Pro-abortion Sen. Obama Wraps Up Nomination. What's Next?  Part One of Two

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For all intents and purposes, pro-abortion Senator Barack Obama wrapped up his party's presidential nomination last evening. However, pro-abortion rival Sen. Hillary Clinton has not yet folded up her tents. Indeed what exactly she wants remains unknown.

Let me offer three thoughts to keep in mind as the campaign for the presidency moves out of the primary season into the general election phase.

#1. Obama limped past the finish line. At the same time he was enthralling his supporters in St. Paul, Minnesota (which will be the site of the Republican national convention), Obama was winning in Montana but losing in South Dakota. This was not anticipated.

As ABC's Jake Tapper observed, "Not only did she stomp on Sen. Barack Obama with more than 30-point victories in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Puerto Rico, last night she won a state that Obama was predicted to win by double digits: South Dakota. There he'd been endorsed by practically every state political icon, minus Mount Rushmore -- Daschle, McGovern, Johnson, Herseth-Sandlin."

It's hard to miss that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee backed his way past the finish line.

#2. I know from talking to some people I love and respect that they are mesmerized by what they perceive as Obama's capacity to transcend.... well, fill in the blank. Their brains are in neutral but their hearts are fully engaged. They are persuaded that Obama represents a kind of contemporary Hercules, who can clean out today's Augean Stables–Washington, DC–ushering in a "post-partisanship" era.

The irony is there is nothing, absolutely nothing, that sets Obama apart from an ordinary run of the mill partisan campaigner. It's nothing so simple as being rated by National Journal as the number one most liberal senator based on his voting record in 2007. It's rather that he has shown no interest or capacity to "reach across the isle."

It is precisely pro-life Senator John McCain's willingness to work with Democrats that so often gets him in hot water with his fellow Republicans. If the goal is to purge the poison out of Washington, DC, it is McCain, not Obama, who is the physician.

#3. In that vein, the usual rhetorical formula is to cite Obama as the first African-American to be the presidential nominee of a major political party. Yet nearly as remarkable is that a man whose resume could comfortable fit on the back of a postage stamp is on the cusp of being the man to carry the Democrats' banner.

As the Wall Street Journal editorialized this morning. "With Barack Obama clinching the Democratic Party nomination, it is worth noting what an extraordinary moment this is. Democrats are nominating a freshman Senator barely three years out of the Illinois legislature whom most of America still hardly knows."

Obama was in the United States Senate barely a year before he began running for President. He has, for all practical purposes, virtually no record of achievement. Obama has left no legislative footprint.

Which is, paradoxically, a major reason he's been so successful. His admirers see this invisibility as proof he has not been corrupted by "the process." It is the principle of "less is more" taken to the tenth power.

The Obama candidacy will be a test for all pro-lifers over the next five months. Sen. Obama is flying sky-high for many reasons. At the top of that list is that most people have no clue who he is or what he believes. Uncluttered by little things like facts they fill this empty vessel with their hopes for a brighter day,

But we can and we do know one thing for sure. Obama is as staunchly anti-life as any candidate ever to run for President. He is the Abortion Establishment's dream candidate, and on call for them night and day. Yet his record on abortion is treated by the mainstream press as if it is the embodiment of mainstream America.

It's our job to get the truth out about Obama.

Part Two