February 21, 2012—SnyderTalk Editorial: The Great Uniter has become the Great Divider

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The Great Uniter has become the Great Divider

It doesn’t matter whether President Obama intended to ignite a firestorm with his birth control/abortion mandate.  The fact is that he did, and the genie is finally out of the bottle.  Last weekend, Andrew Sullivan wrote a piece for Newsweek suggesting that the president “Set a Contraception Trap for the Right”:

“The more Machiavellian observer might even suspect this is actually an improved bait and switch by Obama to more firmly identify the religious right with opposition to contraception, its weakest issue by far, and to shore up support among independent women and his more liberal base. I’ve found by observing this president closely for years that what often seem like short-term tactical blunders turn out in the long run to be strategically shrewd. And if this was a trap, the religious right walked right into it.”

Sullivan may be correct, but I have my doubts.  Keep in mind that President Obama is the man who singlehandedly destroyed any hope for peace between Israel and the Palestinians in the near future by suggesting that Israel accept the “1967 borders” which were actually armistice lines and that Israel should stop building “settlements” — even “settlements” in her own capital, Jerusalem, which are actually neighborhoods.  Gabriel Scheinmann, a visiting fellow at The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, wrote about that problem in a piece titled “Misunderstanding Clausewitz: Why the Obama Administration’s Policies have Undermined Israel’s Security.”  I bring it up here simply to point out that President Obama has a penchant for committing colossal and costly blunders that pundits like Andrew Sullivan after the fact try to imagine were strokes of strategic genius.

But again, regardless of his intentions, President Obama has unleashed forces that are beyond his ability to control at this point.  As Sullivan correctly observed,

“Who knew the sexual and religious politics of the 1990s were suddenly back, under the president who promised he’d try to end them? And who knew the president himself — who has made an elegant art form out of avoiding exactly these kinds of controversies in his first three years — would have made the final call on the one that suddenly united the entire Republican right in roiling rage?”

This battle is just getting started.  It probably won’t end until the general election in November, if then, and the “Republican right” isn’t the only group that’s in a “roiling rage.”  Democrats and others who believe that we should leave God out of the political process are fit to be tied.  For example, the top 3 political news articles in diggtm on Wednesday were titled “An Overwhelming Majority want the Catholic Church to STFU about birth control,” “5 Brave Religious Leaders Who Fought Christian Theocracy in America,” and “Colbert: Using contraception means ‘you are c*ck blocking God’.  With one ill-fated shot, President Obama hit two hornets’ nests, Democrats and Republicans, and the upshot is that we are about to learn who we are as a people at this moment in time.  To read the entire editorial, click here.

This SnyderTalk editorial first appeared in PJ Media on February 20, 2012.

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