Obama compounded his insult to Catholics, ahead of next week's primary in
heavily Catholic Pennsylvania, when he said small-town Americans are "bitter
and cling to guns and religion as symptoms of frustration." That remark
brought a quick rebuke from Hillary Clinton and John McCain. "Pennsylvania
doesn't need a president who looks down on them," said Sen. Clinton. "They
need a president who stands up for them, who fights for them, who works hard
for your futures, your jobs, your families." McCain spokesman Steve Schmidt
said Obama's initial remarks, made at a fund-raiser in San Francisco, "shows
an elitism and condescension towards hardworking Americans that is nothing
short of breathtaking."
Obama also wants to repeal the military's carefully crafted compromise
"don't ask, don't tell" policy, which allows homosexuals to serve in the
military, as long as they don't reveal their sexual orientation. And Obama
favors same-sex "unions." Though he might call them something other than
marriage, he would allow all of the benefits government conveys on
heterosexual married couples to be given to same-sex partners. This, too,
runs afoul of Catholic Church doctrine.
How much more cynical can politics get? Obama knows he would never have a
prayer of getting the nomination were he anything but pro-choice, but he
makes nice with a couple of pro-lifers who ought to know they have zero
chance in moving Obama from his radical position. They apparently are so
enamored by political power they are willing to use their pro-life
"credentials" to help Obama get elected, though he has no plan - other than
more "sex education" - for reducing the abortion carnage that has already
taken the lives of nearly 50 million unborn children since 1973.
Leaders of the Catholic Church, perhaps beginning with Pope Benedict XVI
during his visit to America this week, ought to condemn this kind of cynical
politics and content-less religion and remind Catholics that just because a
Catholic politician endorses another politician, it does not mean the
Catholic Church is giving its blessing to the endorsers or the endorsee.