April 9, 2008
DISHONORING THE FATHER:
Keystone Culture of Death: Casey’s killer Obama embrace (Paul Kengor, 4/09/08, National Review)
At the 1992 Democratic National Convention, the Democratic governor of the state of Pennsylvania, Robert Casey, was prohibited from speaking. The Clintons and their associates had blacklisted Casey because he wanted to speak against legalized abortion — as a pro-lifer, Casey was an increasing oddity in the modern Democratic party. The governor, engaged in a simultaneous fight to preserve his own life from a rare and fatal disease, never stopped lamenting how his party, which claimed to champion the little guy, utterly refused to defend the most innocent and defenseless.Posted by Orrin Judd at April 9, 2008 11:41 AMAfter the incident, Governor Casey sensed things would only get worse in his party, which was now totally beholden to a radical feminism. His worst nightmares materialized in 1993, when the new first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, sought to revolutionize the American health-care and abortion industries. In a televised forum discussing her national health-care plan that October, Mrs. Clinton said that abortion services “would be widely available.” [...]
The anti-abortion movement hoped Casey Jr. might pick up the torch from Santorum, and might even shake up his own party on the issue.
Thus far Casey has been a disappointment. And now, alas, Senator Casey has stepped up to endorse the most radical supporter of abortion to ever come close to a major-party presidential nomination: Barack Obama.
Sen. Barack Obama is so extreme on abortion that he has managed to achieve what I once thought impossible: He is to the left of Hillary Clinton on abortion. I say that as someone who has written a book on Hillary Clinton, with a special focus on her abortion fanaticism.
How extreme is Obama? His short U.S. Senate record is as Planned Parenthood-perfect as Senator Clinton’s and other abortion extremists’. Yet there is one area where he surpasses even the zealots: In the Illinois senate, Obama led the charge against legislation that would have ensured medical care to babies who survived abortions.
Indeed, and note as well Hillary's fanaticism, which gives the lie to the notion that the Clinton presidency was conservative or even moderate.
While Bill may have abandoned the leftist economic populism later embraced by his veep, his administration was nasty piece of work indeed re abortion. Iirc one of his first acts was to defund an adoption program that the GHWB administration had established in poor urban areas.
Posted by: Jim in Chicago at April 9, 2008 12:36 PMCasey disgraced himself on Meet the Press last Sunday. Russert unloaded on him with a question about Effendi Obama'a "children as punishment" crack. Casey did a shameful tap-dance, around it, more or less coming out that he was just fine with it.
This man has not just disgraced himself. He has made himself an accessory to the Kindermord He knows what guilt he bears and what he must do in expiation.
Posted by: Lou Gots at April 9, 2008 5:09 PM