The Pressure Finally Got to Obama

Many voters watched the Rick Warren forum Saturday night in which Obama and McCain each got an hour to answer questions that pertained to faith, morality, and other issues important to so many Americans.

After Senator Obama’s hour, he sat down for a one-on-one interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody where he responded this way to a question about voting “no” on the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. From The New York Sun (Hat tip: Ed Morrissey):

“They have not been telling the truth,” Mr. Obama said. “And I hate to say that people are lying, but here’s a situation where folks are lying.”

He added that it was “ridiculous” to suggest he had ever supported withholding lifesaving treatment for an infant. “It defies common sense and it defies imagination, and for people to keep on pushing this is offensive,” he said in the CBN interview.

So, Senator Obama sat there face to face with the Christian Broadcasting Network and called people like me who are telling the truth about his record liars.

Well he finally folded and his campaign has admitted that he lied about voting against the Born Alive Infants Protection Act:

Indeed, Mr. Obama appeared to misstate his position in the CBN interview on Saturday when he said the federal version he supported “was not the bill that was presented at the state level.”

His campaign yesterday acknowledged that he had voted against an identical bill in the state Senate, and a spokesman, Hari Sevugan, said the senator and other lawmakers had concerns that even as worded, the legislation could have undermined existing Illinois abortion law. Those concerns did not exist for the federal bill, because there is no federal abortion law.

The National Right to Life’s Douglas Johnson responded to these new excuses:

Told of the campaign’s explanation, the legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee, Douglas Johnson, was dubious. “These are newly manufactured and highly implausible excuses,” he said. “There is no way that the bill would have had any effect on any method of abortion.” Mr. Johnson said the version Mr. Obama voted down clearly applied only to fetuses that emerged from the womb alive.

So why did the Obama camp finally fold on this issue? Yesterday, NRLC’s Douglas Johnson upped the ante called Obama’s bluff. From Jill Stanek:

Since 2004, Obama has been betting that the mainstream news media will lack the interest and attention span required to get a clear picture of his actual record regarding infants who are born alive during abortions, and so far that mostly has worked for him.

In his short interview with David Brody, Obama tripled his bet on that proposition by calling us liars. He also relied on diversionary verbal smokescreens, but without directly addressing the newly discovered 2003 documentation that proves the falsity of his account.

We now challenge Obama to either declare the two 2003 legislative documents to be forgeries and call for an official investigation, or else apologize for his four years of misrepresentation on the issue of babies who are born alive during abortions – and for calling us liars.

I’d say this is why he folded. He knows he voted against this bill and he couldn’t cover it up any longer.

I agree whole-heartedly with Ed Morrissey when he wrote this:

If child abuse is an evil that must be confronted [as he stated during the Warren forum], then infanticide is even more evil. What did Obama do when he saw this evil? Did he confront it, as one of God’s soldiers? Or did he facilitate it?

The answer now from the Obama campaign is clear. Obama facilitated evil in order to protect abortion on demand, which was never threatened by S.1082 in the first place. That much apparently wasn’t above his pay grade.

Obviously not.