Obama's Teflon Wearing Thin -- Part One of Two

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Talk about a confluence! Rarely will comments meant to be private dovetail so perfectly with sentiments expressed publicly before a nationwide television audience. Taken together they fill in what few gaps remained in the pro-abortion resume of Candidate Barack Obama.

To be sure 98% of the press coverage was and is focused on Sen. Obama's spellbindingly stupid comments at a private San Francisco fundraiser held April 6. Part One will talk about that.

Part Two will discuss Obama's very revealing abortion-related comments at Messiah College in Grantham Pennsylvania, which two days ago hosted the first ever "Compassion Forum" to address "Faith in Public Life."

For those few people who haven't heard or read about Obama's analysis of why he was having trouble winning over working class voters, the most relevant passage follows. (The backdrop is Obama's assurance that blue-collar voters are frustrated with economic conditions.)

"So it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." In other words (as Claire Hoffman argues on the Washington Post's "On Religion" blog), Obama thinks people explain their frustration "by clinging 'to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them.'"

How does that relate to us, besides the possible electoral impact of the latest political malapropism to come out of the mouth of a man whose oratory we are assured makes Abraham Lincoln sound like a kindergartener?

It is an article of faith, so to speak, among pro-abortion Democrats and their fellow travelers in the media that Republicans---most of whom are pro-life--have won a lot of elections that they don't deserve. People have been deluded into voting against their pocketbooks by the use of diversionary "wedge issues" such as gun control, gay marriage, and abortion--non-economic issues all. (The debate over illegal immigration is the latest example, they tell us, of this cynical exploitation.)

Obama's oafish comments in San Francisco must be seen in that vein. He was merely articulating for his swooning supporters what most of his party says over and over:

Anyone--blue-collar white voters or otherwise--who makes a candidate's position on abortion or other "wedge issues" decisive is doing so out of a religious hang up, ignorance, and/or displaced anger.

If people really were as smart as, say, Barack Obama, they'd put aside childish fixations on unborn children.

Many, if not virtually all, people lament how long the presidential campaign of 2008 has gone on. But consider that without this interminably long run-up, Obama might have remained a blank slate almost until the November election.

We wouldn't have known that no presidential candidate that I can think of has ever been more pro-abortion. Or more cold-heartedly pro-infanticide. Or more piously willing to turn a tiny role in last-ditch efforts to save Terri Schindler Schiavo from starving to death into the one vote Obama says he would really want to have back.

And because his insufferable self-assurance is treated as if it is his by right, we also might not have known how deftly Obama is able to turn the tables on his critics. You literally can not point out any examples of his unsettling comments on any topic without being told condescendingly by the junior senator from Illinois that, aha, this proves how inadequately you understood the truth of what he just said.

In other words, Obama is so arrogant that the deeper he steps into it, the more this proves how shallow we are for pointing this out.

Part Two looks at Obama's comments at Messiah College. I assure you it's worth taking the time to read.

Part Two