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Today's News & Views
January 6, 2009
 		  
An Inaugural Address for Obama

Ordinarily the day I am at the printer's, watching the latest edition of National Right to Life News roll off the press, TN&V is an article that appears in that issue. Today, inspired by a note in the online publication, "Slate," I thought I'd ask our devoted readers to do something similar to what the editors at Slate propose for their audience.

They have both an interesting idea and technology. The goal, in a collaborative way, is to have its readers "write this year's inaugural address." Not really, of course. Tongue in cheek they conclude that perhaps President-elect Barack Obama "will decide to borrow from your speech" when the 44th President delivers his January 20 inaugural address.

Slate will use something call MixedInk to cull and combine and credit. The crux is that there is a kind of cross-pollution of ideas at the end of which individual writers crank out a thoroughly pre-vetted "speech." Slate will publish the speech with the highest rating.

Well, we're not quite to that point, technologically. But, I very much would like for Today's News & Views readers to compose a "speech" for the most pro-abortion President ever and send it along to me.

It could combine any host of variables. For example, the address might include a sly admission that, "whoops, did I pretend to be searching for 'common ground'?"; an explanation of why he supposedly wants to "reduce the number of abortions" but opposes the Hyde Amendment and funding for crisis pregnancy centers which have saved millions of babies; an elaboration of why his hero, President Lincoln, freed the slaves but Obama is determined to continue treating unborn babies as their mother's property; or an explication of why the "Audacity of Hope" is fine for the planned and the perfect but not for babies (who did not will themselves into existence) who are "inconvenient"?

I have learned that my readers are dazzlingly articulate and brim-full of insights. Send your "speech" along, and I will extract parts of the most thoughtfully written. The address is daveandrusko@gmail.com.

ARCHIVES

January 2009
 An Inaugural Address for Obama -- January 6, 2009
 Deception Elevated to an Art Form -- January 5, 2009
 Triathlete Races in Honor of Special Kids -- January 2, 2009

December 2008
Happy New Year -- December 31, 2008
 "A Truly Compassionate Society is One that Recognizes the Rights of All Women,
Including Those Yet to be Born" -- December 30, 2008
 Pro-Lifers Are Primed and Ready -- December 29, 2008
 Do You See What I See? -- December 24, 2008
 "There Was a Life That Had to Be Cared For" -- December 23, 2008
 The Most Lied-About Judicial Decision in our History -- December 22, 2008
 Conscience Protection Rule Published; Paul Weyrich, R.I.P. -- December 19, 2008
 Series on Discovery of iPS Cells Fascinating -- December 18, 2008
 Fool Me Once… -- December 17, 2008
 "Aborting Conscience" -- December 16, 2008
 Abortion Establishment Presents Obama With Marching Orders -- December 15, 2008
 Abortion Establishment Presents Obama With Marching Orders -- December 12, 2008
 Assisted Suicide Aired on Television -- December 11, 2008
 Decoding the 2008 Presidential Election -- December 10, 2008
 Defeating Obama's Abortion Agenda -- December 9, 2008
 Two Pro-Life Wins in Louisiana Over the Weekend -- December 8, 2008
 Conduct of Planned Parenthood Employees Draws Scrutiny -- December 5, 2008
 Thank You for Your Great Response and the Latest On Planned Parenthood -- December 4, 2008
 Pro-Life Senator Saxby Chambliss Wins in Georgia -- December 3, 2008
 PPFA Races Toward Rock Bottom: the "Holiday Season Gift" of Death -- December 2, 2008
 Two More Studies Provide More Evidence Abortion Hurts Women -- December 1, 2008

November 2008
 Our Unshakeable Commitment -- November 27, 2008
 The Obama Team Continues to Take Shape -- November 26, 2008
 A Medical Student's Struggle With "A Hard Choice" -- November 25, 2008
 Readers Answer the Question What Do We Say to a Woman Who Has Aborted? -- November 24, 2008
 Amazing Response -- November 21, 2008
 What Do We Say to the Woman Who Has Aborted? -- November 20, 2008
 Important Senate Runoff In Georgia Approaches -- November 19, 2008
 "That Which Was Destroyed Can Be Rebuilt" -- November 18, 2008
 Pro-Lifers Spring into Action the Day after the Election -- November 17, 2008
 Autos for Life 2008 Challenge: "We're Getting There!" -- November 14, 2008
 The Common Struggle to Protect the Unborn -- November 13, 2008
 Catholic Bishops Discuss Abortion and Obama in First Post-Election Meeting -- November 12, 2008
 The Media and Obama: the Past as Prologue? -- November 11, 2008
 The Obama Payoffs He Can Make Unilaterally -- November 10, 2008
 Reflections on Passage of Initiative 1000 -- November 7, 2008
 What You Said in Response.... -- November 6, 2008
 A Time to Say "Thank You!" -- November 5, 2008
 A Final Reminder: Vote -- November 4, 2008
 Last-Minute Work Paying Off: Don't Stop Now! -- November 3, 2008

October 2008
 What the Polls Aren't Telling You -- October 31, 2008
 Have We Reached the Tipping Point? -- October 30, 2008
 If Ever You Had Reason to Reply, It's Today! -- October 29, 2008
 Pro-Lifers Respond Massively to "A Quick and Easy Way to Get the Message to Millions" -- October 28, 2008
 A Quick and Easy Way to Get the Message to Millions -- October 27, 2008
 The Politics of Intimidation -- October 23, 2008
 Pro-Life Gov. Sarah Palin: Immense Grace Under Pressure -- October 22, 2008
 Archbishop Chaput: Senator Obama "most committed 'abortion-rights' presidential candidate of either major party since the Roe v. Wade abortion decision" -- October 21, 2008
 A Massive McCain Rally In Woodbridge, Virginia -- October 20, 2008
 Obama Supporters' Intellectual Sleight of Hand -- October 17, 2008
 At Long Last: A Debate About Abortion -- October 16, 2008
 The Context of Tonight's Final Presidential Debate -- October 15, 2008
 Proud to be a Single-Issue Voter -- October 14, 2008
 About Time to Call Obama on Abortion -- October 13, 2008
 The Potentially Decisive Difference You Can Make -- October 10, 2008
 Study Shows Quarter of Oregonians Requesting Assisted Suicide Are Depressed -- October 9, 2008
Unapologetically Pro-Life -- October 8, 2008
 Peering Behind the Curtain -- October 7, 2008
 Catching Up With the Pro-Abortionists  -- October 6, 2008
 About That Debate -- October 3, 2008
 Understanding Sarah Palin -- October 2, 2008
 Excuses for Obama Melt Away -- October 1, 2008

September 2008
 Call Today to Order Copies of October NRL News -- September 30, 2008
 Hyperbole Times Five -- September 29, 2008
 First Debate On: McCain and Obama to Meet in Mississippi -- September 26, 2008
 A Deeply Disturbing Portrait of Parental Neglect and Abandonment -- September 25, 2008
 Trig: A Standing Rebuke -- September 24, 2008
 Abortion Rate Hits 30-Year Low, Smaller Decrease Among Black and Hispanic Women -- September 23, 2008
 Some Thoughts about Barack Obama's "Faith, Family and Values Tour" -- September 22, 2008
 "He Can Run, But He Can't Hide" -- September 19, 2008
 The Impact of Trig Palin -- September 18, 2008
 Cold by Anyone's Standards -- September 17, 2008
 Back to Back to Back to Back…. -- September 16, 2008
 Holding Women Hostage To Fear  -- September 15, 2008
 Gov. Palin and Charlie Gibson: Round One -- September 12, 2008
 Massive Virginian Rally for McCain/Palin -- September 11, 2008
 Genuinely Above Their Pay Grade -- September 10. 2008
 Starting a Serious National Conversation About Barack Obama -- September 9, 2009
 Reduced to Sputtering -- September 8, 2008
 McCain Tapped Into a Deep Vein Of Idealism -- September 5, 2008
 Palin Wows America in Her Maiden Speech -- September 4, 2008
 "We Recognize One of Us" -- September 3, 2008
 Smears and Gutter Attacks on Gov. Palin Expected But No Less Hurtful and Cruel -- September 2, 2008
 In "Stunning Breakthrough" Adult Cells Reprogrammed to Produce Insulin in Mice -- September 1, 2008

August 2008
 Pro-Lifers Ecstatic Over Selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as John McCain's
Vice Presidential Running Mate -- August 29, 2008
 Republican Party Platform Language on Abortion Stronger and More Comprehensive -- August 28, 2008
 The Democratic National Convention: Day Two -- August 27, 2008
 "On the Separation of Sense and State" -- August 26, 2008
 What Does Obama's Selection of Biden Signify? -- August 25, 2008
 The Case Against Barack Obama -- August 22, 2008
 John McCain--A Champion for Our Issue -- August 21, 2008
 Al Gore, Call Your Office -- August 20, 2008
 Continuing to Unravel -- August 19, 2008
 McCain Scores Perfect "10" at Saddleback Forum; Obama Flounders -- August 18, 2008
 "Why Do I Feel So Badly?" -- August 15, 2008
 Senator McCain's "Thoroughly Pro-Life Pedigree" -- August 14, 2008
 Fool Me Umpteen Times, Blame on Me -- August 13, 2008
 A Plentiful Crop Waiting to be Harvested -- August 12, 2008
The Truth About Obama & Democrats Try to Mask Their Position of Abortion on Demand -- August 11, 2008
 Few Americans Know Barack Obama's Real Position on Abortion -- August 8, 2008
 Extremism by Anyone's Definition -- August 7, 2008
 Obama's Health Care Proposals May Lead to Many More Abortion Deaths -- August 6, 2008
 "In the Balance": McCain and Obama on Judicial Nominees -- August 5, 2008
 Heeding Sound Advice -- August 4, 2008
 The Four Ingredients for Success -- August 1, 2008

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