Barack Obama in Suicide of a Superpower, by Pat Buchanan

On Abortion: Blocked IL law: Born Alive Infant Protection Act

Revealing that their religious beliefs meant less to them than their political beliefs, a majority of Catholics in 2008 voted for a man who captured the endorsement of the National Abortion Rights Action league in a race against Hillary Clinton. Obama supported partial-birth abortion, in which the baby's skull is sliced open with scissors in the birth canal and the brains sucked out to ease its passage.

In the Illinois legislature, Obama blocked the proposed Born Alive Infant Protection Act, a bill to protect infants who survive abortion. He promised supporters he would sign a "Freedom of Choice Act" to repeal all legislated restrictions on abortion, state and federal. Taking office, he opened the door to federal funding of embryonic stem cell research and , by executive order, repealed the Reagan-Bush prohibition against using tax dollars to fund agencies broad that perform abortions.

Source: Suicide of a Superpower, by Pat Buchanan, p.100 Oct 18, 2011

On Civil Rights: I benefited from affirmative action in my academic career

The Ivy League preselects America's leaders. Michelle and Barack Obama are where they are because, in getting into Princeton, Columbia, and Harvard Law, and onto law review, they benefited from affirmative action.

Barack Obama himself conceded the point in 1990 when, as president of Harvard Law Review, he wrote in defense of its affirmative action policy:

"As someone who has undoubtedly benefited from affirmative action programs during my academic career, and as someone who may have benefited from the Law Review's affirmative action policy when I was selected to join the Review last year, I have not personally felt stigmatized."

Source: Suicide of a Superpower, by Pat Buchanan, p.258 Oct 18, 2011

On Government Reform: OpEd: 2010 federal pay freeze was all smoke and mirrors

After his "shellacking" in 2010, Obama, reacting to public rage over federal pay, proposed a two-year freeze. But as USA Today reported, this freeze involved the use of smoke and mirrors. Across-the-board pay hikes would be frozen, but "many federal workers will receive other pay hikes--longevity increases (called steps), promotions in grade, bonuses, overtime and other cash payments":

Most federal employees are ranked at a general schedule (GS) grade from 1 to 15, and each grade has 10 steps within it. Step raises are largely automatic, based on longevity, but merit can hasten a step pay raise or even move a worker up multiple steps. Not every worker gets a step raise every year, but the raises average about 2% per year for workers as a group.

Source: Suicide of a Superpower, by Pat Buchanan, p. 28-29 Oct 18, 2011

On Principles & Values: OpEd: installed secularism as America's state religion

At the 2009 inaugural, Obama repudiated the notion that America is a Christian nation: "We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and non-believers." For the first time, a president had denied the primacy of Christianity in America. The Supreme Court had declared in 1892, "This is a Christian nation." The President was now declaring in his inaugural that we had ceased to be so. The age of Obama marks the advent of post-Christian America.

The Obama inauguration symbolized the dilution and decline of a once-muscular Christianity that had guided American public life for two centuries. Obama's White House enlisted in a long and successful campaign to expel Christianity from the public square, diminish its presence in our public life, and reduce its role to that of just another religion. Cultural power in America long ago passed to an anti-Christian elite that rules the academy, Hollywood, and the arts. Secularism is now America's state religion and the people sense it.

Source: Suicide of a Superpower, by Pat Buchanan, p. 46-49 Oct 18, 2011

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