Poor Obama Saddleback Performance

Not sure if anyone else caught the Saddleback Church debate, but I was truly in awe at Obama’s terrible performance. People like to paint him as this charismatic young fresh face, but last night’s debate I think proved just the opposite.

First thing I happened to notice was his demeanor. He seemed very uncomfortable and seemed as though he was unable to look directly into the camera or for that matter at the audience. In doing that, he gives the impression as though he was very insincere and wasn’t really being honest with us. Let alone his relentless use of uhh and umm, which made him excruciatingly painful to watch.

The second thing I noticed was his ability to dodge questions and the moderator to just let it slide. For that I am disappointed in Rick Warren. Obama’s lack of actually answering the question is one thing, but Pastor Warren’s allowing him to do so is another. This is his most notable dodge, of which is to a question that is extremely important to many Evangelicals.

Q. Now, let’s deal with abortion. 40 million abortions since Roe v. Wade. You know, as a pastor I have to deal with this all the all of the time. All of the pain and all of the conflicts. I know this is a very complex issue. 40 million abortions. At one point does a baby get human rights in your view?

A. Well, I think that whether you are looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade. But let me just speak more generally about the issue of abortion because this is something obviously the country wrestles with. One thing that I’m absolutely convinced of is there is a moral and ethical content to this issue. So I think that anybody who tries to deny the moral difficulties and gravity of the abortion issue I think is not paying attention. So that would be point number one.

But point number two, I am pro-choice. I believe in Roe v. Wade and come to that conclusion not because I’m pro abortion, but because ultimately I don’t think women make these decisions casually. They wrestle with these things in profound ways, in consultation with their pastors or spouses or their doctors and their family members.

And so for me, the goal right now should be — and this is where I think we can find common ground and by the way I have now inserted this into the democrat party platform is how do we reduce the number of abortions because the fact is that although we’ve had a president who is opposed to abortions over the last eight years, abortions have not gone down.

So wait a minute, Obama. You are a United States Senator, who’s job is to legislate, who also happens to running for the leader of the free world, yet you can’t make up your mind as to when a baby deserves to be given the same rights as those who are out of the womb? So then Obama, I submit this question to you, at what pay grade are you qualified to make such a determination? I mean $165,200 isn’t like it’s pocket change. Also not forgetting about a presidential salary of a wopping $400,000 should he win the presidency in November.

Obama can’t even honestly answer when he feels a baby is a person, how can we trust him to run our country? Yet another reason to reconsider voting for him.

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