When Barack Obama is inaugurated in two days, Catholic voters who oppose abortion want him to know that his historic rise to power might not have happened if his mother could have predicted his troubled early years.
CatholicVote.com today released a video that reminds people of Obama’s circumstances as a child — the kind of circumstances that prompt some women to abort their babies. The ad, the first production of a campaign titled “Life: Imagine The Potential,” recounts Obama’s biography over the backdrop of an ultrasound showing a baby in the womb.
“This child’s future is a broken home,” the ad says. “He will be abandoned by his father. His single mother will struggle to raise him despite the hardships he will endure. This child will become the first African-American president.”
UPDATE, 1/29: NBC has rejected the ad as unfit for airing during the Super Bowl because of its “political” nature.
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Little more than a week after being elected president on a theme of change, Barack Obama showed that he is ready to make some technological changes in the way the president communicates with the public. He recorded the first weekly video address to the nation as president-elect and vowed to make it a tradition once in the White House.
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Democrat Barack Obama scored a decisive victory over Republican John McCain in the 2008 presidential election last night and claimed victory in a speech delivered in his hometown of Chicago.
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer. …
It’s been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this date, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America.
In his concession speech, McCain noted the significance of Obama’s election.
“A century ago,” McCain said, “President Theodore Roosevelt’s invitation of Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House was taken as an outrage in many quarters. America today is a world away from the cruel and frightful bigotry of that time. There is no better evidence of this than the election of an African American to the presidency of the United States.”
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Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., today endorsed fellow Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois for the Democratic presidential nomination. Casey made the announcment in a speech in Pittsburgh. The state’s primary is weeks away.
“This campaign is a chance for America to chart a new course, to go down a different path” that is about “healing” and “a new kind of politics,” Casey said, adding that Obama is the only candidate who can lead the nation down that path.
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This video, inspired by the campaign theme that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama reiterated a week ago today during his victory speech in South Carolina, is traveling rapidly around the Internet.
I saw it via Ann Althouse, who called the video “some amazing, low-key brilliance. It’s lovely in so many ways, one of which is that it makes Barack Obama seem to be a man whose mere speech is singing.”
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