[Cartoon used with permission of John Francis Borra, veritatis@eaglecom.net.]
Commentary from the artist…
Barack Obama wants us to believe his words matter. And why shouldn’t he? Other than a brief voting record, he has nothing else to offer. Unfortunately, what figures most prominently in that record is unwavering support for killing our unborn, newborn and disabled citizens.
It’s a sobering comment on our society that someone as contemptuous of human life as Adolph Hitler, Margaret Sanger or Osama bin Laden may well become the next president of the United States. In a country whose majority claims to be Christian, this contest should not be close; indeed, Barack Obama should not even be in the running. Yet ours is a society lost in a pother of relativism, in which “Christian” means little and human life means even less.
Contrast Obama’s objectification of people with Sarah Palin’s affirmation of them. Never has there been such stark contrast in American politics. Never. An enabler of the greatest threats to mankind– abortion, euthanasia, cloning and lethal experimentation– against a witness to the beauty, joy and sanctity of life. It’s not going too far at all to characterize this presidential race in biblical terms. Indeed, Obama’s carefully chosen words regarding “reproductive freedom” bring to mind the serpent’s lie to Eve; it’s the very same promise the abortion industry, euthanasia advocates and promoters of human cloning offer the gullible today: you will be like God.
Some suggest that Sarah Palin’s appearance in this election is providential. It’s easy to see why. Standing before the world, amid a culture that relegates children with Down syndrome quite literally to trash bins, Sarah Palin bears unabashed witness to a mother’s love for a baby she calls perfection. Such respect for the human person should trump all other considerations when choosing chief executives; alas, not in today’s America.
Foundering in a blood bath of our own making, the choice facing Americans never has been clearer: “change” leading to even more carnage or a renewed respect for life and all its blessings.
Semper veritas,
John Francis Borra, SFO
GO OBAMA!!
Amen, AMEN, AAAAAAAMen!!!
I believe if you are going to be FREE SPEECH, then do so. Otherwise don’t say that you are …
This is a matter of ethics.
I am not surpised… politics rules doesnt it….values, when that is down the drain.
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John- you have done another beautiful job on both the commentary and cartoon. This has to be one of my favorites in exposing the Truth of what it is, and BO’s
“Born Alive Infant’s Act” is pure evil. How any “Christian”can vote for him, is a mystery to me.
Keep them coming, John!
GO PALIN! GO MCCAIN! FOR LIFE!
This was a beautifully written commentary. I actually had someone think that the 40 Days for Life prayer vigil was a pro-choice event…. interesting…. the words “pro-choice” and “prayer” do not even go in the same sentence together. …. unless your prayer goes something like this “Lord, I am lifting up a prayer that the pro-choice mentality will fade into oblivion” lol
Abortions wrong. Don’t do it. Killing a baby isn’t going to solve any problem. If you don’t want one keep your legs closed… But dont kill a any baby. Obama is dumb. I have no support for him.
If we elect Obama ~ we will be an OBAMA~Nation to God in every since of the word.
Proverbs 6:16-19 “These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an
OBOMA~NATION unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed
innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be
swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he
that soweth discord among brethren.”
At this time of our history, you are willing to ask Catholics to vote for McCain just because he is prolife?
Christ, in his short ministry on earth spent more time talking and walking charity, helping the infirm, the poor and the lonely the disposed. Does McCain care at all about any of these ‘least of my brothers’? Not at all. Does the republican party care? Of course not. Maybe if you make $5 million a year.
If you care so much about the beginning of life, look the policies of McCain and co on the rest of life- cut funding for mothers who can’t feed their babies, cut funding for schools to teach these babies, build more jails to luck them up, support capital punishment (or that is not killing?) deceive the nation and take our young soldiers to war, leading to over 4000 killed and 30000 seriously injured, not provide adequate healthcare for our seniors, and the list goes on. STOP this HYPOCRISY!!
As the Christian you claim to be, be honest with your God and show the country where banning abortion has reduced the number of abortions. All it does is drive it underground and lead to deaths of young pregnant girls. Look at Ireland. I used to live in the UK and the Irish would just come across the water to UK and have their abortions and take the ferry home. Do you honestly think women who do this, take this decision lightly?
In these perilous economic times, we have a candidate in Obama who can bring hope, international respect to our society once more. You want us to vote for another Bush term just because you don’t trust women to make the right choices about keeping a pregnancy?
Tony, if it had been up to people who think like you, slavery would still be legal in the US.
Hmmm. 2008: Because there always will be women with unwanted pregnancies, there always will be abortions, so we should allow them. 1860: Because there will always be landowners with high labor costs, there always will be slavery, so we should allow it.
Indeed, McCain is not the perfect pro-life candidate (alas, Bobby Jindahl wasn’t nominated!). Not that a perfect pro-life candidate would have satisfied you; very clearly, you have no concern for the unborn. If you did, you wouldn’t be bending over backward to color Obama as something other than a utilitarian-nihilist.
BTW, what exactly do you see in Obama that inspires “hope” other than the ubiquitous campaign posters of his? Indeed, he’s consistently legislated against any hope for the unborn, the newborn and the disabled (e.g., Terry Schiavo) while in both the Illinois legislature and US Senate.
What part of “dead” don’t you guys understand, Tony? When life issues have been brought before him, Barack Obama has legislated 100% of the time to KILL. No matter how hard you try vilifying McCain or Palin, you’ll bnever change the record Obama has established as the most cynical, hypocritical and ruthlessly anti-life politician of any party to reach national office in the US.
Interesting, disgusting site: http://www.matthew25.org – people including pastors, supporting Obama in the name of Christianity. Matthew 25:40 quotes,” What you did to the least of my brothers you did it for me”. Does that include abortion? This site has sickened me, and enraged me- to use Christ to stump for Obama? Is nothing sacred any longer? Please check out the site- write e-mails, let them know what you think. We have a “church” in Ohio that is using 3 “pastors’, including McLauren to stump for Obama this weekend. Please pray that they find God’s Truth- not Obama’s.
You should be ashamed of yourself, John Borra! And so should this site…if you call yourselves Christians whether or not this is in “fun” it is deplorable. Don’t you know abortion is not a laughing matter?
We should be ashamed of what, Andrea? Defending innocent human beings? And who’s implying this is a laughing matter? It’s the greatest genocide the world ever has seen. Which begs the question: If you’re as concerned as we are, why aren’t you against abortion, too?