Editor's note. Part Two discusses a powerful new DVD about Terri Schindler Schiavo. Please take the time to read.

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Many people over the years have asked me what was the impetus to write about this or that topic and why I took the approach that I did. I mention this because today's two-part edition is a particularly instructive example of how TN&V often comes to be the way it is.

For lots of reasons, I choose not to write about pro-abortion President Barack Obama's hideously stupid, painfully insensitive gaffe last week. Which one, you ask? Good point. The litany of the president's tone-deaf remarks could take up a page

In this case I'm referring to Obama's really odd but revealing comeback when he appeared on the Jay Leno Show last Thursday. In response to a query, Obama said, "I bowled a 129," to which Leno responded goodnaturedly (and with tongue firmly planted in cheek), "That's very good, Mr. President."

In the mutual yuckfest that ensued, Obama quipped, "It was like Special Olympics or something."

And the more I thought about this (and similar truly bizarrely inappropriate responses) , the more I realize, "Houston [or, more accurately, President Obama], we have a problem." In addition to being dangerous on their own grounds, Obama's verbal meltdowns could readily have an additional downside for us as pro-lifers.

The best (and most recent) example of foot-in-mouth was Obama's repeated laughter and chuckles during his "60 Minutes" interview yesterday, much of which focused on the financial crisis we are undergoing that has cut millions of ordinary Americans to the bone. Sounding slightly incredulous Interviewer Steve Kroft threw him a lifeline anyway.

KROFT: You're sitting here. And you're-- you are laughing. You are laughing about some of these problems. Are people going to look at this and say, "I mean, he's sitting there just making jokes about (LAUGHTER) money--" How do you deal with-- I mean, wh-- explain -
PRESIDENT OBAMA:  Well--
STEVE KROFT: --the mood and your laughter.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Yeah, I mean, there's got to be--
STEVE KROFT:  Are you punch drunk?

But even then it was not until I watched the new video, The Terri Schiavo Story, reviewed in Part Two, that Obama's long history of colossal insensivity really hit me. In 2008 then candidates Obama and Hillary Clinton were asked by the late Tim Russert if "there are any words or votes that you'd like to take back ... in your careers in public service."

Obama answered that in his first year in the Senate, he joined an agreement "that allowed Congress to interject itself (in the Terri Schiavo case) into the decision-making process of the families."

So his one "mistake," as he elaborated in his follow up, was his tiny role in the last-ditch efforts to prevent Terri Schindler Schiavo from starving to death. What a guy. That was the straw that broke the camel's back.

Not to belabor the abundantly obvious, but Obama is in so far over his head it is scary to us as American citizens. But as pro-lifers, we also know that as he tries to keep his Administration afloat, he will likely do everything he can to keep one of his core constituencies happily chirping: the Abortion Establishment.

With that in mind, when you go to www.nrlc.org/ObamaAbortionAgenda/WhattoDo.html you will be taken to a page which offers you information about what you can do to help National Right to Life fight Obama's Abortion Agenda, become a member of National Right to Life, or, if you are a member already, find new people to join NRLC.

If you have comments, please send them to daveandrusko@gmail.com. They are much appreciated!

Part Two -- The Terri Schiavo Story: We Will Not Forget

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