Webloggin » Profile on Possible Obama VP Running Mate: Governor Kathleen Sebelius

Know the wolf in sheeps clothing is what I say. Barack Obama’s campaign is largely built upon identitly politics, whether it is race, gender or religion. Thus it would be no surprise if he chose Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius to help prop up another facet of the Democrat strategy.

Note that Sebelius removed references to her Catholic background from her website in June: (diffed from http://politicsacrossthepond.org/2008/05/25/vp-profile-kathleen-sebelius.html)

Kathleen Sebelius was born May 15, 1948 and was raised in a Catholic family in Cincinnati, Ohio. She attended the Summit Country Day School, a Roman Catholic secondary school, followed by Trinity Washington University, a Roman Catholic university in Washington, D.C., and later earned a Masters of Public Administration from the University of Kansas. She moved to Kansas in 1974 at the age of 26, where she served for eight years as a representative in the Kansas Legislature and eight years as Insurance Commissioner before being elected governor.

I am not sure if she is distancing herself from her Catholic background, if they are going stealth or if it would be seen as a liability. Who knows, who cares. However as is typical of liberals and religion we can see that Sebelius only likely wears it as a badge or perhaps runs away from it all together. Especially considering her support for late term abortions.

TOPEKA, KS, April 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Pro-abortion Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius vetoed a bill on Monday that would regulate abortion procedures in the state that is infamous for its high number of late-term abortions.

Senate Bill 389 would have offered women the option of viewing ultrasound images of their preborn child, tightened up the requirements for obtaining a late-term abortion, and would have allowed a patient, spouse, or family to sue an abortion provider over a suspected unlawful late-term abortion.

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In May 2006, Sebelius vetoed Senate Bill 528, which would have required documentation justifying the performance of late-term abortions. Sebelius claimed at the time that her Catholic faith taught the sanctity of human life and that she was personally opposed to abortion.

In response to Sebelius’s call to make abortion “safe, legal, and rare,” Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City wrote, “Abortion is never safe because it always results in the death of a child. One can hardly call abortion rare when there are more than a million performed every year in the United States and more than 45 million performed since abortion’s legalization in 1973.”

“It is never permissible for a Catholic to support the legalization of the killing of innocent lives by abortion, much less to lead the fight for legal abortion.”

“Reviewing the record of Gov. Sebelius when she served in the Kansas House of Representatives, it is difficult to find a single instance, either in a procedural or substantive vote, where she acted in a manner that would afford unborn children the maximum protection. In the 1980s and 1990s then - Representative Sebelius voted to weaken or eliminate even such modest measures as parental notification, waiting periods and informed consent,” added Archbishop Naumann.

So much for her Catholic bonafides.

The rest of her record is no better. Sebelius is another in a long line of liberals that opposes voter id laws using the bogus disenfranchisement argument as a prop; hence Sebelius supports opening up our coveted electoral system for fraud. A perfect match for Barack Obama.

Sebelius also peddled a commonly used Democrat lie about National guard troops being diverted to Iraq hence leaving the states in a shortage. In her case it was tornado victims in Kansas where she blamed the Iraq war for shortages. Yet at the time the following was also reported in the wake of her false claims:

Currently, the Kansas National Guard has 88 percent of its forces available, 60 percent of its Army Guard dual-use equipment on hand, and more than 85 percent of its Air Guard equipment on hand, said Randal Noller, public affairs officer for the National Guard Bureau. Under the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, which is a national partnership agreement that allows state-to-state assistance during governor or federally declared emergencies, Kansas has more than 400,000 Guardsmen available to it, he pointed out. However, Kansas has not yet requested assistance from other states.

Democrats never look to themselves, it’s always someone else that is victimized by anybody but Democrats.

This is just for starters. Assignment, I urge all conservatives to start looking at Governor Kathleen Sebelius’s record in preparation for one of next weeks likely picks.

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