THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume X, Issue # 206, August 20, 2008
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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DEFINING GOOD & EVIL IN 2008 AMERICA
By Christopher G. Adamo
PRESUMPTIVE DEMOCRATIC PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, JR., ON GOD, MORALITY,
ABORTION, & THE RIGHT TO LIFE: OBAMA'S CONSISTENT UNWILLINGNESS TO RECOGNIZE THE HUMANITY OF THE
UNBORN -- OBAMA MAKING AN ABSOLUTE MORAL DETERMINATION THAT THE SMALLEST & MOST HELPLESS AMONG US
CANNOT COUNT ON ANY PROTECTION ON THE PART OF OBAMA & HIS LIBERAL LEFTIST COHORTS -- OBAMA AS A
RELIABLE CHAMPION OF THOSE WHO PROMOTE THE DESTRUCTION OF INNOCENT LIFE THROUGH ABORTION
FULL STORY:
When asked by Reverend Rick Warren at the Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency about his beliefs on when human
life begins, Democratic Party presidential wannabe Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., obfuscated, finally responding that the
answer is “above my pay grade.” Obama apparently hoped to at once avoid criticism from any who would disagree with
him if he got specific, while attempting to claim the moral “high ground” on the basis that he would leave such decisions
to a higher authority.
In truth, Obama accomplished neither. Hardly offering a nuanced answer, the Illinois Senator was spotlighting his
consistent unwillingness to recognize the humanity of the unborn. And, by so doing, he was making an absolute moral
determination that the littlest and most helpless among us could not count on any protection from the likes of Barack
Obama. Rather, during his brief political career, he has been a reliable champion of those who promote the destruction of
innocent life through abortion.
Human existence contains only two defining instants, which are conception and death. And this is not a matter of
“religion,” but of biology. All other milestones, no matter how dramatically recognized in society, amount to transitional
phases in the human life cycle. So, despite all of the grandiose but empty oratory, any individual who does not advocate
the defense of all innocent human life between those two landmarks is an individual who holds no regard for the sanctity
of human life on the whole.
Under even casual scrutiny, it is evident that Obama’s implied assertion that the best recourse might be to leave such
decision-making to God is in no way backed by the actions of his public life, nor those of his political allies. Democrats
and Liberals (and Obama is the most Liberal of Democrats) long ago made a political calculation on the nature of human
life, and in particular, the unborn. It is their contention that such helpless life is easily trivialized and discarded at the
pleasure of those who hold the reins of power.
Obama, with his absolute no-holds barred, pro-abortion track record, rightly carries the torch for a political party that has,
for several decades, built its legacy on a foundation of moral ambiguity. As a result, the “above my pay grade” effort at
defusing the question was as transparent as cellophane, and echoes the rationalizations offered by every prison guard at
Auschwitz, along with every enabling minion of every corrupt tyrant in history.
Nevertheless, whether considering those in the womb, the aged or the infirmed, Liberals have habitually sought to “play
God” when determining who among the innocent will live, and who ostensibly lacks sufficient “quality of life” to be
allowed to do so. Only when deliberating the fate of murderous criminals does the Left suddenly find within itself a soft
spot that forbids the taking of a life. And, at such times, this “principle” is trumpeted to the rest of society in a deluge of
moralizing and sanctimony.
It is further noteworthy that, while they flee from such a thoroughly defining topic as the definition of human life, Obama
and his Liberal cohorts have never shirked any opportunity to establish moral boundaries on virtually every other aspect
of life in America.
Having virtually done away with the annoying limitations imposed by traditional (read: Judeo-Christian) morality and
the provisions of the U.S. Constitution, those on the Left believe they are now free to substitute an entire code of their
own, dealing with every issue from “correct” speech to the greater good served by properly inflating one’s tires, to the
right amount of property and material possessions to own, to the right temperature at which to set the household
thermostat.
Liberalism, along with all of its derivatives, including environmentalist extremism, are, at their common core, a set of
warped moral/religious tenets. Thus, a Leftwing politician who strenuously opposes any involvement of true Biblical
precepts when crafting a law (“Separation of church and state,” we are told) can flagrantly tout a Socialist or Statist
agenda on the basis of the proposition that it is simply the “right thing to do,” as if some universal understanding of
collectivism exists as a canon of self-evident absolutes transcending all human experience.
Increasingly, the voices of traditional America are being systematically silenced, prevented from even being able to
voice any objection to the onslaught of Leftist ideology and the accompanying moral decay of society. Currently, under
the perverse auspices of “political correctness,” the same social entity that removed the customs and institutions of a
comparatively moral society proceeded to supplant such things with its own ideological boundaries. However, on the
propriety of its precepts, no flexibility, and indeed no room to even question its veracity, is allowed.
If such an assessment seems overstated, consider the harsh and oppressive “speech codes” imposed on America’s
college campuses where Liberalism reigns supreme. And, as the product of those campuses fans out into society, so
does the blight of “political correctness” that was inculcated into its members.
So Barack Obama, who has inarguably spent far more time as a student in far-Left academia than he has in the United
States Senate, now assumes the role of standard bearer for such thinking within the Democratic Party, and, if he wins
the Presidency in November, 2008, for the United States government as a whole. Yet, when pressed, he would have us
believe that he would impose no moral judgments of his own as edicts requiring strict compliance from the rest of us.
No amount of window dressing will dilute the dire nature of Barack Obama’s radical Leftwing Liberalism, or that of the
entire socio-political movement he represents. Time is running out for America to recognize his Leftist ideology as the
poison that it is.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Morality, Decency, & Traditional American Family Values
American Politics & Political Competition:
Elections, PACs, & Political Parties
American Government & the U.S. Presidency:
Presidential Politics & National Leadership
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, & Other Leftists
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
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