What's typically neglected in these arguments is the simple insight that democracy does not fill stomachs, alleviate malaria, or protect neighborhoods from marauding bands of militiamen. Democracy, in other words, is valuable to people insofar as it allows them first to meet their basic needs. It is much harder to provide that sense of dignity than to hold an election in Baghdad or Gaza and declare oneself shocked when illiberal forces triumph. "Look at why the baddies win these elections," Power says. "It's because [populations are] living in climates of fear." U.S. policy, she continues, should be "about meeting people where they're at. Their fears of going hungry, or of the thug on the street. That's the swamp that needs draining. If we're to compete with extremism, we have to be able to provide these things that we're not[providing].
"This is why, Obama's advisers argue, national security depends in large part on dignity promotion. Without it, the U.S. will never be able to destroy al-Qaeda. Extremists will forever be able to demagogue conditions of misery, making continued U.S. involvement in asymmetric warfare an increasingly counterproductive exercise -- because killing one terrorist creates five more in his place. "It's about attacking pools of potential terrorism around the globe," Gration says. "Look at Africa, with 900 million people, half of whom are under 18. I'm concerned that unless you start creating jobs and livelihoods we will have real big problems on our hands in ten to fifteen years."
Barack Obama is so determined to bring dignity to all corners of the world that he not only wants to increase foreign aid, but he wants to create a Global Poverty Tax.
A nice-sounding bill called the "Global Poverty Act," sponsored by Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama, is up for a Senate vote on Thursday and could result in the imposition of a global tax on the United States. The bill, which has the support of many liberal religious groups, makes levels of U.S. foreign aid spending subservient to the dictates of the United Nations.
Senator Joe Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has not endorsed either Senator Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton in the presidential race. But on Thursday, February 14, he is trying to rush Obama's "Global Poverty Act" (S.2433) through his committee. The legislation would commit the U.S. to spending 0.7 percent of gross national product on foreign aid, which amounts to a phenomenal 13-year total of $845 billion over and above what the U.S. already spends.
Bringing dignity to the downtrodden is not merely a global goal for Barack Obama, In fact, the Democratic Party platform will include the Social Investment Fund Network.
The program would provide federal money to “social entrepreneurs and leading nonprofit organizations [that] are assisting schools, lifting families out of poverty, filling health care gaps, and inspiring others to lead change in their own communities.” The Democrat Party promises to “support these results-oriented innovators” by creating an office to “coordinate government and nonprofit efforts” and then showering “a series of grants” on the chosen groups “to replicate these programs nationwide.”
Beyond this, Barack Obama wants to tighten predatory lending laws to protect unsuspecting borrowers from unscrupulous lenders.
The truth is, our middle-class families are not going to be secure so long as they can't get out of debt. If we're serious about stopping Americans from falling deeper in debt, we've got to crack down on predatory credit card companies that are pushing them over the edge....
"Many credit card companies are tricking Americans into agreements they can't afford because that's how they make big profits. Well, no company's bottom line should come before what's right for the American people."Obama proposes a credit card bill of rights. From the Senator's website:
So, much of Obama's entire campaign platform is protecting the weak against the powerful and bringing dignity to the weak. He wants to bring dignity to everyone all over the world, everyone of course except the unborn. There is a great irony to someone so hell bent on making sure that government get involved in every corner of our lives to insist that the weak are protected against the powerful, except the least powerful of them all.
Partial birth abortion, for instance, is a brutal procedure in which labor is induced the baby is pulled through the womb and then the brains are sucked out of the baby's head. There is clearly no dignity for the baby this is performed on and yet it is a procedure that Barack Obama is all too happy to support.
Then, there is the recent bru ha ha over his support for infanticide. Recently, there is great controversy over Obama's opposition to the Infants Born Alive Bill. Here is how Amanda Carpenter described Obama's reaction to the death of a baby that motivated folks to pass this bill.
Jill Stanek, a registered delivery-ward nurse who was the prime mover behind the legislation after she witnessed aborted babies’ being born alive and left to die, testified twice before Obama in support of the Induced Infant Liability Act bills. She also testified before the U.S. Congress in support of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.Stanek told me her testimony “did not faze” Obama.
In the second hearing, Stanek said, “I brought pictures in and presented them to the committee of very premature babies from my neonatal resuscitation book from the American Pediatric Association, trying to show them unwanted babies were being cast aside. Babies the same age were being treated if they were wanted!”
“And those pictures didn’t faze him [Obama] at all,” she said.
At the end of the hearing, according to the official records of the Illinois State senate, Obama thanked Stanek for being “very clear and forthright,” but said his concern was that Stanek had suggested “doctors really don’t care about children who are being born with a reasonable prospect of life because they are so locked into their pro-abortion views that they would watch an infant that is viable die.” He told her, “That may be your assessment, and I don’t see any evidence of that. What we are doing here is to create one more burden on a woman and I can’t support that.”
In fact, there is no abortion procedure that Obama opposes. There is no baby who's dignity Barack Obama wants to protect against the horror of abortion. Considering just how deeply Barack Obama wants the government intruding in our lives to bring dignity to the weak, it is rather hypocritcal for Barack Obama to show abolutely no regard for the dignity of any fetus and baby, the weakest of us all. What about their dignity Senator Obama?
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