What about Obama?

Sarah Posner has a cogent and profound perspective regarding the complicated relationship that the US president has developed with religious institutions and their role in public life. She highlights the challenge involved:

On reducing the need for abortions, Obama's own preference is a commonsense public policy to fund comprehensive sex education and contraception to reduce unintended pregnancies. This has been the position of mainstream reproductive-health advocates for decades. This has also been the position of religious organizations like Catholics for Choice, the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, and the Religious Institute for Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing. But Obama hasn't reached out to those voices for a public, religious imprimatur for his own policy positions.

Instead, Obama has focused his outreach efforts on more conservative religious groups (you know, the ones who haven't been voting Democratic). He claims to honor their position on moral issues. But when the dust settles on the Notre Dame controversy, he'll have to figure out what to do with the policy advice he has sought from the council. How Obama reacts to that advice will demonstrate whether the council is mere window dressing to shore up support from swing constituencies or whether Obama will yield to conservative religious dogma on reproductive-health issues.

It's worth reading. Go have a look.

Only in the US you say? Pity (party).

JJ at unrepentantoldhippie and Scott at scott's diatribes look southward to the fauxgrassroots, more like astroturf 'tea party' protests happening in the US.

Here are more suggestions on the beverages likely consumed by ignoranti who populate these pseudo-demos.

Constant Comment Blather - a pungent mix of freeze-dried limbaughburger cheezy bits mixed with instant tea pellets, MSG and GMO high-fructose corn syrup.

Redneck Rose - a traditional infusion.

Sour Grapes Medley - a bitter mouthful of old grievances, fetid ideologies and republicon trash talk.

As many have said, the whole 'tea party' gimmick is a thinly veiled attack on Obama's presidency since most of the economic strategies that makes the teabaggers shrieeek were initiated on Dubya's watch.

Not your run-of-the-mill liar: Behold Jill Stanek

Enough. Someone should check her medication.

"Barack Obama was elected president despite the fact he supports abortion into the fourth trimester.
Either the 63 million people voting for him didn’t know about his radical record, which includes abandoning abortion survivors to die, didn’t care, or didn’t believe it."

This is beyond willful and malicious fabrication. This is hallucination.

First posted at Birth Pangs.