Pot Calls Obama Black

The pot is (perhaps not that obviously) the Roman Catholic fuckwit Archbishop Rino Fisichella. Mr Fisichella has got himself all in a stew because the world's most powerful man has signed an accord which will allow US funding of overseas organisations which support abortion.

Of course, this is none of his business, but as Fishhead is president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, he thinks it is. Fisichella is quoted as saying:

"What is important is to know how to listen... without locking oneself into ideological visions with the arrogance of a person who, having the power, thinks they can decide on life and death"

When of course, this is precisely what Obama can do if he so chooses: he could (for example) commute the death sentence for prisoners on death row by little more than a wave of his pen; thus granting life back to those who took it.

But this isn't about abortion, it's about choice and in some cases it's about saving lives too, as AFP reports:

More than 250 health and human rights organisations from around the world sent Obama a letter, thanking him for ending a policy "which has contributed to the deaths and injuries of countless women and girls."

Which surely makes a very serious case (from those on the front line) that choice is precisely what is needed. As the ludicrous Fisichella enjoys his ivory tower and wears his knees out praying to his invisible friend, very real women are suffering because of his policies on birth control.

Surely, this is a case of the pot calling the kettle black.