"A Window into His Soul".(Barack Obama)

While there are certainly clues, as this editorial is being written there is no way to know for sure who will be the Democrats' presidential nominee. But whether it is Sen. Barack Obama (Il.) or Sen. Hillary Clinton (NY), what is sure is that the Democrats will offer the American people a candidate for whom the Abortion Establishment will go to sleep each night counting its blessings. Since he is the frontrunner, we focus on Sen. Obama in this issue.

On page 14, you'll find his track record summarized. It is something to behold, something that, in some ways, is almost unique.

Here is a man who has not only earned his anti-life spurs in the United States Senate but also in the Illinois senate. In addition, Obama not only is pro-abortion, he is pro-infanticide, and regrets giving Terri Schindler Schiavo's family one last opportunity to save their helpless daughter from a ghastly death by starvation and dehydration. He is the epitome of the anti-life Renaissance man.

But Obama is nothing if not slick. While a state legislator, allies within the abortion movement allowed him to vote "present" on seven bills. Presumably Illinois PPFA was attempting to help Obama maintain his political viability.

He says he is a Christian, and I, of course, take him at his word. As do prominent Christian publications and web sites which toss him softball questions and choose not to follow up on responses that beg for clarification.

My own view is that in a few months we will look back to remarks Obama made to a town hall meeting in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, March 29 and see it as a turning point. Up until that day, Obama, a down-the-line pro-abortionist, had been able to keep the larger public from focusing on his out-of-the mainstream abortion views.

Perhaps caught up in all the love, Obama said this: