Obama Baby!

WARNING: The following is a politically motivated blog posting.

Maybe you have been doing the same. I really don’t want to offend anyone with these questions but please help me understand how a Christian could support the following 3 items, regardless of your political views.

1. Obama voted against the following bill 3 times:

Public Law 107-207U.S. CodeTitle 1, Chapter 1: Rules of ConstructionSection 8.

''Person'', ''human being'', ''child'', and ''individual'' as including born-alive infant
(a) In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, or of any ruling, regulation, or interpretation of the various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States, the words ''person'', ''human being'', ''child'', and ''individual'', shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development.
(b) As used in this section, the term ''born alive'', with respect to a member of the species homo sapiens, means the complete expulsion or extraction from his or her 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.
(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to affirm, deny, expand, or contract any legal status or legal right applicable to any member of the species homo sapiens at any point prior to being ''born alive'' as defined in this section.

In other words, if an abortion isn’t successful and a baby is born alive and even healthy, Obama did not feel that another doctor should be called in to then do what doctors do: Everything medically necessary to maintain human life. The baby was unwanted, for whatever reason, and should be terminated. Obama’s reasoning was that it chipped away at Roe vs. Wade and he wouldn’t do anything that chipped away at that. If anyone agrees with this, please help me understand.


2. He also voted for partial birth abortion every time he had the opportunity. One method of partial birth abortion is the "brain suction" or "D&X" method. These are done after 4 or 5 months. 80% of babies are normal. Most babies are viable.
This is like a breech delivery. The entire infant is delivered except the head. Scissors are jammed into the base of the skull. A tube is inserted into the skull, and the brain is sucked out. The now-dead infant is pulled out. Please help yourself to find illustrations of this procedure online- I don’t even feel comfortable posting them on my blog- but you cannot fully comprehend this procedure until you see it for yourself. Some links are:
http://www.nrlc.org/ABORTION/pba/diagram.html
http://www.priestsforlife.org/partialbirth.html

Guided by ultrasound, the abortionist grabs the baby's leg with forceps.

The baby's leg is pulled out into the birth canal.

The abortionist delivers the baby's entire body, except for the head.

The abortionist jams scissors into the baby's skull. The scissors are then opened to enlarge the hole.

The scissors are removed and a suction catheter is inserted. The child's brains are sucked out, causing the skull to collapse. The dead baby is then removed.
***If you are still not offended by this procedure, please see item 1 where if it fails and the baby is born alive, Obama would still vote against a doctor saving this:




Which 2 hours later looked like this:





3. I read a friend of a friend's blog, which shall go nameless.The blog was a very well written rationalization of how no candidate will line up in every way with our beliefs therefore if abortion is a lesser evil than say, greed, you should vote against greed. And I agree, but neither will any church service, pastor, family member or friend. So of course not every Christian will be a Republican. She also conveniently establishes her argument on the foundation of her “burning” which means if you disagree you are “judging” her. I see no reason why a person who votes for Obama will go to Hell any more than a person who votes for McCain will go to Heaven. So it’s a non point to the argument.

But she makes a huge mistake in her political philosophy (Even excluding the position Jesus might take on abortion) which is the core and fundamental difference between the parties. I actually think it a little arrogant that she believes she can be a bigger person than just a one issue voter and that all Christian Republicans are republicans because of just one issue. The difference is who’s responsible.

1) She said, “Jesus calls us to love and respect others and provide for those who cannot provide for themselves.” A great, accurate Biblical statement. However, Jesus never one time had a conversation with Caesar. He never one time appealed to the Romans to give tax money to the poor. He asked us to love and respect others. Paul asked us to care for the widows and orphans (James 1). He asked us to go out into the world, not the Feds. Jesus asks us for our lives, all of them. Voting for a person to govern the country based on the fact that he will determine who and how much we should give is a lazy excuse to feel good about the fact that we don’t do any of the things Jesus asked us to do. Christian republicans don’t ask the government to comfort our conscience, we know it’s on every man and women to provide from what they have to those who need. It is no more Christian to vote for a government that will take from the privileged and give to the needy than it is to just not give to the needy.
2) In case you are wondering what the Bible says about socialism…. which is what Obama stands for….read Acts chapter 2 for a lovely description of it. “So those that accepted his message were baptized, and that day about 3000 people were added to them…..Now all the believers were together and had everything in common. So they sold their possessions and property and distributed the proceeds to all, as anyone had a need. And every day they devoted themselves to meeting…” Notice that the community in which the church was thriving numbered in the thousands, not the 340,000,000 range. Also notice that the burden was not on the rich in the church, but on everyone. Also notice that they met daily in devotion to God – which our government does not. Notice they were all believers. And be aware that it was also the first church to go broke and that Paul had to collect money from the gentiles to bring back to them and help. Socialism is beautiful – in small groups, with common faith in God, and a perfect society…. Please try and tell me that is where we live.


Webster on stealing: the act of a person who steals.

Webster on Steal: To take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, esp. secretly or by force:

The Bible on stealing:
 Exodus 20:15"You shall not steal.Exodus 20:14-16 (in Context) Exodus 20 (Whole Chapter)
 Exodus 22:1[ Protection of Property ] "If a man steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it, he must pay back five head of cattle for the ox and four sheep for the sheep.Exodus 22:1-3 (in Context) Exodus 22 (Whole Chapter)
 Leviticus 19:11" 'Do not steal. " 'Do not lie. " 'Do not deceive one another.Leviticus 19:10-12 (in Context) Leviticus 19 (Whole Chapter)
 Deuteronomy 5:19"You shall not steal.Deuteronomy 5:18-20 (in Context) Deuteronomy 5 (Whole Chapter)
Mark 10:19You know the commandments: 'Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.' "Mark 10:18-20 (in Context) Mark 10 (Whole Chapter)
Romans 2:21you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?Romans 2:20-22 (in Context) Romans 2 (Whole Chapter)

Obama on stealing:

Word for word in Obama’s “Emergency Economic Plan” is “TAKE THE EXCESS PROFITS OF OIL COMPANIES…” It goes on to say how the monies will be spent – helping the people with the rising costs of energy in the form of $500 and $1000 checks.

Maybe there is a clarification in the Bible about stealing if it is for a good cause – like being able to drive to the store and buy your new iPhone and not have to pay $4.00 a gallon…I haven’t found it but it’s probably somewhere in the back…

Interesting fact – Gas companies profit on 1 gallon of gas: 7.5 cents/ gallon. Federal tax ( Not to mention state and local) on a gallon of gas: 18.5 cents/ gallon.


Don’t get me wrong. I don’t like either candidate; I don’t like that fact that we have turned government into our provider, defender, moral determiner, judge, and salvation… those things are for God. But not liking either candidate does not absolve me from my duty to at least promote the candidate that is most like my beliefs. And one of them is much, much further away, on almost every issue.