Isn't Politics Wonderful?

Couldn't let this one pass me by- Obama's cunning plan to try not to reveal how pro-abortion he actually is, with the aid of Planned Parenthood. In effect he's signalled his support for measures like these but is afraid to actually vote yes or no on them for fear of revealing his principles to the people who vote.

ABC News' Teddy Davis Reports: When Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., voted "present," rather than "yes" or "no" on a handful of controversial abortion votes in the Illinois state senate, he did so with the explicit support of the president and CEO of Illinois Planned Parenthood Council.

"We at Planned Parenthood view those as leadership votes," Pam Sutherland, the president and CEO of the Illinois Planned Parenthood Council, told ABC News. "We worked with him specifically on his strategy. The Republicans were in control of the Illinois Senate at the time. They loved to hold votes on 'partial birth' and 'born alive'. They put these bills out all the time . . . because they wanted to pigeonhole Democrats."

Pigeonhole them as being in favour of extreme measures like partial birth abortion? My goodness, whatever next- politicians being asked to vote in favour of hot-button issues that arouse strong opinions in the electorate? How could they!

Note too that this strategy goes back to the '90s- Obama's obviously had his eye on a White House run for some time now.

"What it did," she continued, "was give cover to moderate Democrats who wanted to vote with us but were afraid to do so" because of how their votes would be used against them electorally. "A 'present' vote would protect them. Your senator voted 'present.' Most of the electorate is not going to know what that means."

So now we know a bit more about Obama- he's desperate for votes and will do what he can to obtain as many as possible, even if that does mean deliberately misleading the public with the help of a political advocacy organisation.