Obama: Actions Shouldn’t Have Consequences

My below post on Joe Donnelly and pro-life issues has generated more discussion than I had anticipated. So in the same vein of pro-life issues, and with an eye to the upcoming Democratic Presidential primary in which Hoosier Democrats will finally have some relevance and be forced to choose between a proven liberal and a proven liberal, I am humbly submitting this video of Barack Obama recently expounding on his view of the life issue.

So Barack Obama believes that babies are a “punishment” and STDs are an undeserved consequence of irresponsible behavior? Look, we all mess up sometimes, but there are some things that are really important in life and you can choose to either do the right thing or the wrong thing but once you make that choice you have to live with the consequences of that choice. You are free to choose the path; you’re not free to choose the outcome of the path.

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Although Sen. Obama’s statement in its immediate context was wrong enough, when considered as a principle applied to a wider range of issues its error becomes even more evident (if that is possible). If Sen. Obama’s governing philosophy is contained in the idea that a disconnect can and should exist between actions and consequences it is an further indication of his inability to lead our country.