National Right to Life on Barack Obama

First of all, let me apologize for not posting earlier today. I started a new job today (amazingly, writing doesn't pay all that well). I promise that I will try not to collapse under the weight of existing obligations as a writer and my new responsibilities. I will also continue posting on a daily basis but I may not get to comment on events of the day until evening.

National Right to Life and Family Research Council sent out a press release today about the Obama campaign's "adjustment" to comments Barack Obama made about his record on abortion and National Right to Life's (accurate) portrayal of it.

Here are the opening paragraphs to the NRLC press release:

NRL Update: Monday, August 18, 2008
Obama Cover-up on Born-Alive Abortion Survivors
Continues to Unravel After Sen. Obama Says NRLC is "Lying"

By Douglas Johnson
NRLC Legislative Director

WASHINGTON (August 18, 2008, Noon) -- Senator Barack Obama's four-year effort to cover up his full role in killing legislation to protect born-alive survivors of abortions continues to unravel.

In the most recent developments, Senator Obama himself, in a videorecorded interview Saturday night with David Brody of CBN News (subsequently broadcast on both CBN and CNN), said three times that National Right to Life was "lying" in asserting that he had voted against a state bill virtually identical to the federal Born-Alive Infants Protection Act. He did not directly address newly uncovered documents that had been released by NRLC on August 11 -- documents that proved that he had done exactly that, contradicting four years of the Obama cover story.

In response, on Sunday, August 17th, we issued a challenge to Obama to either declare the newly discovered documents to be forgeries and call for an investigation of the forgery, or admit that he had misrepresented his record on the live-born infants legislation (not just once, but for four years), and apologize to those he's called liars.

We don't have an apology yet. But now there is this, in a news story posted on the New York Sun website on the evening of August 17th: "Mr. Obama appeared to misstate his position in the CBN interview on Saturday . . . [Obama's] campaign yesterday acknowledged that he had voted against an identical bill in the state Senate . . ."

You will find the rest of the release here.