Editor's note. The following editorial ran in the October issue of National Right to Life News.

As I sat down to compose this editorial I recalled something that once had stopped me in my tracks. "Some things just have to be believed to be seen."

Who would have believed in November 2008 that Barack Obama--hailed by a subservient press as the conquering hero about to usher in a new era of charismatic presidential leadership--would 22 months later be flailing away desperately attempting to motivate his base with a soul-sapping combination of chastisement, guilt, and fear-mongering?

Who would have believed in November 2008 that our Movement--given up for dead for the umpteenth time--would come roaring back to life in less than two years? Who would have anticipated that a boatload of pro-life candidates--knowing full well that their every syllable would be distorted, every word misrepresented, and every sentence taken out of context--would nonetheless be unafraid to frankly state their convictions?

Who would have believed in November 2008 that the very social network mechanism Obama used to turbo-charge his campaign would be adopted by pro-life forces to grow and multiply and succor our cause? That what he meant for evil we use for good?

Who would have thought that the pro-life "damage report" for the first two years would be "perhaps less extensive than many would have predicted in early 2009, given the expansive pro-abortion policies to which the newly elected president had previously committed himself, and the lopsided Democratic majorities in Congress," as the story on page 3 shrewdly explains.

All these things came to pass not by accident but because you understood that "Some things just have to be believed to be seen." That is why ...

You refused to complain. You refused to make excuses. You refused to budge. You refused to quit. Even in those early dark hours, you could see what would come to pass but if only you held fast.

At this juncture, President Obama's popularity--which once soared to the mid- to high 60s range--has come crashing to earth. The electorate still cuts him slack as a human being, but find his policies not only completely at odds with what a center-right nation believes in but also threatening to our core values.

None of this impending rejection makes a lot of sense unless we recall that if ever there was a stealth presidential candidate, it was Obama. He cruised to victory on a platform whose foundation of "hope" was as meaningless as it was persuasive for 53% of the electorate.

Fast-forward to early September when Obama was (according to Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson) "Self-pitying," "Snappish," "Humorless," and "Negative." Was it just a crummy economy and worse poll numbers? No.

Stripped of the mystique by the everyday duties of the presidency, Obama stood revealed for what he is, and has always been: a pedestrian, big-government liberal in the pocket of the Abortion Establishment. And that do not make Obama happy.

Equally obvious, although Gerson was too kind to make the point, when separated from his teleprompter, Obama borders on incoherence. Whoever wrote those elegant speeches in 2007 and 2008 must have taken a long-term sabbatical.

From our single-issue point of view, ObamaCare is most revealing because it embodies Obama's abiding faith in Big Government and has set up him--and his party--for big trouble. Here's the operative paragraph in Gerson's column:

"But Obama's problem is deeper than his economic challenges. His policies as president--particularly the creation of a health entitlement and his Rooseveltian emphasis on federal spending to create public-sector jobs--have reopened and widened the main partisan division in American political life. ...

"They are not only unpopular; they have made it impossible for him to maintain the pretense of being a unifying, healing, once-in-a-generation leader. It is the agenda that undermined the idiom."

The larger context in which this rests should not be missed. ObamaCare is an electoral guillotine for Democrats running in November because it embodies the top-down mentality that is embedded in the DNA of his party's approach to governance; was passed over the vocal opposition of a majority of the American people; opens governmental sluices, flooding the Abortion Industry with rivers of money; and was sold with lies and transparent falsehoods.

All these chickens--and a henhouse full of other ones--are coming home to roost.

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