All I can tell you is that the excerpt I posted came, verbatim, from an article in the October 1st issue of National Review. I have been reading N.R. for more than thirty years and I have never found the editors to post anything irresponsible. With that said, I, too, would like to hear a transcript of what Obama said (not that I doubt N.R.'s sources, but I'd like to know the exact quote(s)). If you like, I will provide you the name of the article so that you may e-mail N.R. and inquire (I am at my office now and don't have it here with me).
A semi-related aside ... our township's financial administrator and I have lunch together maybe every other week. She is a sweet, honest, hard-working woman, but not very interested in 'politics', so we rarely talk about anything political.
During our lunch a couple of months ago, the topic of abortion came up (can't recall under what circumstances), and she said to me, 'It bothers me how so many people misunderstand President Obama's beliefs on abortion.'
I asked her to elaborate, and she said, 'I saw him on Oprah (there's a clue for you right there) when he was running for president, and when she asked him if he was pro-abortion he said no he definitely is not, but it is his job to uphold the laws of the country which make it legal in many cases.'
I put down my sandwich, looked her in the eye, and proceeded to tell her about his Illinois senate vote on the Born Alive Act, his support of partial birth abortion, his description of an unwanted fetus as a 'mistake'/'punishment', etc. Fortunately, she is very receptive to information, so she drank it all in. And, since then, I occasionally have been forwarding her information on Obama's countless crimes against the Constitution and the American people that are generally not reported by the mainstream media. She thirsts for that kind of thing, but finds it nowhere in her general, haphazard sources of 'information'.
Multiply this woman by tens of millions of voters who want to 'do the right thing', but for whatever reason have not done their homework -- and add in mainstream media whose cheerleading for this president no longer knows any bounds -- and the results of this election, should Obama win a second term, will not be a mandate regarding his performance his first four years, but instead will be a testimony as to how effective the constant drumbeat repetition of blatant lies is in determining the future of freedom worldwide.
If an average American believes as fact the repeated lies (be they regarding abortion or any other national issue) of a pathological liar, and sees Oprah Winfrey as a reliable podium, our republic is in deep peril. |
