The Great Divider

This is not a discussion on the merits of life or abortion. It doesn’t matter what your opinion is about that issue because I’m talking about divisive politics. The claim of unity and an end to politics that divide is either President Obama’s greatest example of philosophical ignorance or his greatest lie.

There is no more divisive issue than abortion. The nation is torn and it’s not over something trivial like a Coke or Pepsi preference. It’s an argument over the definition of life and liberty itself. So a President who ran on putting partisan politics aside should have a lot of work to do with the other side of the aisle on an issue like abortion. Not with President Obama.

He chose to take the most divisive tack possible and his media played the obedient lap dog to bury the division in the backyard. To even find news on this presidential order called the Mexico City Policy one must Google with an electron microscope.

Synchronize Dictionaries: Unity = agree with me. Divisive = disagree with me.

Most Americans don’t believe in an unrestricted right to abortion, yet most people don’t believe it should be outlawed either. But most people disapprove of President Obama’s lifting of the ban for U.S. government money to be used in programs which provide or promote abortions overseas.

By “disapprove,” I mean 58% disapprove.

That’s a perfectly divided issue so we should assume that President Obama would work a lot with the other side to find a compromise, right? Hope? Nope. On day three of his presidency President Obama didn’t meet with one Republican, one pastor, one mother, one survivor of abortion, one international religious institution, not one person. He’s not “intellectually curious.” He may not think God is giving him messages but he sure implements controversial philosophical doctrine like it’s well within his pay-grade.

OFF TOPIC: Given this topic is unpopular even among Democrats we could expect a massive publicity uproar from the Republican party, right? Nope. This low hanging fruit is the stuff Republicans drive past every day, not because they’re unclear about the issue of abortion, but because it’s a difficult issue to clearly argue without sounding like you actually believe in an absolute.