Change Watch Backgrounder: Barack Obama
by Tom McClusky
January 19, 2009
POSTION: 44th President of the United States of America
NOMINEE: Barack Obama
Born: Honolulu, Hawaii (yes that IS part of the United States), August 4, 1961
Family: Wife, Michelle, and two children.
Occupation: 44th President of the United States, January 20, 2009; U.S. Senator for the state of Illinois, January, 2005 – November, 2008; Illinois State Senator, January, 1997 – November, 2004
Education: Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School magna cum laude 1991
SANCTITY OF HUMAN LIFE
On Roe v. Wade and promoting abortion
“Throughout my career, I’ve been a consistent and strong supporter of reproductive justice, and have consistently had a 100% pro-choice rating with Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America. When South Dakota passed a law banning all abortions in a direct effort to have Roe overruled, I was the only candidate for President to raise money to help the citizens of South Dakota repeal that law. When anti-choice protesters blocked the opening of an Illinois Planned Parenthood clinic in a community where affordable health care is in short supply, I was the only candidate for President who spoke out against it. And I will continue to defend this right by passing the Freedom of Choice Act as president.” Obama Statement on 35th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade Decision, January 22, 2008.
Supports forcing private insurers and using federal taxpayer money to pay for abortion“Senator Obama believes that reproductive health care is basic health care. His health care plan will create a new public plan, which will provide coverage of all essential medical services. Reproductive health care is an essential service – just like mental health care and disease management and other preventive services under his plan. And private insurers that want to participate will have to treat reproductive care in the same way.” Sen. Barack Obama’s RH Issues Questionnaire, December, 2007.
Parental Consent on issues of abortion
Opposes , also supports giving the sometime abortifacient, Plan B, to young girls. SOURCE Sen. Barack Obama’s RH Issues Questionnaire, December, 2007.
Voted against stopping ne’er-do-well adults taking minors across state lines for an abortion:
S.Amdt 4335 to S.Con.Res. 70, Roll Call 08-S71, March 13, 2008.
Voted against parental notification of minors who get out-of-state abortions:
S.403, Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act, Roll Call 06-216, July 25, 2006.
On taxpayer funding
Voted for increasing taxpayer funding for destructive embryonic stem cell experimentation: S.5/H.R. 3, Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, Roll Call 07-127, April 11, 2007.
Voted for increasing funding to Planned Parenthood and similar clinics by $100 million: S.Amdt. 244 to S.Con.Res 18, Appropriation to expand access to preventive health care services, Roll Call 05-75, March 17, 2005.
Opposes Hyde Amendment
(a provision barring the use of federal funds to pay for abortions)
“Obama does not support the Hyde amendment. He believes that the federal government should not use its dollars to intrude on a poor woman’s decision whether to carry to term or to terminate her pregnancy and selectively withhold benefits because she seeks to exercise her right of reproductive choice in a manner the government disfavors.” Sen. Barack Obama’s RH Issues Questionnaire, December, 2007.
Opposes federal support for pregnancy care centers
Sen. Barack Obama’s RH Issues Questionnaire, December, 2007.
Supports full funding for the United Nations Family Planning Fund (UNFPA)
(Evidence shows UNFPA subsidizes coercive abortions)
S. Amdt. 2708 to H.R. 2764, Roll Call 07-320, September 6, 2007
Supports subsidizing international abortion agencies
S.Amdt. 2719 to H.R. 2764, Roll Call 07-319, September 6, 2007
NOTE: Senator Obama co-sponsored the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) in the 109th and 110th Congresses and vowed to an audience at a Planned Parenthood rally that passing FOCA would be the first thing he would do as President (SOURCE.) FOCA would overturn hundreds of state laws on the books that limit abortion. (SOURCE.)
MARRIAGE AND HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA
Voted against the Marriage Protection Amendment: S.J.Res. 1, Roll Call 06-163, June 7, 2006.
Opposes the Defense of Marriage Act:
“Well, it is my strong belief that the government has to treat all citizens equally. I come from that, in part, out of personal experience. When you’re a black guy named Barack Obama, you know what it’s like to be on the outside. And so my concern is continually to make sure that the rights that are conferred by the state are equal for all people. That’s why I opposed DOMA in 2006 when I ran for the United States Senate.” Transcript of LOGO debate on August 9, 2007.
Voted in favor of the Federal Hate Crimes Act: Thought crimes amendment to the Department of Defense Authorization that would establish federal “hate crimes” for certain violent acts based on the actual or perceived race, religion, disability, gender identity or sexual orientation of any person. S. Amdt. 3035, Roll Call No. 07-350, September 27, 2007.
For allowing gays in the military:
“Senator Barack Obama pledges to end Don’t Ask Don’t Tell – and to help reinstate gays and lesbians kicked out of the military due to this policy” HRC Backstory
Supports special rights for homosexuals
Obama believes the Employment Non-Discrimination Act should be expanded to include sexual orientation and gender identity. Obama sponsored legislation in the Illinois State Senate that would ban employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
Obama ‘08 Campaign Flyer.
ON JUDICIAL LITMUS TESTS
“(J)udicial philosophy should be weighted more seriously than such evaluations. We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. And that’s the criteria by which I’m going to be selecting my judges.” Obama on Judges, Supreme Court, MSNBC, July 17, 2007.
Voted against confirming Samuel Alito (January, 2006) and John Roberts (September, 2005) for the Supreme Court.
MISCELLANOUS
Pro-Abortion payback?
Dawn Johnsen, former NARAL legal director, nominee for Assistant Attorney General for the Office of the Legal Counsel.
Ellen Moran, named White House communications director. Emily’s List is a national political action committee that only supports female candidates who favor taxpayer funded abortions and oppose a partial-birth abortion ban.
Melody Barnes, former Emily’s List board member, named director of the Domestic Policy Council.
Thomas Perrelli, the lawyer who represented Terri Schiavo’s husband Michael in his efforts to starve his wife to death, as associate attorney general.
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Comments
Satscout says that President Obama, wasn’t born in Honolulu, but rather Kenya. Does the individual have proof, if so why don’t that individual provide it. Did he or she witness the birth, have a sworn statement from some Obama member stating such, if not he or she should not spread gossip (i.e I could alledge that satscout was born on Mars, and may be a terriost). I write this that you should consider how others feel before you go spreding gossip with proof.
My question is where is the body of Christ,better still what hapened to the body of christ and I mean the church. The longer I live in this nation the more it is going anti-Christian. If the so called people of God had voted obama would not be in office. As Christians( I mean the real Christians) not the so called by name only Christians We had better prepare for the worst. And don’t have the attitude always tomorrow,never happen to this country,as long as ther Is one Christian left we will be fine. Correct me if I’am wrong in what I beleive.
William you’re not wrong but there are many of us followers of Christ that still exist in this country on our knees praying. The God of the Bible is still in control no matter what happens (or what he allows to happen) and we have to accept the coming of his kingdom dispite the darkness ahead. Obama is president because God allowed him to be there.
“Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” Matt. 7:14
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;” Proverbs 3:5
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Why are we voting on option that does not take
place for 2 to 3 years. And Obamas pet peve is
in this Spending bill and was in the last and now is in this Stimulus. Obama puts all of his favorites in this bill and we are to pay
Acorn cannot be in both bills. My kids are not going to pay for them. (they don’t work but receive Disability or Social Securit or other
helps from us.
Why does Washington have to play politics on everything. So, it’s okay to give the banks billions of dollars that they misuse, but we cannot come up with a plan for the middle class American. Everything is a compromise and I do believe that the president is trying, but he is fighting a mentality in Washington that is very set and strong on both sides.
We must pray for him.
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The lawsuits against Mr. Obama regarding his naturalized vs. natural-born citizen status are still pending. Until there is reason to believe Mr. Obama was actually born in Hawaii, I don’t see a reason to accept it as “fact”. Please get your facts straight before accusing someone of gossip.
By: satscout | January 23, 2009 at 12:35 am
The only thing I have a problem with in this synopsis is that Mr. Obama wasn’t born in Honolulu. He was born in Kenya to an 18 year old expatriate white mother and a Kenyan father. He was then brought up in Indonesia, and they didn’t try to get him a naturalization certificate in Hawaii until later.