The only sensible thing Obama said in this interview

Straight-talking Ron Paul sure is a breath of fresh air.

Reading Obama's hypocrisy and double-talk (if you can read between the lines to see where he's going) in this interview is really galling. And the interviewers! That's somebody's idea of journalism? Gimme a break. If, as he claims, he's a Christian, why didn't they ask him why he doesn't feel bound to obey the commandments of Christ with regard to the rights of the unborn? In that part of the interview he just lied through his teeth, and they just sat there and let him get away with it. "I don't know anyone who is pro-abortion." Suuuuuure you don't, Obama! You don't know anyone in Planned Parenthood? They love abortion; it's quite lucrative, you know!

Basically it's his view that it's just fine to have an abortion as long as you put on a long pious face and meditate on how much better it would have been if you hadn't gotten pregnant in the first place.

The blatant hypocrisy should be obvious. Either an abortion is something that you don't need to have any feelings of guilt or hesitation about, or else it's something that shouldn't be done except to save the life of the mother. (A state of affairs that Dr. Paul never encountered even once in his career.)

All the other pious-sounding stuff is just a pile of self-righteous, self-serving cr@p . . . the sort of thing that the Dems are very good at, and something that too-large a segment of the American public is all too ready to lap up.

Anyway, at one point, Obama says something that's almost sensible:

"One of the things that I think churches have to be mindful of is that if the federal government starts paying the piper, then they get to call the tune. It can, over the long term, be an encroachment on religious freedom. "

He could have hit the bullseye with that, except he added the qualifier "over the long term." It's not "over the long term": it's right out of the starting gate. "Faith-based initiatives" are among the stupidest and most immoral things ever foisted on people who are supposedly followers of Jesus Christ, and they are corrosive to the gospel and to the integrity of the Church. As a Christian, I hope Dr. Paul eliminates them as one of the first things he does in office. I'm sure that when Dr. Paul's economic plan is implemented we will see a flowering of Christian charities unseen -- indeed, unimagined -- in our lifetimes. And every family will also be a much better vehicle for charity (which begins at home) under the Paul presidency.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/januaryweb-only/104...