On The Religious Left, Great Expectations

Common ground on abortion? You're joking, right?

Obama didn't wait 24 hours before making his first decision to promote abortion as the President-elect by offering his Chief of Staff slot to Rahm Emanuel.

In Emanuel, Obama has chosen a clone of himself, according to voting records from the National Right to Life Committee.

In July 2007, Emuanel voted against an attempt to stop taxpayer-funding of the Planned Parenthood abortion business that brings in over $1 billion annually by doing 25 percent of the abortions in the United States.

As a Congressman, Emanuel has voted against upholding state parental involvement laws allowing parents to know when their daughter is considering an abortion. He voted for making Americans pay for abortions at U.S. military base hospitals, and voted for funding a United Nations agency involved in the forced-abortion one-child family planning policy in China.

Emanuel also repeatedly voted against the ban on partial-birth abortions and opposed the bill to protect pregnant women and their unborn children, like Laci and Conner Peterson, from violence.

That's not common ground.

If memory serves me right, Emanual got blue dog (AKA conservative) Democrats elected. Many of those he helped get elected are pro-life. He was instrumental in bringing centrist into the party and the greatest fear the GOP has is that they are going to be labeled the extremist Party.

There is common ground. As a Blue Dog Democrat, I support moderation and centrist government instead of the polarization that I have had to live in for the last twenty years.

interesting...the GOP had 8 years to DEAL with this issue NOTHING was done and SOMEONE wanted to give them 4 more??? I guess abortion wasn't on the top 10 list...be mad at them not Oboma. By the way, they had total control the first 4...

Keep religion out of civil government!

We don't have to discuss abortion. The bible tells us everything we need to know. The religious left are not christians. Lets have a bible lesson. God makes it perfectly clear when life begins...Job 10:8-12 31:13-15(Both of these attribute divine value and human qualities to the unborn fetus. One vote against a ban on partial birth was enough for me. I voted McCain.

With the economy in such bad shape, it's doubtful that Obama will be able to keep many of his promises regarding health care, poverty, etc.. I also doubt he will do much about abortion, because he will still have to cater to his base. Evangelicals have been used before and we are being used now.