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Will the November 2
Electoral "Thrashing" Change Obama on Abortion?
Part One of Four By Dave Andrusko Editor's note. Good evening and thanks for reading Today's News & Views. Part Two discusses the case of Pete and Alisha Arnold. Part Three is good news that an abortionist's license has been pulled. Part Four passes along good news about euthanasia in Belgium. Over at National Right to Life News Today (www.nationalrighttolifenews.org), we talk about the pro-abortion challenge to Alaska's Parental Notification Law and the very unfortunate wrongful life decision in Belgium. Please send your comments on Today's News & Views and National Right to Life News Today to daveandrusko@gmail.com. If you like, join those who are following me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/daveha.
Washington Post reporter Dan Balz summarized the convention wisdom in a column that ran Saturday. "What is the right strategy for Obama to regain the political initiative and put his presidency back on track?" Balz asks rhetorically. "Should he hold firm, push a liberal agenda and provoke fights with the Republicans, as Truman did? That would reenergize his liberal base and sharpen his profile with the public. Or should he be a conciliator, as Clinton tried to be, cooperating when possible with congressional Republicans but resisting when he believes they have gone too far right? That might show the Republicans as obstructionists and bring independents back to his side heading toward 2012." Let me offer a couple of thoughts. First, as Balz subsequently makes clear, it's not necessarily one or the other. Besides, you may never actually know what strategy Obama is employing until well after the dust has settled. Second, Obama's modus operandi always is to look directly into the Teleprompter and insist that no matter how much it's been "my-way or the highway," in fact he's been working feverishly to find common ground. "Who are you going to believe?" Obama asks in effect, "Me or your lying eyes?" I mention this (a) because his posturing on ObamaCare is the best possible example of Obama's saying one thing while doing the exact opposite, and (b) because there is no reason to believe he would be any the less resolutely pro-abortion in the next two years. We will be lectured a hundred times that the "new" Obama "understands" that he must "change" on a host of issues--including abortion--and that if we don't bite when he comes back with still another pro-abortion proposal, it will be because we are opposing him just to oppose him. But that's fine. We won't be fooled, you won't be fooled, and we will work against President Obama each and every time he works to advance the anti-life agenda. |
If
you've had a chance to scan the newspaper, watch a little
television, or surf the web even briefly, you know that
pro-abortion President Barack Obama is now maneuvering to reset
the button--aka, rebound from a devastating defeat ("thrashing")
at the polls last month. He is getting lot of either/or advice.