Liberal Duplicity at work

The events of last week show the lack of liberalism commitment of the modern Democrat activist.  For all their insistence that what a public official does in his private life is irrelevant to his public fitness or conduct, they’re making quite a fuss over Bristol Palin.

For all their protection of personal privacy, they’re now telling us that even the rumors of the private conduct of a conservative candidate is fair game, even more so the true accounts even of a close relative.  They’re all over her teen sexual activity, her pregnancy, even though LIberalism has given this country one of the highest teen birth rates among industrialized nations.

According to a recent HumanEvents.com post, “The liberal position is morally bankrupt and suicidal to civilization. It is anathema to the Judeo-Christian worldview.”

Of note are pregnancy rates for black teenagers.  In 1990, they were substantially higher than for white or Hispanic teenagers. By 2002, the rates for black and Hispanic teenagers were very similar and were each more than two and one-half times the rate for non-Hispanic white teenagers. By contrast, teen birth rates have declined 13% since the current Republican administration has added abstinence to sex education curricula.* Remembering that abortions are twice as likely among blacks, that means blacks are substantially more likely to engage in unprotected sexual contact than other races.  This with the tacit  endorsement of the NAACP, which encourages abortion rights, as does every member of the Congressional Black Caucus identifies him or herself as pro-choice.

In short, the furor over Bristol Palin’s pregnancy is a red herring.  It’s an attempt to derail a candidacy that would shut down the liberal proclivity for “do as you please and abort later.”

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*Sources:HumanEvents.com,  US CDC

Obama – Image Matters

Maggie Gallagher recently wrote about the power of the image in the current political race.  She applauds Barack Obama for his mastery of the management of that image, and observes how it is hurting John McCain, who is more focused on substance.

“Poor John McCain. He’s so last-century. Still living in a world in which deeds matter, policies matter, what you would actually do with the power entrusted to you matters.”

For Obama’s part, the management of the image is strategical smart, politically smart.

What else could you do if you were “a lightly accomplished one-term senator, a former state legislator from Illinois, a Harvard law graduate who has no substantive record of accomplishments, and you are running against a war hero whom polls show that Americans overwhelmingly view as far more fit to be commander in chief?”

Gallagher claims is all theater:  “The man who would be president of the United States of America flies around the world in the middle of a political campaign, enlisting the U.S. military and the Berlin Wall as free campaign commercial backdrops, to lend him the emotional weight and substance — the aura as a commander — that he hasn’t yet earned on his own.”

Even his in-depth interviews are show.  According to accomplished journalist Andrea Mitchell, “they are what some would call ‘fake interviews,’ because they are not interviews from a journalist.” Unlike McCain, who is wide open to the press, Obama doesn’t even travel with a press pool.  Everything is scripted.

Unfortunately, real life isn’t scripted.  Obama may try to push us to “a Brave New World where highly paid symbolic analysts construct reality by manipulating symbols,”  but if he is elected, he will quickly find out how uncoperative the rest of the world is, at our peril.