"Stark Contrasts Between McCain and Obama in Judicial Wars" Part Two of Two

With the overwhelmingly pro-abortion media elite having decided it's high time for Sen. Hillary Clinton to get out of the way of fellow pro-abortionist Sen. Barack Obama, you will read more and more articles contrasting Obama and pro-life Senator John McCain (R-Az.). In that vein we will continue to patiently explore the enormous difference on our issues between these two men.

There were a couple of pieces today that piqued my interest. Reuters centered on how important the abortion issue was to Obama and McCain and to the constituencies they will need to become the next president. The New York Times zeroed in on judicial philosophy and appointments to the Supreme Court.

Reuters' Ed Stoddard talked about McCain's "unflinching opposition to abortion rights" and how important that will be to evangelicals, particularly younger evangelicals. (Routine use of pro-abortion-friendly language runs throughout this piece and others from Reuters.)  "But nothing unites evangelicals like their opposition to abortion, which many compare to the anti-slavery movements of the past -- a comparison that raises the moral stakes and suggests they will not back down on it," Stoddard writes. He then turns to a fascinating analysis the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life did of surveys conducted between 2001 and 2007.

For those who might think that the salience of abortion to younger evangelicals is waning, think again. The Pew analysis proved just the opposite.

Referring to young white evangelicals between the ages of 18 and 29, Pew "found 70 percent said they were in favor of making it more difficult for a woman to get an abortion compared with 55 percent of older white evangelicals and 39 percent of young Americans overall."

Note the tendentious language-- "making it more difficult for a woman to get an abortion"-- which is intended to keep the affirmative responses to a minimum. Nonetheless younger evangelicals are significantly more willing to take the side of the unborn.

The New York Times headlined its analysis, "Stark Contrasts Between McCain and Obama in Judicial Wars." As we have seen--and will continue to see--reporters downplay Obama's ultra-pro-abortion position as part of the larger narrative that he is not an "ideologue."

Harvard Law School's Prof. Charles Ogletree, "who taught both Mr. Obama and his wife, Michelle, sought to dispel the idea that Mr. Obama's nominees would be especially ideological," writes the Times's Neil Lewis. "'It seems likely to me that he won't have an agenda of trying to pack the courts to necessarily move it in a different direction,' Professor Ogletree said in an interview." But, to his credit, Lewis does get the candidates' general positions correct.

"John McCain of Arizona, the presumptive Republican nominee, has already asserted that if elected he would reinforce the conservative judicial counterrevolution that began with President Ronald Reagan by naming candidates for the bench with a reliable conservative outlook," Lewis explains. "Senator Barack Obama of Illinois has been less explicit about how he would use the authority to nominate judicial candidates, but he would be able to -- and fellow Democrats certainly expect him to -- reverse or even undo the current conservative dominance of the courts."

It is a measure of how supporters will inflate Obama's meager credentials that Cass R. Sunstein, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School and an Obama adviser, told Lewis that "The first thing to know is that he knows this stuff inside and out, and he has the credentials to be easily appointed to the court himself."

A one-term senator who worked part time as a "senior lecturer" at the University of Chicago Law School and he is prime material for the United States Supreme Court. Wow!

There will be more and more of this diminution of his pro-abortion credentials and inflation of his resume as the final Democratic primaries approach June 3. And the closer they come, the more likely it will become that Obama will become a super-qualified "moderate." Stay tuned here for the truth.

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Part One