw a news report that the world wants Obama as President.
I do not.
Robert Oliver is a writer, photographer, and a radio commentator in Southern California. Email interactionswest@gmail.com
We don't care, dude. Don't vote for Obama. You still have 2 independent choices, and then you have McCain. Which do you think have your best interest at heart? McCain? I think you may be too smart to believe that one, huh...then again?
Despite the irrelevant comments, this is a great commentary.
You make some great points, Robert. I have been concerned for a long time that the black race is being annihilated by abortion. Where is the liberal outrage? Why aren't Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton concerned? It makes me very sad. I am a nurse in an inter-city hospital, and I have had some black patients who have reported having 10 -25 abortions. It sickens me! McCain and Palin are the only responsible choice.
Sarah Palin may care about unborn fetuses but there are so many others that she doesn't care about.
Sarah Palin doesn't care about all the innocent Iraqi babies and children that are being killed by the American forces as she supports the Iraq war and it's continuation into the future.
Ms. Palin doesn't care about the women who become pregnant from rape and incest. She believes that they need to continue the pregnancy in these horrific conditions.
Ms. Palin doesn't care about those people suffering from horrible diseases given the fact that she opposes stem cell research which holds great promise for those with serious and fatal diseases such as Alzheimers, Cancer and Parkinson's disease.
Ms. Palin doesn't care about animals as she supports the barbaric and inhumane practice of aerial hunting of wolves and bears and offers a $150 bounty for each wolf front leg that you bring in. She also supports taking the Polar Bear and Beluga Whale off the Endangered Species List so that they can be hunted since these animals are getting in the way of more arctic oil drilling.
If your only compassion is for the unborn fetus you've got a long way to go.
This is wild and here are the facts.
Frankily, I don't plan on voting for Obama or McCain.
There is nothing wrong with caring about the unborn. The unborn are human beings not just fetuses.
People who are Pro life are against the Iraq war. It's a total lie and a stereotype to assume that all Pro-Lifers don't care about Iraqis or our American troops fighting overseas. That's an outrageous lie. Really, people like you don't care about the unborn being protect.
Also, you use the rape and incest card all of the time. The truth is that Roe v. Wade extends abortion to almost all trimesters of the pregnancy beyond rape and incest. Why don't you mention that. Also, Roe is a violation of the right to life and federalized child murder. You don't punish a unborn child that's innocent for the actions of a criminal. You punish a criminal.
Also even though I don't agree with Palin on every issue, Palin does support stem cell research. She just opposes the unethical escs. Not to mention that new procedures exist that you don't have to kill embryos to have embryonic like qualities. IPCs are other alternatives have the same embryonic like properties without having to kill or use embryos at all. Adult stem cells and others have done more cures and treatments than the Embryonic types have ever done. That lie is refuted. Plus, treatments for bones being broken and other diseases have been done now as a product of adult stem cells. Why don't you comprehend that?
As for the animals, I don't agree with that. The reason is that I believe in conservation and I reject aerial hunting of wolves. I believe in legitimately protecting animals. This doesn't mean Palin is wrong on everything. She is right to oppose abortion and she is right to support gun rights.
Sorry, but you don't have compassion for the unborn human being and use half truth in justifying your apparent support for shedding innocent blood.
By Timothy
Obama has defended his vote, so I will not bother to do so here, as readers either will not be swayed (given the title of the site) or will do their own research. There is one interesting point you raise, though, that I'd like to explore.
"It really boggles my mind that people who say they are Christians will vote for him [Obama]."
Given the teachings of Jesus Christ, do you think that he would cast his vote for John McCain? McCain was, after all, one of the biggest cheerleaders for the Iraq war, which has killed thousands upon thousands of innocent people. McCain and the GOP also do far less to help the impoverished than Obama and the Democratic Party, and the Democratic platform would ensure better stewardship of the Earth. Jesus might not pull that lever as quickly as you assume.
It really boggles my mind is that people who say they are Christians will vote for a pro-war candidate...despite their savior being known as The Prince of Peace.
Timothy,
I never insinuated that all people with Pro-life beliefs support the Iraq war. I was writing about Sarah Palin who does support the war (and its continuation) and who is also Pro-life. She (like President Bush) says that she wants to protect unborn babies but she supports this reckless and unnecessary war in Iraq and thus seems to not care about whether thousands of children and babies (both born and unborn) have been and are being killed there.
I also didn’t say anything about Roe v. Wade. I said that Sarah Palin opposes abortion even in the case of rape or incest which I believe is unjust. Do you believe that if a 15 year old girl was raped (by a stranger or relative) that she should have to carry this pregnancy to full-term? She would have been traumatized many times over!
Sarah Palin supports aerial hunting of wolves and bears despite the fact that most Alaskans find it "barbaric and inhumane" and wildlife experts and biologists say that it’s "unnecessary". If it’s considered barbaric and unnecessary, why would Ms. Palin support it? For the fun of it??? From my perspective, that’s amoral.
Sarah Palin may have compassion and concern for unborn babies but she certainly doesn’t have any concern for anyone else and that concerns me.
The writer is right about Planned Parenthood.
He is wrong about Barack Obama. Obama wants to reduce the number of abortions. He and Sarah Palin support late terms abortions if the life of the mother is at risk. He does not believe mental distress is should justify late term abortions.
Palin wants to outlaw abortion even in the case of rape or incest. But supports abortion if the mother's life is at risk. Ironically she put her own child at risk in April. She went into labor in Texas, but chose to fly to Alaska, without notifying the flight crew, to have the baby,at a small facility in her home town.
There are already laws on the books that protect the lives of infants. Children in Illinois. They have been there since the 1970's. So far in all these years only Jill Stanek, has reportedly seen these live births.
The purpose of the bill was overturn roe vs. wade. Obama is a Constitutional Law professor and he had a problem with the language. He believes women do not make this choice casually.
I remember reading about a pregnant teenager, that called a number in the phonebook. Turned out to be a pro life counseling service. They didn't pressure the girl, they just let her know about alternatives to abortion, and that they were their to help her, before and after the birth of the child. That's what is needed. Choose life counseling centers.
Andrea Mossontte,
Thanks for your clarification, but I didn't justify Palin's support for aerial hunting.
As for partial birth abortion. It isn't a late term abortion. It's murder. Doctors and researchers have outlined that the procedure is so barbaric that a save the life of the mother exception isn't necessary. Also, if Roe is gone, that doesn't mean all abortion is banned. It means that abortion issues are granted into the states. Some people don't get that.
Also, there is nothing wrong with banning abortion for rape and incest? Nothing. What right do anyone have to kill an innocent human being in the womb for the crimes of a criminals. For those crime, you punish the criminals with jail time, not the unborn who is innocent and done no crime what so ever. Also, traumanization against women via abortion is common irrespective if the child is born or murdered via abortion. So, in your mind, every unborn baby should die because they were a product of rape. Great inventors, musicians, etc. were born by rape. Should they all die? No, I don't play God and life ought to be protected.
Roe v. Wade was based on deception and lies. Counseling is needed, but typically pro-abortion people offer no common crowd except token talk.
Barack Obama claimed that he supported the federal, but not the state bill, because it didn't have a Roe v. Wade stamp of approval behind it. He opposed the early state bill of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act in 2001 for that reason. He opposed it for 2002. Obama told Senator O'Malley in a speech that he opposed it because he said "...As I understand it, this puts the burden on the attending physician who has determined, since they were performing this procedure, that, in fact, this is a nonviable fetus; that if that fetus, or child - however way you want to describe it - is now outside the mother's womb and the doctor continues to think that it's nonviable but there's, let's say, movement or some indication that, in fact, they're not just coming out limp and dead, that, in fact, they would then have to call a second physician to monitor and check off and make sure that this is not a live child that could be saved..." This is an erreneous argument, because you are to immediate save a live irrespective if a physician is there or now. You delay saving a life with the with a delay by a doctor. Now, first, Roe v. Wade was a badly worded law that equated privacy with murder. Barack Obama accused many pro-lifers as liars when they question his voting record ..ion. He said that he supported the federal bill not the state one (from 2003. Even NARAL was neutral on the BAIPA bill) since he feels that the state one threatened Roe v. Wade. Also, the federal and the state bill were identical in their wording as discovered by the NRLC. This controversial obfuscate the truth that Obama is the most pro-abortion Presidential candidate in America. He has voted in support of all forms of abortion at any stage of development. He has never voted on any legislation to even radically reduce abortions at all. The new argument for the pro-abortion crowd (like Alan Colmes) in support of Obama is that a law was already on the book to protect babies who survived abortions. There is such a 1975 law. However, there was a condent decree entered into in 1993 called that "Herbst-O'Malley" consent decree which retrained and prevented the enforcement of that very law. Laws do exist preventing murder of babies, but a law involving the protection of aborted surviving infants were compromised. In Conclusion, Barack Obama doesn't support infanticide since I take him at his word. Yet, he does support abortion and nearly worships Roe v. Wade so much in paranoia that he voted against a tame (non-threatening) BAIPA bill on the state level. Not to mention that even if the BAIPA bill was passed, it still wasn't going to end Roe v. Wade. Even if the bill had anti-Roe v. Wade language, Roe v. Wade ought to be banned anyway (abortion was much less before 1973 than after the passage of the federal Roe v. Wade law).
The skeptics will have to bring it since we Pro Lifers aren't going away. We we be here for decades and centuries to come.
Dear MrUniteUs,
I'm sorry to have to correct you, but I have been an OB nurse for over 10 years. i can assure you that babies being aborted are often born alive during certain types of abortions. The kind that Jill Stanek was describing is the practice of inducing labor before the baby is viable. Usually the baby will be born alive and live for several hours. I have seen this many times. It happens everyday. What Jill was trying to achieve was comfort care for these babies. You are uninformed.
Here is a criticism I personally received:
The cartoon did what it was intended to do. Caused an emotional response that is not based on reality.
God has more of an issue with Bush and Palin selling lives for oil money than he has issues with saving lives with legal abortions. the sex, drugs and bribery scandal involving the oil industry Palin and Bush have sold America to those killing the entire earth. This is real, selfish and greedy. God created the earth for all life and no one has the right to abuse the earth or all life by destroying quality air, water and earth. I have the right to life and so do all plants, animals and people. Warshipping money over all existing life is not better than supporting abortion laws most thinking people support. In fact, many more lives R destroyed by people who think money is God than by the cartoon version of life you are afraid of.
Your life perspective is not real. Cartoons R 4 children. Grow up and talk to real people, research history, investigate child abuse, adoption problems, birth defects, infant mortality rates, incest, child pornography realities and the lack of joy in most children's lives because they know they are not loved or wanted. Then think about way U want to force women to have children your world does not love or respect.
With millions of decent black people in US, why they have chosen a guy like this?!!!
I understand that abortion is a extremly important issues to millions of Americans. But, while I would never have an abortion myself, I know that people will always find ways to have them, in back alleys if necessary. I believe that Barack Obama will fight to bring down the number of abortions, but he will also fight to make sure that every child that is born in this country is given healthcare, good education, and a safer world to live in. If I thought the same things about McCain/Palin, I would vote for them instead but given their stances on the economy, healthcare, and the environment, I am much more afraid for the children that have already been born. Pro-life, Pro-Obama.
It makes me sick that you do not understand the corruption that is in the Republican party. I wonder if you have read about Ken Lay and Enron and George Bush's association with him. I wonder how many friends he has at AIG. Oil and money is all they think about. Give tax breaks to the wealthy after all it's more important that they have money in their pockets than that the government has money to run the government. The Republicans have no concept on the balancing of revenues (Taxes) and expenditures. We are sending jobs overseas (600,000) this month and giving the compainies tax breaks to do it. George Bush and John McCain have no sense about balancing the budget or checks and balances set in place to make big companies accountable. I hope they and their cronies are not selling the United States down the river.
Sandra Pritchett
Hey waz up