By Dave Andrusko

Pro-Abortion President Barack Obama

Depending on whom you read, one's opinion of pro-abortion President Barack Obama is either a kind of Rorschach test of your soul or the reflection of how you honestly think he's fulfilling his responsibilities as President. Not surprisingly, I opt for the latter, since I think it is obvious that the American public took a fling on a man bereft of any executive experience and now is suffering buyer's remorse. Put another way, you don't have to dig deep: Obama's failures are transparent and virtually jump out at you.

Let's see what this means and why it matters.

We've talked repeatedly about Obama's popularity free-fall. This is not surprising in light of the crushing conclusion reached by 48% of U.S. voters that they "now regard President Obama's political views as extreme," according to Rasmussen Reports. Forty-two percent "place his views in the mainstream."

Worse yet a July survey by a deeply sympathetic outlet--Democracy Corps, led by two well-known Democrats, James Carville and Stanley Greenberg--found that among likely voters 6 in 10 believe Obama is "too liberal" and that 55% say "socialist" is a reasonably accurate way to describe him!

How does that match up with the bill of goods the electorate was sold leading up to November 2008 and repeatedly Obama's first year in office? You know the one about Mr. Moderate, the seeker after "common ground"?

Obviously it doesn't square up at all. Either he was far more to the Left than he let on, or he shifted dramatically once he up residency at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. My guess is that most people, if asked, would ascribe to the former interpretation.

They simply watch him and say nope, this is not what we believe in.

Granted, we are a single-issue Movement, but I don't believe that changes a central truth: Obama's unrelenting pro-abortion agenda, packaged either as the epitome of "compromise," or (as was the case with ObamaCare) brazenly denied is indicative of where his true political instincts lie. And they do not reside where a majority of the American people call home.

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