BHO is no JFK
By Doug Patton
February 5, 2008
With several members of the now largely irrelevant Kennedy family endorsing the most radically left-wing, least experienced candidate in this year's race for president, perhaps it is time to introduce some reason into the ridiculous argument that Barack Hussein Obama is the new John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
JFK supported tax cuts, knowing they would spur economic growth. BHO thinks he can somehow tax us into prosperity.
JFK was a foreign policy hawk who stood up to the Soviet Union and let it be known that the United States of America was a superpower to be reckoned with. BHO is a foreign policy wimp whose proclivity toward appeasement in a very dangerous world would signal weakness to our enemies and invite them to attack us.
JFK told us to ask what we could do for our country. BHO tells us to expect that our country will do everything for us.
JFK was a genuine hero who very nearly died in World War II. The closest BHO has ever gotten to a war zone was when he was working as a "community organizer" on the mean streets of Chicago.
By the time JFK was elected to the presidency, he had already served six years in the U.S. House of Representatives and eight years in the U.S. Senate. BHO spent a few years in the Illinois State Legislature and lost a bid for a U.S. House seat before winning the 2004 U.S. Senate race. He spent one year in the senate before launching a bid for the presidency.
It is impossible to imagine JFK endorsing the radical idea that homosexuals should be allowed to marry each other, or even have the rights of marriage, as BHO believes.
It is also impossible to imagine JFK supporting the murder of the unborn. BHO's position goes much further.
With terrorism and the economy taking center stage in our politics, it was relatively easy for most Americans to allow the tragic 35th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade to slip past them on the 22nd of last month. One third of a generation - fifty million Americans - are not here because of this holocaust, and two generations now have no memory of a nation without legalized murder of the unborn.
For various political and financial reasons, today's Democrats - and far too many Republicans -are invested in keeping abortion legal in the United States. But few Americans with a conscience are willing to allow abortionists the right to kill a baby up to and beyond the moment of birth.
Barack Obama is.
Back in 2006, in a column about Barack Obama titled, "The Most Dangerous Man in America," I wrote, "Most important to the liberal extremists who run the Democratic Party, this man's moderate demeanor would successfully belie his leftist political ideology."
A few weeks ago, in a piece about moderate, pro-life Democrat Sen. Ben Nelson, D-NE, endorsing Obama for president, I pointed out that Obama was the most radically left-wing member of the United States Senate on the issue of the sanctity of life. As it becomes increasingly possible that this man could become president, it is time to examine the ramifications of Obama's position on the issue.
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