Nurse Jill Stanek, during her testimony before the Illinois Senate Judiciary Committee in March, 2001, described a horrific scenario of aborted, but surviving babies being left in a hospital’s soiled utility closet – there to die alone and without medical assistance. Then State Senator Barack Obama, was according to Nurse Stanek, “unfazed” by her testimony. But, while he may have been “unfazed” by her graphic descriptions, he was apparently listening. He proved this in 2002, when Ms. Stanek again testified before the same Committee. Obama reportedly responded to her later testimony, noting:
“’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.”[i]
In addition to his apparent callousness, Obama seems to be claiming personal credit for setting up the “Comfort Room” in response to Stanek’s 2001 testimony. He apparently forgot to consider that the room was implemented four months before her first appearance before his Committee.
[i] Jill Stanek, (Jan. 18, 2008), WND Web-Site, WND Commentary, PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM: Barack Obama and the Comfort Room, retrieved January 19, 2012 from http://www.wnd.com/2008/06/67328/
In 1997, then Illinois State Senator Obama voted “…against a bill designed to prevent partial-birth abortions.” These are abortions in which the baby’s skull is cracked open, permitting the use of a suction device to pull their brains out.[i](Emphasis Added)
In 2004, Michelle Obama – in an email to her husband’s supporters – referred to a federal ban on partial-birth abortions, passed by Congress in 2003, “as a ‘ban on a legitimate medical procedure’ that ‘is clearly unconstitutional and must be overturned.’”[ii](Emphasis Added)
In his book, The Audacity of Hope, Obama suggests that activists:
“…have openly discouraged legislative allies from even pursuing those compromise measures that would have significantly reduced the incidence of the procedure popularly known as partial-birth abortion, because the image the procedure evokes in the mind of the public has helped them win converts to their position.”[iii]
More proof of Obama’s strength! The gruesome description of having a child’s skull cracked and his or her brains sucked out seemed to have no affect on the Obama’s. He laments the loss of political allies to support partial birth abortion, citing what he apparently believes to be the unfair disclosure of how this grim procedure is accomplished. His wife simply wanted the procedure put back on the menu! How could we possibly be more proud of a First Family?
[i] Jerome R. Corsi, The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, (New York, 2008, Threshold Editions) pp 238-239
[ii] David Freddoso, The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media’s Favorite Candidate, (Washington, DC, 2008, Regnery Publishing), pp 201-202
[iii] Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, (New York, 2006, Three Rivers Press), p59
In 1999, Jill Stanek, a Registered Nurse (RN) at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois. found an aborted, but surviving baby “left to die alone amidst bio-hazardous human waste and dirty soiled sheets in an untended utility closet. To add insult to the infant’s already egregious injury, his convulsing wriggling body was callously deposited next to a urinal.”[i] Nurse Stanek indicated that the baby was being left there by a co-worker, who had participated in the abortion surgery and who had duties to perform on another floor. “When she told me what she was doing I couldn’t bear the thought of this suffering child dying alone.”She reportedly “cradled and rocked” the baby until he died 45 minutes later.[ii]
Stanek described this event in her 2001 testimony before the U.S. Congress and the Illinois State Senate’s Judiciary Committee. She also described for the Committee, the so-called “Comfort Room” that Christ Hospital had installed in December, 2000 – apparently in response to her public statements:
“Meanwhile, here in Illinois, life and death go on. Four months ago, Christ Hospital unveiled its ‘Comfort Room.’ So now I can no longer say that live aborted babies are left in our Soiled Utility Room to die. We now have this prettily wallpapered room complete with a First Photo machine, baptismal gowns, a foot printer, and baby bracelets, so that we can offer keepsakes to parents of their aborted babies. There is even a nice wooden rocker in the room to rock live aborted babies to death.”[iii]
According to Ms. Stanek, then State Senator Barack Obama was “’unfazed’ by her testimony.”[iv]
Life News.com quotes an AP report, noting that in 2001, Obama gave his position on the “born alive” issue as follows:
“It would essentially bar abortions because the equal protection clause does not allow somebody to kill a child, and if this was a child then this would be an anti-abortion statute.”[v]
In other words, then State Senator Obama logically deduces that if a child survives late term abortion and is still alive after being fully separated from the mother, then the child is, in fact, a living person and we are not allowed to kill living people. His answer however, was not to stop the murders, but apparently, to simply ignore the life.
[i] Citizen USA (Oct. 30, 2008), Citizen USA web-site, Stanek blasts Obama’s refusal to protect babies ‘Born Alive’ during abortions, retrieved January 19, 2012 from http://www.ccn-usa.net/news.php?id=697
[iii] Jill Stanek (March 27, 2001), Transcript of testimony before Illinois Senate Judiciary Committee, provided through Dan Zanoza, RFM News, Subject Exclusive from RFM News Jill Stanek testimony on live-birth abortion, retrieved January 19, 2012 from http://www.pathlights.com/abortion/abortion_news_p6.htm
[v] Senator Barack Obama, (March 30, 2001), quoted in Steven Ertelt (Feb. 11, 2007), Life News.com web-site, Barack Obama Launches 2008 Candidacy With Pro-Abortion Record, retrieved January 9, 2012 from http://www.lifenews.com/2007/02/11/nat-2927/
In early 2009, Obama told an American public waiting with great expectations, for the “hope and change” he had promised – hoping that “Fundamentally Transforming the United States of America” meant returning us to a full employment society. Obama’s post inaugural promise?
“If I don’t have this done in three years, then this is going to be a one-term proposition.”[1]
It’s three years later now and by Obama’s own words, it is not done. Why is he running? Here’s what he says today – without skipping a beat…an interesting choice of words:
How fitting that the man who thinks things work better when you “spread the wealth around,” should choose the entitlement demanding words that he “deserves a second term.” Does the man who condescends to those “clinging to religion” seem just a little whiney here?
In 2008, at the Democratic National Convention, Barack Obama told throngs of enthusiastic Americans:
“Well it’s time for them [Republicans] to own their failure. It’s time for us to change America.”[i]
But, what did he mean? After three years of continued high unemployment – with horrific numbers mitigated more by people dropping out of the employment search than by those finding jobs – after an unsuccessful $800 billion dollar stimulus package – after increased divisiveness in the country, failed immigration policies, a health care program rammed down the throats of a resistant America – after all of this and more, Obama’s response is:
“’When I said, Change we can believe in, I didn’t say, Change we can believe in tomorrow, not, Change we can believe in next week.’”[ii]
New York Times Columnist Maureen Dowd, in a surprising article, wrote: “The dissonance of his promise and his reality is jarring.”[iii]
Even today, this President continues to try and distance himself from the economic problems faced by America. Nothing is his fault. He bears no responsibility. He “Inherited” this mess. In fact, if you had gone to the White House web-site at 10:45am EST, on March 21, 2012, and in the search box, entered the word “inherited.” This would have been your result:
In his remarks to a Joint Session of Congress on Feb 24, 2009, he used the word three times and those of us who have listened to him, have heard it on many other occasions. To be fair, these were not all his own speeches, but they all came from the White House. Since it would take far too long to search each of the 16,300 uses of the word “Inherited,” I’ll stipulate that he could have used the word in other contexts – but, even if we generously allow that this happened in 1,000 cases, that still leaves 15,300 times in which the word was used once or more to describe his plight as the 44th President of the U.S. and his absolute freedom from any responsibility for our current economic conditions.
Although he still uses “inherited,” to point the finger at others, he has also learned to mix it up – now using the equally stunning “…for the last eight years….” and then again, to “….over the last decade.” Same message, but as he and Duval Patrick say; “Words Matter.”[ii]
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Reason #15
President Won’t Share Keys – Demands others Compromise
Sticking to the same divisive, partisan rhetoric he consistently uses on the American people, President Obama addressed members of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on May 13, 2010, telling them:
“So after they drove the car into the ditch, made it as difficult as possible for us to pull it back, now they want the keys back. No! You can’t drive! We don’t want to have to go back into the ditch! We just got the car out! We just got the car out!”[iii]
And here at the wheel is the President of “hope and change,” “fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” His inspirational words no doubt enhanced the spirit of bipartisan cooperation – and this was when Democrats controlled both Houses. Does the President who was ready to meet with Ahmadinejad sound like he was ready to work cooperatively with Republicans?
Just as he immediately set a racial tone in his first book – just as he seemed always accompanied [according to his book] by someone focused on racial slights – Obama ensured that someone else would be handy at his Inaugural Address, so that racial victimization could be part of the public record, without coming directly from his own lips. In this case, the observations would come from the inaugural benediction of Rev. Joseph Lowery, former President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The video of his speech shows a smiling President Obama’s face as Lowery – this kind looking stereotypical grandfather – tells America in his soft, aged voice:
”Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around — (laughter) — when yellow will be mellow — (laughter) — when the red man can get ahead, man — (laughter) — and when white will embrace what is right.”[i](Emphasis added)
Once again Obama – after just winning the general election for the U.S. Presidency – deftly injects white racism into the mix without saying a word and through a humorous poem that has his admiring constituency laughing instead of questioning.
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Reason #13
Obama Campaign Messaging
Perhaps the quality of a President can be partially measured by the knowledge and thoughtfulness of the voters responsible for his or her election. In the case of President Obama, that standard should leave America with significant concerns. In the words of one ardent Obama supporter, following a campaign rally on October 30, 2009:
“It was the most memorable time of my life. It was a touching moment because I never thought this day would ever happen. I won’t have to worry about putting gas in my car. I won’t have to worry about paying my mortgage. You know, if I help him, he’s gonna help me.”[ii]
Other “informed” Obama constituents were interviewed in Harlem in a “man on the street” format. The twist was that the interviewer was attributing the policies and choices of Senator John McCain to Obama. The exercise revealed instant support for Sarah Palin as Obama’s alleged running mate as well as appreciation for his “Pro-Life” position and his desire to keep our troops in Iraq until the war was finished. In other words, whatever McCain issue was sent their way with a phony link to Obama, they immediately supported. But, asked directly about McCain, one respondent said: “McCain seems to not really know what he’s doing right now” – another said: “I just don’t agree with some of his, you know, policies.” Still another said: “He sort of sounds like he doesn’t have enough – like he’s not uneducated – because when he has – they have to vote for the President speaking, uh, he didn’t sound like he knew what he was talking about too much.” This final interviewee then responded to follow-up questions saying she supported Obama because he was Pro-Life and because he supported the Iraq war. She was also happy that Obama had selected Sarah Palin to be his VP running mate.[iii]
Our Country is in good hands. NOT.
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[i] Ref. James Lowery, Inaugural Benediction transcript from Federal News Service, posted by Lynn Sweet, (January 20, 2009), Chicago Sun-Times web-site, The Scoop from Washington, Rev. Lowery Inauguration benediction. Transcript, retrieved April 21, 2010 from http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2009/01/rev_lowery_inauguration_benedi.html
In 2008, campaigning for her husband in Puerto Rico, Michelle Obama told a supportive crowd that:
“Barack knows that…we’re going to have to change our conversation – we’re going to have to change our traditions – our history…”[i]
Those are not good words if you believe in the promise of America – if you are proud of what this nation stands for; or, if you, a family member, or ancestors have served our Country in time of war. America does not represent perfection in its history, so much as it does hope in its journey. Yet, the beauty, freedom and opportunity of America today, stand well above whatever nation claims second place.
Though some may claim otherwise, we remain a nation under God, enjoying the blessings of our Creator. We are a nation founded on Judeo-Christian beliefs and respecting the religious freedoms of all people. Those who would change our traditions and our history, tamper as destructive children, with the sacred treasure of Democracy – earned and preserved with the blood and sacrifice of generations.
There is nothing here to “Fundamentally Transform!”
[i] Michelle Obama, (May 14, 2008),YouTube.com, Michelle Obama in Puerto Rico, posted by BarackObamadotcom on May 28, 2008, retrieved January 6, 2011 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afGz0dzVSIU
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