Obama Attempts to Revive Culture War to Distract from Sluggish Economy

CDO: The Obama administration, frightened that the stinky economy will sink it, apparently thought it could divert voters’ attention by reigniting the culture wars with its disastrous attack on religious liberty.

The culture wars have been dormant for most of the presidential campaign because there has been plenty of ammunition to fire at Obama: for his fanciful and failed measures to rally the economy and his theory of federalism in which government, like the amoeba-like Blob in the classic horror movie, slithers around, absorbing every aspect of American life.

A diversion was necessary, and what better way fire up the left’s nocturnal emissions than telling those hard-right, child abusing bishops that we’re coming to get you? “Anybody who stands in the way is going to have to deal with us and our friends,” the rabidly pro-choice Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) warned.

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image Bismark vs. Pius IX in a 19th Century Kulturekampf