Video: New Catholic Vote ad welcomes the era of Hopenchange
posted at 4:10 pm on January 21, 2009 by Allahpundit
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More than 200,000 views on YouTube in just three days, and well deserved. Evidently they didn’t get the memo from Doug Kmiec that the Democratic ticket was the more pro-life of the two this year, all that unpleasantness about infanticide aside. Try to bear it in mind later this week if, as expected, The One reverses Bush’s ban on funding international groups that promote abortion.
Exit quotation: “President Obama … has been a consistent champion of reproductive choice and will make preserving women’s rights under Roe v. Wade a priority in his Adminstration.”
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Sharp. Very sharp. Almost a burrrnnn.
MadisonConservative on January 21, 2009 at 4:13 PM
“will make preserving women’s rights under Roe v. Wade a priority in his Adminstration.”
Allah? You will never see the irony in this will you? What if the baby is female?
kirkill on January 21, 2009 at 4:13 PM
I wish America would abort liberalism.
ErinF on January 21, 2009 at 4:14 PM
Great ad. Maybe it will get somebody thinking… Doubt it, tho.
BoomJunkie on January 21, 2009 at 4:14 PM
That, is very good. Very good indeed.
Goes with what I was saying in the other thread, you can make a very good compelling argument with this issue. Gay marriage/civil unions not so much.
Dash on January 21, 2009 at 4:15 PM
Was this the same Catholic group that put out the high quality ad that basically said don’t vote for Obama during the campaign?
BadgerHawk on January 21, 2009 at 4:15 PM
And what the hell? Don’t we have better places to spend our tax dollars?
BadgerHawk on January 21, 2009 at 4:16 PM
Wow. That’s powerful. Of course there is no place for this in the republican party anymore. Big tent. Big tent.
Weight of Glory on January 21, 2009 at 4:19 PM
zoom in on 45 year old white man picking up 14 year old cheerleader from jr high after school, driving straight to vegas wedding chapel holding hands
tag line, “why cant you just let us love each other?!?”
battleoflepanto1571 on January 21, 2009 at 4:19 PM
Dude
Aristotle on January 21, 2009 at 4:20 PM
Kinda reminded me a bit of 2001: A Space Odyssey
HarryStar on January 21, 2009 at 4:20 PM
Wow…where was that pre-Nov ‘08?
Rogue on January 21, 2009 at 4:20 PM
Wow. Just wow. Connecting that unborn baby to the fact that, had he been aborted, Obama may never have existed.
amerpundit on January 21, 2009 at 4:21 PM
I don’t know who does their ads, but they are EXCEPTIONAL. The first one I saw (which aired during the general election) was beautiful.
D2Boston on January 21, 2009 at 4:22 PM
My immediate reaction.
fiscallyconservative on January 21, 2009 at 4:22 PM
Abortion Macht Frei
Heil Five, Obama
Hening on January 21, 2009 at 4:22 PM
Wow! Great ad. The timing seems a little off, however. I doubt it will move Obama. (He wouldn’t want to punish his daughters with a baby.) Too bad the African American community doesn’t realize that Sanger started Planned Parenthood to reduce their population. Think of the potential!
Christian Conservative on January 21, 2009 at 4:23 PM
*applauds*
Awesome!
ScoopPC11 on January 21, 2009 at 4:25 PM
POWERFUL.
thankful on January 21, 2009 at 4:26 PM
what?
sammypants on January 21, 2009 at 4:29 PM
Exactly. And don’t forget the gays!
Schweggie on January 21, 2009 at 4:30 PM
If anyone thinks going after Obama on abortion is a political winner, they have another thing coming. This is the obsession of a minority of voters, and a huge chunk of people don’t really care. Have fun explaining why you’re paying attention to this and not other, more pressing issues!
Big S on January 21, 2009 at 4:30 PM
Did anyone else get emotional watching this or should I just blame my hormones?
CarolynM on January 21, 2009 at 4:30 PM
What baby?
JiangxiDad on January 21, 2009 at 4:33 PM
Even if Barry does have a change of heart, he’s in so much debt to the babykillin’ lobby that there’s nothing he could do about it.
Schweggie on January 21, 2009 at 4:34 PM
I think he means if the unborn baby is female, it’s tough to defend women’s rights while you kill it.
BadgerHawk on January 21, 2009 at 4:35 PM
……Excellent!
try again later on January 21, 2009 at 4:38 PM
brava
IR-MN on January 21, 2009 at 4:39 PM
Ummm, abortion is a moral issue. I’m not pro-life cause I tihnk it will get Republicans elected, or even conservatives for that matter. I’m pro-life because I think it is a terrible nation that allows mass-murder as a matter of course.
VolMagic on January 21, 2009 at 4:40 PM
HOW ABOUT THEM APPLES?
CFL on January 21, 2009 at 4:42 PM
Wow. I wasn’t expecting that. Nicely done.
Rudy thinks the add should be downplayed.
Spirit of 1776 on January 21, 2009 at 4:42 PM
Awesome.
Not that it will make any difference to the “pro-choice” crowd. To them, there is only one proper choice. Even if The Obamessiah himself came down from the newly-augmented Mount
RushHopemore and proclaimed life to begin at conception, the feminazis would only howl more loudly for their right to kill babies.Splashman on January 21, 2009 at 4:43 PM
Well, if “choose life” is identical to “don’t vote for obama”, then yes.
I don’t think the ad covered any particular candidate or office — it was generic in that regard.
Its message is timeless — it can be used next November, and the November after that…
unclesmrgol on January 21, 2009 at 4:43 PM
There are no dirtier words than “reproductive choice.” They make me sick to my stomach.
jimmy the notable on January 21, 2009 at 4:44 PM
That’s a straw
manbaby if I ever saw one. Remember, it’s NOT A BABY! It’s only A COLLECTION OF TISSUE!/sarc
Splashman on January 21, 2009 at 4:47 PM
The same people who said Trig should have been aborted and how dare they make Bristol continue her pregnancy are going to be very offended by this ad.
I’ll bet the rent.
heavenhelpus on January 21, 2009 at 4:48 PM
Nicely done. Might have been more powerful as a full minute ad, though. Although it says it is “Imagine spot 1″, so I’m hoping there will be more in the series.
Abby Adams on January 21, 2009 at 4:48 PM
Awesome vid! Thx for posting it.
jediwebdude on January 21, 2009 at 4:49 PM
Wow. Very well done.
StephC on January 21, 2009 at 4:49 PM
I am mostly pro choice and pro birth control. I just worry about the clods in government making all the choices in this realm. Why?
What was that comment above concerning a 45 year old guy with a 14 year old girl going to a wedding chapel all about?
Was that The One’s parents? No, she was 17 or so wasn’t she? Well, Dad didn’t get criticized. At least by our Messiah.
He wasn’t racist!
Surprise! The marriage didn’t last.
Wow…somebody had burned spaghetti for brains.
And wants to make moral choices for everybody.
IlikedAUH2O on January 21, 2009 at 4:50 PM
I’m imagine the potential of human overpopulation on this planet. The evil you pro-lifers do makes me ill. Though I didn’t vote for Obama, I applaud his sentiments in overturning of Bush’s ban on funding international groups that promote abortion, also known as the Mexico City Policy. I just don’t want Obama to do it. I want Congress to do it, so it can’t be banned by next the President.
thuja on January 21, 2009 at 4:50 PM
Agreed. And isn’t that an oxymoron, given what the users of that phrase really mean by “choice”?
“Destructive choice” is more honest. But honesty isn’t their goal, is it?
Splashman on January 21, 2009 at 4:51 PM
WOW!
ctmom on January 21, 2009 at 4:53 PM
Trivialize a senseless and selfish act. Go ahead, stand in front of the mirror, and say it’s all right. Suggest far better ways to spend money, in your estimation. Enlist support for your feelings. Be a voice that finds no important facet about saving the life of the unborn. What comforts me most is that you are not a conservative and you don’t stand with me. A conservative will pray for you but you will not stand with them.
ericdijon on January 21, 2009 at 4:53 PM
The ad is very well done… only two comments…
1. They should have noted that the child went on to “become President.” Being the “First A-A” is irrelevant.
2. After that bishop threatened Catholics who didn’t vote as instructed with eternal, fiery torment, the idea of “CatholicVote” is a bit disconcerting. Actually any claim to bloc voting is disconcerting, but when add “or you’re risking your eternal fate” it gets even (politically) scarier.
mankai on January 21, 2009 at 4:53 PM
But the fact that it was The One supports choice.
IlikedAUH2O on January 21, 2009 at 4:53 PM
I was trying to get folks to blog on this yesterday. Its very effective ad.
Jay on January 21, 2009 at 4:55 PM
Sometimes it’s referred to as a “woman’s right to privacy.”
How’s that for nuance?
CarolynM on January 21, 2009 at 4:57 PM
Idiot. You’re about 4 decades too late with your overpopulation ZPG bullshit. And in another 4 decades, much of western Civilization (Europe, Japan) will be dying out due to their suicidal choice not to reproduce in sufficient numbers. I doubt you’ll be happy with the cultures that replace them, unless you’re into child marriages, burkhas, and 7th-century theocracies. I dunno — maybe you would.
Splashman on January 21, 2009 at 4:59 PM
Well here it comes.
ON THURSDAY–Obama is set to rescind the Mexico City Policy-a global gag on our federal dollars being used to fund abortions in other countries. Dont forget to look up the UNFPAand see how rescinding this order will allow your tax dollars to be used for forced sterilizations and forced abortions in China. Your tax dollars will now be used to fund abortions overseas.
canditaylor68 on January 21, 2009 at 5:00 PM
guses you had trouble reading bold text
the poster i quoted said there wasn’t an effective ad against legal gay marriage.
i gave you the hypothethical ad.
if “we love each other” legally works for group A, then you can’t stop it working for group B
battleoflepanto1571 on January 21, 2009 at 5:00 PM
Has anybody noticed that Mr. President has not activited the White House Phone Lines (from another thread)? He probably didn’t want to hear it about the Internationational Abortion Issue, Gitmo or anything else he is going to do in his first days in office.
kingsjester on January 21, 2009 at 5:00 PM
Wow, amazing. The last statement in this ad hit a home run. Just amazing!
milwife88 on January 21, 2009 at 5:01 PM
Obviously the ad is not supporting Obama’s policies, but saying life is important, regardless of the atmosphere around a pregnancy.
This ad was powerful, and touched me. And I’m already Catholic and pro-life.
Vincenzo on January 21, 2009 at 5:02 PM
By the way-I wonder the size of the cajones of a guy(Obama) who dares to tell the hardworking taxpayers of a country in dire financial crisis that the money they do pay for taxes is not going to pay for anything to help American citizens but will fund overseas family planning(abortion) groups.
canditaylor68 on January 21, 2009 at 5:07 PM
While I hate the notion of hyphenated Americans, the use of the term in this case might be a subtle reminder that a much higher percentage of black babies are aborted than white. Over 15 million blacks aborted since Roe v. Wade. Abortion is now the #1 killer of black people in America — more than accidents, heart disease, stroke, murder, HIV-AIDS and all other deaths…COMBINED!
Excuse me while I go puke.
Splashman on January 21, 2009 at 5:07 PM
Powerful and awesome. i hope it gets a lot of exposure.
sloopy on January 21, 2009 at 5:08 PM
This is pretty powerful, I think it may even convince a liberal or two.
joe_doufu on January 21, 2009 at 5:09 PM
Bing. Single most spectacular political ad I’ve ever seen.
Epic failure, with a significant number of Catholics ignoring everything their faith teaches and voting for the most radical abortion proponent in American presidential history.
No accounting for what works.
Jaibones on January 21, 2009 at 5:09 PM
That’s my fear… that the ad will be labeled as racist and the point will be lost in the tangent.
mankai on January 21, 2009 at 5:09 PM
PS BadgerHawk – turn up your PC speakers as loud as they’ll go and grab a tissue.
Jaibones on January 21, 2009 at 5:10 PM
Forgot to mention, re: black abortions,
Somewhere deep in the bowels of hell, Margaret Sanger is cackling. Blacks are killing themselves off.
Splashman on January 21, 2009 at 5:10 PM
Heh. Hadn’t thought of that. With the enthronement of HopenChange, any mention of ANYTHING related to blacks is now rascist. We’d best get used to it, eh?
Splashman on January 21, 2009 at 5:12 PM
By the Church’s definition… they are not Catholic… they are excommunicated… and they may have endangered their eternal fates. That’s also true of “Catholics” who do not attend mass every Sunday and HDOO… and of Catholics who masturbate… but who’s counting?
So the number of true American Catholics (”in a state of grace”) is probably around 114.
mankai on January 21, 2009 at 5:14 PM
Nice ad. I feel that my beautiful church has been complacent in all this. Where is my church?
bloggless on January 21, 2009 at 5:15 PM
Psst:
Catholic = follows Holy See.
Fallen away Catholic = Thinks Holy See is a menu.
ericdijon on January 21, 2009 at 5:20 PM
Rome they don’t do Subtle :) Yes this should go Viral.
Dr Evil on January 21, 2009 at 5:24 PM
It’s funny, I’m an atheist and I am pro life. My wife is catholic, yet she is pro abortion.
Just one of the reasons we are separated now I guess…
redshirt on January 21, 2009 at 5:25 PM
I can get pro-birth control Catholics. But not pro-abortion. For “pro-choicers”, the difference between a baby and a fetus is whether the mother wants the child. Sick.
ProfessorMiao on January 21, 2009 at 5:38 PM
I wonder if Hussein had considered aborting both of his children.
It’s a question that should be asked because of his belief.
madmonkphotog on January 21, 2009 at 5:40 PM
Yup. Maybe this goes much deeper, and looks at why someone calls themselves a “Catholic”, and what drives that sense of identity. Clearly, church doctrine doesn’t.
Jaibones on January 21, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Nope, not Rome. This is an independent U.S. Catholic organization, and its been out for quite a while. Bloom is off the rose.
Jaibones on January 21, 2009 at 5:43 PM
Big S on January 21, 2009 at 4:30 PM
Have fun explaining why you’re paying attention to this and not other, more pressing issues!
How is there any other pressing issue more important than the right to live?
I am always stunned when people can reconcile allowing abortion, but have a problem with torture or capital punishment, this thought process helped me realize that abortion is taking of a life and there is no other way to look at it. None.
momof2 on January 21, 2009 at 5:44 PM
Dr Evil –
Views: 2,785,864
There it is.
Jaibones on January 21, 2009 at 5:45 PM
That is really very powerful…
RedSoxNation on January 21, 2009 at 5:46 PM
She absolutely refused to even acknowledge obamas position on Born Alive Infant Protection. It simply didn’t matter.
redshirt on January 21, 2009 at 5:47 PM
I found that ad amusing in a good way. It makes the right points and at the same time seems very mocking of the arguments of abortion supporters. I hope it goes and stays viral for months and gets a lot of people thinking.
Loki on January 21, 2009 at 5:50 PM
How ironic that Obama’s position on abortion would likely have resulted in his existence being extinguished before birth.
hawksruleva on January 21, 2009 at 5:52 PM
Brilliant.
Glynn on January 21, 2009 at 6:14 PM
We are: Failed corporations. Why not throw in a few hundred lesser tax money targets for good measure? It’s not like we’ll ever recover the budget now, so why try?
OneGyT on January 21, 2009 at 6:14 PM
AWESOME!
Of course we’re the only ones who see it.
Iblis on January 21, 2009 at 6:19 PM
You know, there is a plan–
Allow abortion . . .
Legalize gay marriage . . .
And in one generation, no more liberals!
Special K on January 21, 2009 at 6:22 PM
I have autism and it almost made ME cry.
Wow.
annoyinglittletwerp on January 21, 2009 at 6:25 PM
Sorry. This will be lost on the libtards. They’re too busy buying carbon credits, protesting for the release of some raping, murdering, death row inmate,and of course, killing babies.
Zorg on January 21, 2009 at 6:41 PM
Jaibones
That ad you linked to put in my head(when I saw it during the campaign) the idea that I might want to be a Catholic.
Now I do have wet eyes.
annoyinglittletwerp on January 21, 2009 at 6:48 PM
You’re right life DOES have alot of potential. But it’s not just the life of an unborn kid that has potential, so does the life of the pregnant woman. Who had some dreams and goals and who doesn’t want to give them up. You may not like her choice, but she doesn’t have to have a kid in order to appease other people. It’s HER life and not yours. That’s the idea behind being pro-choice. She may have been using contraception or condoms, but those are not perfect. She may have gotten drunk one night and didn’t use protection. Should her life have to be radically altered? Of course not. It’s none of our damn business when women choose to become mothers. And unless as a society we’re willing to start anteing up some welfare payments to pay for childcare we don’t have the right to tell women they can’t choose an abortion. Period.
DeathToMediaHacks on January 21, 2009 at 7:46 PM
In your face, space coyote!!!
omnipotent on January 21, 2009 at 7:51 PM
DeathToMediaHacks
Actually it’s the baby’s life-not hers.
I’m sorry if a womam’s life s troubled.
If she doesn’t want the baby/can’t handle the baby then there’s always adoption.
She DOES NOT have the right to take the life of a pre-born child because that life is NOT her’s to take!
annoyinglittletwerp on January 21, 2009 at 8:04 PM
Sorry for the typos but I was on a roll.
annoyinglittletwerp on January 21, 2009 at 8:05 PM
Obama: Messiah of the Pro-Life Movement?
chunderroad on January 21, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Exit quotation: “President Obama … has been a consistent champion of reproductive choice and will make preserving women’s rights under Roe v. Wade a priority in his Adminstration.”
Food For Thought (pun intended):
Cronus was the ruling Titan who came to power by castrating his Father Uranus. His wife was Rhea. Their offspring were the first of the Olympians. To insure his safety Cronus ate each of the children as they were born. This worked until Rhea, unhappy at the loss of her children, tricked Cronus into swallowing a rock, instead of Zeus. When he grew up Zeus would revolt against Cronus and the other Titans, defeat them, and banish them to Tartarus in the underworld.
Cronus managed to escape to Italy, where he ruled as Saturn. The period of his rule was said to be a golden age on earth, honored by the Saturnalia feast.
chunderroad on January 21, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Personal Responsibility. You make a baby, you have the baby, if you don’t want it then, give it up for adoption.
If she chooses abortion, she radically alters her life. She becomes a murderer.
Of course it is. As much as it’s our business if the kids at school have their measles shots or if the teacher in the classroom is a pedophile. Don’t pull that nonsense.
What planet are you on? We ARE anteing up welfare for childcare. As far as telling women they can’t choose an abortion, we tell murderers they can’t murder all the time. We tell people not to steal, to embezzle, etc… Why can’t we tell women (or men for that matter) to take some personal responsibility and live with the choices they’ve made?
DeathToMediaHacks on January 21, 2009 at 7:46 PM
john1schn on January 21, 2009 at 8:44 PM
POWERFUL
MikeknaJ on January 21, 2009 at 9:23 PM
Well said!
pannw on January 21, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Wow nearly every one missed it~
The real irony is here!…
How many of our fellow Americans, the REAL liberals, better yet the REALLY liberal blacks could sit down and tell you they support abotion…if…if…(tears welling up in eyes) Barack’s mother believed the same thing Barack does and was able to exercise that CHOICE…How rude you say, I say how rude of you to object, you narrow minded bigotted liberal. That just goes to show you that NOTHING, I MEAN NOOO part of LIBERALISM has any principle involved in it at all. IT is all me first, you last narcissism, dog-eat-dog, full of feces hyper-emotionalism! Suck on that TROLLS!
RedLizard64 on January 21, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Ain’t it? Yeah, well, let it go. There are about 38 Catholics that think like the guys who made that video. The rest are pro-abortion Democrats. It’s fun for a few minutes, and then you realize it’s just a fantasy.
My daughter’s a Protestant at Notre Dame, and the place was full of Obama posters all fall, and The Vagina Monologues pays a visit every year, on campus. Catholics are just as hypocritical and flawed as the rest of us.
Still a great video.
Jaibones on January 21, 2009 at 11:07 PM
Well, as one of the 38, I will fully admit that when the statistics are given about “Catholic” voters, you can safely cut the number in half to determine the actual number that are faithful Catholics. That said, the failings of individuals don’t change the truths that are held by, (and revealed in the teaching of) the Church. Even if only 38 try to hold true to them, the Church still stands on them and they remain true.
pannw on January 21, 2009 at 11:45 PM
The mention of “African-American” is genius because, while it makes the excellent point (mentioned above) that a far higher percentage of African-American babies are aborted than babies of any other race, the precedent it refers to is something liberals can’t ignore. After all, that’s all their support of Obama has been about.
In other words, imagine the ad if it had read simply, “He will becomes the President of the United States.” Whoopee.
It would have worked equally well had Hillary won: “She will become… the first woman President of the United States.”
greggriffith on January 22, 2009 at 12:32 AM
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