Obama is Worse Than I Even Expected

I've been pretty busy over the past week, so I didn't have much time to come here to vent, but believe me I've been plenty aggravated. One thing that caused me particular concern was the news that Obama was repealing the Bush "conscience rule" for health care workers. This is most definitely a direct attempt to force doctors who object, to perform abortions. You know, I've said here before that I think that if a woman wants to abort a child, she should be able to. I think that it is a repugnant act, but who am I to tell a woman she can't have an abortion if she wants to have one? And, I'd venture a guess that most women who have had abortions think they are repugnant as well. I mean, what the fuck is so great and fun about having a fetus sucked from your body? Then, you get to wonder and be haunted by what might have been had you let that child, that lifeform inside of you, go to term. Yeah, a real fun fest.

I'd also venture a guess, and I'm pretty sure I'm dead on the money, the great majority of women who are the most outspoken about abortion rights are one, not ever going to even get pregnant because they don't do men (to each his own, I'm just making a point) and two, have never had an abortion.

Anyway, about this conscience clause, put in place by the Bush administration. The Washington Post reports:

The Obama administration's move to rescind broad new job protections for health workers who refuse to provide care they find objectionable triggered an immediate political storm yesterday, underscoring the difficulties the president faces in his effort to find common ground on anything related to the explosive issue of abortion.

The administration's plans, revealed quietly with a terse posting on a federal Web site, unleashed a flood of heated reaction, with supporters praising the proposal as a crucial victory for women's health and reproductive rights, and opponents condemning it as a devastating setback for freedom of religion.

Perhaps most tellingly, the move drew deep disappointment from some conservatives who have been hopeful about working with the administration to try to defuse the debate on abortion, long one of the most divisive political issues.

We'll see how it goes, but I think it is just awful to force someone who has paid tens of thousands of dollars in student loans to do something they object to morally.

I heard the rumblings over the past few days about Michelle "Tookie Bell" Obama getting free clothes and fancy jewels like she's attending a fucking Oscar party in the White House. Newsmax.com reports:

For years, the press excoriated Nancy Reagan for borrowing clothes and jewelry from designers. Yet Michelle Obama has been doing the same thing — without any outcry from the media.

Accountants say that the first lady’s practice of borrowing both clothes and jewelry raises major tax and disclosure issues, not to mention ethical questions.

“The transactions are clearly taxable,” says Richard Rampell, a Palm Beach, Fla., accountant whose clients include several of the island’s billionaires. “The designers are indirectly paying Michelle Obama to go and display their wares. And they get a huge economic value for it, just as if they were paying a model to do this. If they are paying her in this indirect way by lending her their clothes, then she is actually performing a service for the designer, and she should have to recognize as income whatever the value is of the clothes that she got.”

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The items Obama has either borrowed or received free have included a $17,313 pair of Loree Rodkin diamond earrings and clothes and gowns worth $1,000 to $6,000. In some cases, Michelle Obama’s representatives have said she will donate the items to the Smithsonian.

That makes no difference, Rampell says.

“If somebody gives her a dress and it’s worth $6,000, and she’s not expected to return it, then she has $6,000 worth of income, or she’s received a $6,000 gift,” he says. “I’m sure that the company is deducting the cost of that dress — the cost of manufacturing, the design, the materials and all that other stuff. And then when she gives it away to the charity, then she gets a charitable contribution for it.”

I mean, where is the change again? Where is the transparency? Where is their sacrifice in this "crisis"? I keep hearing more and more about a world currency and global new deals and such and I'm getting more and more concerned with every passing day. The birth certificate situation is still not over, contrary to what the general public, i.e. his drones, would like to believe and things are spiralling out of control.  What in the world is going on? --SUGAR  

Comments

[Stray Yellar Dawg]

As much as I remain pro-choice, I find the repeal of the conscience clause to be reprehensible.

I mean... what exactly are they saying? That women should have the right to choose, but health care workers should not?

Who does Obama think he is... to force ANYONE to commit an act they find morally unconscienable?

Oh and... the Me-Chelle wardrobe, I blogged about that a few days ago. The double standard is as glaring as to be blinding.

[MG]

I just reading an article about a 9 rs old from Brazil who was carrying twins. It seems her Step Father was abusing her since she was 6 yrs old. It also appears that her disabled Sister who is 14 yrs old was also being sexually abused.
The only reason they are allowing her to have an abortion is b/c her body can't sustain the twins and her life would be endanger if she carried them to full term.

[KGIRL1028]

If brazil has any good sense they will abort the step father as well. Some kids don't get a break, their mothers are so desperate for men that they will date and marry anything.

[raGing]

male pharmacists have been known to refuse to sell birth control pills & morning after pills due to their religious beliefs. that's a problem, especially if the women is in like a hurry. when there is only one pharmacy in a town what does a woman do? drive around till she finds a pharmacist who's not a Christian fundamentalist or anal retentive Catholic? the other issue is a doctor can decide not to councel a patient on pregnancy options that include abortion. repeal of the Bush edict won't force ANY doctor who doesn't want to to perform an abortion to do one. they were never forced to perform abortions before his creepy bill was enacted. There are some women who do not have the means to raise a child, or are too responsible to leach off their friends, family & the taxpayers. That's where the guilt lays, not in the abortion. They deserve to make the choice for themselves.

[NerosFiddle]

All these health care workers need to do is claim they're muslims, and that abortion is against Islam.

Oh, and that their religion dictates they all need raises.

Yeah, that's it.