A clue would be more useful in this instance.
Thomas Sowell had an interesting comment in a
column he wrote last week on the "torture" debate:
Dear Leader is not serious about abortion.
This is
his take on the abortion debate in this country:
What got overlooked is that, in all the applause lines, there is not a serious statement among them. Perversely, even obscenely, he is casual about a decision he acknowledges is not made casually, and even as he acknowledges the moral/spiritual dimensions to that decision, he declines to articulate the how and the why of his moral and spiritual views on the matter. His solution to the debate is to dodge the debate, even as he acknowledges the central issue that drives the debate: abortion as a form of birth control.
President Bush, when he opted to restrict funding for embryonic stem cell research in 2001 to 60 lines of stem cells created from already-destroyed embryos, had
this to say:
Whether one agrees or disagrees with Bush's stance or his conclusion, one cannot argue that his is a serious statement on the moral dimensions of stem cell research: the benefits of medical research using destroyed embryos vs the destruction of human life. It is a serious statement because he directly confronts the moral conflict at the center of the debate. It is a serious statement because he states simply his position--it is a serious statement because he takes a serious stand. Indeed, Bush's entire stem cell speech is a serious statement on the moral debate on stem cell research.
Dear Leader did not give a serious statement on abortion--he gave a set of throwaway lines, a regurgitation of standard liberal applause lines, and he used them solely to garner applause.
In his "More Perfect Union" speech during his campaign he threw his grandmother under the bus to construct a long-winded apologetic for his pastor's virulent anti-American racism. At Notre Dame he threw the unborn under the bus for cheap applause.
Sowell is right.....it is scary when a President is not serious about serious things.