Finn O’Connor’s Weblog

Okay before every Christian has a breakdown. I AM NOT SAYING GOD IS PRO-ABORTION. Wait your still not listening. So take a minute, count to five and breath deep. Are you calmer? Is your pulse below 90? Good so I will repeat it, God is NOT pro-abortion. But he is pro-choice.

Years ago I made this statement on a Christian talk radio show and the phones never stopped ringing. Most callers were from people screaming God is not pro-abortion. The problem was and still is that people cannot separate those two phrases, Pro-Choice and Pro-Abortion. But I assure you there is a difference. And that difference is never more evident then in the statement God is pro-choice. And pro-life.

For everyone of Christian faith, the most precious gift given to us is salvation through Jesus Christ dying on the cross for our sins. But do you know what is the second most precious gift given to all of us by God?

It is free will.

God gives all of us the free will to do what we want whether it is right, legal, good for us, bad for us or bad for others. He has even given us the free will to believe whether there is a God or not. And he has given woman the free will to have an abortion.

Now here is where I may lose some of you. I believe abortion is wrong. I believe it is ending a human beings life. I am sure all of you reading this do not believe that. You have the right to believe what you want. Remember, free will?

Here is where I lose more of you. I believe abortion is a sin and so does God but since God has given you free will, you have the choice to sin. Does God like it? I can tell you equivocally no. But he gives you the right to make that choice. But I am not telling you to go out and do what ever you believe is your free will because all choices come with a price. And some of those choices may even be illegal.

By now, I am positive that some of my readers are still chanting while reading this, God is not pro-abortion, God is not pro-abortion. And for those readers, this article never had a chance. And for those of my readers who see that I think abortion is a sin. Well I am sure you are equally blind to the point of this article. But the one thing that is rock solid is that God does give us a choice in what to do in life, in all manners of life including whether or not to have an abortion and whether or not to believe in him. Why? Because he is pro-choice. Thank God for his first precious gift.

Finn

I cannot understand what the big concern about having a black President is? Are you afraid, that the President motorcades will be all pimped up Black SUV and the entire cabinet and the President with have large gold changes hanging around their neck with a large O for Obama chunk of jewelry attached. Come on get a grip and quite watching so much TV.

We trust our children to be raised, educated and influenced by African American teachers, athletes and celebrities. Teachers, athletes and celebrities such as musicians and movie icons effect the way your children, and all of us adults, think and act more than anything else and especially more than politicians. Think about how many adults and children wear the numbers of their favorite athletes or buy the golf clubs of their favorite golfer. I am sorry but do your children want to buy the same sneaker that President Bush wears. Do your teenage girls want to wear the same makeup that Hillary uses?

Now let’s take all the demographics and polling information that has been churning out of the newspapers hour after hour. Is there nothing else to write about in this world but information on the next set of polls and political numbers? Come on. We have had enough.

The numbers I read today were talking about how Clinton captured 63 percent of the white vote, while Obama gained 90 percent of the much smaller black vote. Let’s look at these figures from a different perspective. Obama got 90% of the black vote and only 10% of blacks’ voted. Imagine if 20% or 30% of the blacks voted. Obama would have won Pennsylvania by a landslide. Obama also won 37% of the white vote.

I pose a question. Is Senator McCain going to get more of the black vote than 90%? I doubt it. Better asked, do you think Senator Clinton is going to get more than 90% of the vote? No because she hasn’t. The point is not how well Obama does in the primaries. He has won most of them. It is who is going to beat the GOP candidate. I would rather have someone who has locked in the black vote, then someone who has to win over the black vote. Obama only has to win over 14% more of the white voters and that in not again Clinton but against McCain. He will do fine.

I also don’t buy the polls that say 4 out of 10 who voted for Obama will not vote for Clinton and vice versa. Of course they are going to answer it that way, now in the primaries. But when the real election comes around it will be different. When the option is no longer two different candidates for the Democratic ticket, but Democrats against Republican then it WILL be different.

In closing, I must address one more “Clintonism” that needs pointing out. Hillary has been constantly saying “We have had enough talking, we need someone who is doing something.” Senator Clinton I hate to break it to you but that is all you are doing is talking and talking and talking. I don’t see you out there doing anything more than Obama or McCain. So please quit saying you are a person of action. The only action I see from you is a constant metamorphosis from one person to another depending on what state you are campaigning in.

And come on with the middle class roots. If news agencies want something to write about why don’t you do a little research on these so called middle class roots of Hillary Clinton? I am sure if you compare her life to real middle class people who like myself as a child lived within a family that struggled to pay bills and cloth their family, you will find out she struggled for nothing. And all of those good hearted people who have believed her story will find out they have been played all this time. Check it out after all the press has completely checked into Obama’s past.

In fact, I am surprise they have not listed whether or not Obama was breast feed and how that will affect him being a black President. Or taken a poll of how many white people and black people who were breast fed voted for Obama or Clinton.

Oh and by the way I am white, I was breast feed, I came from a lower middle class family. I wore shoes that had holes in them until my family could buy new ones. My father made $250 per week his entire life. My mother died when I was a child. I could not get a grant for college because my father made too much money a year. Not enough to take care of our family so he had to work two jobs all of his life but he made too much for me to get a grant. That is what middle class gets you. So I worked 5 and 6 days a week to pay for my college education. Hillary I lived and breathed middle class, you did not.

Okay I got that out.

Finn

On the news today the experts were saying that if Obama loses within single digits in Pennsylvania that this would be a win for him.  Hillary Clinton’s comment back was ” I consider a win a win no matter what”.  Yet Ace Smith, one of Clinton’s top state organizers reporters told last week that getting the percentage spread in North Carolina within single digits would be a victory for Clinton.

You can’t have it both ways Hillary which one is a win?  Maybe you should take Obama answer who say a win is 50% plus 1. 

Why doesn’t anyone every call out Hillary Clinton out on these discrepancies?

Here is another one.   Bill Clinton tries to excuse Hillary’s wrong recounting of the Bosnia airport story by saying “It was 11pm and she was exhausted”.  Well Bill if she was exhausted at 11pm and said the wrong thing, what the heck is she going to say when the phone rings at 3am when she is even more tired?  Just nuked them so I can go back to sleep?

Finn

Is the office of the President of the United States really able to make the significant changes that this country desperately needs?  Who really runs the country? Is it the President, the Congress and Senators or is it the special interest groups and lobbyist?  I believe the later swings the most power but among those in political office, it is more the Congressmen and Senators.

Yes with Barack Obama I truly do believe that if, he is elected President, he could bring about the change this country needs.  But not in the way that most think.  Not as the President who would create new legislation and then fight for it to pass through Congress and the Senate where deals will be made and Congressmen and Senators adds their own pet projects to the legislation so soon the original design of the legislation is doomed.  He might make some change like all Presidents have but not the ground breaking, earth shaking, effective, puissant changes this country needs.

No he will make these meaningful changes in his works, through his speeches, and through his ability to transform an audience into a movement.   He has captivated me and I am not a Democrat.  Let me rephrase that.  I am not part of the Democratic Party nor am I a registered Democrat.

But if you study the definition of the word democrat than I am a democrat.

dem·o·crat   Pronunciation [dem-uh-krat]

When I read or hear Barack Obama dreams and goals for this country, I am inspired, motivated, heartened and even trusting of Obama.  Yes trusting a politcian.  But that is the main point of this post.  If we are to have a metamorphosis within this country, we need to trust the people who are in office.  Obama may not be a great politician, but he may be what this country needs, a genuine American hero that will help transform this country from within by reaching the people directly.  And once the people start to believe that they are the answer and that they are a force of one then the country will be transformed back to a democracy.

Can Barack Obama do it.  No but he will help us to believe and to understand that we can.

Finn