Description | Since Alan Keyes accepted the offer to run as a Republican for U.S. Senate in Illinois earlier this month, we've frequently heard variations on the following theme from him and his backers:
On the Federal level, (the Born Alive Infant Protection Act) passed in the United States Senate 98-0. Ultra-liberal Senators like (John) Kerry, (Richard) Durbin, (Hillary) Clinton, (Edward) Kennedy, and (Barbara) Boxer voted for it.
The latter two even spoke in its favor on the Senate floor.
That means that Barack Obama (who opposed similar legislation on the state level) is to the left of Kerry, now known as our most liberal senator.
Can this be true?
Were there really bills on the federal and on the state level that were substantially identical in wording and intent that our most liberal senators embraced, but that Obama rejected?
And is it therefore reasonable or fair to conclude that Obama's positions and votes on the abortion issue are stronger or more liberal than the positions and votes of mainstream pro-abortion rights legislators throughout America?
Well, of course not.
To state such a conclusion (this one appeared in the Illinois Leader, an online publication where the top management has gone to work for Keyes) one would either have to be willfully ignorant about the legislation in question, thoroughly dishonest or blinded by political passions. |