the single greatest political ad I’ve ever seen or the worst political cheap shot I’ve ever seen. Perhaps it is both. Enjoyed it just the same.

did not feel his daughter was punished with a child.

I’m sure the irony is lost on many….

Its now OK to for kids to be from a broken home without parental nurturing, raised by a grandparent all because 1 guy was elected president.

Not great odds if you ask me.

I did like the ad though, better then killing them.

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yes, yes, I get the point, and I think it’s a nice political shot and a nice counter-argument to one of the sacred arguments of the left, i.e., “kids from broken homes, etc., are better off not being born”… I smiled a great deal when I first saw it and thought: yeah, I’d like lots of people to see this ad (I’ve put it on my Facebook).

But my second thought was the danger of staking an argument on that ground — i.e., “don’t kill the kid because of the great job he/she may have in the future.” That seems more like Peter Singer’s position. Obviously the best and most important reason not to intentionally kill the child in utero is because the child is a separate human person from the moment of conception with his/her own right to live a natural life, just like any other person.

I’m a student of Morton Blackwell so I know we ought not split our infinitives, mix our metaphors, use sans-serifed fonts, or make the perfect the enemy of the good. I like the ad, and think it would be a good reality check for many who think they have the compassionate position vis-a-vis “unwanted children” (as though ‘being wanted’ bestowed personhood and rights). But I’m uneasy with the ground it stakes–it seems to be slippery ground. But hey, if it gets people to reconsider their support of FOCA and the like, and “softens the ground” so future advances can be made, great.

also…

BAZING!!!

Did anyone else get all tingly???

I wonder if the irony would be lost on Obama if he saw this, or if he’d just think it was another aggrandizing pat on the back?

…children have less-than-ideal fathers, etc. But a life is a miracle…a miracle as great as a right pilot to fly a glider into the Hudson…a miracle as great as a non-violent transfer of power. Unfortunately, the perspective is lost on many.

Any respectful message which holds up the miracle of life as important is OK by me.

Had he been born after January 22, 1973.

His mother didn’t raise him alone. She remarried and went to live in Indonesia with her husband and had another child. When that didn’t work out, his mother brought him home to her mother, the president of a bank in Hawaii, to raise. He was sent to the most expensive private school on the island where he spent his time (in his own words) partying. Went to Occidental College in California and then to Columbia and Harvard. We don’t know who paid for all those expensive degress???

Never worked a day in his life then and the only work he’s ever done since is “community organizing” otherwise known as rabble rousing which he’s continued to this day and which he will continue to do well into the future. Why? Because that’s where the money is.

I wonder how many of the intellectual elite on the left will get it?