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No politics or ideology with this science, no sirree

February 27, 2009 by Andrea Mrozek 1 Comment

From Deb Gyapong’s site. What a relief that those with Christian worldviews no longer have their “ideological” thumbprints all over science at the White House. Phewf:

When Barack Obama nominated John P. Holdren as his Science Adviser last December 20, the president-elect stated “promoting science isn’t just about providing resources” but “ensuring that facts and evidence are never twisted or obscured by politics or ideology.” In nominating John Holdren, his words could scarcely have taken a more Orwellian ring.

Some critics have noted Holdren’s penchant for making apocalyptic predictions that never come to pass, and categorizing all criticism of his alarmist views as not only wrong but dangerous. What none has yet noted is that Holdren is a globalist who has endorsed “surrender of sovereignty” to “a comprehensive Planetary Regime” that would control all the world’s resources, direct global redistribution of wealth, oversee the “de-development” of the West, control a World Army and taxation regime, and enforce world population limits. He has castigated the United States as “the meanest of wealthy countries,” written a justification of compulsory abortion for American women, advocated drastically lowering the U.S. standard of living, and left the door open to trying global warming “deniers” for crimes against humanity. Such is Barack Obama’s idea of a clear-headed adviser on matters of scientific policy.

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Tanya adds: OK, so he’s a little sick.  But this makes me just as uneasy:

left the door open to trying global warming “deniers” for crimes against humanity”

Free speech, anyone?  Nope, not here.

For anyone who’s ever paid any mind to the Zeitgeist type conspiracy theories, this guys fits the bill just right.  He makes you believe some of it might actually be true.

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: Barack Obama, John Holdren

Obama’s doing it

January 25, 2009 by Andrea Mrozek 3 Comments

It didn’t pass me by that Obama is re-instating American dollars to international groups that support abortion. I just didn’t post about it because it was what he promised, furthermore, the Clintons also supported this. So it’s not surprising.

But here at home on the family front, Obama recognizes that fatherlessness is a problem and that marriage is a benefit:

Strengthen Fatherhood and Families: Barack Obama has re-introduced the Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families Act to remove some of the government penalties on married families, crack down on men avoiding child support payments, ensure that support payments go to families instead of state bureaucracies, fund support services for fathers and their families, and support domestic violence prevention efforts. President Obama will sign this bill into law and continue to implement innovative measures to strengthen families.

And there, he is right–and I get the feeling these days that when Obama does something–people listen. So I just thought I’d highlight that.

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Rebecca adds: I haven’t read either of his autobiographies, and I don’t plan to. But I gather from those who have, whose judgement I respect, that fatherlessness was a big factor in shaping Obama’s character, values, and to a certain extent even his politics. Also, while the effects of an absent father, a flakey mother and an unreliable stepfather were hugely mitigated by Obama’s grandparents, who provided him with a stable home and an excellent education, he’s well aware that the vast majority of fatherless kids lack this kind of safety net. I look forward to the changes he will make to the American discussion about fatherhood.

Needless to say, the demographic that suffers most acutely from fatherlessness, both numerically and in the malignancy of its effects, are African Americans. Phenomenally high rates of delinquency, petty and serious crime, and dropping out of high school, as well as risk of imprisonment for boys and early pregnancy for girls, are closely connected to rampant fatherlessness in America’s black communities, as Kay Hymowitz and many others have documented.

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: Barack Obama, fatherlessness, Marriage

Today’s the big day…

January 20, 2009 by Andrea Mrozek Leave a Comment

…and these pro-lifers want to remind us that even difficult circumstances at birth can lead to greatness.

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2CaBR3z85c]

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Let me in on the secret

December 7, 2008 by Andrea Mrozek Leave a Comment

I have at least three friends–who are pro-life stalwarts and really love Obama. I want to know what they know. 

Read this in yesterday’s Post. 

President-elect Barack Obama has pledged to unite the country, but a promise he has made on abortion rights threatens to fan the flames of a ferocious culture war and herald “one of the most divisive periods in American history.” Mr. Obama said during his campaign that one of his first acts as president would be to sign into law the Freedom of Choice Act, a bill that both supporters and opponents say would go far beyond the landmark Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, which made abortion legal in 1973.

I don’t personally believe the first act Obama signs will be the Freedom of Choice Act, as he has said it will be. If it is, with all that is going on in the world, then he’s a fool. And while I’m sure Obama is not pro-life, I’m also sure he’s not a fool.

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: Barack Obama, FOCA, Freedom of Choice Act

Obama’s choice

November 23, 2008 by Brigitte Pellerin 2 Comments

President-elect Barack Obama picked the executive director of EMILY’s List to be his White House communications director. This is what they’re celebrating these days:

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7vhXpLNijk]

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Rebecca says: You beat me to it.

To be fair to Obama, though, this isn’t a surprise. He has already waffled on foreign policy (keeping Gates, a Bush appointee) and seems to be preparing to run Clinton’s third term in office, despite making a fetish out of change. He has never for a moment, though, pretended to be anything other than rabidly pro-abortion. I don’t like this, but it was predictable. Next promise he will likely keep: to pass the “Freedom of Choice” act ASAP.

It’s going to be a long four years.

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Andrea adds: I have talked to many pro-lifers who supported Obama. When I tell them I couldn’t support him for the abortion issue alone, they said one of a couple of things, which were all interesting to me. One person said she thought he was “grappling with the ethical issues;” another didn’t believe me when I spoke about his record. Another said you have to weigh with the damage of the past eight years. Still another said, fine, but McCain didn’t care about abortion really–which is incidentally the only explanation I find even remotely compelling. That’s probably true. But then, would McCain go out of his way to find and hire people like those working at Emily’s List?

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: Barack Obama, Ellen Moran, EMILY's List

Obama-rama

November 7, 2008 by Andrea Mrozek 1 Comment

A friend who noticed I signed on to the “Nobama, Nope” group on Facebook just wrote me to ask this:

I know he’s really liberal on abortion, but is he all bad?”

For the purposes of a pro-life blog–Obama ain’t all that. I think anyone could understand that. But here’s what I told my friend.

Obama, Obama. I realized something today. He himself doesn’t bother me. He’s a liberal politician. I can deal with that. The media double standard bothers me a whole heck of a lot. They absolutely fawn over him. And then go back to a pretense of being really critical thinkers–above the fray.

I don’t like wealth distribution. I don’t like Obama’s naivete on conflict in the Middle East (Let’s talk it out!) I don’t like remarks about how he’d love to visit the President of Canada. I don’t think he is solid on trade. He said he’ll raise taxes for small business owners. I don’t like his association with Ayers. Finally, on my biggest issue, abortion, he is MORE pro-abortion than Planned Parenthood.

The only positive thing I can say is that he represents in particular to so many African Americans a hope that they too can prosper. And that is positive, even if it is only a representation. Appearances are sometimes more important than reality in politics, so if he appears to offer hope, he may in fact do it. And I’d be glad for that.

Abortion is a litmus test for me. He lost me on the “above my pay grade” answer to when life begins. It was the height of disrespect to the millions of Americans for whom this is situation critical and showed that beyond the talking points he got from the Abortion Rights Action League–he has never actually thought about the issue.”

So not ALL bad, no.

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Brigitte adds: Re media bias – he better not do anything they dislike. They’ll turn on him faster than you can say “double standard”.

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Tanya seconds Brigitte: I think he definitely allowed them to raise the bar too high for the sake of winning the presidency, but now they sort of own him. A bit of a pickle, I’d say.

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: Barack Obama

Your morning smile

November 5, 2008 by Brigitte Pellerin Leave a Comment

Courtesy of the Onion:

WASHINGTON—African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation’s broken-down economy, repairing the crumbling infrastructure, and generally having to please more than 300 million Americans and cater to their every whim on a daily basis. As part of his duties, the black man will have to spend four to eight years cleaning up the messes other people left behind. The job comes with such intense scrutiny and so certain a guarantee of failure that only one other person even bothered applying for it. Said scholar and activist Mark L. Denton, “It just goes to show you that, in this country, a black man still can’t catch a break.”

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: Barack Obama, Onion

Knock me over with a feather

November 1, 2008 by Andrea Mrozek Leave a Comment

I really like Licia Corbella. And I’m not going to stop liking her. But I heartily disagree with this column, slamming McCain mainly because of his choice of Palin for running mate.

It is more than that, though, she likes Obama’s rhetoric:

But it’s not just McCain’s negatives that lead to an endorsement of Obama. If the pen really is mightier than the sword, then how and what a leader says is of great importance in a world filled with bloodthirsty, warmongering men. Obama’s pen isn’t just mightier than a sword, it is a howitzer to the heart.

Critics of Obama keep saying his words are indeed beautifully delivered, but when they are dissected, they don’t say much. What is it, I am asked, besides his words that makes me think he deserves to hold the most trying and important public office in the world? Well, what else does any other politician offer, but words? Problems and ideas have to be articulated before they can be solved or brought to life.

So when it comes right down to it, Licia likes Obama’s proposed policies, as much as she dislikes Palin. Which makes her reason for hoping Obama wins twofold, actually. Is it really about Palin, or just support for Obama? Which would be fine, if still surprising to me, from her.

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Rebecca adds: I just don’t understand the dislike so many conservatives seem to feel for Palin. She’s not highly polished, nor at the very top of her game in foreign policy, but until two months ago it wasn’t her job to be – she’d probably be remiss as governor of Alaska if she’d spent her time studying counterinsurgency and guerilla warfare and diplomacy. If she’d been grooming herself for the job for decades she’d know it, but I see it as a plus that she hasn’t been.

She’s 44, has 5 kids, is a governor, seems to have a happy marriage, lives her values, and has an approval rating of 80% in Alaska, which is always impressive, I don’t care how small the state is. (Not many Canadian premiers are that popular.) Why aren’t more people, but especially women, admiring of that, even if they don’t agree with her completely on policy?

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Andrea found another naysayer: Mark Milke writes here about all the bad choices, but starts with Palin, this also at the Calgary Herald.  I like his concluding assessment, however, because lets face it, love her or hate her, Palin ain’t running for President. So Milke rightly concludes with an assessment of Obama:

Similar to Carter, Obama thinks differences between nations are often about misunderstandings. The remedy for that is communication. But the divide between nations is more often about differences in real interests. Such interests can occasionally be bridged (Carter, in one of his rare successes, brokered the Israeli-Egypt peace accord) but not without first recognizing what is at the core of disputes.

This is why French president Nicholas Sarkozsky has been privately critical of Obama on Iran. The Israelis leaked Sarkozsky’s musings and they’re not positive: the French president apparently views the Democratic candidate’s stance on Iran as “utterly immature” and sees Obama’s rhetoric as “empty of all content.” Sarkozsky is worried that once in power, Obama might break the united front on Iran which now exists among the UN’s five Security Council members by starting an Iran-America dialogue without preconditions.

If Obama believes international differences are more ephemeral than real, then he and the world are in for a rude shock when the realities of different interests are again made obvious. The Democratic Party’s protectionist bent combined with Obama’s foreign affairs naïveté has ramifications for Canada, and for the current sweet hope many Canadians have for the Obama presidency.

The few words I bolded remain my gravest concern about Barack Obama–yes, on par with his views on life. Because you can’t resolve global problems if you don’t understand what they are. That’s where hypocrisy has taken hold, largely in the media. Because a woman who is not running for President is being torn to shreds for a naivete that will in two days be the norm in the White House.

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Rebecca adds: Mr. Crittenden chimes in, and largely gets it right:

As readers of this space know, I have been very critical of the selection of Sarah Palin. Yet I do not regard her as a reason to cast aside the principles of my life on voting day. She may not bring much knowledge to this ticket. Yet she is obviously no fool. Indeed, using the favored metric of Joe Biden (”I think I have a higher IQ than you”), my guess is that she would probably outscore the Democratic vice presidential candidate on a standardized aptitude test. To his credit, Biden has conscientiously worked to familiarize himself with the great questions of national policy. To her discredit, Palin has not. But on Tuesday, I will trust that she can learn. She has governed a state – and she did risk her career by defying the corrupt leaders of the Alaska Republican party.”

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Andrea chortles: “Mr. Crittenden.” Good one.  (Readers should be aware if they aren’t already that David Frum and Danielle Crittenden are married.)

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: Barack Obama, Calgary Herald, Licia Corbella, Mark Milke

At the Al Smith dinner

October 17, 2008 by Brigitte Pellerin Leave a Comment

What Father De Souza discussed in the piece Andrea linked to yesterday.

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr7CppUHNQc]

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: Al Smith dinner, Barack Obama, Catholics, John McCain, Raymond de Souza

Look up “pro-abortion” in the dictionary and it will say…

October 16, 2008 by Andrea Mrozek 1 Comment

…Barack Obama. The term “pro-abortion” really works for him. Read all about that, here.

The take away is for pro-lifers who like Obama and would vote for him under the pretense that he wants to diminish the number of abortions. He doesn’t, and they should take a long hard look at who they are voting for.

In the end, the efforts of Obama’s apologists to depict their man as the true pro-life candidate that Catholics and Evangelicals may and even should vote for, doesn’t even amount to a nice try. Voting for the most extreme pro-abortion political candidate in American history is not the way to save unborn babies.

Filed Under: All Posts Tagged With: Barack Obama, Catholics, evangelicals

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