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Kmiec--pro-life Catholic supporter of Obama--gets his reward
By: Timothy P. Carney
Examiner Columnist
07/03/09 2:33 PM EDT
Professor Doug Kmiec, a prominent pro-life Catholic who endorsed Obama for President, has reaped his reward. Obama named him yesterday as ambassador to Malta, a small, Catholic, island nation in the Mediterranean.
I interviewed Kmiec over breakfast at the Democratic National Convention, and he pointed out that while he finds Obama's position on abortion "morally unacceptable," John McCain's abortion plank went only as far as nominating judges who would overturn Roe v. Wade. "I’ve got an imperfect McCain and an imperfect Obama," Kmiec told me. On other issues--most notably war--Obama's positions have hewed more closely to Catholic teaching.
My friend Josh Mercer, a spokesman for the Catholic 527 Fidelis, gave me his response to Kmiec: "When you compare the 4,000 soldiers who lost their lives fighting valiantly in Iraq to the 4,000 babies who died today, it becomes clear…. Barack Obama has admirable qualities, but he advocates legal abortion for all nine months.”
An Obama has proven to be as antipathetic to the pro-life cause as his critics charged he would be. Right away, he directed taxpayer money to embryo-destroying research. He also chose Kathleen Sebelius as his secretary of Health and Human Services and NARAL veteran Dawn Johnsen to a top post at the Justice Department.
But now, Obama has given Kmiec his reward.
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