Here is Tom Roeser on Obama’s “radicality”:
[H]e favors higher income taxes, higher Social Security taxes and higher corporate taxes. . . . [He] supports enormous hikes in domestic spending, far greater regulation by government of the economy: …a massive increase of government control over health care. Strong opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement: in fact he is a protectionist.
He stands supportive of infanticide by having killed the “Born Alive” bill in the Illinois legislature, meaning that a baby born alive from a botched abortion has to struggle and suffer without care because Obama fears that to render mercy to the baby would endanger abortion rights. He is just about the only U.S. Senator to take that stand because a similar [”Born Alive’] bill passed with the support of Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein before Obama came to the Senate after having killed a version in Springfield.
He opposed the Supreme Court decision to uphold the ban on partial birth abortion. He wants to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. He voted against John Roberts and Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court. In his home state he supported banning the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns. He supports giving drivers’ licenses to illegal immigrants. He voted to deny legal immunity to telecom companies that have cooperated with the government in warrantless wiretapping of suspected terrorists. He wants habeas corpus rights to detained suspected terrorists and security risks at Guantanamo. He wants a full-scale withdrawal from Iraq. He has vowed in his first presidential year to meet with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea with no preconditions.
Seemingly everything he does stamps him as a far-left-wing radical. His insensitivity, his alienation from traditional moral values is exhibited in his ultra-crass secularistic statement the other day. He was referring to his daughters when he casually said in Johnstown, Pennsylvania: .
“If people make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
Roeser likens him to George McGovern. That’s inescapable. But ye gods, how about Mike Gravel while we’re at it?
Big, big electability factor here, splendidly laid out. He’s on the way to being known as “Mad Barack.”
But great smile. I’ll give him that.
Blithe Spirit 