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On February 10, 2007, Sen. Barack Hussein Obama (D-Ill.) entered the race for the White House. Obama, a freshman senator and rising party star, officially announced his candidacy after forming an exploratory committee to begin raising money and hiring staff to campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination to succeed Republican President George W. Bush.


Obama, who gave the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic convention before he was elected to the U.S. Senate, recently appeared on a Time magazine cover and drew big crowds while campaigning for Democrats in 2006. Obama has stoked enthusiasm among Democrats looking for a fresh alternative to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who some fear could be too polarizing to win a general election campaign against a Republican in 2008.


Sen. Obama has promised to "change our politics" with a campaign that could make him the first African American president in U.S. history. The question is: “What kind of ‘change’ would America experience if Obama were elected president?”

For a comprehensive expose' on Sen. Barack Hussein Obama's background read the article by the Rev. Rob Schenck of the National Clergy Council.

Recently, the political and religious left has been actively attempting to redefine “social justice” to refer to other issues at the exclusion of the greatest holocaust the world has ever known.


Abortion kills over 3200 Americans per day, and 1.2 million per year. A child is killed by abortion every 22 seconds in America. Over 45 million Americans have lost their lives to abortion since 1973. 50 million babies are killed worldwide every year. This crisis deserves the utmost attention of our policy makers, and leaders.


The fundamental right to life of every American must be our nation's first priority. It must be a top priority for anyone running for President - including Sen. Obama.

Christians for Social Justice shares the concern for other social justice issues like poverty, education, health care, fair wages, and the war in Iraq. However, America will not make progress on these important issues without addressing the wholesale slaughter of the pre-born.

Obama trivializes abortion by his attempt to find consensus social issues on which to base his campaign. He has a long record that neglects protecting pre-born children. 1452 black babies lose their lives to abortion every day in America. Unbelievably, Obama continues to refuse to address the disproportionate killing of African American babies in their mother's womb. Obama even supports the killing of born and partially born children.


Obama claims to stand for justice but neglects to try to stop abortion. The purpose of this website is to expose the hypocrisy of Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama.


For the sake of our nation and our progeny, Sen. Barack Hussein Obama must not become President of the United States
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Just got home from buying 10 copies to hand out.

The first is going to my wayward brother who worships at the feet of Obama. If he doesn't accept it, I will smack him until he wakes the fuck up and realizes Obama will do more harm to the black race than good.

The second to my Jewish grandfather who as asked for a copy.

The third to my aunt who still is undecided. Either this will push her one way or the other, but its time she decided if she is going to stand by her country or allow this so called Messiha, who will only further weaken this country, get elected.

The fourth to one of my route driver's who is still smarting from the Hillary lost. I think he dislikes Obama more than I do.

The rest will be given as I see fit.

The best part of this book is how upset and bothered it has the left falling all over each other to defend Obama's own words.
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If you want to treat "pre-born children" as real people, then you have to give them responsibilities. Legal ones. If a "pre-born child" is on the mother's property (her body, as well as her house), then she has the right to demand that the child leaves the premises. Kind of like uninviting someone from your home. First, words are used. Then, the police can be used. The end result is the same: a dead fetus.
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You try to find every reason to hate Obama, so I'll ignore the topic the title suggests. The REAL topic here is abortion.

First of all why do you not support abortion?

This is why I support abortion:

1.Most eggs are never fertalized in the first place so most babies are never born. Since those babies that were "killed" because they were unwanted had just as much of a chance of living as those babies that were never fertalized. They might even have MORE of a chance. In my opinion life is to be given by those who were blessed to be at the front of the line at the right time. If it just so happens that egg became fertalized before it was flushed down the toilet then bless them. Either way I don't believe there is a difference between that fate and having an abortion.

2. I believe "human life" doesn't begin until you have a functioning brain. The brain is where everything is. Until you are born you are nothing but basically a plant. It doesn't necessarily mean that plant is meant to be ripped out, stepped on or torn, it's just a plant unfeeling and unknowing. Until you gain that sort of independence (where you can think even the smallest thoughts) you are nothing. I believe you are you based on your experiences and weather you grew up to be a noble prize winner or a serial killer you were basically the same at birth.

If I believe those two things what would stop ME from having an abortion if I were a woman? No one has to believe what you believe and if someone thinks that perhaps it's the woman's belief and not the belief of other people that decides the fate of the baby then that's perfectly fine with me.
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I'm really starting to feel sorry for people who buy into these black-and-white generalizations about Obama's "support" or "opposition" to a certain issue. The article that Lost Soul cited goes so far as to say:

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The link for "killing of born" merely goes to the Wikipedia page for the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act. The "partially born" link actually goes to a page that says, "This Account Has Been Suspended." Knowing that idiotic generalizations are often the norm when someone tries to chastise Obama or McCain for a certain opinion, I decided to do some research. As it turns out, Barack Obama voted "Present" on March 20, 2001 regarding Senate Bill 1093. Click on the following link and go to page 85 to read Senator Obama's questions about the bill. State of Illinois, 92nd General Assembly, Regular Session, Senate Transcript

Essentially, he points out, amongst other things, that, not only will the bill be found unconstitutional, but it would also force a doctor to keep alive a pre-viable fetus, thus granting legal rights to pre-viable fetuses.

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Unbelievably, Obama continues to refuse to address the disproportionate killing of African American babies in their mother's womb.
This is a bold-faced lie. As evidenced here, and here, and here.

Just because one does not agree with Obama's position on abortion (safe, legal and rare), does not mean that he hasn't addressed the issue.

The real issues are the causes of abortion. While Lost Soul's link implies that blacks seem to have some kind of inexplicable inclination to abort their children (and, yes, I know that Rev. Clenard H. Childress Jr. is black), the link is merely another case of extremists trying to bamboozle their ignorant readership. In reality, abortions are disproportionately more frequent among poor people. Because the percentage of poverty-stricken blacks, in relation to all blacks, is quite larger than the percentage of poverty-stricken whites, in relation to all whites (Persons Below Poverty Level), it logically follows that the percentage of abortions among blacks would be greater than that among whites. Any serious discussion about lowering the occurrence of abortion should be predicated by a discussion about lowering the occurrence of poverty. It doesn't take a genius to figure that out. Essentially Fighting poverty = Fighting abortion.
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This is why I support abortion:
You should really consider re-phrasing that.
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The best part of this book is how upset and bothered it has the left falling all over each other to defend Obama's own words.
More likely how his own words will be twisted and mischaracterized, given the lunatic who wrote it.

YouTube - Obamanation Smear Book Debunked 8-14-08

That guy is a doozy.
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So who exactly do you favor? Hillary was definitely pro-choice. McCain may be against it, but he obviously doesn't view it as a crisis since he's willing to take a pro-Choice vp (and he has a decent chance of dying from old age during his term if elected which would lead to a pro-choice President).
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You should really consider re-phrasing that.
I understand that might be a bit offensive to some of the more sensitive members .

What I meant was This is why I would support a woman's choice to have an abortion.

I can't edit my post unfortunately.
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*smh*
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Just got home from buying 10 copies to hand out.

The first is going to my wayward brother who worships at the feet of Obama. If he doesn't accept it, I will smack him until he wakes the fuck up and realizes Obama will do more harm to the black race than good.

The second to my Jewish grandfather who as asked for a copy.

The third to my aunt who still is undecided. Either this will push her one way or the other, but its time she decided if she is going to stand by her country or allow this so called Messiha, who will only further weaken this country, get elected.

The fourth to one of my route driver's who is still smarting from the Hillary lost. I think he dislikes Obama more than I do.

The rest will be given as I see fit.

The best part of this book is how upset and bothered it has the left falling all over each other to defend Obama's own words.
Millions of babies have been aborted under republican administrations, and they literally did nothing to change that. But abortion immediately will destroy america if a democrat is in charge
Do you guys have a web-generator which generates random bullshit arguments against Obama? Because... Damn, I hope this kind of stuff is not coming out of your brains.
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Millions of babies have been aborted under republican administrations, and they literally did nothing to change that. But abortion immediately will destroy america if a democrat is in charge
Do you guys have a web-generator which generates random bullshit arguments against Obama? Because... Damn, I hope this kind of stuff is not coming out of your brains.
Not just that, abortion is going to be the major issue of the election, overriding Iraq, Iran, the economy and corruption, most miraculous of all, the 70% of Americans who now support abortion are all going to become devout Catholics and elect Pope Benny as our next President in a write in Landslide
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The book Lost Soul is talking about, on one hand, is currently #1 on the NY Times bestseller list, and on the other, it's filled with lies. That Obama was a muslim then converted, that he never admitted if he ever stopped taking drugs, that he was at a key speech made by his former Rev., that he's for reducing the size of the military, that he has a "secret black rage hidden under the surface". It clearly lies about many of his positions, from nuclear weapons to the Global Poverty Act to taxes. It's written by the lead SwiftBoat guy. People are reading it, but who exactly? Obama haters? Obama supporters?

Is this all the far right has? Flat out lies?

Don't you want to not vote for someone because you really know why you're not wanting to voting for them?

I do.

My problem with Obama is that unlike Clinton, he's got no experience at setting or meeting budgets. His foreign policy I've warmed up to, but I'm still clearly more supportive of a non-interventionist attitude where we ought to treat everyone the same instead of entangling ourselves with dramas when we blindly go with some but not others, play mindgames, play favorites, send money and arms to countries that either can defend themselves adequately already or have despot leaders. So there's a lethal mix there of foreign and domestic problems that I'm not sure he's ready for, either out of inexperience (on managing an economy) or judgment I simply disagree with on the foreign policy side of things.

I think Obama could be beaten if someone were to just run with those truths, because the personal attacks on him aren't really working. We're at just over two months in this campaign now and McCain trails in the average of the top polls put together by slightly over 4%. After taking the worst of it when he was overseas, Obama seems to be keeping his head just above water while McCain's campaign has yet to really take off, and just when it looks to get going, he makes reference to being okay with choosing a pro-choice VP and it gets his party's base in a tizzy over it.

Abortion is too politicized in America. I believe I have a more conservative and realistic approach to that issue than conservatives do, who favor a wreckless and illogical course. I think most people are conservative on the issue. Who wouldn't like to see the number of abortions fall to zero? The question then becomes, what is the best way to go about reducing the number of them? A Supreme Court appointee or the spreading of good values and good information? I go with the latter. And it's proven by other civilized nations who share many if not most of America's values. Changing the laws won't do a thing. The prohibition era should have taught us that. What would we do? Jail 1.2 million women a year, most of them under the age of 24?

Yeah, I like the idea of a society that values life more, and that's why I'd prefer to see someone have an abortion in the first few weeks of their pregnancy than to see a society of desperate teenagers who do horrific things like shitting out babies after 9 months and putting them in dumpters, leaving them in vacant stairwells, drowning them, whatever. Girls who feel they have no choices have come to do some pretty tragic things inflicting suffering on an actual life outside the womb as well as to themselves.

The abortion rate spiked in the 70's in America, and then better sexual health education helped to lower the numbers through the 80's right until present. But the lack of good information in America is still at times, appalling, as American youths get pregnant and get STI's on a far larger scale than youths in other progressive nations. Even in France, where all they seem to do is to be fucking, American youths have something like 4 times the rate of STI's.

The religious right in America has hijacked this issue and would prefer to be content in their self-righteousness and ignorance rather than actually expressing those values in constructive ways which reflect reality. This is why overturning Roe v. Wade and abstinence-only education are consitently the only two ideas that so many ardent pro-lifers ever stick with. Teach the children well, and you'll see values change over time. Invest more in adoption programs for teens who have unwanted pregnancies. Talk to them straight up, and treat them more like adults instead of this tired notion that we're supposed to constantly throw stupid at them in order to "protect" them, which is perverse.

Chew on some reality and you'll find that you don't have to lose yourself in ideology.
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If you want to treat "pre-born children" as real people, then you have to give them responsibilities. Legal ones. If a "pre-born child" is on the mother's property (her body, as well as her house), then she has the right to demand that the child leaves the premises. Kind of like uninviting someone from your home. First, words are used. Then, the police can be used. The end result is the same: a dead fetus.


Since when is having "legal responsibilities" a prerequisite for being a person?
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The book Lost Soul is talking about, on one hand, is currently #1 on the NY Times bestseller list, and on the other, it's filled with lies. That Obama was a muslim then converted, that he never admitted if he ever stopped taking drugs...
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Just to let people know, I either support or oppose abortion. I believe it is the mother choice and one she will have to live with the rest of her life. I do however believe the father has a legal right to decide also and without his approval there should be no abortion.

I didnt buy this book because abortion issue.

But will post this so all you Obamabots who think Obama is a step above Jesus Christ will get a good at your man.

So he now opening his arms to pro life supporters yet he had no problem voting to kill babies who survived failed abortions.

Obama has a position on every side. He is a fake slimy same a usual politician. RKF1968, Obama is now doing what he must to get votes and if it getting in bed with the pro life, so be it. But his past actions tell the truth about Obama. Nothing you can say or do will change the fact of his record before he needed the votes of the pro life.

Nothing about Obama is about change, it the same as usual.

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On Jan. 10, 2005, newly elected U.S. Sen. Barack Obama visited former colleagues and staffers at the Illinois state Capitol, where he had served seven years as state senator. I happened to be at the Capitol that day, too, and a friend and I took the opportunity to speak to Obama, who had not yet achieved rock-star status and was still approachable.

We were in Springfield to lobby for passage of the state Born Alive Infant Protection Act, legislation that would require hospitals to care for infants who survive an abortion. Obama spoke against the legislation in 2001 and 2002 and single-handedly defeated it in committee in 2003.

My friend stood in Obama’s path and said, “Senator, we are going to pass Born Alive here in Illinois this year.”

Obama smiled smoothly and agreed, “I think you will,” adding, “I would have voted for the Born Alive Infant Protection Act in Illinois had it been worded the same as the federal bill. I think that’s the position the Democrats should take.”

There’s just one thing he forgot to mention: Obama had stopped his committee from adding the federal wording.

With Obama no longer in the state Senate, the Born Alive legislation passed in 2005.

First encounter

An Illinois lawmaker offered the first draft of the state’s Born Alive Infant Protection Act in 2001 after I revealed publicly that Christ Hospital left babies who survived abortion — viable babies whose delivery was induced, and whom the abortionist intended to kill but somehow survived — in a utility room to die.

The bill, sponsored by state Sen. Patrick O’Malley of Oak Lawn defined “born alive” using language identical to that of federal legislation introduced in 2000 by Rep. Charles Canady, R-Fla., who in turn drafted wording developed by the World Health Organization in 1950 and adopted by the United Nations in 1955:

The term “born alive,” with respect to a member of the species homo sapiens, means the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of that member, at any stage of development, who after such expulsion or extraction breathes or has a beating heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles, regardless of whether the umbilical cord has been cut, and regardless of whether the expulsion or extraction occurs as a result of natural or induced labor, cesarean section, or induced abortion.

I first encountered Barack Obama on March 27, 2001, when I testified before the Illinois Senate Judiciary Committee, of which he was a member. My testimony included my description of holding a premature aborted baby until he died:

One night, a nursing co-worker was taking an aborted Down’s syndrome baby who was born alive to our Soiled Utility Room because his parents did not want to hold him, and she did not have time to hold him. I could not bear the thought of this suffering child dying alone in a Soiled Utility Room, so I cradled and rocked him for the 45 minutes that he lived. He was 21 to 22 weeks old, weighed about ½ pound, and was about 10 inches long. He was too weak to move very much, expending any energy he had trying to breathe. Toward the end, he was so quiet that I couldn’t tell if he was still alive unless I held him up to the light to see if his heart was still beating through his chest wall. After he was pronounced dead, we folded his little arms across his chest, wrapped him in a tiny shroud, and carried him to the hospital morgue where all of our dead patients are taken.

Obama questioned whether the born alive legislation would impede the right to abort and doctor/patient decision-making. He and an American Civil Liberties Union attorney speculated Born Alive would force doctors to resuscitate nonviable aborted babies.

Obama opposed Born Alive in committee, but voted “present” — neither “yes” nor “no,” but merely “present” — on the state Senate floor, one of many “present” votes that Hillary Clinton has cited as evidence that Obama lacks leadership skills. Clinton voted for the federal Born Alive bill, putting her on record as more pro-life than Obama.

Constitutional blindness

A graduate of Harvard Law School, Obama taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago for 10 years. Both schools are listed in the top 10 law schools in the country.

But Obama revealed his constitutional blind spot in his book The Audacity of Hope:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created [emphasis added] equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among those are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

… (T)he essential idea behind the Declaration — that we are born [emphasis added] into this world free, all of us; that each of us arrives with a bundle of rights that can’t be taken away by any person or any state without just cause; that through our own agency we can, and must, make of our lives what we will — is one that every American understands.

Note Obama’s choice of the word “born” over the word “created.” Perhaps that helps explain his support for unrestricted abortion. Also note that our "bundle of rights” can be “taken away” with “just cause.”

Obama clearly considers abortion a “just cause.” Here is how he argued against Born Alive during Illinois Senate debate in 2001:

… I just want to suggest … that this (legislation) is probably not going to survive constitutional scrutiny.

Number one, whenever we define a pre-viable fetus as a person that is protected by the equal protection clause or the other elements in the Constitution, what we’re really saying is, in fact, that they are persons that are entitled to the kinds of protections that would be provided to a — child, a 9-month-old — child that was delivered to term. That determination then, essentially, if it was accepted by a court, would forbid abortions to take place.

I mean, it — it would essentially bar abortions, because the equal protection clause does not allow somebody to kill a child, and if this is a child, then this would be an antiabortion statute. For that purpose, I think it would probably be found unconstitutional.

The legislation passed the Senate but did not survive in the House.
When Rep. O’Malley reintroduced Born Alive and its companion bills in 2002, they headed again to the same committee, where Obama rewrote history:

"Ms. Stanek, your initial testimony last year showed your dismay at the lack of regard for human life. I agreed with you last year, and we suggested that there be a Comfort Room or something of that nature be done. The hospital acknowledged that and changes were made and you are still unimpressed. It sounds to me like you are really not interested in how these fetuses are treated, but rather not providing absolutely any medical care or life to them."

Of course, Obama had not agreed with me the year before, and I was the one who had told him about the Comfort Room, which the hospital created in response to my testimony: "We now have this prettily wallpapered room. … There is even a nice wooden rocker in the room to rock live aborted babies to death."

The hospital made live birth abortions look nicer, but the end result was still dead babies.

“What we are doing here is to create one more burden on women, and I can’t support that,” Obama concluded, and voted “no” in committee again.

The bill went again to the Senate floor, where Obama was the sole speaker against it, claiming that it would impose a “burden” on physicians:

[T]his [legislation] puts the burden on the attending physician who has determined, since they are performing this procedure, that in fact, this is a nonviable fetus.

Troubled conscience?

Democrats won control of the state Senate in November 2002, and when Born Alive was reintroduced for the third time in 2003, it was directed to the Obama-chaired, infamously liberal Health and Human Services Committee, where he simply refused to call it for a vote.

By this time Obama was running for U.S. Senate. He won his primary in March 2004, and Republicans recruited former U.N. Ambassador Alan Keyes, who lived in Maryland, to oppose him. It was Obama’s position against Born Alive that persuaded Keyes to run, as he stated in his announcement speech:

"When I was first approached about this possibility… I have to say that my reaction was negative…. What finally caught my eye, however… what finally arrested my attention and forced me to consider whether I not only had the opportunity to oppose him, but the obligation… was when I learned that (Obama) had actually, in April 2002, apparently cast a vote that would continue to allow live birth abortions in the state of Illinois … .

"We are talking about a situation in which, in the course of an abortion procedure, a child has been born alive — is out of the womb, breathing and living on its own — and he cast a vote against the idea that we should not stand by and let that child die!"

This was why Keyes alleged during their campaign that Jesus Christ would not vote for Barack Obama, as he explained in an interview with an NBC affiliate:

Christ would not stand idly by while an infant child in that situation died. … Christ would not vote for Barack Obama, because Barack Obama has voted to behave in a way that it is inconceivable for Christ to have behaved.

Obama later admitted Keyes’ comment “nagged” him and has written or spoke about it several times, although he always misrepresents Keyes’ rationale as being about abortion support