My buddy Brad Vasoli wrote in the Philadelphia Bulletin about Dawn Johnson’s nomination to become Assistant Attorney General:
President Barack Obama has nominated Dawn Johnson, a law professor with a record of vehement support for abortion, to become assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel.
Ms. Johnson teaches at the Maurer School of Law at Indiana University and once served as former President Bill Clinton’s acting attorney general. She has made a number of diehard comments on the abortion issue such as, “There is no ‘father’ and no ‘child’ – just a fetus.”
OK. What’s wrong with the world when someone can say those words and be allowed in the White House for anything other than a tour?
What’s wrong with a President who nominates her to a seat of power?
This got me thinking about our President. I always think back on Barack Obama’s statement that he doesn’t want his daughters “punished with a baby.”
It hit me anew how grotesque a statement that really is. It is a faithless and selfish comment that solely defines another person as a hindrance or a help to your own happiness.
Sartre famously said, “Hell is other people.” I guess Obama would say “Hell is other very small people.”
I’ve found in my life that I’m happiest when I’m not focusing on myself but on others. I don’t see my children as punishments or stinky little burdens with diapers dragging to their knees.
I truly attempt not to view other people in a cost/benefit analysis framework. I don’t judge people on what they do for me.
To do so seems to me to be an incredibly selfish and sad view of the world. And while Johnson may say there’s no father or no child, Obama takes it a step further as if to say there’s only a father or a child if their value to him warrants their existence.
September 23, 2009 at 7:41 am
As a Christian, I want to always assign positive motives to people in the things they say, and the beliefs they hold. In prayer I've realized that this is so much more difficult with Barack Obama. I simply can't fathom reasons other than evil for the things he believes, says, and does, especially in regard to human life.
September 23, 2009 at 11:39 am
The headline should read "Obama Nominates Outspoken Torture Opponent To Legal Post" because that's the real reason they don't want her to take over the OLC. The OLC has virtually nothing to with the abortion issue, but John Yoo made damn sure the OLC condoned the use of torture.
Also, her name is spelled Johnsen, not Johnson.
September 23, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Denying the progenitor is unscientific (to use their criterion). But with them everything is subjective. If you like the person, then she is a child; otherwise, it's just a fetus and you're a sperm secreting organism. It is easier to kill the specimen that way. If this is the ideology of Obama's selections, then it is aligned with his own. It turns people into gods with absolute power over the life and death. Hopefully, the fans of this administration are slowly seeing who their idols really are.
September 24, 2009 at 10:04 am
But sin is "being out of alignment with [Obama's] values," so we really have no grounds to object.
September 26, 2009 at 2:14 pm
"It turns people into gods with absolute power over the life and death. Hopefully, the fans of this administration are slowly seeing who their idols really are."
Great comment Rick but I doubt the fans of this administration are able to see..at least not the ones I know. Its like they're blinded every time O steps up to the telepromters.
Ratzinger's prediction of many years ago is coming true before our eyes…the Church will be leaner & committed only to Christ in order to weather this holocaust. We can't depend on O's followers to change.