By Dave Andrusko

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Last year when I tried talking to good people thoroughly intoxicated with candidate Barack Obama, I searched everywhere for the equivalent of hot coffee to sober them up. I won't go through the list of items at length because you know them as well as I do, if not better.

But I learned that what success I did have never had anything to do with what would seem to be deal-breakers for people who considered themselves "moderates," even pro-life.

Yucking it up with Planned Parenthood's political action arm and pledging to make signing FOCA his first action as President? Just rhetoric.

Pledging that abortion (a.k.a. "reproductive health care") will be part of his national health-insurance plan? Too arcane.

Obama's stealthy but unwavering opposition as an Illinois state Senator to the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, legislation to provide legal protection for babies who are born alive during abortions? Most people flatly refused to believe anybody could be that callous!

But I eventually did find there were two remarks that did give these people pause. The first were his comments at a town hall meeting in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

Referring to his two daughters. Obama told the assembly, "If they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby." Using his single-digit-aged daughters as props did not go over well with most folks. And more than a few people asked doesn't Obama realize that the "mistake" he proposes to eliminate would be his own grandchild?

The other was actually a one-word response to a pro-abortion advocacy group's question: "Does Sen. Obama support continuing federal funding for crisis pregnancy centers?" Brief as the Obama campaign's response was, it spoke volumes: "No."

I was reminded of this when NARAL, that paragon of sensitivity, sent out an email fundraiser this week. The Virginia legislature has passed "Choose Life" license plate legislation. Under the measure, of every $40 spent to buy the specialty license plates, $15 will go to Crisis Pregnancy Centers. The legislation is on the desk of pro-abortion Gov. Tim Kaine, the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

As we know, there can never be too much tax payer money shoveled into the gaping maw of the Abortion Establishment nor too little made available to pro-life organizations through voluntary decisions made by ordinary citizens. Organizations that operate on a shoestring budget, who help women in their most dire hours, whose staff is almost always all-volunteer-- these are (in the words of NARAL) "deceptive fake clinics that mislead women, and promote extreme, anti-choice views to stop women from exercising their right to choose."

To thwart these dastardly people "nationwide" is why NARAL has "asked you to help us raise $50,000 by March 31." And just in case anyone should think this is nothing more than a cheapshot at a beleaguered ministry for no more pressing reason than to fill their coffers, NARAL adds, "Please donate today to help us reach our goal because this isn't about just reaching a fundraising target...it's about women's lives."

Who would ever think such a transparent and cruel ploy would be merely about "reaching a fundraising target"? Barack Obama and NARAL, two peas in a pod.

Part Two -- New Breakthrough Calls Obama's Bluff on Alternatives to Human Embryonic Stem Cells