Addressing a packed congregation at one of the city’s largest black churches, Senator Barack Obama on Sunday invoked his own absent father to deliver a sharp message to African-American men, saying, “We need fathers to realize that responsibility does not end at conception.”
What you mean somebody becomes a father at conception? Can you be a father of a tissue mass or a product of conception from his point of view? He does seem to be rather inconsistent since if the responsibility of a father starts at conception then everything he has said in the past or the way he voted is totally at odds with this. I was pretty sure his view was if you were a man that you basically had nine months to keep from becoming a father by recommending and pushing abortion. Under current laws a father has responsibilities only if the woman decides to have the child and has no say otherwise. In his speech to Planned Parenthood “The first thing I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act,” So his priority is to eliminate every state law that puts limits on abortion such as parental notification. Under his plan there will continue to be plenty of fathers who will not get a Father’s Day card since their child will be aborted.
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And the culture of death continues to step on their own words…
Thank you for the post and the witness!
God Bless,
Dean
“We need fathers to realize that responsibility does not end at conception.”
Of course a father’s responsibility doesn’t end at conception. He still has to pay for the abortion.
Interesting.
Can you also please spell singular “woman” with an “A” instead of as the plural, “women”? It’s just that this typo is pretty frequent here and it confuses my brain for a moment, every time! 🙂
Also to realize that fish are caught by the mouth.
Bet his attitude changes if the father wants the child and doesn’t want the mother to abort.
In the enlightened language of the 21st century, responsible father is one who pays his child support on time, leaves all decisions up to the mother and her boy (or girl)friend, and is willing to defend the mother, not necessarily the child, in all things. For a father to actually commit the heresy of LIVING with the Mother and child means only one thing: abuse, whether sexual or merely verbal/physical doesn’t matter. No responsible father would dream of living WITH a family.
You learn too much when you watch TV
In the enlightened language of the 21st century, responsible father is one who pays his child support on time, leaves all decisions up to the mother and her boy (or girl)friend, and is willing to defend the mother, not necessarily the child, in all things. For a father to actually commit the heresy of LIVING with the Mother and child means only one thing: abuse, whether sexual or merely verbal/physical doesn’t matter. No responsible father would dream of living WITH a family.
You learn too much when you watch TV.
In the enlightened language of the 21st century, responsible father is one who pays his child support on time, leaves all decisions up to the mother and her boy (or girl)friend, and is willing to defend the mother, not necessarily the child, in all things. For a father to actually commit the heresy of LIVING with the Mother and child means only one thing: abuse, whether sexual or merely verbal/physical doesn’t matter. No responsible father would dream of living WITH a family.
You learn too much when you watch TV.
Someone else must have written the speech. Obama just reads the teleprompter. It really is scary that some so anti-life might be our President! Let’s pray the American voter wakes up come November and votes with the rights of the unborn in mind!
Would someone please explain how people are unaware of his anti-life positions? I keep hearing and reading about people that don’t realize he supports abortion. Huh? How in the world do they get the impression that he is pro-life? Are they so naive as to just assume a politician is pro-life unless he proves otherwise? Heck, there are several who call themselves pro-life but still don’t earn the title by my standards. Do some research people!!!!
This is the second time he has used this line. If he believes it how scary does it make his morality. Dad shouldn’t leave/go ahead Mom shred the child in your womb! Frightening.
BaracKKK Odrama’s hatred of the unborn is irrational. You can tell by how he talks.
This guy can’t make up his mind if he is pro-father’s day or not.
God will confound the speech of proud men (and women). We need to do our part in the public square to challenge people who promote the culture of death, and God will do the rest (if and when we pray to Him for wisdom and fortitude!). If our actions are conformed to the will of God, if we are guided by the Church, who can stand against us? There will be suffering. Better to suffer for the truth now than to suffer for all eternity for having been complacent and complicit with evil. Let’s continue to hope and pray that people like Senator Kennedy, whose days are clearly shorter than possibly imagined a year ago, will take an opportunity to reevaluate the course of their lives in time to meet God as a repentant soul.
Racism. Pure racism. This blog makes me sick.
This is a racist distraction from “Hope and Change.” I can’t believe Catholics are so racist. Let’s focus on the real issue, which is Hope and Change.
Let me make this clear:
1) Pointing out inconsistencies is racist.
2) Logic and critical thinking is racist.
3) Using Obama’s own words and positions against him is racist.
4) Not talking about Hope and Change is racist.
5) Not supporting Obama is racist.
6) Supporting any other candidate is racist.
7) Questioning Obama’s credentials, convictions, or rhetoric is racist.
Let’s make this clear: if you don’t support Obama it means you are racist, closed minded, and racist.
Wow, I sound just like the MSM today.
jeff,
great point. Insightful. The illogic of Obama’s comment screams out. Good catch.
subsection entry vis-a-vis LCB’s post:
2a: the Law of Non-Contradiction is not only racist, it is sexist. None of that white male logic for me, sir.
Aelric,
Finally someone gets it. Logic and reason are simply societal constructs used as oppressive tools by the white-male patriarchy. We must reject these constructs and embrace hope and change, for only through hope and change will we discover that we are the hope and change we’ve been waiting for.
Obama, if elected, will be the worst president ever. He is a gamish of bad presidents. He has the persecution complex of Carter, the blind idealism and naive-ness of Wilson, he’s as clumsy a speaker as Bush (caught you off guard, but he is). His liberality is fraught with self-contradictions, his support for infanticide, and his feelings about equality, for example.
Vote against Obama.
a vote for Obama is a vote for the devil. period.
Liberals contradict themselves 🙂
This is a figure of speech. Obama doesn’t believe in infanticide, no matter Alan Keyes’s bluster from a few years ago. Obama didn’t support IL’s BAIPA because IL already had a law on the books to protect babies in that situation. The IL bill would’ve made no difference.
Have any of you read either of Obama’s books? The guy is a human rights go-getter, despite his flawed view of pre-birth personhood. Being flawed in this area makes him no different than most of the rest of the U.S.’s non-Catholic population.
But is Obama alone in his flaws? Has anyone ever heard McCain utter anything to the effect that life begins at conception?
Back on Obama, yes, he holds inconsistent views on abortion. On the one hand he has echoed Bill Clinton’s “safe, legal, and rare” line (which is a pretty good one, considering our general culture), but then Obama supports the Freedom of Choice Act.
While the term “choice” is bothersome in that proposed bill, has anyone read it carefully/closely? Much of the language in it also applies to those who want to ~keep~ their babies. It’s a bill that tries to stop ~interference~ both for those who want to give birth (i.e. some have accused PP of promoting abortion, this bill would end that) and those who don’t.
Per Douglas Kmiec, I think Obama is well-meaning but philosophically confused. Obama is good on parental support issues, which would limit abortions, but surprisingly libertarian on Roe-v-Wade.
In sum, Obama is not a far-Left liberal, but he’s also by no means a pro-lifer. I leave you with this thought: What does McCain want to do post-Roe? He’s a strict constructivist whose ~present~ views happen to correspond with overturning Roe. But wasn’t it McCain who supported Roe as late as 1999? Which McCain do you want?
You may not like Obama on other issues, but the on-the-ground results, post-election, for either candidate will be no different. McCain wants abortion to be a state-level issue, but doesn’t care if they remain the same state-to-state afterward. Obama at least wants to support expecting mothers, even if he’s too hands off about trying to get them to keep their babies. – NM