{"id":109,"date":"2008-01-10T10:34:33","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T10:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/castingstones\/2008\/01\/change-we-can-believe-in.html"},"modified":"2008-01-10T10:34:33","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T10:34:33","slug":"change-we-can-believe-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/castingstones\/2008\/01\/change-we-can-believe-in.html","title":{"rendered":"Change we can believe in?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The dawn is spreading after years of darkness; it\u2019s a new day in politics, one that is governed by hope and a belief that we can be different. That Obama can lead Democrats and Republicans into the promised land of non-partisanship. Not just bi-partisan, but non-partisanship, as Huckabee says, no more labels, no more left and right, only vertical.
\nBut would they have us scuttle our beliefs to join them. I know how Obama would govern, do I really want a president who would take away more of my money only to squander it in wasteful spending, who would negotiate with a terrorist state that is trying to acquire nuclear weapons so that they can annihilate Israel and hold the west hostage, and who would reward those who break our laws by granting them amnesty? Am I supposed to ignore all that and vote for him anyway knowing that those on the right in Congress will continue to fight and that this new era of non-partisanship will be as successful as the Pelosi and Reid led Congress?
\nThis change entails me putting aside what I believe and embracing what he believes but how can I do that when it means embracing his position on the very nature of human life<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Barack Obama is the most pro-abortion presidential candidate ever.
\nHe is so pro-abortion he refused as an Illinois state senator to support legislation to protect babies who survived late-term abortions because he did not want to concede — as he explained in a cold-blooded speech on the Illinois Senate floor — that these babies, fully outside their mothers’ wombs, with their hearts beating and lungs heaving, were in fact “persons.”
\n“Persons,” of course, are guaranteed equal protection of the law under the 14th Amendment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How can I elect someone who has such low view of human life?
\nObama sings the siren song of change and it is so attractive because we are tired of the fighting but it only leads to the destruction of true compromise based on coming together over principled differences (the Pelosi lead House is an example), this is why I am not listening and will not join him in his era of change and new politics. To me it\u2019s just the same old tired status quo of socialism and the culture of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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