First, he says the question of when life begins is above his pay grade.

Just another way of voting present like he did so many times in his state’s senate.
If he doesn’t take a side no one can pin him down. So he thinks!!

Where is Michelle O – the trusted advisor of Barack Obama and one of three people that he would seek counsel from if elected President? Shouldn’t the media be demanding that she exit her 32-day “cone of silence”?

From one of the few conservative professors out there, I’m one of the people who thought his answer was academic or “professorial” in nature. That’s because it is – from his point of view. To them the question “when life begins” really is a theological and scientific question that politicians shouldn’t presume to pontificate about. But it doesn’t have anything to do with abortion because, to them, abortion isn’t about the unborn child, it’s about the woman’s rights. So of course he is trying to have it both ways. He wants to sound all serious and academic-like with his pompously lame answer, trying to persuade people that he really does think it’s not just another political issue but an important philosophical issue as well, but then he completely sidesteps the philosophical aspect of it all by just repeating the Democrats’ standard position. So there you have it: Obama, who, when confronted with an issue of substantial gravity, will ponder deeply, think long and hard, consult the top experts, and then…repeat the DNC line. THAT is Obama’s real “change” – to put an academic and serious face behind the Democrats’ traditional agenda. The change is merely repackaging.

Besides, he’s not running to be professor at Yale. He’s running to be President. Professors have the luxury of living outside the political fray and take years and years to complete studies. Presidents don’t.

When he said, “what you do for the least of my brothers, you do for me” he answered it in relation to a later question. Who is the least of our brothers if not those who have no say and no control over their own lives except by the will of someone with more power?

that the question posed to Obama wasn’t about life. It was, to paraphrase “When do human rights begin, in your view?”

This, a question of legality, should have been fairly easy for Obama – a legal scholar.

He couldn’t handle a legal question, much less one that would have actually been about morality.

Just apply that set of standards to doing anything else wrong. What about the decision to prohibit one’s daughter to marry a black man? “I made that decision after reviewing it with my spiritual advisor. It was very personal. Not done lightly. I’m sure you all can understand. The question of race mixing is really above my pay grade. Who can judge?”

Terrible example. Do you really want the government to make these kinds of decisions? If a person wants to be a racist and make personal decisions based on that, the government should stay the hell out.

What’s the alternative? Re-education camps?

Part of freedom is the freedom to be stupid.

He says that when a baby should get rights is “above his pay grade” but he’s pro-choice?

So he admits that he doesn’t know when babies should get human rights but then takes the position that abortions are okay?

“It may be a human, I don’t know, so… Sure, you can kill it.” That’s right up there with “I can’t be sure if Black people are human. Ummmmm. Wanna buy one?”

I thought he was supposed to be so darn smart. Either he hasn’t thought his position through or he’s lying.

Obama was not asked when life begins. He was asked when a baby gets human rights. It’s an easy, non-theological and non-biological question. The only possible answers are at conception, at viability (per Roe v Wade) or at birth (the physical separation from the mother). Of course, Obama would have to answer the question honestly and based on his support for infanticide, the honest Obama answer would have been Never.”