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Neverborn votes Life #1 on November 4th.

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October 2008 undercover video shot by Students for Life uncovers truth about babies born alive during abortions:

Students for Life of America (SFLA) released undercover footage of a nurse at a Title X, federally funded Freehold, New Jersey Planned Parenthood facility describing how an abortion would be performed on a 22 week unborn child. View the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnlHNbAh6xY. In case this video is removed by Youtube, you may also view it on Eyeblast at the following link: http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?v=e46UqG8zSU

In the footage, the Planned Parenthood nurse describes to the pregnant woman that the abortion would entail delivering her son alive and, after the woman asks if the baby can be born alive, the nurse admits that "it does happen, but it wouldn't be able to survive on its own so eventually the baby does die."

Listen to Obama's own justification for not supporting legislation to protect the babies that "accidentally" survive this kind of abortion.

I can just hear the collective rush of heads going back into the sand without watching or listening to this video, or grasping what it means.

I find it so ironic that so many college students support Obama. It is one-third of your very generation that died in abortions like these and earlier-trimester abortions. If your parents were strapped for cash, or having marital problems, or too focused on their careers at that time, this could have been you.

You are the lucky ones. You get to live to vote. One-third of your same-age contemporaries are not around to vote. Maybe one of them would have been your soulmate, your future spouse.

Are you really going to throw away your vote on a man who supports an organization that allows and admits to infanticide?

If so, what is next?

• "Obama's prime-time ad skips over budget realities"

  Now Obama says he'll "cut taxes for every working family making less than $200,000 a year"?

  It used to be for those making less than $250,000 .

• Joe Biden, his VEEP candidate, now bumps that down to under $150,000.

  (Do I hear under $100K? Under $75K? Wait for it...)
  

• Just as Obama is doing, "Bill Clinton promised a 'middle-class tax cut' in 1992 only to raise taxes on the middle class in 1993."

• "Remember when the [Alternative Minimum Tax] AMT was only supposed to hit 21 millionaires? Next year, without relief, it could hit 26 million taxpayers. Tax increases always hit the middle class because that's where the money is."

  Not only will those making under $150,000 or under $200,000 NOT get tax cuts, they'll get new taxes, under Obama.

• "One economist who observed this [legal] tax avoidance was Austan Goolsbee, of the University of Chicago, who is now a top Barack Obama adviser. In a 1999 paper, 'What Happens When You Tax the Rich?,' Mr. Goolsbee wrote that 'the higher marginal rates of 1993 led to a significant decline in taxable income.'...We saw a similar tax effect in 1992 when Bill Clinton raised tax rates. The Wall Street crowd accelerated income [etc.] to pay [taxes at the lower rate], not the expected higher rate. One of those who cashed out in 1992 was Robert Rubin, who would soon join the Clinton Administration."

• "A Federal Communications Commission investigation of on-air military analysts is providing a glimpse of what Democrats and an Obama administration will do to critics once they capture Washington."

• "If Iraqis could vote it would be for McCain"

• ACORN Whistleblower Testifies In Court--and she's an Obama supporter, and she's not alone in blowing whistles...
  

  "[T]his spring, [Citizens Consulting Inc., the umbrella group through which most of Acorn's money flows] was paid $832,000 by the Obama campaign for get-out-the-vote efforts in key primary states. In filings with the Federal Election Commission, the Obama campaign listed the payments as 'staging, sound, lighting,' only correcting the filings after the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review revealed their true nature."

• "The real 'change' being put to a vote for the American people in 2008 is not simply a break from the economic policies of "the past eight years" but with the American economic philosophy of the past 200 years.

  "The goal of Sen. Obama...is to move the U.S. in the direction [where]... business is allowed to create 'wealth' so long as its utility is not primarily to create new jobs or economic growth but to support a deep welfare system.
  ...
  "This would be a historic shift, one post-Vietnam Democrats have been trying to achieve since their failed fight with Ronald Reagan's "Cowboy Capitalism."

  "Of course Cowboy Capitalism built the country. More than any previous nation in history, the United States made its way forward on a 200-year wave of upwardly mobile, profit-seeking merchants, tradesmen, craftsmen and workers. They blew out of New England and New York, rolled across the wildernesses of the Central States, pushed across a tough Western frontier and banged into San Francisco and Los Angeles, leaving in their path city after city of vast wealth.

  "The U.S. emerged a superpower, and the tool of that ascent was simple -- the pursuit of economic growth...

  "Now comes Barack Obama, standing at the head of a progressive Democratic Party, his right hand rising to say, "Mothers, don't let your babies grow up to be for-profit cowboys. It's time to spread the wealth around."

  "What this implies, undeniably, is that the United States would move away from running with the high GDP, high-growth nations rising today as economic and political powers and move over to retire with the low-growth economies we displaced -- old Europe.
  ...
  "Many voters -- progressive Democrats, the asset-safe rich, academics and college students -- regard this as where America should go. [To them], monies saved by stepping down from superpower status can be reprogrammed into "investments" (a favorite Obama word) in a vast Euro-style hammock of social protection programs."

  from "The True Meaning of 'Historic Vote'; Shifting America's animating idea from creation to protection" by Daniel Henninger
  

Obama voted against this straightforward human rights legislation 4 times (aside from his "no" counted "present" vote), stating as the sole state senator speaking against it on the Senate floor in 2001 it would be "unconstitutional" to declare very premature abortion survivors persons because "the equal protection clause does not allow somebody to kill a child, and if this is a child, then this would be an anti-abortion statute."

In other words, if premature abortion survivors were declared legal persons, they couldn't be legally "kill[ed]" - Obama's word.

Obama not only opposed IL's BAIPA, he took a leadership role to kill it. His website still contains an ABC News quote from the IL Planned Parenthood CEO at the time stating "Obama approached her" to strategize to defeat BAIPA as well as the Partial Birth Abortion Ban. Barack Obama actually sought out PP to help him defeat a bill protecting abortion survivors.

Finally, for 4 years Obama lied about his record opposing BAIPA. In 2003 he voted against an identical version that passed 98-0 in the U.S. Senate and for which the pro-abortion group NARAL even expressed neutrality.

He then purported several times, as recently as August 16, 2008, that the bills were not identical and he would have supported the IL version had it been the same as the federal version. This was yet another LIE, which Obama's campaign finally had to recant after his actual vote tally from the IL General Assembly archive was posted online.

A campaign ad for Illinois Constitution Party US Senate candidate Chad Koppie that contains graphic images of aborted babies apparently ran last night during the Chicago NBC News 6 pm hour, right before Barack Obama's 30 minute pitch (source: JillStanek)

That name again: Chad Koppie

There are well over 100 reasons to vote against Barack Obama.  From this list I've adapted and expanded those pertaining to abortion and other issues related to the sanctity of human life.  My list of 30 is incomplete (perhaps you have a few to add) and contains some duplicates but should convey the message that Barack Obama has an inadequate and unpresidential appreciation for justice and the dignity of human life.

30 Reasons to Vote Against Barack Obama

Barack Obama voted against and blocked legislation that would have protected infants who were born alive following an unsuccessful abortion. Then he misrepresented his record.

Obama not only opposed IL's Born Alive Infant Protection Act, he took a leadership role to kill it.

Obama called Gianna Jessen, an abortion survivor, a despicable liar after being presented with the truth about his failure to protect babies born alive.

Obama voted against banning the brutal practice of partial-birth abortion.

Barack Obama co-sponsored and supports the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), a radical legislative attempt to enshrine abortion-on-demand into American law, to sweep aside existing laws that the majority of Americans support and to prevent states from enacting protective measures in the future (more here).

Obama promises as his number one prior to sign FOCA into law.

 Estimates are that if Obama becomes President and signs FOCA it will lead to 125,000 more abortions each year.

Obama is the most pro-abortion Presidential candidate ever.

Obama would recommend abortion for his daughters if they got pregnant because he wouldn't want them to be "punished with a baby."

When asked when a baby is entitled to human rights. Obama responded that the question was above his pay grade.

Obama supports the killing of human embryos to obtain their stem calls, even though, stem cells can be obtained from other sources that don't involve killing.

Obama.cannot. possibly.pay.for.it.all.by.taxing.those.making.over.$200,000.and.corporations.

Obama.has.to.tax.us.all.more.

That's 42 TRILLION DIMES not paid for, over the next 10 years. And whether he stays in office past one term or not, you know that once the government gets its hands on all that spending, it won't give it back. Ever.

And this does not count the deficit the next President inherits, nor paying for existing spending including Social Security and Medicare. That's just the new promises of Obama's.

To all those making under $200,000 or under $250,000 a year, this comparision chart will show you that this dollar amount includes Obama's "taxing the well-off/rich" plan and all the ways Obama claims he'll "pay for every dime."

Stay tuned. The chart summarizing exactly how this is true is coming shortly. Or you could do what I did and read through and compile the comparisons yourselves (feel free) from the original sources: it's a compilation of Obama's own numbers and statements and the assessments thereof from the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center (TPC), The Committee for A Responsible Budget (CFARB) (which in turn used The Congressional Budget Office, the Tax Policy Center and Congress' Joint Committee on Taxation), and The Cato Institute's economist Senior Fellow Alan Reynolds, who wrote this article in the Wall Street Journal earlier this week, which was taken from this analysis called ""Taxes & Deficits - a 2008 Perspective."

But...despite Obama's lies, I suppose we'll keep getting this kind of amazing attack as we did from one commenter:

"I am disgusted with all the lies you attribute to Barak Obama. How are you able to sleep at night, or you probably stay up thinking of more untruths to tell? Shame on you! Your lies are creating hate among many people in our nation, and other nations are finding it hard to believe that Americans could cause such division in their own country."

We clearly are not making any of this stuff up, yet people like this still are 1000% convinced that we are. This kind of willful, intentional ignorance is astounding.

Let me ask you, Emilia Stojanovic, and everyone who supports Obama so blindly: When are you going to be disgusted with all the lies Obama tells?? When are you going to be angry at him for causing such division and stoking hate? How are you able to sleep at night, remaining so misinformed? Shame on you!

Be back soon with the chart once I HTML the damn thing into tabular HTML. If anyone knows of a tool that does this automatically, I'm all ears.

This is news: one of the most liberal, left-leaning newspapers, in one of the top 5 Bluest States...
has just endorsed John McCain for President:

The Connecticut Post.

I'll say it again: The Connecticut Post.

Perhaps only those in this state will grasp (or care) why this is so significant. But it is exceedingly newsworthy, trust me.

This is the newspaper to which I cancelled my subscription about a year ago because it was so politically tilted left, not just from its op-ed pages but its actual news coverage of everything political, that it was a hopeless rathole of misinformation helping politicians nationwide keep this state's citizens in the dark.

This is the newspaper whose editor and publisher I respectfully but emphatically wrangled with via email for years, back and forth, in spirited exchange after my latest letter to the editor, some of which they printed, most of which they dared not.

This is the newspaper whose former editor, just before the present one, once he started to see that what I had to inform him about had serious, substantial and longlasting merit not to mention objective, hard-science or hard-news sources, began opening his mind and accepting that his paper could do a much better job at truly reporting the news...and shortly thereafter got canned.

This is what the Connecticut Post, one of the mainstreamiest of this Blue State's mainstream media outlets said:

"We believe the candidate who can best lead us down the path [for a sharper, focused direction] is a man with the depth of experience necessary in Washington to effect bipartisan change and the broad background in foreign policy to return the nation to its global leadership. The Connecticut Post endorses John McCain's candidacy for the office of president in the Nov. 4 election.

Throughout this long campaign Barack Obama has demonstrated a keen intellectual curiosity and a consistent approach to problem-solving. However, his lack of experience in Washington is troubling. He has not exactly compiled a "record" during his scant years in the U.S. Senate. And his tax plan that caters to "spreading the wealth" may be more political pandering than reality at a time when Washington is awash in red ink.

Moreover, with Democrats nationally projected to pick up significantly more seats in both the House and Senate on Nov. 4, we are not sure that Obama possesses the will to be an independent voice in the White House and do what's right for the nation and its citizens and not just for the party.

McCain's election to the White House would provide a definite check on Congress and greater balance to governing the nation.

This country needs to get moving in the right direction. We need to fully address major problems such as health care, education and infrastructure. The country needs to unite in addressing the war in Iraq that is exerting a disabling impact on the economy.

McCain is a seasoned politician and war hero who has served this national honorably and with unique distinction. Few can deny that he is a man of character and conviction. Unfortunately, McCain, up until late in this campaign, has been torpedoed by his own advisers, who failed to effectively focus on the key issue for Americans -- the economy. But McCain has rebounded admirably in the past two weeks and is now offering sensible solutions to cure an ailing economy.

It's a difficult choice for voters on Nov. 4. But in this race, McCain, who holds the experience and the proven ability to reach across party lines, can bring the transformation America needs while holding at bay a tax-and-spend Congress. He would be a strong national leader. We believe McCain has the edge and merits support.

This just blows my mind.

Obama recently told Joe the Plumber that he believes in "spreading the wealth around." If someone works hard and dreams about owning a business which employs people, Obama would punish success with higher tax rates. Obama justifies this by claiming he will help people from the "bottom up" by spreading other people's wealth around. (Note that his running mate, Joe Biden, lives in a $3 million dollar home and gave just over $3,000 to charity. They'll "help people" as long as it's not their own money.)

In light of the audio clip that surfaced on October 26, 2008, where Obama said it was a "tragedy" that the Supreme Court did not pursue redistribution of the wealth, this is particularly timely.

How will Obama spread this wealth, or rather, redistribute other people's wealth? He has many ways. But in terms of abortion, he will continue the $336.4 million dollar GIVEAWAY in tax money to Planned Parenthood. He will make YOU, the taxpayer, pay for people's abortions (he has voted for taxpayer funding for abortion in the Illinois State Senate). He will send federal tax money to foreign abortion promoters by repealing the Mexico City Policy. Will he help the poorest of the poor? No. He will give more of our money to have them aborted! He will redistribute the wealth to already rich abortion cronies.

We talked to Dean Nelson about reparations and abortion in Washington D.C.. He stated:

"I think that it's so wild that we're talkling about reparations, something from 100 or 200 years ago, when the reality is that right now, today, there are thousands of African American babies that are being aborted. Almost 15 million since Roe v. Wade. We seemingly can't bring that up as an issue in our community."

Click the video below to see more of what he had to say.

Despite attempts at obfuscation, the contrast between Barack Obama and John McCain on abortion is stark.

Abortion survivor Gianna Jessen states,

Seen this ad? In it, Senator Obama personally attacks me. I've dealt with worse; I survived an abortion. State Senator Barack Obama voted 4 times against laws to protect babies who survive abortions. Meanwhile, U.S. Senators voted 98-0 for Born Alive Infant Protections. Senator Obama says deciding when babies get human rights is above his pay grade. Tell him abortion survivors deserve legal protections too.

Twenty seven years ago I had an abortion.  I thought I would come out of it free and empowered because I bought the lies of Planned Parenthood and the women's movement who championed my rights wholeheartedly.  I was surprised when I immediately fell into a deep depression and months later struggled with thoughts of suicide.  The feelings were intense and the sadness was great.

Prior to abortion, I was always happy and handled stress in an exceptional way. But this was different. I had a baby ripped from my womb and felt totally violated.  YES..I made that choice. I do take responsibility for that awful choice.  This is a choice I know for a fact I would not have taken had abortion been illegal.  But I was lied to and caught off guard by the attack my body felt it had been under and I totally felt as if I had been abused emotionally as well following the abortion.

With God's grace..therapy and the blessings of a great family I can say that I am healed...but the scars are there...AND all I can say is watching this election brings up so much.  On the one hand I had been waiting fervently for the topic of abortion to come up in the election hoping that those who saw Obama's record on born alive babies would be shocked, disgusted and say to themselves "even though I am liberal I would never vote for a man who would make that kind of judgment."

Well for the most part I am watching people as they worship and elevate a man who advocates the type of victimization and violation that women like myself had to work way too hard to heal within themselves.... There are women who kill themselves post abortion.  There are women who remain silent forever and struggle in relationships.  There are women who are infertile post abortion...the list goes on..

Imagine... watching OBAMA standing proudly in front of the Planned Parenthood sign or hearing him say "my first act as president with be to sign the Freedom of Choice act".

Imagine knowing that more women will potentially endure what took years to undo to myself and many others like myself.  It is as if we are watching the executioner be deified by the entire society thereby minimizing our pain and our suffering.

We watch as more women are led to the slaughter... not even given the proper information or acknowledgment that there is a potential for psychological damage. 

AUL Action is launching an ad campaign. Be sure to check it out here, at FightFOCA.com.

Here are excerpts of an email just sent out by this new offshoot of AUL:

The background to the ad campaign is an important civil case against Planned Parenthood in Ohio, in which AUL is involved. Planned Parenthood is being sued by the parents of a 14-year-old girl who was impregnated by her 22-year-old soccer coach. When the girl's coach took her to have an abortion, Planned Parenthood turned a blind eye when he pretended to be a family member for the parental notification requirements and gave her the abortion. When the parents eventually found out, the soccer coach was convicted of SEVEN counts of sexual battery and served three years in prison.

This story and others like it are the reason AUL has spent over thirty years putting into place common-sense abortion legislation, like parental notification requirements that protect young girls from sexual abuse.

As AUL supporters, you know what many Americans do not: The Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) would eliminate parental notification laws and every other limit on abortion. And Senator Obama promised the Planned Parenthood Action Fund in 2007, "The first thing I'd do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act." As a response to that promise, today AUL Action is releasing an Open Letter to Senator Obama asking him why he supports the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA). In our letter, we talk about the family in Ohio -- it is a story that needs to be told.

You can see a copy of the ad -- and sign a petition against FOCA -- at our website FightFOCA.com.
We are spreading the word about the letter through newspaper ads in Ohio, but in order to do more, we need your help. If you can partner with us to place one of these ads, you can make a donation at FightFOCA.com.

Because this project is through AUL Action, a 501(c)(4) organization, contributions are not tax-deductible.

Too many pro-life Americans still don't know about the threat posed to pro-life legislation by the FOCA bill. In this last week of the campaign, we'd like to see parental involvement laws return to the discussion, and that's what these ads will do. If you can help us with a donation of any amount, we would be most grateful.

I urge you to join in this effort! We've only got a few days left but I firmly believe that Americans are still receptive to learning more about courageous efforts like these to promote a culture of life in America.

According to the Matthew 25 Network, you can be pro-life and support a political candidate who:

• Voted against and blocked legislation that would have protected infants who were born alive following an unsuccessful abortion. Then misrepresented his record.


• Promises as his number one prior to pass the Freedom of Choice Act, a radical legislative attempt to enshrine abortion-on-demand into American law, to sweep aside existing laws that the majority of Americans support and to prevent states from enacting protective measures in the future (more here).


• Vows to nominate Supreme Court justices that support Roe v Wade


• Wants to force taxpayers (and insurance companies) to pay for abortions - supports legislation that would repeal the Hyde Amendment which protects pro-life citizens from having to pay for abortions that are not necessary to save the life of the mother and are not the result of rape or incest.


• Advocates cutting off all federal aid to pregnancy resource centers, which provide assistance to women who are experiencing crisis pregnancies -- and save the lives of many children.


• Has been rated a big zero by every pro-life organization in the country for his voting record


• Brags about his 100% rating by national pro-abortion organizations


• Has the most liberal views regarding abortion on demand in the history of presidential candidates.


• Opposes parental-notification for minors seeking abortion.


• Is against "conscience-clauses" for pro-life doctors who refuse to do abortions


• Has never voted to restrict or limit abortion in any way.

Despite the fantasy promoted by the Matthew 25 Network, the question asked in this post is rhetorical because ...

Barack Obama is the most extreme pro-abortion candidate ever to seek the office of President of the United States. He is the most extreme pro-abortion member of the United States Senate. Indeed, he is the most extreme pro-abortion legislator ever to serve in either house of the United States Congress. - Robert George

Obama's rejection of the God-given intrinsic dignity of human life is itself a rejection of God and reveals a horribly distorted view of justice that provides a basis for any number evils.

Why is respecting the person so difficult for Barack Obama?

No, to vote for Barack Obama is not pro-life.

During the past 35 years, the pro-life movement has made some real progress--progress that pro-lifers could at times do a better job of advertising. During the 1990s more states enacted parental-involvement laws, waiting periods, and informed-consent laws. More importantly, the number of abortions has fallen in 12 out of the past 14 years and the total number of abortions has declined by 21 percent since 1990. These gains are largely due to pro-life political victories at the federal level in the 1980s and at the state level in the 1990s, both of which have made it easier to pass pro-life legislation. Furthermore, since the next President may have the opportunity to nominate as many as four justices to the Supreme Court, the right-to-life movement would be very well advised to stay the course in 2008.

-- Michael New

If Barack Obama wins the election next week:

1. Any hope for a U.S. Supreme Court majority opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade will be lost.


2. The Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) will be signed into law eliminating 35 years of laws that have restricted and regulated the practice of abortion.


3. He would very likely offer legislation to eliminate the Hyde Amendment which protects taxpaying citizens from being forced to pay for abortions through Medicaid.


4. Abortion will be covered in his proposed national health care plan.


5. The Mexico City Policy, which bars taxpayer funding of organizations that perform or promote abortions in foreign countries, would be eliminated.


6. Funding for the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) would be restored, allowing millions of taxpayer dollars for abortions and forced sterilizations in Third World countries, including China with its coercive "one child" policy.


7. The Born Alive Infants Protection Act and the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act would be overturned.


8. Current restrictions on the performance of abortions on military bases would be removed.

What you can do: pray, talk to others and VOTE!

Source: Republican National Coalition for Life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssC7aSZnAX8

OBAMA's   Deutsches Jungvolk and Jungmadelbund

"The one thing most grandparents have in common is that they have the most wonderful grandchildren in the world - so clever, so handsome, so pretty, ever so precious...your grandma and grandpa love you and have faith in you. That is your weapon! "Precious" needs to get on the phone and say, "Grandpa, Grandma, I am asking you to vote for Barack Obama. This is really important to me. It's about my future. It's about the world I will be living in. It's about the world I want for my future children. (They will love that one!) Please! Do it for me!"

Put some urgency in your voice. Sound very disappointed in them if they give you excuses. Come back again, even harder. "This is about my future - my ability to get a good job, to live a healthy life, to have the same (or even more) opportunities than you had to succeed. I have never felt more strongly about anything. I am begging you to vote for Barack Obama. I need you to do this for me!"
This is just a sample script. You know what it takes to get to them.

"The Hitler Youth catered for 10 to 18 year olds" too.

HT: to
Jeff Tyler's comment in this post. Excellent digging, Jeff.

Press release just issued:

CHICAGO - BornAliveTruth.org released its second ad today featuring abortion survivor Gianna Jessen responding to Senator Barack Obama's direct attack on her. See the ad here.

Additionally, Focus on the Family Action, a CO-based family organization, is kicking off a $500,000 radio ad buy featuring the original Gianna ad revealing Senator Obama's voting record on born alive infant protections. See here.

Gianna's first ad will air on radio stations across CO and the new Gianna response ad will air on TV in Cleveland, and will be featured on TheDrudgeReport.com [later today] and at BornAliveTruth.org.

The total ad buy for both radio and TV will be close to $600,000....

Read the rest of the press release on page 2. Here's the new ad, which is excellent...

Cartoon by Chuck Asay:  the next President will dramatically alter the course of American history through either the defense of the unborn or the promotion of abortion on demand.

How many people employed by this guy will have to lose their jobs after Obama is President? How many could he have employed in the future who will not get those jobs because Obama took his "wealth" that would have instead gone to hire, train and insure more workers? I wonder:

"Sen. Obama's tax package will hurt my small business. I must stress that I have never been given preferential treatment, nor did I use any resource not available to everyone in this country. I graduated from a public high school and a state college and merely chose to use those resources to advance myself.

"My family consists of husband and wife plus two children in college and three still at home. Even though my small business has made me "rich" and earned over $250,000 last year, I am somehow still not sitting on a pile of money. Maybe part of the reason is that, as a result of being declared "rich," we will pay over $174,000 in federal and state taxes, plus local property taxes. Nonetheless, Sen. Obama has confessed that I will have my taxes increased, resulting in less profit for me to put back into the company. This will ultimately lead to the company having fewer opportunities to grow the business and provide more work for more people."

Dennis Glaser
Terrace Park, Ohio

For all you Obama supporters making under $200,000, do you think this guy is an idiot like Sarah Palin too?

"I came from Cuba. I have seen this movie before [Obama's 'spreading the wealth around'] and I know how it ends. I have heard the same lines, spoken by different actors, the Castro brothers in my case and more recently by Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. With all his refined education and eloquence, Mr. Obama is just another socialist who thinks that our American-trained socialists will make socialism work here, while all those others around the world have failed. We are so much smarter here."

Luis Vicens
Pembroke Pines, Fla.

[Justice Dept.] lawyers who supervise voting rights are Obama donors.

If they were McCain donors, you know the press and the Dems would be tarring, feathering and disbarring them.

Even the not-conservative-by-any-stretch New York Times finds ACORN a thornier-than-expected problem:

"The New York Times, however, has a report suggesting that there's a large hype quotient to the new registrations. The culprit is Acorn, or as the Times headline calls it, 'Group:'

'On Oct. 6, the community organizing group Acorn and an affiliated charity called Project Vote announced with jubilation that they had registered 1.3 million new voters. But it turns out the claim was a wild exaggeration, and the real number of newly registered voters nationwide is closer to 450,000, Project Vote's executive director, Michael Slater, said in an interview.

'The remainder are registered voters who were changing their address and roughly 400,000 that were rejected by election officials for a variety of reasons, including duplicate registrations, incomplete forms and fraudulent submissions from low-paid field workers trying to please their supervisors, Mr. Slater acknowledged.

'In registration drives, it is common for a percentage of newly registered voters to be disqualified for various reasons, although experts say the percentage is higher when groups pay workers to gather registrations. But [it was disclosed] on Thursday that 30 percent of Acorn's registrations were faulty...'"

Get over yourselves, Democrats-for-Obama. You now shamelessly throw down the race card and/or the "smears" card against any who expose the truth about ACORN et. al. I suppose that's the only defense you have against these truths: no defense at all, only offense.

And STAY TUNED: I have a new chart coming in a day or two. Those of you who make less than $200,000 a year are really going to want to see this set of facts. Unless of course you really don't want to know how exactly Obama "pays for every dime" of his proposals because you "just believe."

The Tooth Fairy isn't real either.

J. Margaret Datiles (Americans United for Life) has published an excellent essay that lays out the impact of the President on government policies related to pro-life issues. I continue to receive the comment that the Chief Executive has little impact on whether or not abortion is legal and the failure of Republican Presidents to significantly impact this American ho

Briefly, the President has a significant influence on justice and the protection of unborn Americans through:

1. the appointment of Supreme Court Justices, federal judges, the U.S. Attorney General, and other government officials;


2. the enactment of pro-life legislation passed by Congress;


3. the preservation of existing pro-life policies;


4. the issuance of executive orders that protect human life;


5. the prevention of the passage of policies that would endanger human life or remove an existing pro-life policy;


6. and the promotion of a culture of life through public speeches and proclamations.

You'll want to spend some time reading the entire article - click here. 

John McCain has a history of supporting legislation that is pro-life and is quite supportive of policies that defend the sanctity of human life.  He has vowed to nominate conservative judges - those who are strict constructionists.

Conversely, a Barack Obama presidency combined with the Democratic majority in congress will significantly change the course of American history and set pro-life achievements back a generation.  Consider the following:

In addition to enacting an annual spending bill that contains pro-life "riders," the President can preserve existing pro-life policies by vetoing efforts that seek to remove existing pro-life policies.

 Similarly, the President can also use his veto power to prevent the passage of anti-life legislation passed by Congress. For example, on June 20, 2007, President Bush vetoed efforts to legalize federal funding of destructive embryonic stem cell research. Similarly, in 1992, President George H.W. Bush vetoed an attempt to lift the ban on fetal tissue research.

 On the other hand, the President can use his veto power to prevent the passage of life-affirming laws. For example, in 1996 President Clinton vetoed a Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act.

 Currently, there are a number of anti-life bills that have been introduced into the legislature. If these bills are passed, the President could prevent their enactment by vetoing the bills. An example of an anti-life bill that has been recently introduced into Congress is Senator Boxer's Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA).

 It is clear that the Presidential veto can be either a powerful tool for the cause of life, or else its deadly enemy.

Obama is a strong advocate for abortion and has vowed to sign into law the Freedom of Choice Act as his top priority.  In fact,

Barack Obama is the most extreme pro-abortion candidate ever to seek the office of President of the United States. He is the most extreme pro-abortion member of the United States Senate. Indeed, he is the most extreme pro-abortion legislator ever to serve in either house of the United States Congress.

The choice for the next President could not be more clear.

In order to help you make the best decisions possible about the presidential race and the various candidates for Congressional, statewide and state legislative races across the country, LifeNews.com has compiled this pro-life voter's guide.  On the national level, National Right to Life has an excellent one-page comparison piece on pro-abortion candidate Barack Obama and John McCain, who is pro-life on abortion.  Family Research Council 2008 voting guide and American Family Association has a good state-by-state voting resources list.

Click here for state by state listings of organizations with pro-life voting guides.

Update:  Christian Coalition voter guides are now available - click here

KNOW WHAT'S AT STAKE: If we don't win on this Definition of Marriage, Civilization will change, since the very definition of Marriage and Family (it's foundations) will change. It's that important to stop.***

Notes from "Faith and Culture" Colleen Carroll Campbell's Interview (on EWTN) with Maggie Gallagher, from the Institute for Marriage & Public Policy----

On Same-Sex Marriage (please use these notes)

We MUST MAKE A CHOICE: What Marriage IS & What Marriage is FOR? (The Gay agenda wants to change the very fundamental meaning of the word 'Marriage' to mean something other than it does, e.g., look it up in history books and the Webster Dictionary, so that it is NO LONGER linked to bringing together a man and a woman to come together and procreate/bringing forth new life and new families in a life-long [life-producing] BOND).

(1) Gay Agenda says - 'No difference between the Love of a husband and wife, and the Love of 2 men or 2 women. If they win this VERY FAULTY LOGIC, then Homosexuals and Lesbians will claim this as a 'civil right' and anyone who supports Traditional Marriage alone will be seen as a "bigot" or "racist" in the law and be persecuted. (The Gay Agenda is trying to make us ashamed for defending the Good of this Unique (life-producing) Union between Husbands and Wives.

OR

(2) Traditional Marriage Position: There is something Uniquely Special about Unions between Husbands and Wives that Justifies their Special Status in Civilization and Culture, because OUT OF THIS UNION new human life is born AND this new human life is Connected directly to their own biological parents, for the love and care of those parents and the good of the children and society itself. (for the Common Good of families and civilization, from generation to generation)

All sides in the abortion fight agree, if FOCA were to pass both chambers of Congress and be signed by a pro-abortion President, it would, among other effects, provide for taxpayer-funded abortion on demand even late in pregnancy, grant abortionists immunity from legal action, allow abortionists the discretion to perform abortions on minors without notifying a parent, and deny health care workers the right to refuse to make abortion referrals as a matter of conscience.

FOCA would automatically overturn state abortion reporting requirements in all 50 states, 44 states' laws concerning parental involvement, 40 states' laws on restricting later-term abortions, 46 states' conscience protection laws for individual health care providers, 27 states' conscience protection laws for institutions, 38 states' bans on partial-birth abortions, 33 states' laws on requiring counseling before an abortion, and 16 states' laws concerning ultrasounds before an abortion.

FOCA seeks to eliminate any civil pro-life opposition in the public square

FOCA-type legislation increases rates of abortion

For more on the implications of FOCA, see "Freedom of Choice Act Would Harm Women and Remove Protections, by Tom McClusky

Dear Friends,

I'm writing to let you know about a terrible piece of legislation called "The Freedom of Choice Act" (FOCA).

FOCA will create a Federal mandate allowing abortion-on-demand in all nine months of pregnancy for any reason and without any restrictions nationwide.

It will eradicate state and federal abortion laws that the majority of Americans support and prevent states from enacting similar protective measures in the future.

Please read the expert analysis by Americans United for Life (AUL) and sign the Fight FOCA petition at: http://www.FightFOCA.com

Thank you!

Barack Obama's campaign has seemingly gained momentum, support and a frenzied rock-star-like following without the concrete substance one would expect from a presidential candidate. It's more than just an anti-Bush phenomenon that has propelled this relatively inexperienced senator to astronomical political proportions.

Mark Levin comments

There is a cult-like atmosphere around Barack Obama, which his campaign has carefully and successfully fabricated, which concerns me. The messiah complex. Fainting audience members at rallies. Special Obama flags and an Obama presidential seal. A graphic with the portrayal of the globe and Obama's name on it, which adorns everything from Obama's plane to his street literature. Young school children singing songs praising Obama. Teenagers wearing camouflage outfits and marching in military order chanting Obama's name and the professions he is going to open to them. An Obama world tour, culminating in a speech in Berlin where Obama proclaims we are all citizens of the world. I dare say, this is ominous stuff.

Even the media are drawn to the allure that is Obama. Yes, the media are liberal. Even so, it is obvious that this election is different. The media are open and brazen in their attempts to influence the outcome of this election. I've never seen anything like it.

What is it, exactly, that draws the crowds to Obama and gives him the seemingly larger than life persona?  Why do his supporters accept contradictory statements and ignore his radical history?  Levin aptly explains the the basis for Obama's campain is "class warfare and human envy."

I suggest that Obama symbolizes what many Americans truly desire - a savior. Rather than seeking justification, hope and satisfaction through the person and work of Jesus Christ, our society increasingly looks to the government to solve all problems, create a hopeful future and declare righteous those acts that are known to bring condemnation. Obama is the incarnation of the messianic state who through radical change based upon bold humanistic ideologies promises an age of comfort and world-peace.

It is time to wake-up and smell the coffee.  Returning to Mark Levin:

Unlike past Democrat presidential candidates, Obama is a hardened ideologue. He's not interested in playing around the edges. He seeks "fundamental change," i.e., to remake society.

Obama's rejection of the God-given intrinsic dignity of human life is itself a rejection of God and reveals a horribly distorted view of justice that provides a basis for any number evils.

Why have you promised Planned Parenthood that the first piece of legislation you
will pass is the Freedom of Choice Act, a piece of abortion legislation which would
eliminate all of the common-sense parental notification laws across the country? - Charmaine Yoest

For years we've written about the irrational assertions by scientists intent on destroying human embryos as part of their research. And now, another expert has had enough:

A renowned adult stem cell expert is taking his expertise abroad because he says the UK's bias towards embryo research is preventing him from helping people.

Colin McGuckin is quitting his position as professor of regenerative medicine at Newcastle University where he says "You would barely know that adult stem cells exist".

Unlike embryonic stem cell research, work with adult stem cells does not involve the destruction of human embryos. It has also shown itself to be more successful.

WFTV Channel 9's Barbara West puts Joe Biden to the test in this incredible must see interview (HT: HotAir). Yes, hard questions have Biden and company running for cover. For your reference:

Biden: [Barack Obama]'s not spreading the wealth around. He's talking about giving the middle class an opportunity to get back the tax breaks they use to have.

Reality: Barack Obama said he would spread the wealth.  "It's not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance for success too," Obama responded. "My attitude is that if the economy's good for folks from the bottom up, it's gonna be good for everybody ... I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."

Biden: "We've not paid [ACORN] one single penny ... there is no relationship.... We haven't paid ACORN a single penny to register a voter"

Reality:

U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign paid more than $800,000 to an offshoot of the liberal Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now for services the Democrat's campaign says it mistakenly misrepresented in federal reports.

An Obama spokesman said Federal Election Commission reports would be amended to show Citizens Services Inc. -- a subsidiary of ACORN -- worked in "get-out-the-vote" projects, instead of activities such as polling, advance work and staging major events as stated in FEC finance reports filed during the primary. - Tribune Review

Biden's answers are representative of the ridiculous double-speak that have become the hallmark of Barack Obama's campaign. For example, despite working to "reduce abortions", Obama's top priority it to liberalize abortion laws - embrace the contradiction.

By mere assertion, Obama and Biden seem to think that reality can be altered.

"I'm here today to be a voice for the unborn, the ones who will never have a voice, to speak to Senator Barack Obama, who is radically pro-abortion, throughout 9 months of preganancy, even after the child is born. Who voted against the Born Alive Infants Protection Act which would have protected people like me who survived abortions. He doesn't think they have any rights. He says it's okay to kill them by infanticide after they survive an abortion."

Some in the pro-choice community will give uninformed or flippant answers to the question: When does life begin? 

"Oh, nobody can agree on that." 

"Nobody really knows."

"How can that tiny speck be a human?"

"Answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade." (Barack Obama)

The answer among embryologists is that life begins at conception:

Dr. Ronan O'Rahilly and Dr. Fabiola Muller, Human Embryology and Teratology,2nd ed., p.8, (1996): "Although life is a continuous process, fertilization is a critical landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new, genetically distinct human organism is thereby formed."

Keith Moore and T.V.N. Persaud, in The Developing Human, p.16, (2003): "Human development begins at fertilization when a male gamete or sperm unites with a female gamete to produce a single cell - zygote."

Dr. M. Krieger, The Human Reproductive System, p.88, (1969): All organisms, however large and complex they may be when fullgrown, begin life as but a single cell. This is true of the human being, for instance, who begins life as a fertilized ovum."

William Larson, Human Embryology, 3rd ed., p.1, (2001) Male and female sex cells "unite at fertilization to initiate the embryonic development of a new individual."

Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen, Embryo - A Defense of Human Life, p. 53 (2008): "The combining of the chromosomes of the sperm and the oocyte generates what every authority in human embryology identifies as a new, distinct, and enduring organism ... the direction of its growth is not extrinsically determined, but is in accord with the genetic information within it. The human embryo is then, a whole, though immature, and distinct human organism - a human being."

When a pro-choicer is confronted with this information and still disagrees that it is a human, they should be asked: "If it is not a human, then what is it?" "If it is not a life, at what point does it become a life?"

It's amazing that many people who are pro-choice, question the overall scientific evidence for the geneses of life, but agree blindly, for example, with some scientists concerning the controversial subjects of global warming or evolution. In comparison, there is nowhere near the consensus of scientists for the existence of either, but they have no problem quoting the "scientific" results backing the claims for proof of both.

I have a hard time understanding how an informed Christian could in good conscience vote for Barack Obama given the following (from George Grant):

1. Obama's repeated pledge to sign the "Freedom of Choice Act"--a bill that would effectively strike down every guideline, regulation, restriction, and limit on the multi-billion dollar abortion industry in all 50 states. [my note: Obama stated this is his "top priority"]


2. Obama's determined opposition to banning or regulating "Partial Birth Abortion"--a barbaric ritualistic form of infanticide.


3. Obama's repeated and longstanding opposition to the "Born Alive Infant Protection Act"--a position from which even Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Rights Action League cautiously backed away. [my note: see BornAliveTruth for the details]
   

Despite his testimony to Rick Warren, Obama's rejection of the God-given intrinsic dignity of human life is itself a rejection of God and reveals a horribly distorted view of justice that provides a basis for any number evils. 

I can refer to my many postings on this site that explain John McCain's position on the life issues. He has for 25 years had a strong consistent pro-life voting record. In the early days of his political career he supported our efforts to pass a Human Life Amendment. He has always called Roe v. Wade a terrible decision that needed to be reversed. He has promised to select judges who would respect the Constitution and indicated in the last debate that anyone who respected the Constitution would support life. Now Judge Andrew Napolitano of the Fox News Channel weighs in on his segment The Verdict and while clearly understanding that Barack Obama is anti-life and pro-abortion, fails to articulate McCain's position and thus gets it wrong. In fact Napolitano gets it so wrong that he needs to take a refresher course on what the pro-life movement's opposition to Roe has meant for the last thirty five years.

Lets start with what he gets right. He correctly identifies Obama's extremism. He notes all of the things identified in previous postings o9n this site. He should have included the historical fact that Roe wiped out all state laws proscribing abortion. Prior to Roe, the state laws addressed crimes against persons. In a normal situation that would be the case if Roe was reversed. However simply because the Supreme Court reverses Roe does not mean that the court would not address the issue of when a child gets human rights. As McCain stated at the Saddleback interview, he believes that the child's human rights begin at conception. Given the advances in medical science, the Supreme Court could answer the question raised in Roe and never decided. The court could easily conclude that the unborn child's right to life is protected by the 5th and 14th amendment to the Constitution. John McCain would support that decision. He would realize that the federal question of equal protection would trump a state's rights approach. But at the same time, he and many other pro-life advocates, would take reversal and return to the states as the next place to battle in defense of life. Since the HLA is not a practicality, what else is he to say on this question. One takes whatever beachhead one can gt and then moves from there.

So Judge Napolitano totally missed in his analysis and failed to address this aspect of the discussion. Wanting to reverse Roe in infinitely better than keeping /Roe as the law of the land forced upon the country by seven non-elected judges in 1973.

Napolitano would better serve the cause of unborn children by reminding the public that a Supreme Court picked by Obama would not only insure that abortion remains legal but also could spell the end of marriage and the family as we know it.

Napolitano also failed to address Obama's desire to pass the Freedom of Choice Act.
He forgot to mention that Obama wants to repeal the Hyde Amendment so he can use tax dollars to pay for abortions.

The bottom line is that one can look to real reputable pro-life leaders and organizations to understand that there is one candidate who will protect life and seek to end abortion - that man is John McCain.

GOP Leader Questions Planned Parenthood's Effort to Undermine Federal Limits on Abortion Drug's Use

WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and nine other Republican members of the U.S. House are backing an amicus brief filed by Americans United for Life (AUL) in support of efforts by the State of Ohio to stop abuse of the deadly RU-486 abortion drug.

"By their own admission, abortion providers are administering RU-486 in a manner that violates the safety standards that were articulated by the FDA when it approved the drug," Boehner said. "This abuse is symptomatic of an abortion industry that is more concerned about profits than it is about women's health. The State of Ohio is well within its rights and acting in the interests of its people in seeking to ensure the FDA standards are fully enforced for this deadly drug, which should never have been legalized in the first place."

"I applaud Americans United for Life for filing this amicus brief in defense of families in Ohio and throughout the nation," Boehner said. "I'm also troubled that Planned Parenthood, an organization that receives millions in taxpayer money from the federal government every year, is leading the effort to undermine federal standards for RU-486 and expand the reckless and unsafe use of this deadly abortion drug."

Planned Parenthood is the sponsor of a lawsuit that has kept Ohio's proposed RU-486 law from being enforced. The state's attorneys argue the law is constitutional. The case is currently before the Ohio Supreme Court.

A 2007 report in the Weekly Standard chronicled Planned Parenthood's "burgeoning RU-486 practice." According to the report: "Six women are known to have died in this country between 2003 and 2006 after taking the abortion pill, whose generic name is mifepristone and which was approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration in 2000. Four of those six received the drug at Planned Parenthood clinics, where it was - and still is - administered in a fashion that does not comply with the FDA's protocols."

The amicus brief supported by Boehner is available online via a page on the Americans United for Life website. Other Members of Congress backing the brief include U.S. Reps. Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD), Dan Burton (R-IN), Steve Chabot (R-OH), Trent Franks (R-AZ), Jim Jordan (R-OH), Robert Latta (R-OH), Joseph R. Pitts (R-PA), Jean Schmidt (R-OH), and Chris Smith (R-NJ).

HT: from the Corner

Steve Ertelt writes,

With the intense focus on the extreme pro-abortion positions of Barack Obama, there has been little reference during the weeks leading up to the presidential elections of John McCain's pro-life record on abortion. McCain isn't as outspoken as past presidential candidates, but his record speaks volumes.

Good point.  Too bad we've been far too busy vetting out the life of Joe the Plumber and GOP funding for Sarah Palin's wardrobe to worry about the stark difference between John McCain's support for the sanctity of human life and Barack Obama's disregard for it.

Interview with David Bereit and Ruby Nicdoa at a Falls Church abortion mill.

Eyeblast.org Version

Youtube version

"You know, abortion is going to end when the people of God say it's going to end"

I wholeheartedly agree. We need to speak up and speak out for the unborn. They only have us, & if we are silent, they die alone.

Eyeblast.org version

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=prolifenews&view=videos

MonthlyCallForLife.com

United we stand - Divided they die - Pass it on