The Declaration of Support - All Hail Barack.

Happened upon Obama’s page on health care, and the words in all caps STAND WITH THE PRESIDENT, and DECLARE YOUR SUPPORT stood out to me. You might also sign up to be Barack’s friend, and keep in mind that the page is POWERED by HOPE.

“We are committed to putting responsible science and technological innovation ahead of ideology when it comes to medical research.” Now, you need a lib-speak translator to interpret most of the words these cats say, but in essence, this sentence implies that because Bush’s policy was not to fund embryonic stem cell research with taxpayer dollars (although it was still legal for private enterprises and charities), that was irresponsible and put ideology ahead of science. What is it called when you support late term and born-alive abortion? Is that also putting science ahead of ideology? But I digress. What Bush did is put the Constitution before partisan politics. The Federal government doesn’t need to be forcing taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research. If it’s that vital, charities can fund it, or private companies. But Obama and his supporters have used this issue along with Michael J. Fox’s cuteness to pull your heart strings on this controversial moral/constitutional issue. The further we go down this path, the more we may wish we hadn’t gone backwards to our future.

If you click through to maybe sign up there, you read this innocent statement: I support President Obama’s three principles for real health care reform, and I call on Congress to enact a plan upholding them in 2009. If you didn’t read carefully or don’t care, you’re about to sign up for Federally funded embryonic stem cell research … which is to say, taxpayer funded. Just so you know. But who doesn’t want  “real health care reform” with those 3 easy principles? Lets sign up and hope! Or not. Is there also a list of those people who are not standing with the President?

From a constitutional point of view, therefore, stem-cell research is not a federal matter at all, whether we are speaking of funding it, legitimizing it, or prohibiting it. As with other issues of ethical concern governing human behavior, the matter should be left to the states. NewAmerican