A wise comparison from Matthew J. Franck of the NRO blog “Bench Memos”,
The Little Giant, of course, was the moniker of Stephen A. Douglas, he of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. We can well imagine him saying this during a press interview in 1860 when he was Lincoln’s opponent for the presidency:
“What I do know is that slavery is a moral issue, that it’s one that families struggle with all the time. And that in wrestling with those issues, I don’t think that the government criminalizing the choices that families make is the best answer for reducing the number of slaves.”
Change the italicized slavery here to abortion, and change the number of slaves to abortions, and this is exactly what Barack Obama told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s This Week in a taped interview aired this morning. This was his self-described “Christian” answer, given with more “humility,” to the “tough question” that he had answered too flippantly by saying it was “above my pay grade” a few weeks ago in the Saddleback Forum.
Leave it to Democratic senators from Illinois, whether in 1860 or 2008, to confuse humility with moral relativism. Douglas was called the Little Giant by his admirers. We who see through Barack Obama might well call him the Moral Midget.
UPDATE: Sam, over at Malignant Liberal Idiocy, has a detailed post about how “Barack Backtracks on Saddleback“. Definitely worth the read.
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Inserting “slavery” for “abortion” is a good way to expose the fallacies of pro-abortion reasoning - e.g., “Don’t like slaves / abortions? Don’t have one.” “They can’t survive on their own.” “They aren’t fully human.”
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Tieki, my latest blog is on this very backtrack of B.O.’s
I also throw in some transcript from his time in our state senate that is revealing.
Sam Pierce’s last blog post..Barack Backtracks on Saddleback
Neil, you’re absolutely right. It is kind of ironic how the left claims that the GOP is no longer the Republican party of Lincoln, when it reality we are fighting the same fight for respect of all human life that Lincoln fought for. About what issue can they say the same?
Sam, I’ve added a link to your post because I think it is super informative. I mean, you have the words straight from the horse’s mouth, as it were.
I thought the words in this case came from the other end of the horse… thanks for the link!
Sam Pierce’s last blog post..Barack Backtracks on Saddleback
Lol Sam.
I was thinking the other end of the horse also when I was reading Tieki’s comment.
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