Barack Obama is so confident, so well-spoken, so self-assured, so articulate.
Most of the time.
If you want to see Barack Obama uneasy, at a loss for words, tentative, halting, just ask him one of the simplest and most profound questions to be debated in the public square for the last 35 years – since he was 12 years old.
The question: "Do you believe life begins at conception and, if not, when does it begin?"
Watch him melt. Watch him squirm. Watch him reach for words that fail him. Watch him admit he hasn't really come to grips with one of the very hottest public policy issues of our time. Watch him try to come up with an answer that won't offend anyone.
Now try to imagine this man going toe to toe with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or Kim Jong-il or Hu Jintao or Vladimir Putin.
The man cannot even express coherently what he believes about when human life begins.
And despite the gibberish coming out of his mouth, he has studied this issue. He has been coached on it. He knows what he believes. He has voted on this issue as a state legislator in Illinois and as a U.S. senator in Washington.
He has staked out an extreme position in favor of abortion on demand – even when it comes to late-term, partial-birth abortions unnecessary for any medical purpose that involve the cold-blooded execution of fully developed preborn babies by plunging scissors into their skulls without even the courtesy of anesthesia.
I doubt such a procedure would be legal for dogs in America. I doubt very much Barack Obama would attempt to justify such a horrific procedure by veterinarians. Yet he opposed the ban on partial-birth abortion, which, even many of his fellow Democrats recognize is no different than infanticide.
He also was not short of words when he denounced the U.S. Supreme Court's decision upholding the partial-birth ban.
He had no trouble mustering the decisiveness to oppose a bill in the Illinois Senate that would have simply prevented the subsequent killing of infants who survived abortion procedures outside the womb. By his actions, Obama said the lives of these babies who survived the violence of abortion were just mistakes that needed to be erased by any means necessary.
And, if his record on when life begins wasn't clear enough from his actions as a legislator, recall how he didn't want his own daughters "punished with a baby."
Those statements and actions by Barack Obama are far more articulate about his position on when life begins than his babbling at the Pennsylvania candidate forum.
There's no doubt about where this monster stands on this hideous procedure – any more than there is doubt about where Hillary Clinton stands.
Their policies can be summarized as follows: When in doubt, abort. In most cases, babies are like a kind of parasitic disease. They need to be surgically removed like a cancer. Even moments before they are ready to be born, abortionists should be allowed to exterminate them with extreme prejudice. And, if, by some miracle, these helpless babes should survive that pain and injury, then they should be finished off outside the womb.
That is the position of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, though, Hillary is considerably more skilled at disguising her utter contempt and disgust for new human life.
I would say, if either one of them is elected, it will be open season on unborn babies. But, of course, it already is open season. It has been since 1973.
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