When Barry Met Sandy

In Denver yesterday with his girl-power sidekick Sandra Fluke, President Obama reaffirmed his commitment to free sex, otherwise known as the Free Contraceptives for Votes Initiative HHS mandate:

“I think there is one person who should make decisions on your health care, and that person is you,” he continued. “I don’t think a college student in Colorado Springs should have to choose between textbooks or the preventive care she needs.”

And the crowd goes wild!

Oops -- sorry. Wrong picture. Here's Sandra with her knight in shining armor:

Gluttons for punishment can view the 30-minute pander to wimmin here. There's no doubt the Obama campaign helped write Fluke's remarks. The "Obama's got our backs and we've got his" shtick, a favorite of our Ciceronian president, is a dead giveaway. Not surprisingly, Fluke's remarks were predicated on the fundamental war-on-women whopper, actually believed only by the most vacuous among us, that access to contraceptives is being threatened. (And hey, did you know that "women's rights" can be "rolled back in the blink on an eye?" Confused -- does that mean girl-power isn't real?)

Another nominee for the biggest lie of the event:

“We worked with Catholic hospitals and universities to find a solution that protects both religious liberty and a woman’s health,” Obama falsely claimed. “We’ve made sure churches and other houses of worship don’t have to provide or pay for it.”

Insert primal scream here. The "accommodation" was a cynical farce. George Weigel:

The initial announcement of the mandate seemed based on the assumption that the White House could play divide-and-conquer, peeling Catholic progressives away from their religious leaders. The “accommodation,” trotted out when the original strategy didn’t work, seemed to assume that the bishops could be rolled — and indeed would welcome an opportunity to return to the administration’s good graces. When that, too, failed, a great silence ensued; and despite the efforts of the bishops’ staff to engage the administration in a serious exploration of Catholic concerns raised by the mandate, nothing of the sort has happened.

The president proceeded to make a fairly convincing argument for dumping himself in favor of Romney. If only we could believe Mitt were as "bad" as Obama paints him:

“He joined the far right to support a bill that would allow an employer to deny contraceptive coverage to their employees,” Obama said. “He said he’d ‘get rid of’ Planned Parenthood.”

“He said that he’d take the Affordable Care Act and ‘kill it dead’ on the first day of his presidency,” Obama complained about Romney’s stance supporting the reversal of Obamacare, which funds abortions.

A palate cleanser from George Neumayr, from a March column:

Let's cut the PC crap: college and law school students who demand that priests and nuns finance their fornication deserve searing satirical treatment. This is the sorriest collection of arrogant snots in the history of academia.

Change that last word to "government" and it could be applied to the Obama administration, too, no?

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