Hope for some

Not for others. That’s the illogic in Barack Obama’s world. Creative Minority Report calls it mad.

Watch the video, it’s very short. Read the comments below it. This is all over the blogosphere, and obviously on YouTube.

It goes back to the incongruity of Obama’s position of advocating for civil rights while working in partnership with the abortion movement to deny rights to the most vulnerable little lives in our country.

Just to remind people again what this was all about - what’s in that YouTube video and behind the story linked above here in the Forum - let’s go back to the story within the story.

Here’s a summary, picking up after Obama refused to approve the Born Alive Infants Bill in the Illinois Senate, the only senator to do so:

That June, the U.S. Senate voted 98-0 in favor of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act (although it failed to become law that year). Pro-abortion Democrats supported it because this language was added: “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.”

That kind of language is jarring in the gymnastics it takes to reassure abortion supporters that they can still abort babies. This bill specifically sought to protect babies born alive after an attempted abortion, for crying out loud.

Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer explained that with this language the “amendment certainly does not attack Roe v. Wade.”

On July 18, 2002, Democratic Sen. Harry Reid called for the bill to be approved by unanimous consent. It was.

That same year, the Illinois version of the bill came up again. Obama voted “no.”

In 2003, Democrats took control of the Illinois Senate. Obama became chairman of the Health and Human Services committee. The Born Alive Infant bill, now sponsored by Sen. Richard Winkel, was referred to this committee. Winkel also sponsored an amendment to make the Illinois bill identical to the federal law, adding — word for word — the language Barbara Boxer said protected Roe v. Wade. Obama still held the bill hostage in his committee, never calling a vote so it could be sent to the full senate.

A year later, when Republican U.S. senate candidate Alan Keyes challenged Obama in a debate for his opposition to the Born Alive Infant Bill, Obama said: “At the federal level there was a similar bill that passed because it had an amendment saying this does not encroach on Roe v. Wade. I would have voted for that bill.”

In fact, Obama had personally killed exactly that bill.

Former nurse Jill Stanek was there, testified before the judiciary committee, heard the calculated refusal of Sen. Obama to protect even these babies. Big media may not be paying attention, but the pervasive ones are, and they’re holding him accountable for his record.

Obama likes to talk about his favorite words a lot. Let’s talk about audacity. And clarify the limits he places on hope.